Patrick Pearse: Collected Plays Dramai an Phiarsaigh

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Roisin Ni Ghairbhi; Eugene McNulty (Eds)

This first complete edition of Patrick Pearse’s extant plays, which were highlights of the Cultural Revival, makes Pearse’s plays available to those wishing to stage productions, and provides a complete reference source.

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Description

This first complete edition of Patrick Pearse’s extant plays (in English and Irish) also includes his most significant writings about the nature of the theatre in early 20th-century Ireland.

His plays were highlights of the Cultural Revival and drew a who’s who of literary and political figures to productions in St. Enda’s, the Abbey Theatre, and Jones Road (Croke Park) in the years preceding the 1916 Easter Rising.

Each work is annotated and illustrated with contemporary photographs, and each is placed in its historical, social, and political contexts. The book makes Pearse’s plays readily available to those wishing to stage productions, and it also provides a complete reference source for those who seek a better understanding one of the iconic figures of the Easter Rising.

The annotated plays and commentary provide fascinating insights into the cultural, imaginative, and intellectual life and times of a man who helped shape one of the defining moments in Irish history. Pearse’s essays on the subject of the theatre and its role in the cultural work of Irish nationalism are also included.

Table of Contents:

Editors’ Introduction Pearse’s Plays:

• Íosagán (English and Irish versions) •TheKing/AnRí
• The Master
• The Singer

• Owen
• Eoghan Gabha / Eoghan the Blacksmith
• Macghníomhartha Chúchulainn / Childhood Deed of Chúchulainn

Descriptive Treatments:

• Descriptive treatment of The Defence of the Ford (1913) • Descriptive treatment of An Pháis (Passion Play)

About the Author(s):

Róisín Ní Ghairbhí and Eugene McNulty are both lecturers in St Patrick’s College (Dublin City University), where Roisin is a member of Roinn na Gaeilge and Eugene works in the English Department.