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THE IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS

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CAN YOU NAME ALL  IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS ICONS?

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THE PLAY WRITERS

The Pen Versus The Sword

Around 1610, Shakespeare wrote the “The Tempest” and retired to Stratford on Avon where he died in 1613. Queen Elizabeth I having completed the conquest of Ireland was dead. The last of the great leaders, O’Neill and O’Donnell were gone to Spain and Ulster planted with Crown subjects.

Between 1613 and the War Of independence in 1922, which won back self rule for most of Ireland, no play of real merit was written in the English language by anyone other than by an Irish-born writer.

…Now, riddle me this! Who conquered who?

 

THE PLAYWRIGHT ICONS:

 

1.  SAMUEL BECKETT

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Samuel Beckett (April 13th 1906 – December 22nd 1989)

Notable Plays:

  • Waiting for Godot
  • Act Without Words I
  • Act Without Words II
  • Endgame
  • Krapp’s Last Tape
  • Rough for Theatre II
  • Happy Days
  • Play
  • Come and Go
  • Breath
  • Not I
  • That Time
  • Footfalls
  • A Piece of Monologue
  • Rockaby
  • Ohio Impromptu
  • Catastrophe
  • What Where

Notable Novels & Novellas:

  • Dream of Fair to Middling Women
  • Murphy
  • Watt
  • Mercier and Camier
  • Molloy
  • Malone Dies
  • The Unnamable
  • How It Is
  • The Lost Ones
  • Company
  • Ill Seen Ill Said
  • Worstward Ho

 

2.  BRENDAN BEHAN

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Brendan Behan (February 9th 1923 – March 20th 1964)

Notable Plays:

  • The Quare Fellow
  • The Hostage
  • Richard’s Cork Leg

Notable Novels:

  • Borstal Boy
  • Brendan Behan’s Island
  • Hold Your Hour and Have Another
  • Brendan Behan’s New York
  • Confessions of an Irish Rebel
  • The Scarperer

 

3. SEAN O’CASEY

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Sean O’Casey (March 30th 1880 – September 18th 1964 )

Notable Plays:

  • The Shadow of a Gunman
  • Juno and the Paycock
  • The Plough and the Stars
  • The Silver Tassie
  • The End of the Beginning
  • Red Roses for Me
  • Cock-a-Doodle Dandy

 

4.  GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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George Bernard Shaw (July 26th 1856  - November 2nd 1950)

Notable Plays:

  • Arms and the Man
  • Candida
  • The Man of Destiny
  • You Never Can Tell
  • The Devil’s Disciple
  • Caesar and Cleopatra
  • Captain Brassbound’s Conversion
  • The Admirable Bashville
  • Man and Superman
  • John Bull’s Other Island
  • Major Barbara
  • The Doctor’s Dilemma
  • Getting Married
  • Misalliance
  • The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
  • Fanny’s First Play
  • Androcles and the Lion
  • Pygmalion
  • Heartbreak House
  • Back to Methuselah
  • Saint Joan
  • The Apple Cart
  • In Good King Charles’s Golden Days
  • Shakes versus Shav

 

5.  JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE

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John Millington Synge (April 16th 1871 –  March 24th 1909)

Notable Plays:

  • In the Shadow of the Glen
  • Riders to the Sea
  • The Well of the Saints
  • The Playboy of the Western World
  • The Tinker’s Wedding
  • Deirdre of the Sorrows

 

6. OSCAR WILDE

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Oscar Wilde (October 16th 1854 – November 30th 1900)

Notable Plays:

  • A Woman of No Importance
  • An Ideal Husband
  • Lady Windermere’s Fan
  • Salome
  • The Importance of Being Earnest

Notable Works:

  • The Happy Prince and Other Stories
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol (poem)