The Emergence of the Irish Peasant Play at the Abbey Theatre

Abbey Theatre acting Annie Horniman Aran Islands audience Boucicault Boyle Christy Coffee Palace cottage Country Dressmaker Coxhead Deirdre dialect Douglas Hyde Dublin emigration English F.J. Fay fair father Fay and Carswell Fay brothers Fay's Frank Fay Gaelic League Gregory's Holloway Diaries Hyde's Ibid Inginidhe na hEireann Ireland Irish actors Irish Drama Irish Literary Theatre Irish National Theatre Irish peasant Irish plays Irish Theatre J.M. Synge James Cousins Kathleen Ni Houlihan Lady Gregory land language Letter to Yeats literature London Maire Maria Edgeworth marriage Martin Michael movement Murtagh National Theatre Society Nationalist Newsclip Ormond Dramatic Society Padraic Colum peasant characters peasant play peasantry Pegeen performances Playboy playwrights poetic plays popular Pot of Broth produced realistic rehearsals Riders Samhain Sara Allgood scene Shaughraun speech stage Irishman story style Synge's tableaux Teresa's Hall theatrical theme United Irishman W.B. Yeats W.G. Fay Willie Fay writing wrote Yeats's York