Modern Irish Theatre

Timeline of Significant Events in Irish Arts and Politics.

Introduction.

Part I: Performing the Nation, 1891-1916.

Introduction to Part I.

1 Imagining an Aesthetic: Modern Irish Theatre's First Years.

2 Realisms and Regionalisms.

Part II: War and After, 1916-1948.

Introduction to Part II.

3. The Abbey Becomes Institution, 1916-1929.

4. New Voices of the 1930s and 1940s.

Part III: Rewriting Tradition, 1948-1980.

Introduction to Part III.

5. Irish Theatre in the 1950s.

6. Irish Theatre's Second Wave.

Part IV: Re-imagining Ireland, 1980-2007.

Introduction to Part IV.

7. Theatres Without Borders: Irish Theatre in the 1980s.

8. A New Sense of Place: Irish Theatre since the 1990s.

Conclusion: What is an Irish Play?.

Notes.

Bibliography