Introduction: "Ireland is one long unending problem" -- Cosmopolitan Dublin: The Gate Theatre's Cultural Project -- 2. Mac Liammoir's Exorcism: Memory, Modernity, Identity -- 3. Playing Their Part for Ireland: Avant-Garde Patriotism and (Internationalist Poetics -- 4. Mythology Making History: Prospective/Prescriptive Memory in Irish Legends -- 5. From History to Identity: Religion, Rebellion, and the Resilience of Memory -- 6. Identity after Independence: Class and Social Geography in Postrevolutionary Ireland. -- Conclusion: "Another Ireland, in fact" -- Appendix: Original Irish plays staged by Edwards-mac Liammoir Productions, 1928-1940.
Summary:
"While the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has become renowned for introducing experimental foreign drama to Ireland, this study is the first to analyse how the Gate also sought to become a site of avant-garde nationalism and to contribute to Irish identity formation in the nation's first post-independence decades"-- Provided by publisher.
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