The Arts in Ireland--A Chronological Survey

Fitz-Simon, Christopher

Humanities Pr

A fascinating biography of two important Irish actors.

The Boys

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Heinemann Drama

Depicts the history of the drama of Ireland and examines the works of Irish playwrights, such as Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett

The Irish Theatre

Thames&Hudson

A visual trip through the Emerald Isle: an unparalleled portrayal of the rural beauty and charm of Ireland. Clusters of white cottages huddled between hills of an unbelievably rich green, villages of a single street, dazzling in their array of color washes and picturesque shop-fronts―such are the villages of Ireland, which to this day are living working communities. The most beautiful of these villages are captured here in Christopher Fitz-Simon’s sensitive commentaries and Hugh Palmer’s evocative photographs. This is a journey full of rural gems, some famous, others less so. Here are the colored coastal villages of Cork, their vibrant houses sloping down to a sea that so many Irish people crossed to found other communities in America. Here too are the stunning medieval churches of Roscommon and Galway; and the villages of Antrim, standing ruggedly in defiance of the northern seas. 285 full-color photographs

The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

The Irish Village

Shows Irish hills, mountains, streams, harbors, bridges, country roads, wayside shrines, farms, pubs, mills, homes, and churches, and describes the background of each community

Travel

Morrison, Robin

Europe

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

Dublin's Abbey Theatre opened its doors to the public on December 27, 1904. Over the course of the past century, it has survived fire, riot, and perpetual artistic disagreement to become one of the greatest theaters in the world, presenting over 740 new plays by some of the greatest Irish writers of the modern age, including W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, and Brian Friel. Christopher Fitz-Simon celebrates the Abbey Theatre's centenary by offering a witty chronological survey of the company's distinguished and colorful history. Beautifully illustrated with cartoons, sketches, and production photographs, The Abbey Theatre: The First 100 Years provides an overview of the great actors, directors, and playwrights of twentieth-century Irish theater, as well as detailing the company's long and illustrious relationship with American theaters and playwrights. It also contains a complete list of plays produced at the Abbey Theatre since 1904 and features a preface by its current artistic director, Ben Barnes. 200 illustrations, 20 in color.

The Abbey Theatre: Ireland's National Theatre, The First 100 Years

History

Reference

The boys: A double biography

Community & Culture

GILL MACMILLAN

Depicts the history of the drama of Ireland and examines the works of Irish playwrights, such as Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett

Irish Theatre

Harpercollins

Here, in a stunning volume of letters, we are offered a glimpse into the vision of this extraordinary impresario aswell as a view of the intimacies of his relationships with his mother, wife and friends.During the 1940s and 1950s Guthrie was renowned for liberating the plays of Shakespearefrom declamatory delivery and excessive staging. His most enduring legacy was in inspiringthe creation of modern theatre buildings where the plays of antiquity could be brought closerto the audience - such as at Stratford, Canada, and the theatre that bears his name inMinneapolis, USA. Of Scots-Irish parentage, he identified most closely with his mother's homeat Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan, which he made his professional headquarters after herdeath, hosting producers, designers, playwrights and composers there while planningworldwide productions. On the advice of his sister Peggy and her husband, Hubert Butler, heleft this house to the Irish nation as a workplace for writers and artists.Faced with often seemingly insurmountable financial and personal disaster, his celebratedmantra 'Rise above!' was testament to a life lived in on the wings of an operatic opening nightor a Shakespearean tragedy. Guthrie's vivid descriptions of places visited are matched by theobservational skills of his remarks on the people he worked with, among them well-knownactors from Orson Welles to Alec Guinness. Family members come in for as many amusedcomments as do the famous and distinguished: Cousin Molly is no more spared than WinstonChurchill. Fitz-Simon has gathered an important, and entrancing, collection of TyroneGuthrie's letters, raising a curtain on the life of Ireland's leading theatre director of thetwentieth-century.

Rise Above!: Letters From Tyrone Guthrie

Humor & Entertainment

The Lilliput Press

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