title: Irish Women Dramatists: 1908-2001 (Irish Studies)
author: Eileen Kearney
description: Gathered together in this comprehensively annotated, well-produced volume seven female voices create together a real force, as if demanding, collectively, that their plays be remembered and performed. (<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>)<br /><br />Eileen Kearney and Charlotte Headrick have created the first anthology of Irish women playwrights that is firmly grounded in the history of twentieth-century Irish theater and the social history of modern Ireland. Throughout, the focus is on representing a voice of a people who are scarcely represented on the stage. (John P. Harrington <i>editor of Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama</i>)<br /><br />This landmark anthology significantly extends the boundaries of Irish drama. In these two classic and five contemporary plays by women, resourceful individuals confront their oppressive conditions with a liberating humor and an urge for freedom that is ultimately exhilarating. The informed introduction and helpful notes will promote further study and production of these important plays. (Anthony Roche <i>University College Dublin</i>)<br /><br />Women characters dominate the Irish stageyet, for decades, Irish women dramatists have been neglected, ignored and sometimes deliberately marginalised. This wonderful new anthology takes an important step towards addressing and redressing that problem. It celebrates seven great writers, whose dramas display the vitality, virtuosity and variety of Irish womens playwritinggiving us works that range from comedy to high drama to the deepest tragedy. (Patrick Lonergan <i>National University of Ireland, Galway</i>)<br /><br />Irish Women Dramatists, 1908-2001 includes a diverse range of womens writing, demonstrating the breadth of sociopolitical issues that women have dramatized over the past century. (<i>Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies</i>)<br /><br />offers insight into the lives and work of seven Irish women playwrights, who 'have struggled in getting the recognition and audiences of their male counterparts.' (<i>the Connacht Tribune</i>)<br /><br />Arguably the canon of Irish literature and Irish theatre in particular requires not simply expansion but a radical redesign, and this anthology invites readers not only to listen but to consider, to produce, and to challenge the narrative of Irish theatre practice and research. It provides those interested in this task of redesign with a valuable and useful tool. (<i>Irish University Review</i>)
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  # Duty, and other Irish Comedies
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **DUTY AND OTHER IRISH COMEDIES**
  
  
  **[Illustration: FROM THE DRY POINT STUDY BY P. GRASSBY]**
  
  
  **DUTY AND OTHER IRISH COMEDIES**
  
  
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  **SEUMAS O'BRIEN**
  
  
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  **HEAD CONSTABLE MULLIGAN _A Member of the Royal Irish
  
  
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  SERGEANT DOOLEY _A Member of the R.I.C._
  
  
    
  CONSTABLE HUGGINS _A Member of the R.I.C._
  
  
    
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  MRS. ELLEN COTTER _A public-house keeper_
  
  
    
    
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