Life
Playwright and author of The Old Land, a political melodrama of the early 20th-century.
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Commentary
Stephen Watt, Joyce, O’Casey, and Irish Popular Theater (Syracuse UP 1991): ‘[His] play The Old Land, produced in Easter Week 1903, contained a rowdy pub-scene, and was censured by Irish critics for ‘display[ing] a tendency to follow in the line of the conventional stage Irishman and Irishwoman, a creation never popular among Irish audiences, and now perhaps less so than ever’ (Freeman’s Journal; Watt, op. cit., p.77).
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