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The Boys
Ireland's inter-war years possessed an unprecedented artistic vibrancy. Two figures of genius dominated the artistic scene in Dublin during this period. Hilton Edwards and Michael MacLiammoir were actors of formidable range and power. Edwards was also one of the finest theater directors in the English-speaking world; MacLiammoir was also a set designer and playwright. Together they founded the Gate Theatre in Dublin in 1928 (where their 'discoveries' included Orson Welles and James Mason). Dogged by shortage of funds yet maintaining a salon-like existence, they were intent on the gay life in every sense. The fruit of much original research, this double biography allows these two flamboyantly talented figures and their bohemian society to live again. Christopher Fitz-Simon is also the author of The Irish Theatre and The Irish Village.
Eleven Houses
Christopher Fitz-Simon was born into an extraordinary Irish family, with Daniel O'Connell on one side and Orangemen on the other, and his childhood coincided with the Second World War - or, as it was known in the southern Irish state, the Emergency. Eleven Houses is a crystalline memoir of his family's odd progress through those odd years, an account by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Christopher's father was an officer in the British army, serving in the middle east when war broke out, and the family home in these years was in fact eleven different houses, in all four provinces of Ireland. Drawing on his extraordinarily vivid recall of the places and feelings of those years, Christopher Fitz-Simon tells a story of growing up that is also, in effect, a story of various hidden Irelands during the twilit years of the war. Funny, moving and sharp, it is a childhood memoir like no other.
The Irish Theatre
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 Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland
Gift in memory of Helen Wilson.
The Boys
An excellent biography.-Hugh Leonard. Ireland's inter-war years possessed an unprecedented artistic vibrancy. Two figures of genius dominated the artistic scene in Dublin during this period. Hilton Edwards and Michael MacLiammoir were actors of for
Rise Above!
Rise above!: Letters from Tyrone Guthrie details the life of the celebrated theatrical director whose influence on international theatre lives on. Here, in a stunning volume of letters, we are offered a glimpse into the vision of this extraordinary figure as well as a view of the intimacies of his relationships with his mother, sister, wife and friends. During the 1940s and 1950s Guthrie was renowned for liberating the plays of Shakespeare from declamatory delivery and excessive staging. His most enduring legacy was in inspiring the creation of modern theatre buildings where the plays of antiquity could be brought closer to the audience, such as at Stratford, Canada, and the theatre that bea...
Cultural Convergence
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objective is to consider the output of the Gate in terms of cultural convergence the dynamics of exchange, interaction, and acculturation that reveal the workings of transnational infrastructures.
Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment
In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political assassination. The form was the fashionable one of melodrama, yet Irish melodrama was of a particular kind replete with hidden messages, and the language was far more allusive, colourful and entertaining than that of its English equivalent. There was much diversity, as shown in plays as different as Murray & Shine's An Irish Gentleman, Hubert O'Grady's The Priest Hunter, J.W.Whitbread's The Victoria Cross and Edward Selden's McKenna's Flirtation.
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 1, 600–1550
The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in The Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original interpretations in a fresh and accessible manner. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. At each turn the question is asked: to what extent were these developments unique to Ireland? The openness of Ireland to outside influences, and its capacity to influence the world beyond its shores, are recurring themes. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe.
"Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment"
In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th and early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players, and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries, where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics such as revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, and political assassination. Plays of the time were diverse, including those such as Murray & Shine's An Irish Gentleman, Hubert O'Grady's The Priest Hunter, J.W. Whitbread's The Victoria Cross, and Edward Selden's McKenna's Flirtation.
