[PDF] The Plays Of Maura Laverty eBook

Author : Cathy Leeney
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1802076603

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Published here for the first time, Maura Laverty’s plays Liffey Lane, Tolka Row and A Tree in the Crescent are rooted in 1950s Dublin, its territories and enclaves. Teeming with the lives of the poor, the ambitious, the trapped and the struggling, the plays are moving, funny and vividly alive. They capture the capital in a state of transformation – reaching for modernisation while still enmired in stagnant class divisions, poor housing and narrow social values. Key to all three plays are questions of home, the lives of women and girls, and the impact of conservative government policies and church attitudes. Already a public figure in Irish life, and an influencer before her time through her fiction, cookery books and broadcasting, Laverty’s plays met with huge success when staged in 1951 and 1952 by Hilton Edwards of the Gate Theatre Company at Dublin’s Gaiety and Gate Theatres and on tour. Laverty’s trilogy is a significant and long-awaited part of the twentieth-century Irish theatrical canon. This volume presents the Trilogy, including a preface by Christopher Fitz-Simon, who knew and worked with Laverty. The editors’ introduction contextualises Laverty’s work and considers the theatrical values of the plays.

Author : Cathy Leeney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2023-05
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ISBN : 9781802077919

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Published here for the first time, Maura Laverty's plays Liffey Lane, Tolka Row and A Tree in the Crescent are rooted in 1950s Dublin, its territories and enclaves. Teeming with the lives of the poor, the ambitious, the trapped and the struggling, the plays are moving, funny and vividly alive. They capture the capital in a state of transformation - reaching for modernisation while still enmired in stagnant class divisions, poor housing and narrow social values. Key to all three plays are questions of home, the lives of women and girls, and the impact of conservative government policies and church attitudes. Already a public figure in Irish life, and an influencer before her time through her fiction, cookery books and broadcasting, Laverty's plays met with huge success when staged in 1951 and 1952 by Hilton Edwards of the Gate Theatre Company at Dublin's Gaiety and Gate Theatres and on tour. Laverty's trilogy is a significant and long-awaited part of the twentieth-century Irish theatrical canon. This volume presents the Trilogy, including a preface by Christopher Fitz-Simon, who knew and worked with Laverty. The editors' introduction contextualises Laverty's work and considers the theatrical values of the plays.

Author : Maura Laverty
Publisher : Little Brown and Company (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1986
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9781844081936

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Delia spends her early years living in the village of Ballyderring on the edge of the Bog of Allen, her life enriched by the beauty of the Irish countryside. Then one cold November day, Delia stands poised for independance and Spain.

Author : Maura Laverty
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
ISBN :

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Story of a little girl of the Dublin slums, with incidental portrayals of people in various walks of life, whom she meets as she delivers the daily paper.

Author : Marguérite Corporaal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1800859511

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As the prominence of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide range of marginalised histories by reflecting on the emancipatory role that the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has played in Irish culture and society, both historically and in more recent times. The Gate's founders, Hilton Edwards and Mich�al mac Liamm�ir, promoted the work of many female playwrights and created an explicitly cosmopolitan stage on which repressive ideas about gender, sexuality, class and language were questioned. During Selina Cartmell's current tenure as director, cultural diversity and social emancipation have also featured prominently on the Gate's agenda, with various productions exploring issues of ethnicity in contemporary Ireland. The Gate thus offers a unique model for studying the ways in which cosmopolitan theatres, as cultural institutions, give expression to and engage with the complexities of identity and diversity in changing, globalised societies. CONTRIBUTORS: David Clare, Margu�rite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Barry Houlihan, Radvan Markus, Deirdre McFeely, Justine Nakase, Siobhan O'Gorman, Mary Trotter, Grace Vroomen, Ian R. Walsh, Feargal Whelan

Author : Maura Laverty
Publisher : Little Brown and Company (UK)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2004-11-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781844081929

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When Delia's family moves away, Delia goes to live with her grandmother in a farmhouse in the Irish countryside. Here, she experiences the happiest years of her life as she watches the seasons come and go until, one November day, she stands poised for independence - and Spain.

Author : Darina Allen
Publisher : Kyle Books
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 085783696X

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Ireland's rich culinary heritage is brought to life in this new edition of Darina's bestselling Irish Traditional Cooking. With 300 traditional dishes, including 100 new recipes, this is the most comprehensive and entertaining tome on the subject. Each recipe is complemented by tips, tales, historical insights and common Irish customs, many of which have been passed down from one generation to the next. Darina's fascination with Ireland's culinary heritage is illustrated with chapters on Broths & Soups, Fish, Game, Vegetables and Cakes & Biscuits. She uses the finest of Ireland's natural produce to give us recipes such as Sea Spinach Soup, Potted Ballycotton Shrimps with Melba Toast and Rhubarb Fool.

Author : Ondřej Pilný
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2021
Category : British literature
ISBN : 3030575624

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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.

Author : Maura Laverty
Publisher : Anvil Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2001-09
Category : Bread
ISBN : 9781901737295

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This down-home cookbook will tantalise your senses with almost 300 Irish recipes for bread, cakes and pastries, tried and tested and guaranteed to please. Interspersed with the recipes are stories, anecdotes, helpful hints and food folklore, told in the inimitable style that made Maura Laverty one of Ireland's best-selling authors. Once you realise how easy it is to make your own bread and cakes, your kitchen will never be without the delicious smell of baking again.