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"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way."
Fiona Shaw
(b. 1958 Irish actress)

"In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple."
J. M. Synge
(1871-1909 Irish poet and dramatist)

"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(1751-1816 Irish-born playwright and politician)

"Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot?"
William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939, Irish poet and playwright)

Armstrong Atlantic State University
Irish Links
Study Abroad in Ireland:
Economics & Literature
24 May - 9 June 2006

Many important playwrights have hailed from Ireland, and it is on the stages of Irish theatres that some of the world's most successful plays have first been staged.

The most famous Irish theatre is The Abbey, which was opened in 1904.  It was only three years in existence when it was surrounded in controversy following the production of JM Synge's The Playboy of the Western World.  Also controversial was the production of Sean O' Casey's The Plough and the Stars. Perceived as insulting to the Irish people, both plays provoked a storm of protest.  The original Abbey Theatre building was burnt down in 1951 and subsequently rebuilt. The theatre still hosts many quality productions today--and participants in AASU's Irish Studies Program will have an opportunity to attend a production during their visit in spring 2006.


During their stay in Dublin,
Irish Studies students
will visit the Peacock Theatre to
attend an afternoon
performance of Howie the Rookie,
a play by Mark O'Rowe.
(If you do not yet have a copy of the
play, please contact Dr. Nordquist at nordqudi@mail.armstrong.edu.)

 
Abbey and Peacock Theatres
26 Lower Abbey Street
Dublin 1

Before departing for Ireland,
all students in the Irish Studies Program
are encouraged to read
Riders to the Sea,
a play by John M. Synge
set in the Aran Islands. 
(We'll be spending our third night in Ireland
on Inishmore, largest of the Aran Islands.)


Grand Opera House
Great Victoria Street
Belfast

                           
Fishamble Theatre Company Ltd. presents new work of the highest standards to audiences in Dublin, nationally and internationally. It is a company dedicated to the discovery, development and production of new plays. Fishamble has received many major awards as well as critical and audience acclaim at home and abroad for its unique artistic identity and dynamic contribution to Irish theatre.