{"product_id":"for-the-land-they-loved-irish-political-melodramas-1890-1925","title":"Cheryl Herr: For the Land They Loved [1991] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFueled by the Enlightenment's model of revolutionary cultural change, the hopeful Irish rose against British rule in the famous rebellion of 1798. The British responded quickly and violently to suppress\u003cbr\u003eit, and for generations after, Irish school children knew intimately the stories of patriotism, terror, and betrayal that came out of the '98 Rising. The enactment of these stories, through a series of extremely popular political melodramas, reinforced that learning and was fundamental to the evolving sense of Irish nationhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor the Land They Loved\u003c\/i\u003e makes available in print for the first time the complete texts of four of the most ideologically complex and theatrically effective of the many \"lost\" Irish melodramas produced at the popular Queen's Theatre in Dublin during the late nineteenth and earl twentieth centuries. This edition, complete with period illustrations of playbills, pictorial ads, and portraits, includes a detailed critical and historical essay that weaves the separate narratives of the plays into a sustained story of Irish sociopolitical life in the revolutionary 1790s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll four plays focus on the '98 Rising. J. W. Whitbread's \u003ci\u003eLord Edward, Or '98\u003c\/i\u003e (1894) and \u003ci\u003eWolfe Tone\u003c\/i\u003e (1898) dramatize the consequences of heroism from the aristocratic and United Irish point of view, while P. J. Bourke's \u003ci\u003eWhen Wexford Rose\u003c\/i\u003e (1910) and\u003ci\u003e For the Land She Loved\u003c\/i\u003e (1915) engage resistance from working-class and feminist-nationalist perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch plays, shown constantly in Irish cities and small towns as well as overseas, were to become part of the social dialogue that produced another rising in 1916 and beyond. For scholars and students of Irish history and culture, and for anyone interested in understanding the consciousness\u003cbr\u003ebehind modern Irish resistance, For the Land They Loved will prove to be essential reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Herr, Cheryl","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48103123288403,"sku":"XG80815624813","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47923770949971,"sku":"XV80815624813","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/herr-cheryl-cheryl-herr-for-the-land-they-loved-1991-hardback-55761290101075.jpg?v=1727601965","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/for-the-land-they-loved-irish-political-melodramas-1890-1925","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}