‘No comfort talking when there’s a man around’: Maura Laverty’s Tolka Row (1951) and a neglected tradition of popular drama at the Gate Theatre, Dublin

This essay presents a case for Maura Laverty’s play Tolka Row (1951) to be recognised as a highly-accomplished prototype of the soap opera in Ireland. It argues that Tolka Row is an important Irish iteration of a quintessentially modern form that swept across Europe and the rest of the world in tan...

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Main Author: Finian O'Gorman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies 2021-06-01
Series:Review of Irish Studies in Europe
Online Access:https://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/rise/article/view/2628
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