The Colleen Bawn; or, the Brides of Garryowen

by Dion Boucicault, Gerald Griffin

EN·~1 hours·3 chapters

Chapters

3 total

THE COLLEEN BAWN; OR, THE BRIDES OF GARRYOWEN.

1:50:49

CAST OF CHARACTERS.—[The Colleen Bawn.]

0:31

COSTUMES.—Period, 179—.

1:20

Description

Based on Gerald Griffin's novel, "The collegians".

Details

Language

Duration

~1 hours (108K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2016-08-29

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Irish drama -- 19th century

About the authors

Dion Boucicault

1820–1890

A star of 19th-century theater, this Irish playwright and actor helped shape popular drama on both sides of the Atlantic. He was known for lively melodramas, sharp stagecraft, and crowd-pleasing hits like London Assurance, The Colleen Bawn, and The Shaughraun.

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Gerald Griffin

1803–1840

Best remembered for the novel that inspired Dion Boucicault’s famous play The Colleen Bawn, this Irish writer packed fiction, poetry, journalism, and folklore into a life that ended far too soon. His work is closely tied to the people, speech, and landscape of Munster.