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

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colleen_Bawn

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~1 hours (108K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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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

Aug 29, 2016

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52924

Subjects

Irish drama -- 19th century PR

About the authors

Dion Boucicault

1820–1890

A star of 19th-century theater, this Irish playwright-actor helped shape popular drama on both sides of the Atlantic. He was famous for vivid melodramas, strong stagecraft, and Irish plays that stayed in the repertory for years.

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Gerald Griffin

1803–1840

An early Irish storyteller with a gift for vivid local life, he is best remembered for The Collegians, a novel that later inspired Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn. His work helped shape 19th-century Irish fiction through its mix of drama, feeling, and close observation of ordinary people.

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