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A Mercier Press original, first published 1969.
in Irish Folk Drama, Dr. Alan Gailey has assembled the text of five plays from the counties of Antrim, Derry, Dublin, Fermanagh, and Wexford. As well as giving production details for each play- descriptions of appropriate costumes and disguises and methods of presentation- the author relates folk drama to a whole range of folk customs throughout Ireland and then goes on to examine these in relation to the Irish quarter-day festivals and the observances attaching to weddings and to wakes. He assesses mummers, christmas rhymers , wrenboys , strawboys and the role that lived history played in the popular plays .
First edition published by The Mercier Press, Cork, in 1969. 103 pages in card covers.
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