Moulding the Irish Dramatist of the Future. Memory, Modernity, and (Inter)nationalist Identities at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940

R.H. van den Beuken

In 1928 – only a few years after the end of the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Civil War – two young actors travelled to Dublin to establish a playhouse of their own: the Gate Theatre. While the world of Irish drama was generally characterised by strongly nationalist sentiments during