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Thread #13676   Message #115113
Posted By: Philippa (copying from IrTrad-L archives)
17-Sep-99 - 07:18 PM
Thread Name: song on stage and screen
Subject: RE: song on stage and screen
Casadh an tSugain was retold by Yeats in an often anthologized short story,"The Twisting of the Rope," which "provided the basis for the first modern Gaelic play, Douglas Hyde's 'Casadh an tSugain', performed in Dublin in1901" (Ben Forker, "Modern Irish Short Stories")