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See Stephen Watt, Joyce, O’Casey, and Irish Popular Theater
(1991), Robert Johnston’s The Old Land, produced in Easter
Week 1903, contained a rowdy pub-scene, and was censured by Irish critics
for ‘display[ing] a tendency to follow in the line of the conventional
stage Irishman and Irishwoman, a creation never popular among Irish audiences,
and now perhaps less so than ever’ (Freeman’s Journal).
[Watt, p.77.]
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