Dion Boucicault

Arrah-na-Pogue

Irish melodrama featuring the IRB and a wrongly accused revolutionary

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Dion Boucicault
Dion Boucicault

Boucicault was primarily a playwright but his contributions to Irish character and narrative in the melodramatic tradition deeply influenced the fiction writers who followed him. The Colleen Bawn established archetypes of Irish fiction.

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