← Dion BoucicaultThe Colleen Bawnby Dion BoucicaultIrish melodrama about a young woman caught between love and dark secretsFind on Amazon↗About the authorDion BoucicaultBoucicault 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.More by Dion BoucicaultArrah-na-PogueIrish melodrama featuring the IRB and a wrongly accused revolutionary→The ShaughraunIrish comedy featuring the roguish Conn the Shaughraun amid intrigue→