← Dion BoucicaultThe Shaughraunby Dion BoucicaultIrish comedy featuring the roguish Conn the Shaughraun amid intrigueFind 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 BoucicaultThe Colleen BawnIrish melodrama about a young woman caught between love and dark secrets→Arrah-na-PogueIrish melodrama featuring the IRB and a wrongly accused revolutionary→