The complete online text of The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan.

Katharine Tynan was the most prolific and widely read Irish woman writer of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. From 1885 to her death in 1931, Tynan's poetry appeared in the major Irish, English, and American periodicals and was published i...

Katharine Tynan's importance to English literature is difficult to assess. Her tastes were as varied as her writing was prolific. During her career of more than fifty years, she wrote as many as seven books in one year, and, not surprisingly, not all of...

Eternally green: Playwright Dion Boucicault gets his Irish up THE COLLEEN BAWN By Dion Boucicault Irish Repertory Theatre 132 West 22nd Street 212.727.2737 Steeped in Irishness, with a brogue as thick as your great-grandma's corset, The Colleen Bawn is nonetheless an American play,...

Barth, Diana Irish Voice 10-28-2003 IF a rousing, good old-fashioned melodrama is something you're in the mood for, then Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn, at Manhattan's Irish Repertory Theatre, is just your ticket. Playwright Boucicault was an eminent figure of the 19th...