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''[[Arrah-na-Pogue or The Wicklow Wedding]]'' is  a political melodrama  in three acts by Dion Boucicault.
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#REDIRECT[[Arrah-na-Pogue, or The Wicklow Wedding]]
 
 
Also found as '''''[[The Wicklow Wedding]]'''''
 
 
 
Written in 1864, the play is a jaunty historical romance set in the Wicklow Mountains during the Rebellion of 1798.  First performed at Theatre Royal, Dublin and the Princess's Theatre, London in 1864, and at Niblo's Garden, in 1865.
 
 
 
The text published in New York by The De Witt Publishing House, [1864?]
 
 
 
Adapted as a romantic opera in three acts called ''[[Shaun the Post]]''  in by R. J. Hughes, with music composed by Dermot MacMurrough. Performed at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, and published in Dublin by Pigott & Co., probably in 1924.
 
 
 
1875: Produced by [[Disney Roebuck]] in the [[Bijou Theatre]], formerly the [[Oddfellows Hall]], in September 1875. The set designer [[W. Thorne]] excels as the dancer of an Irish jig with Miss [[Maggie Duggan]].
 
 
 
In July 1876
 
 
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
 
 
''[[Arrah-na-Pogue, or The Wicklow Wedding]]'', Catalogue information, National Library of Ireland [http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000058533]
 
 
 
''[[Shaun the Post]]'', Catalogue information, National Library of Ireland[http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000748717]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Source: [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman, F.C.L.]], ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. 1980. pp. 327-330, 340, 341, 345, 348, 351, 363, 368).
 
 
 
 
 
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