Ireland As It Is
Ireland As It Is is a drama in three acts by J.A. Amherst (1776-1851)[].
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The original text
First performed in the Bowery Amphitheatre, by Barney Williams, later also on Broadway and in Boston.
Printed in New York by Samuel French in 1865, as French's American Drama, no. 23.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1867: Performed by Le Roy's Original Company in the Theatre Royal on 14 March, with The Miller and his Men (Talfourd and Byron).
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1865 published text by Samuel French, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
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