The Bending of the Bough (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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<div><div> This 1900 comedy was part of the Irish Literary Revival movement.  It was produced by the Irish Literary Theater in Dublin.  The play features a commercialand romanticrivalry between the towns of Northhaven and Southhaven:  allegorical names for Ireland and England, with Northhaven feeling deceived by the powerful Southhaven. </div></div>

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<div><p><b>George Augustus Moore</b> (1852-1933) was a pioneering modern Irish writer. He had to fight against censorship early in his career. Despite the powerful forces arrayed against him, Moore succeeded in establishing realism as a legitimate literary mode.&#xa0; His best-known novels include<i>A Mummer's Wife</i> (1885) and<i>Esther Waters</i> (1894).&#xa0;</p></div>

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