“In Ireland He's Considered an Irish-American Playwright”: Eugene O'Neill, A Touch of the Poet, and the Irish Play Available to Purchase

This article examines the ways in which the US theatergoing public discussed and valued Irishness on stage in the early twenty-first century. It does so through examination of the public discourse which surrounded the 2005 revival of Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet, which starred Gabriel Byrne and which underscored elements of Irishness for the production, play, and playwright.