Sir,—Eamon O’Flaherty’s review of Dion Boucicault’s Arrah-na-Pogue (HI 19.2, March/April 2011) notes that Boucicault made a huge impact on the theatre in mid-nineteenth-century New York and London. It should also be noted that Boucicault was in turn affected by a seminal event in American history, to which he thereby became an interesting footnote. The playbill ... Read more
