Reviews of ‘The Irish Stage’



One of our recent publications has been attracting widespread positive reviews on both sides of the Irish Sea. W.N. Osborough’s The Irish Stage: a Legal History (Four Courts Press, 2015) has been favourably reviewed in the Dublin Review of Books  (November 2015) and the Times Literary Supplement (March 2016) [subscription required]

Philip Astley was awarded the second Dublin theatre patent in 1788. His circus extravaganza, left, as aficionados may be aware, comes in for attention in Jane Austen’s Emma and Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop

The book has been described as ‘meticulously researched…highly original’ (TLS), and Professor Osborough described as ‘the doyen of Irish legal academics’ (DRB). Further details about the book are available on our Publications page.