Article: Stirring up disloyalty: the Boer War, the Irish Literary Theatre and the emergence of a new separatism.

In May 1899 the Irish Literary Theatre staged its inaugural production, Yeats's The Countess Cathleen, in the Antient Concert Rooms in Dublin and set in motion a series of events that would culminate in the foundation of the Abbey Theatre five years later. The outbreak of the Boer War in October 1899 unleashed a new dynamic within Irish separatist politics which manifested itself in the establishment of the pro-Boer Transvaal Committee. Within six years this fledgling movement would develop into a new radical political party. Sinn Fein. Despite the contemporaneous evolution of two of the most important institutions in modem Irish history there has been little scholarly ...

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