The White Scourge and Good Soldier Švejk: Czech Literature in Irish-Language Productions

Abstract

The article focuses on the staging of Čapek's The White Scourge in Galway's An Taibhdhearc during the Second World War (1941) and on Breandán Ó hEithir's Irish-language radio adaptation of Hašek's Good Soldier Švejk in 1986.

Keywords

• Karel Čapek
• Jaroslav Hašek
• Czech literature
• An Taibhdhearc theatre
• Irish-language drams
• Breandán Ó hEithir