The Land
Land, The
Author: Padraic Colum
First Performance: 1905, Dublin
Published: 1916
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Cosgar's farm, Irish Midlands, 1905
Cast: 4m, 2f, extras
The Wyndham Land Act of 1903 provided for the break-up of the old estates, allowing tenant farmers to buy their land over a 68-year period. Murtagh Cosgar is an enterprising farmer who has taken advantage of the Act and so disapproves of his son Matt's love for Ellen Douras, a teacher whose father, unwilling to purchase his farm, has remained a ‘peasant’, even though he had been jailed for his efforts in the land agitation. Ellen's brother, the simple-minded Cornelius, is in love with Murtagh's daughter Sally. Matt finally persuades his father that he should marry for love not to acquire land. But Ellen herself rejects Matt,...
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