Introduction
An audience of some importance
"Speranza's son"
Irish America dismisses Oscar Wilde, 1882
The celt in America
William Butler Yeats's mission to the new island, 1887-1904
"No end of a row"
The national theatre in the shadow of Synge, 1903-1909
"Weary of misrepresentation"
Reconsidering the Irish American reception of the Abbey playwrights, 1911-1913
Meet the new gossoon, same as the old gossoon
The Abbey playwrights in Irish America, 1931-1939
Through a bowl of bitter tears, darkly
James Joyce and the Amerirish, 1917-1962
Receptions of an Irish rebel
Brendan Behan in Irish America, 1960-1964
Conclusion.