Mark O'Rowe

Mark Schreiber (Universität GH Siegen)

Ed. by Aleks Sierz, Independent Scholar - Europe
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Anne Markey (Dublin City University), Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin), Eoghan Smith (Carlow College), Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast)

Dates

Born 1970
Activity 1995-ongoing

Places

Born in Ireland, Republic of (Eire)
Active in Ireland, Republic of (Eire); United Kingdom

Activities

Primary

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

O'Rowe's Works

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Mark O'Rowe is one of the new generation of Irish playwrights to emerge in the 1990s who challenged their drama's traditional concern with rural life by focusing on urban stories, usually characterised by high-octane language and a surreal and violent sensibility. Their experience of growing up in a society that developed from being “the niggers of Europe”, to quote from Roddy Doyle's

The Commitments

(1987), to what has been termed the “Celtic Tiger” strongly informs their work. The social and cultural instabilities and insecurities that have accompanied Ireland's rapid economic transformation in the 1990s provide a rich reservoir of topics and themes for these playwrights to critically evaluate and assess what it means to be Irish at the end of the 20th century and the beginning…

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Citation: Schreiber, Mark. "Mark O'Rowe". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 February 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5502, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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