"Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment"(1st Edition) Popular Irish Plays in the Decade Prior to the Opening of The Abbey Theatre by ChristopherFitz-Simon Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 2011 by Carysfort Press Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-904505-49-5, ISBN: 1-904505-49-X
"In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th and early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players, and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries, where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics such as revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, and political assassination. Plays of the time were diverse, including those such as ..."
"Many a travel picture book is designed to make us dream, and like its equivalent in the cookery field, we can often gaze lovingly at things that we will have no experience of. Christopher Fitz-Simon's The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland, however, produces an immediate effect that was probably the author's prime intention: within mere pages of this sumptuously illustrated book, the reader is filled with the keenest desire to visit the ..."