The Hibernian Father

Date premiered6 May 1844^[1]

Place premieredSydney

Original languageEnglish

The Hiberian Father
Written by	Edward Geoghegan
Date premiered	6 May 1844^[1]
Place premiered	Sydney
Original language	English
Genre	melodrama

The Hibernian Father is an 1844 Australian play. It is reportedly the first Australian written play professionally performed in Sydney.^[2]^[3] It has been called the "first made in Australia play".^[4]

The author was reportedly Edward Geoghegan.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

The playwright was accused of plagiarism of the Irish play The Warden of Galway by the Sydney Morning Herald. These accusations were refuted.^[10]^[11]

The play was written as a vehicle for Frances Nesbit.^[12] It was popular and was performed a number of times.^[13]

Everyones said "It possessed great merit in dialogue and construction, and proved the author to understand the requirements of a playwright. The Hibernian Father was acted several times, and always met with the approbation of large audiences. "^[4]

References

↑ "Advertising". The Australian. Vol. I, no. 57. New South Wales, Australia. 6 May 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 19 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards an Australian Drama. pp. 13–14.
↑ "Our Weekly Gossip". The Dispatch. Vol. 1, no. 26. New South Wales, Australia. 27 April 1844. p. 1. Retrieved 19 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
1 2 "90 Years of Australian Drama; The Hits and the Flops.", Everyones., 11 (564 (10 December 1930)), Sydney: Everyones Ltd, nla.obj-564400612, retrieved 5 December 2023 – via Trove
↑ Lynch, G., & Pelosi, J. (2011). Lost & Found - Reinstating Playwright Edward Geoghegan (1813-1869) and his Most Controversial Play, The Hibernian Father (1844). Paper presented at Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic Studies.
↑ Edward Geoghegan at Austlit
↑ Oppenheim, Helen. ‘The Author of The Hibernian Father: An Early Colonial Playwright.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 2, no. 4, 1966, doi: 10.20314/als.9dda0e1867.
↑ Oppenheim, Helen. ‘The Hibernian Father: Mysteries Solved and Unsolved.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1967, doi: 10.20314/als.52ae3a9274.
↑ 'Geoghegan, Edward (1813–1869)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/geoghegan-edward-1571/text1635, accessed 19 November 2023.
↑ ""THE HIBERNIAN FATHER"". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. XVII, no. 2188. New South Wales, Australia. 20 May 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 19 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "THEATRICALS". The Australian. Vol. I, no. 70. New South Wales, Australia. 21 May 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 19 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "A great play resurrected", ABC Weekly, 12 (39), Sydney, 30 September 1950, retrieved 19 November 2023 – via Trove
↑ "90 Years of Australian Drama; The Hits and the Flops.", Everyones., 11 (564 (10 December 1930)), Sydney: Everyones Ltd, nla.obj-564400612, retrieved 19 November 2023 – via Trove

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