“I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.” ChildrenShowsSchoolParentModernMissingBabyDramaWinterCurseDelightedPolicemenHyde Book:Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Source: Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish