Resources

Material written for Barney Williams

Clapp, John Bouvé, Edwin Francis Edgett. Players of the present, Volume 1. Publications of the Dunlap Society, Dunlap Society.  Players of the Present, Edwin Francis Edgett. Dunlap Society, 1899
Barney and Maria Williams are mentioned several times.

Dunlap Society. Publications of the Dunlap Society, Issues 7-8; Issue 10., 1889:  especially pages 329ff.

Pilgrim, James.  Ireland and America,or, Scenes in both: A drama, in two acts : Written expressly for Mr. Barney Williams : To which are added, a description of the costume, cast of the characters, entrances and exits, relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business ; As performed at all the principal theatres in the United States.  James Pilgrim, Barney Williams, Broadway Theatre (New York, N.Y. : 1847-1859), National Theatre (New York, N.Y. : 1850-1860), Walnut Street Theatre. 27 pages.

Williams, Barney.  Irish assurance and Yankee modesty,: an original farce in two acts, written expressly for Mr. Barney Williams. ; To which are added, a description of the costume–cast of the characters–entrances and exits–relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business. As performed at the American theatres. 1841.  24 pages.

Material written by Barney Williams

Plays

Here are some of the names of plays in the NYPL collection:

  • The bachelor’s whim
  • Born to good luck
  • The Connie Soogah
  • Yankee help
  • Darby O’Donnell
  • Emerald Isle
  • Emerald Ring
  • Female Forty thieves
  • The Fenians of Mullingar
  • Grist to the Mill
  • Governor’s Wife
  • An hour in Seville
  • The Irish Ambassador
  • An Irish joke
  • An Irish legacy
  • The Irish Yankee
  • Jack Sheppard
  • Kate Kearney
  • The Knight of Arva
  • The Ladder of Love
  • The Lakes of Killarney
  • Latest from New York
  • Law for ladies
  • The Leprechaun
  • Lucifer Matches
  • Melissa Meddle
  • Miles O’Reilly
  • My brother Teddy
  • One of the right sort
  • Orphan of TIpperary
  • Paul Dogherty
  • Shamrock
  • The three sisters
  • Twelve Precisely
  • The Wept of the Wish-ton-wish
  • Women will talk
New York Public Library
9-NCOF+ (Williams, B. Collection of Plays)
Collection of plays, most of which were written expressly for Barney Williams and played by him.
Resources mentioning Barney Williams

A history of the New York stage from the first performance in 1732 to 1901, Volume 1. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, Thomas Allston Brown. 1902. See mentions of Williams on page 523.

Century Magazine, 1890., Volume 40: pp. 814ff.

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1863., Volume 27: pp. 282.

Studies in theatre and drama: essays in honor of Hubert C. Heffner. Issue 23 of De proprietatibus litterarum: Series maior. Editor Oscar Gross Brockett. 1972. See pages 158ff.

The life and adventures, songs, services, and speeches of Private Miles O’Reilly. pp: 60-63. 1864.158ff.

‘Twas only an Irishman’s dream: the image of Ireland and the Irish in American popular song lyrics, 1800-1920. W. H. A. Williams.  University of Illinois Press, 1996.  See pp: 69-70

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