George Moore 
The Bending of the Bough (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 
A Comedy in Five Acts

This 1900 comedy was part of the Irish Literary Revival movement.  It was produced by the Irish Literary Theater in Dublin.  The play features a commercial—and romantic—rivalry between the towns of Northhaven and Southhaven:  allegorical names for Ireland and England, with Northhaven feeling deceived by the powerful Southhaven. 

A propos de l’auteur

George Augustus Moore (1852-1933) was a pioneering modern Irish writer. He had to fight against censorship early in his career. Despite the powerful forces arrayed against him, Moore succeeded in establishing realism as a legitimate literary mode.  His best-known novels include A Mummer’s Wife (1885) and Esther Waters (1894).