Blueeyes only just saw your post and thought I should answer it before I sleep.
Thing is re resistance whose resistance are you talking about?
And by police authority are you talking about Northern Ireland?Cos there isn't a big deal on resistance in Eire.
And by Modern Irish Drama do you mean delivered via film, plays, TV, literature or poetry?
You may find it useful to look at the work of the playwright Brian Friel he attended the same catholic college as John Hume and was moulded by the political tensions of Derry at the time. His plays are concerned with man in society,in conflict with community,government, church,family and essentially in conflict with himself.While some of his plays tend to be set in the past, it is a mythical rather than a realistic past and he uses that past to illuminate the present.He tends to explore the condidition of Ireland and the themes that re-emerge are those of emigration,loneliness, the breakdown of authority and the indidvidual dislocated from family or society.
Might be worth looking at the work of Frank McGuiness his play "Behold the sons of Ulster marching towrds the somme" explains the motives that led loyalist volunteers to go fight for England and "Carthaginians" deals with the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry.
Modern stuff tends to graduate more towards film Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan are among the biggies but I can't say that any of their work deals directly with a challenge to police authority.
So basically that was of absolutely no use whatsoever.
Oh well, time for bed.
