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1916 and Irish literature, culture and society: an introduction
Crosson, Seán (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015)1916 marked an important moment in the development of modern Ireland. The continuing resonance of the Republican Rising that took place in that year was evident in the now much quoted editorial of The Irish Times (18 Nov ... -
'Albert Nobbs', Ladies and Gentlemen, and Quare Irish Female Erotohistories
McIvor, Charlotte (Edinburgh University Press, 2013-05)This essay models an approach to quare Irish female erotohistoriography through analyzing George Moore's 1918 novella 'Albert Nobbs' (later adapted as The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs by French feminist playwright Simone ... -
Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema
Stoneman, Rod (Rodopi, 2007-10-01)Alexander Kluge's films, television programmes and his other diverse activities contribute to a developed understanding of contemporary politics and culture. He took a version of creative critical theory into spheres of ... -
All that Fall by Samuel Beckett, Pan Pan Theatre Company
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2011)The first thing to say about Pan Pan’s performance of Beckett’s 1956 radio play is this: if you’re planning on going to it, please don’t read this review – it would be a shame to spoil the surprise that awaits you. And ... -
All we say is 'Life is crazy': - Central and Eastern Europe and the Irish Stage
Lonergan, Patrick (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2009)[No abstract available] -
'And like the sea God was silent': Multivalent water imagery in Silence
McCormack, Frances (Bloomsbury, 2015-02-26)[No abstract available] -
Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: representing Gaelic Games in Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the Ash (1987)
Crosson, Seán (Peter Lang, 2010)This article charts the movement towards what might be called, following from Richard Kearney’s 1995 book, a post-nationalist approach to representing gaelic games in film, particularly since the late 1960s through an ... -
"Ar son an Naisiuin": The National Film Institute of Ireland's All-Ireland Films
Crosson, Seán (Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2013)On 4 September 1948 the Irish Independent newspaper carried a small announcement on page ten indicating that the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) had authorized the filming of the All-Ireland hurling and football finals ... -
Beaumont and Fletcher's Rhodes: early modern geopolitics and mythological topography in The Maid's Tragedy
Reid, Lindsay Ann (Humanities Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University., 2012)Discussions of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy have infrequently engaged with the matter of its setting. Nonetheless, as we are frequently reminded within the play, its tragic events are purportedly ... -
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, Young Vic Theatre
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)When Martin McDonagh’s Leenane plays first appeared in Ireland, they seemed exciting for many reasons: their delinquent humour, their rootedness in (but distance from) the Irish dramatic tradition, their wilfully ... -
Better by design: the art of theatre: Irish theatrescapes: new Irish plays, adapted European plays and Irish classics
Lonergan, Patrick (The Irish Times, 2016-01-23)This work, as well as being beautifully illustrated, succeeds as a memoir, an anthology and as an outstanding act of theatre criticism, writes Patrick Lonergan. -
The Blind Fiddler by Marie Jones, Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2003-06-12)Perhaps unfairly, Marie Jones remains more noted for commercial rather than critical success. The Blind Fiddler – an exciting fusion of melodrama, traditional music, and great storytelling – looks likely to be as successful ... -
Bolger abandons tradition to chronicle tower life in all its darkness and beauty: BOOK OF THE DAY
Lonergan, Patrick (The Irish Times, 2010-05-28)[No abstract available] -
The Call by Tara Maria Lovett, Peri-Talking at The Crypt
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2002)Arriving to watch Tara Maria Lovett’s The Call, we realise that we have entered a human body. The room pulses with red lighting as we take our seats around a ribcage, a pile of stones at its centre representing a heart. ... -
“Certaine Amorous Sonnets, Betweene Venus and Adonis”: fictive acts of writing in The Passionate Pilgrime of 1612
Reid, Lindsay Ann (Etudes Epistémè, 2012)In c. 1599, the London stationer William Jaggard produced two editions of The Passionate Pilgrime, a collection of twenty poems best known for its inclusion of five sonnets by William Shakespeare. Having been lengthened ... -
Configuring Irishness through coaching films: Peil (1962) and Christy Ring (1964)
Crosson, Seán (Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-12)The sports coaching film has a long history, dating from at least 1932 with the production of Paulette McDonagh s How I Play Cricket which featured the legendary Don Bradman. However, coaching films dedicated to indigenous ... -
'Croke Park goes Plumb Crazy' Gaelic Games in Pathé Newsreels, 1920–1939
Crosson, Seán; McAnallen, Dónal (Taylor and Francis, 2011)From the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, and over the next two decades, arose great efforts in Ireland to augment political independence from Britain with enhanced cultural separation. During this period the ... -
Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition : Ossian Online
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014)James Macpherson s Ossian poems were the international sensation of the eighteenth-century. First published in 1760, Macpherson s work caused a literary furore. Ostensibly translations from Gaelic manuscripts, the poems ... -
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel, Gate Theatre
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2004)Dancing at Lughnasa premiered at the Abbey in 1990, and was produced in Dublin during five of the ten subsequent years – using the same director and designer every time. Our understanding of the play has therefore been ...