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The Match Box by Frank McGuinness: programme note for Galway International Arts Festival
(Galway International Arts Festival, 2015)
[No abstract available]
Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels and anti-Irish prejudice
(Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas, 2007)
It is by now taken as axiomatic that representations of Irish characters in Victorian literature were generally negative. However, as Roy Foster shows, they were not universally so; we find one example of a positive treatment ...
The New Electric Ballroom by Enda Walsh, Druid Theatre, Galway
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2008)
[No abstract available]
‘Great Joys Were My Share Always’: Ibsenite echoes in Synge’s Deirdre of the Sorrows
(International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) Japan, 2017)
[No abstract available]
‘Now for Our Irish Wars’ – Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman and the Irish Dramatic Canon
(Routledge, 2020-11-22)
This article explores the Irish features of Jez Butterworth’s _The Ferryman_, focussing on his
use of overfamiliar Irish tropes as well as his intertextual allusions to writers such as Brian
Friel, WB Yeats, and Seamus ...
‘A Twisted, Looping Form’ Staging dark ecologies in Ella Hickson’s Oil
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-06-01)
In Dark Ecology (2016), Timothy Morton argues that one of the challenges presented by the impact of human activity upon the environment is that [w]e are faced with the task of thinking at temporal and spatial scales that ...
‘It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home …’: Beckett as national performance
(Intellect, 2020-12-01)
This article explores how nations such as Ireland interact with each other ‐ and seek to understand themselves ‐ by appropriating theatre-makers and other artists, using them to perform versions of that nation to the outside ...
Shakespeare and the Irish Writer edited by Janet Clare and Stephen O Neill
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
Shakespeare, wrote Ben Jonson, was both the “soul of the age” and “for all time”. His work, that is, encapsulated the life of
his society – but it also transcended space and time, acquiring universal importance. That ...