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Dancing on a one-way street: Irish reactions to Dancing at Lughnasa in New York
Lonergan, Patrick (Syracuse University Press, 2009)[No abstract available] -
Defining Colony and Empire in 19th-Century Irish Nationalism
Pilkington, Lionel; Ryder, Sean (Irish Academic Press, 2005)[no abstract available] -
Defining the heathen Irish and the pagan African: two similar discourses a century apart
Bateman, Fiona (2008)This article looks at two different missionary projects separated by space and time: British Protestant missions to Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century; and Irish Roman Catholic missions to Africa in the 1920 and 1930s. ... -
Digging around in the past for a glimpse of the future
Lonergan, Patrick (The Irish Times, 2013-04-22)[No abstract available] -
Druid Theatre’s Leenane Trilogy on tour: 1996–2001
Lonergan, Patrick (Carysfort Press, 2005-09-20)[No abstract available] -
An enemy of the people, Ibsen adapted by Arthur Miller, Gate Theatre
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2013)Ibsen’s 1882 An Enemy of the People is sometimes described as a problem play, in that it dramatises a compelling debate between two brothers about the nature of morality and individual responsibility. But that term might ... -
English Bards and Unknown Reviewers: a Stylometric Analysis of Thomas Moore and the Christabel Review
Benatti, Francesca; Tonra, Justin (University of Notre Dame, 2015)Fraught relations between authors and critics are a commonplace of literary history. The particular case that we discuss in this article, a negative review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Christabel (1816), has an additional ... -
Faith Healer by Brian Friel, Gate Theatre
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)During the last decade, Owen Roe has emerged as one of Ireland’s very best actors – yet, until now, he’s rarely filled a major leading role. His performance as the Irishman in Ben Barnes’s 2001 Gigli Concert was astonishing ... -
'Female agency' in Lady Morgan's The Princess, or, The Béguine (1835).
O'Dwyer, Riana (Humanitas, 2011)This little-known novel expresses two of Lady Morgan's enthusiasms: her love of Europe and interest in travelling there, and her developing feminism. She had previously provoked controversy by her combination of travel and ... -
The Field by John B. Keane, Olympia Theatre
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2011)Irish attitudes towards John B. Keane have changed a lot during the last ten years – due largely to Garry Hynes’ production of four of his plays during that period. Keane has always been popular, but he was also seen by ... -
“For the honour of old Knock-na-gow I must win”: Representing Sport in Knocknagow (1918)
Crosson, Seán (2012)Knocknagow (1918) has a special significance for followers of sport in Ireland.[1] Most immediately, it contains one of the earliest surviving depictions of hurling on film—and hurling’s earliest depiction in a fiction ... -
For the pleasure of seeing her again by Michel Tremblay, translated by Linda Gaboriau, Peacock Theatre
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2002)As Michel Tremblay’s play begins, we are told that we are not about to see a Three Sisters or a Hamlet. Instead, we are asked to witness the writer’s remembrance of Nana, his mother, whom he is summoning to the stage "for ... -
For the Sake of Argument: Crowdsourcing Annotation of Macpherson's Ossian
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014)The argument presented by a scholarly edition can usually be traced to the vision of a single editor or a very small group of editors. But is it possible or even desirable for an edition to present multiple, perhaps competing, ... -
Francis Hutcheson's aesthetics and his critics in Ireland: Charles-Louis de Villette and Edmund Burke
Carey, Daniel (Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2016)In his own time as much as in ours, the response to Francis Hutcheson’s philosophy has concentrated above all on his contribution to moral thought, especially the articulation of a so-called ‘moral sense’.1 The moral ... -
Gender and the Discourse of Young Ireland Nationalism
Ryder, Sean (Galway University Press, 1995) -
The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy, Druid Theatre
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2009-09)One of the clichés of Irish theatre historiography is that drama in this country is excessively verbal – that our dramatists write for the voice, but not for the body. But if you actually go to the theatre here, it soon ... -
Girl chewing gum: the time that cinema forgot
Stoneman, Rod (Intellect / Ingenta Connect, 2012-02)John Smith's Girl Chewing Gum was made in Hackney, East London and shown at the London Film-Makers' Co-op in 1976. Through its wit and imagination this film extended the forms of British avant-garde experimentation that ... -
Global Interchange: The Same but Different
Stoneman, Rod (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-08)Praxis is a productive basis for international interchange the diversity and pluralism of critical practice offers an implicit challenge to dominant models. The replication of versions of academic tunnel vision is too ... -
Globalisation and national theatre: two Abbey Theatre productions of Sean o'Casey's The Plough and the Stars
Lonergan, Patrick (Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, 2007)[No abstract available] -
Half-hearted: Irish Theatre, 2003
Lonergan, Patrick (Center for Irish Studies, University of St. Thomas, 2004)Irish theater experienced an unusuaily quiet period in 2003. Although the year was free of the controversies that have overshadowed recent years, it was also too frequently free of excitement, creativity, and originality. ...