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Sport and Christianity in American cinema ‘The beloved grew fat and kicked’ (Deuteronomy 32:15)
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-10-21)Christianity has been an enduring feature of films featuring sports or sporting figures since the early twentieth century, such that religious icons, references and rituals have now become naturalised as familiar and ... -
Sport and the 1916 Rising
(Teagasc, 2016)This chapter considers the role of sport in the lives of participants in the 1916 Easter Rising. -
Sport and the media in Ireland: an introduction
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)[Introduction to Media History Special Issue on Sport and the Media in Ireland]. The symbiotic relationship that has existed since the mid-nineteenth century between sport and the media - from the popular press, through ... -
Sport, representation, and the commemoration of the 1916 Rising: a new Ireland rises?
(European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) in Aberdeen, and the University of Leuven, 2018-10-24)Commemoration is part of what defines nations and their configurations; the considerable investment of the Irish state (and various sporting organisations) during 2016 in 1916 commemorations speaks to the importance of ... -
Staging the new Irish : interculturalism and the future of the post-Celtic Tiger Irish theatre
(University of Toronto Press, 2011)In this article, I argue that the work of minority-ethnic artists reframes the parameters of Irish national belonging and tests the limits of “interculturalism” as official discourse in the post–Celtic Tiger nation. I ... -
Stories in Search of a Plot
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Strange mothers: The maternal and contemporary media art in Ireland
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Summoning the Occult Powers
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Tackling a live subject: the Hinterland controversy
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2002)The ramifications of the controversy over Sebastian Barry’s latest play echo well beyond the "Hinterland", argues Patrick Lonergan. What, exactly, is so bad about Hinterland? Using aspects of the career of Charles ... -
A Tale of Cloister and Heart
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Tales From a Raging Pen. Review of Gallows and Other Tales of Suspicion and Obsession, by John Arden
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Tales that Ripple in Time
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Teaching Caxton's Prologue to Eneydos as an introduction to Renaissance literary culture
(Michael Boecherer, Ed. & Pub, 2015-06)Over the past few decades, contemporary scholarship on Renaissance literature has increasingly come to intersect with the concerns of book history and material culture. This has been reflected in the classroom, for instance, ... -
Thanhouser's ‘Fierce Abridgement’ of Cymbeline
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"Theatre of good intentions: challenges and hopes for theatre and social change" (Book review)
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-10-21)[no abstract available] -
The theatre of Marie Jones: telling stories from the ground up
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-11)It’s sometimes asserted that Irish women writers are doubly marginalised: first by their nationality and then by their gender. If that statement is true, we might add to it that Marie Jones has been marginalised a third ... -
A theatre of truth? Negotiating place, politics and policy in the Dublin Fringe Festival
(Carysfort Press, 2015-07-31)[No abstract available] -
Theatre stuff: critical essays on contemporary Irish theatre edited by Eamonn Jordan (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2000)
(2003)Optimism about contemporary Irish drama seems to have diminished recently. At the 2001 Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards, a member of the judging panel lamented the scarcity of new Irish plays, stating that he wanted to ... -
The Theory of Film Practice: Thirty Years Later
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)Jean-Luc Godard prefaced his exhibition Voyages en utopie with the explanation that it was an intimate voyage that is permeable to the world s upheavals; it is from the tension between these two poles: autobiographical ...