Browsing University of Galway Theses by Author "Pilkington, Lionel"
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The beauty of failure: Errancy as a methodology in the works of Samuel Beckett, Mary Swanzy and Jack B. Yeats
Jones, Kristin (2017-11-29)This thesis argues that Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) creates not only an aesthetic of failure but also a methodology of failure that permeates his works and intensifies as he matures as a writer. I contend that the impetus ... -
Negotiating Genders from the Page to the Stage: Marina Carr and Suzan-Lori Parks
O'Gorman, Siobhán Marie (2011-09-30)'Negotiating Genders from the Page to the Stage: Marina Carr and Suzan-Lori Parks' explores how two female playwrights, from different cultures and backgrounds, challenge oppressive traditions. It offers the first major ... -
The on and off-stage roles of Abbey Theatre actresses of the 1930s
O'Dowd, Ciara (2016-05-11)Building on the work of Maggie Gale and John Stokes in The Cambridge Companion to the Actress, this doctoral thesis exposes ‘the construction of the actress’ in the context of the Irish Free State (1922 – 1937). (2) It ... -
Outside the canon: theatre, social change, and archival memory
Houlihan, Barry (NUI Galway, 2018-09-26)This dissertation examines the intersection of theatre and society of post-Emergency Ireland through a methodological assessment of social, performative and archival memory. It identifies a group of new Irish plays and ... -
The poem as event: the development of a poetic style that uses the poem as a performative site of meaning in Thomas Kinsella's poetry, 1952-1979
Browne, Andrew (2011-09-30)This thesis focuses on Thomas Kinsella's poetry between 1952 and 1979 and discovers a stylistic development which shows a distinctive way of dealing with the poetic subject. The poems move from a more formal style of lyric ... -
“PRIME THE PUMP” The lived experience of post-war arts policy in the Irish amateur drama movement 1949 to 1969
Kennedy, Ian Gerard (NUI Galway, 2023-05-30)The interface between Arts Council policy and the lived experience of amateur drama, which this dissertation examines, provides cultural historians with an access point to understand post-war Irish society. After decades ... -
Writing water justice in the twenty-first century: Environmental novels, neoliberalism, and water politics
Cahillane, Ashley (NUI Galway, 2023-03-30)This thesis poses drought as a literary problem. It analyses seven different twenty first-century novels which respond to drought events as a way of articulating culturally and historically specific anxieties surrounding ...