Browsing Department of Drama and Theatre Studies by Title
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Anglo-Irish "distortion": double exposure in Francis Bacon’s 'Portraits' and Beckett’s 'The Old Tune'
(Center for Irish Studies (University of St. Thomas), 2018) -
A Belgian town as Purgatory and an Irish gangster as Christ in Martin McDonagh's "In Bruges"
(University College Dublin School of English, Drama and Film, 2012) -
Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, and the Irish diaspora
(Center for Irish Studies (University of St. Thomas), 2014) -
Brian Friel’s invocation of Edmund Burke in "Philadelphia, Here I Come!"
(Alfred University, 2015) -
Fired from the canon: Waking the feminists, the conference
(The Irish Times, 2017) -
Furthering conversations: a report on the creating conversations colloquium
(Department of Arts Education and Physical Education, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick., 2010) -
George Bernard Shaw: Irish to the core
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Goldsmith, the gate, and the 'hibernicising' of Anglo-Irish plays (Pre-published version)
(Peter Lang, 2018)In recent decades, Irish theatre-makers have frequently imposed Irish elements onto the “English” plays written by London-based, Irish Anglican playwrights. As discerning critics have long recognised, George Farquhar, ... -
The intertextual presence of Samuel Beckett’s "All That Fall" in Martin McDonagh’s "Six Shooter" (Pre-published version)
(EUP [Edinburgh University Press], 2015)As many critics have pointed out, Martin McDonagh's work for the stage and screen is deeply indebted to the drama of Samuel Beckett. While critics have spotted most of McDonagh's intertextual debts to Beckett, they have ... -
Irish-American identity in Eugene O'Neill's early plays
(Penn State University Press, 2018)This article examines Irish-American identity in Eugene O’Neill’s early work, including his “lost” plays. It demonstrates that characters such as Al Devlin in The Movie Man, Joe and Nellie Murray in Abortion, Eileen Carmody ... -
John McGahern's 'Oldfashioned' and Anglo-Irish culture (Pre-published version)
(Manchester University Press, 2017)In John McGahern’s 1985 short story ‘Oldfashioned’, he ably demonstrates why a sensitive, bookish, Catholic young man raised in the repressive, anti-intellectual Irish Free State might be attracted to the way of life being ... -
‘Keep the aspidistra flying’: The satirising of Celtic Tiger, ‘aspirational’ lifestyles in Mark O’Rowe’s early work (Pre-published version)
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Landlord–tenant (non)relations in the work of Bernard Shaw
(Penn State University Press, 2016)As a child, Shaw was horrified by the appalling poverty of the Dublin slums, and, while working in a Dublin estate office as a teenager, he actually had to collect slum rents. On a more personal level, both sides of Shaw’s ... -
The Limerick Theatre Hub 2009:Evaluation Report
(Limerick Theatre Hub, 2010) -
Performing the fractured puppet self : employing auto-ethnopuppetry to portray and challenge cultural and personal constructions of the disabled body
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)This research project examines personal and cultural constructs of the disabled body, with the creation of the puppet play Pupa as its practical culmination. The testimonials of six participants (including my own), all ... -
Re:membrance of Absence Disrupting perceptions of Jewish and minority identity in Ireland through theatre
(2021-03-30)This research examines social, historical and theoretical reasons that have contributed to the noticeable omission of minority voices, specifically Jewish voices, from Irish theatre narratives to date. The creation of the ... -
Reflections on classic Gate plays by Mary Manning, Christine Longford, and Maura Laverty (Pre-published version)
(ISA [Irish Society for Archives], 2018)Last June, the Waking the Feminists organisation published Gender Counts (its eagerly-anticipated report on gender representation in Irish theatre), and the report confirmed what many Irish theatre fans suspected: during ... -
Review of "Bernard Shaw, W.T. Stead, and the new journalism: Whitechapel, Parnell, Titanic, and the Great War" by Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel
(Penn State University Press, 2017) -
Review of "Where Motley is Worn; Transnational Irish Literatures" Amanda Tucker and Moira E. Casey eds.
(Center for Irish Programs of Boston College, Massachusetts, 2016) -
Review of Druid Theatre Company's 2016-17 production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017)