Amsterdam University Press
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The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea
Manannán and his Neighbors
Description:
The contributors to this collection dive deep into the rich historical record, heroic literature, and story lore of the medieval communities ringing the Irish Sea, with case studies that encompass Manx, Irish, Scandinavian, Welsh, and English traditions.
The literary, historical, and linguistic confluence that characterized the Irish-Sea region in the pre-modern period is reflected in the interdisciplinarity of these new research essays, centered on the literatures, languages, and histories of the Irish-Sea communities of the Middle Ages, much of which is still evoked in contemporary culture.
Manannán, the famous travelling Celtic divinity who supposedly claimed the Isle of Man as his home, mingles here with his mythical, legendary, and historical neighbors, whose impact on our image and understanding of the pre-modern cultures of the Northern Atlantic has persisted down through the centuries.
About Editor/s:
Charles W. MacQuarrie is Professor of English at California State University (Bakersfield ISBN: 9789462989399 campus). He earned his PhD in English from the University of Washington. Joseph Falaky Nagy is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University. Published: 12-04-19 He earned his PhD in Celtic from Harvard and is formerly Professor at UCLA of English and Folklore & Mythology. Price: € 99.00
Editor/s: Charles MacQuarrie, Joseph Contents: Nagy Preface (Charles W. MacQuarrie, California State University, Bakersfield, and Joseph Extent: 224 Falaky Nagy, Harvard University) Introduction: "Manannán and his Neighbors" (Charles W. MacQuarrie, California Format: 23.4 x 15.6 cm State University, Bakersfield) Chapter One: "Hiberno-Manx Coins in the Irish Sea" (Helen Davies, University of Rochester) Binding: Hardback Chapter Two: "Hunferth and Incitement in Beowulf" (M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State University) Chapter Three: "Cú Chulainn Unbound" (Ron J. Popenhagen, California State University, Northridge) Chapter Four: "Ragnhild Eiríksdóttir: Cross-Cultural Sovereignty Motifs and Antifeminist Rhetoric in Chapter 9 of Orkneyinga saga" (Brian Cook, University of Mississippi) Chapter Five: "Statius' Dynamic Absence in the Narrative Frame of the Middle-Irish Togail na Tebe" (Stephen Kershner, Austin Peay State University) Chapter Six: "The Stanley Family and the Gawain Texts of the Percy Folio" (Rhonda Knight, Coker College) Chapter Seven: "Ancient Myths for the Modern Nation: Seamus Heaney's Beowulf"
Page 1/24 (Maria McGarrity, Long Island University, Brooklyn) Chapter Eight: "Kohlberg Explains Cú Chulainn: Developing Moral Judgment from Bully to Boy Wonder to Brave Warrior" (Ethel B. Bowden, Central Maine Community College) Chapter Nine: "Language Revival and Preservation: Contrasting Manx and Texas German" (Marc Pierce, University of Texas, Austin)
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Macmillan Distribution
Bloomsbury Academic
Rhythms of Writing
An Anthropology of Irish Literature
Description:
This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture. Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena Wulff explores the social world of contemporary Irish writers, examining fiction, novels, short stories as well as journalism.
Discussing writers such as John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Frank McCourt, Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Colum McCann, David Park, and Joseph O´Connor, Wulff reveals how the making of a writer’s career is built on the ‘rhythms of writing’: long hours of writing in solitude alternate with public events such as book readings and media appearances.
Destined to launch a new field of enquiry, Rhythms of Writing is essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, literary studies, creative writing, cultural studies, and Irish studies.
This volume, by a pioneer in the field of literary anthropology, represents a major milestone in a contested field. Given its global context, this book (with a foreword by the eminent folklorist Diarmuid Ó Giolláin) will be of interest to academics and writers in the field of anthropology and literature worldwide. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
ISBN: 9781350108639 [The book] includes a useful summary of the few existing texts in this branch of literary anthropology, before going on to explore the flourishing literary scene in Ireland, including Published: 18-04-19 the social worlds of contemporary Irish writers. Ethnography
Rhythms of Writing is a rich, subtle and intimate anthropological portrait of the lives and Price: £ 28.99 works of Irish writers authored by one of our finest ethnographers of art and artistic practice. Wulff writes across the grain of common assumptions that writers should be treated as Author/s: Helena Wulff individual geniuses. Instead, Wulff shows us how Irish writers are social actors influenced by their society, relationships, time and place, yet who also translate their own social experience Extent: 184 into more broadly reaching and durable cultural forms. This one-of-a-kind book breathes new life into the anthropology of literature and writing. Dominic Boyer, Rice University, USA Format: 234 x 156mm
Ilustrations: 4 bw illus About Author/s:
Binding: New in Paperback Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden
Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgements Prologue: Writing as Craft and Career 1. The Making of a Writer: Training and Creativity 2. Paths and Profiles: In Search of Recognition 3. The Public Intellectual: Writing Journalism 4. Modes of Writing: Genres, Topics, Styles
Page 3/24 5. Tracing Tales: Folklore in Fiction 6. Selling Stories: The Publishing Market 7. Varieties of Translation: Within and Across Media 8. America as Hope: Legacy of Leaving 9. Irish Literature and the World Bibliography Index
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Voice of the Provinces
The Regional Press in Revolutionary Ireland, 1914-1921
Description:
Ireland’s regional newspapers were among the first to record the turbulent events that took place in the country between 1914 and 1921. But who were the personalities behind these papers and what was their background? Did they remain as impassive bystanders while dramatic developments unfolded or were they willing or unwilling participants? What were the difficulties they faced when reporting such formative and sometimes violent events?
This book addresses these questions and provides a comprehensive portrayal of the regional press across the entire island at that time. The origins of Ireland’s contemporary provincial newspapers, both nationalist and unionist, as well as independent, are examined and those who ran such publications are profiled. Additionally, the manner in which many of these titles reacted to events during these years is scrutinised and analysed. How did they respond to the Easter Rising? Did they foresee the rise of Sinn Féin? Did they approve of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921?
This was a time when regional newspapers risked censorship, suppression, possible closure, and ultimately violent attack. This book records their experiences and charts the history of Ireland’s regional press during the tumultuous and violent years leading up to independence.
About Author/s: ISBN: 9781786942258 Christopher Doughan is a historian who completed a PhD from Dublin City University in Published: 31-05-19 2015 and specialises in the history of Ireland's provincial newspapers.
Price: £ 80.00 Contents: Author/s: Christopher Doughan Introduction Extent: 256 Chapter 1 - Provincial newspapers: politics and censorship Chapter 2 - The Pale and beyond: Leinster Format: Hardback Chapter 3 - West of the Shannon: Connacht Chapter 4 - Southern exposure: Munster Chapter 5 - Northern drumbeats: Ulster Ilustrations: Conclusion Bibliography Binding: Hardback
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Turpin Distribution
Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Description:
This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and language practices of the Irish population, yet the processes and full significance of these transitions remains critically under explored.
This book traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience.
Essays are gathered under four main areas of analysis: Literacy and Bilingualism; Periodicals and their readers; Translation, transmission and transnational literacies; Visual literacies. Through these sections, the authors offer a range of understandings of the ways in which Irish readers and writers interpreted and communicated their worlds.
About Editor/s:
Rebecca Barr is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland Galway.
ISBN: 9781786942081 Sarah-Anne Buckley is Lecturer in History at the National University of Ireland Galway and President of the Women's History Association of Ireland.
Published: 30-04-19 Muireann O’Cinneide is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland Galway.
Price: £ 80.00 Contents: Editor/s: Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, and Muireann Cover O’Cinneide Contents List of Figures and Tables Extent: 256 Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Format: Hardback Section 1: Literacy and Bilingualism 1. Varieties of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Gender, Religion and Ilustrations: 12 Language 2. Douglas Hyde (1860–1949): The Adolescent Behind the Diarist Binding: Hardback Section 2: Periodicals and Their Readers 3. The Nation, History, and the Making of National Citizens 4. Watchmen to the House of Israel? Irish Methodism and the Religious Press 5. The Dublin Penny Journal and Alternative Histories Section 3: Translation, Transmission and Transnational Literacies 6. Room with a View: Reading Ireland in the Irish College Old Library, Paris c.1870–1900 7. ‘May God Bless You and All at Home’: Mid-Nineteenth Century Irish Views on Italy through the Letters of Albert Delahoyde, 1860–1870
Page 6/24 8. ‘Good Translations’ or ‘Mental Dram-Drinking’? Translation and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Section 4: Visual Literacies 9. From Dublin to Dehra Dun: Language, Translation and the Mapping of Ireland and India 10. Reading the Hand: Palmistry, Graphology and Alternative Literacies Select Bibliography Index
Page 7/24 Peter Lang International
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Stanislavski in Ireland
Focus at Fifty
Description:
Stanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty is an insight into Ireland’s only arthouse theatre from the people who were there. Through interviews, articles, short memoirs and photographs, the book tracks the theatre from its inception, detailing the period under its founder Deirdre O’Connell and then the period following Joe Devlin’s arrival as its new artistic director.
Many of Ireland’s leading theatre and film artists trained and worked at Focus, including Gabriel Byrne, Joan Bergin, Olwen Fouéré, Brendan Coyle, Rebecca Schull, Johnny Murphy, Sean Campion, Tom Hickey, and Mary Elizabeth and Declan Burke-Kennedy.
The book comes complete with a chronological list of Productions. It is aimed at students of theatre, actors, directors, academics, as well as the casual reader.
What I recall from the opening night of Focus productions is a powerful sense, not only of a period and place, but of a set of lives, relationships, conflicts and dramas having been created on stage. The fact that what happened on stage was based on technique lifted the achievement of The Focus Theatre and the contributions of Deirdre O’Connell beyond any individual or occasional brilliance. A new approach to theatre was being launched. A theory and practice based on the work of Konstantin Stanislavski was being made available to Irish theatre. Michael D. Higgins
ISBN: 9781788748193 Contents: Published: 28-02-19 Brian McAvera/Steven Dedalus Burch: An Introduction in Search of an Audience Price: € 25.00 Mary Moynihan: Loving the Art in Yourself: a short history of the Focus Theatre Joe Devlin: The Journey to Stanislavski and Beyond Editor/s: McAvera, Brian / Dedalus Steven Dedalus Burch: Lineage: Acting and the Theatre Burch, Steven Mary Moynihan: An Interview with Margaret Toomey Elizabeth Moynihan: Focus at Fifty Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy: The Tern: a Memoir Format: 15x22,5 cm Jimmy Murphy: The Hen-Night Epiphany Brian McAvera: A (partial) Return to the Irish Fold Binding: Paperback Steven Dedalus Burch: Writing as Politics, Politics as Writing: an interview with Brian McAvera Steven Dedalus Burch: Focus is the Voice of its People Tim McDonnell/Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy/Ena May/Elizabeth Moynihan: Auditions Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy: Focus vs. Dublin Theatre establishment Mary Moynihan/Tim McDonnell/Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy/Sabina Coyne Higgins: Stanislavski Training Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy/Cathal Quinn: Directing Sabina Coyne Higgins: Business Tim McDonnell/ Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy/Sabina Coyne Higgins/Cathal Quinn: Productions Mary Moynihan/Sabina Coyne Higgins/Tim McDonnell/ Mary Elizabeth Burke- Kennedy/Ena May/Geraldine Cusack/Elizabeth Moynihan: Memories of Deirdre
Page 8/24 Elizabeth Moynihan/Joe Devlin: Transition from Deirdre to Joe Elizabeth Moynihan/Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy: The Joe Devlin Years Kevin O’Brien: Focus Theatre and Deirdre O’Connell Ronan O’Leary: Deirdre on Film: Reflections In A Golden Eye Joe Devlin: The Last Night Speech at the Focus.
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Carysfort Press Ltd.
The Theatre of Conor McPherson
«Right beside the Beyond»
Description:
Multiple productions and the international successes of plays like The Weir have led to Conor McPherson being regarded by many as one of the finest writers of his generation. McPherson has also been hugely prolific as a theatre director, as a screenwriter and film director, garnering many awards in these different roles.
In this collection of essays, commentators from around the world address the substantial range of McPherson’s output to date in theatre and film, a body of work written primarily during and in the aftermath of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger period. These critics approach the work in challenging and dynamic ways, considering the crucial issues of morality, the rupturing of the real, storytelling, and the significance of space, violence and gender.
Explicit considerations are given to comedy and humour, and to theatrical form, especially that of the monologue and to the ways that the otherworldly, the unconscious and the supernatural are accommodated dramaturgically, with frequent emphasis placed on the specific aspects of performance in both theatre and film.
Contents:
ISBN: 9781788748278 Anthony Roche: The Early Years - Sara Keating: The Geography of Conor McPherson’s Plays: The City as Salvation or Hell? Clare Wallace: The Art of Disclosure, the Ethics of Monologue in Conor Published: 31-03-19 McPherson’s Drama: St. Nicholas, This Lime Tree Bower and Port Authority Lisa Fitzpatrick: Representing Sexual Violence in the Early Plays of Conor Price: € 30.00 McPherson Susanne Colleary: Conor McPherson’s St. Nicholas: A Study in Comic Anguish Editor/s: Chambers, Lilian / Jordan, Kevin Wallace: «shame shame shame»: Masculinity, Intimacy and Narrative in Conor Eamonn McPherson’s Shining City Emilie Pine: «This is what I need you to do to make it right»: Conor McPherson’s I Went Down Format: 15x22,5 cm Kevin Kerrane: The Buoyancy of Conor McPherson’s Saltwater Carmen Szabo: Issues of Narrative, Storytelling and Performance in Conor Binding: Paperback McPherson’s The Actors Ian R. Walsh: Mysterium Tremens: Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol P.J. Mathews: The «Sweet Smell» of the Celtic Tiger: Elegy and Critique in Conor McPherson’s The Weir Rhona Trench: The Measure of a Pub Spirit in Conor McPherson’s The Weir Ashley Taggart: «Stumbling around in the light»: Conor McPherson’s partial eclipse Christopher Murray: The Supernatural in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer and The Birds Eric Weitz: The Gravity of Humour in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer - The Seafarer: Male Pattern Blindness Mária Kurdi: Interview with Pál Göttinger Eamonn Jordan: Para-Normal Views/Para-Gothic Activities in Conor McPherson’s The Veil - Noelia Ruiz: Interview with Conor McPherson.
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Deviant Acts
Essays on Queer Performance
Description:
This book contains an exciting collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. While it highlights the particular representations of gay and lesbian identity it also brings to light how diversity has always been part of Irish culture and is, in fact, shaping what it means to be Irish today.
Inside there are provocative chapters from scholars, theatre producers, and theatre artists from around the world analysing everything from the drag scene in Dublin to the Gay Pride Parades in Belfast. Cathleen Ni Houlihan will never be the same!
About Editor/s:
David Appleton Quartus Cregan was born in Buxton, Derbyshire on 30 September 1931 to factory owner James and his wife Gertrude - the youngest of four sons, hence the name Quartus. Having displayed an early talent for writing whilst at school he spent two years in the RAF (1952 - 1954) on National Service before going to Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights Review. On graduation he worked as a teacher but throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties wrote a number of plays for the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Royal at Stratford East in addition to several television works. He carried on ISBN: 9781788748827 writing despite the onset of Parkinson's disease and died on September7 2015, leaving behind a wife, Ailsa, four children and six grandchildren. Published: 31-03-19 Contents: Price: € 25.00 Eibhear Walshe: Queering Oscar: Versions of Wilde on the Irish Stage and Screen Editor/s: Cregan, David Kathryn Conrad: The Politics of Camp: Queering Parades, Performance, and the Public in Belfast Extent: x, 248 Mária Kurdi: Lesbian Versions of the Female Biography Play: Emma Donoghue’s I know My Own Heart and Ladies and Gentlemen Format: 15x22,5 cm Fintan Walsh: Touching, Feeling, Cross-dressing: On the Affectivity of Queer Performance. Or, What Michael Patrick Lapointe: Edward Martyn’s Theatrical Hieratic Homoeroticism Binding: Paperback Brian Merriman: The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival Niall Rea: Sexuality and Dysfuntional City: Queering Segregated Space Samuele Grassi: Gender as Performance in the Works of Glasshouse Producions, Dublin Todd Barry: Queer Wanderers, Queer Spaces: Dramatic Devices for Re-imagining Ireland Charlotte McIvor: «Crying» on «Pluto»: Queering the «Irish Question» for Global Film Audiences Kathleen A. Heininge: Living by the Code: Authority in The Gay Detective David Cregan: «There’s Nothing Queer Here»: The Abbey Theatre and the Problem of Practice.
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Echoes Down the Corridor
Irish Theatre - Past, Present and Future
Description:
This collection of fourteen new essays explores Irish theatre from exciting new perspectives.
How has Irish theatre been received internationally – and, as the country becomes more multicultural, how will international theatre influence the development of drama in Ireland? As Ireland changes, how should we think about the works of familiar figures – writers like Synge, O’Casey, Friel, Murphy, Carr, and McGuinness? Is the distinction between popular and literary drama tenable in a Celtic Tiger Ireland where the arts and economics are becoming increasingly intertwined? And is it time to remember less established Irish writers?
Drawing together a range of international experts, this book aims to answer these and many other important questions.
About Editor/s:
Patrick Lonergan lectures in English at National University of Ireland, Galway, and is an Ireland Representative for the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature. He writes about theatre in the west of Ireland for The Irish Times, and is reviews editor of irish theatre magazine. He has lectured on Irish drama at a variety of venues, including the ISBN: 9781788749428 Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Irish Academy, and the Notre Dame Irish Seminar. He is currently working on a book on Irish Theatre and Globalization.
Published: 31-03-19 Riana O’Dwyer is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at National University of Ireland, Galway. She has been Chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Price: € 25.00 Irish Literatures [IASIL] since 2003 and was one of the organizers of IASIL Triennial Conference 2004 at Galway. She has lectured and published on Joyce, modern Irish drama, Editor/s: Lonergan, Patrick / O'Dwyer, Irish studies, and Irish women novelists of the nineteenth century. Riana
Extent: x, 214 Contents:
Format: 15x22,5 cm Christopher Murray: «Echoes Down the Corridor»: The Abbey Theatre 1904-2004 Mary C. King: A Synge for Our Times? Yeats’s enquiring man revisited Joan FitzPatrick Dean: Staging the Aesthetic: The Vagrant Artists of Padraic Colum Binding: Paperback and Seumas O’Kelly Chiaki Kojima: Shoyo Matsui, A Japanese Lennox Robinson: The Irish National Theatre and Japanese New Drama Irina Ruppo: Wessex to Geesala: Hardy and Synge Paul O’Brien: Sean O’Casey and The Abbey Theatre: A Conflicted Relationship Helen Lojek: Observe the Sons of Ulster: Historical Stages Christa Velten-Mrowka: «Am I a con man?»: Brian Friel’s idea of the self-reflective artist, viewed in the light of Adorno’s aesthetic theory Alexandra Poulain: «A Voice and little else»: talking, writing and singing in The Gigli Concert Mária Kurdi: Spatializing the Renewal of Female Subjectivity in Marie Jones’s Women on the Verge of HRT
Page 13/24 Donal E. Morse: The Present through the Prism of the Past: Frank McGuinness’s Dolly West’s Kitchen Mika Funahashi: «Grow a Mermaid»: A Subtext for Marina Carr's Dramatic Works Jason King: Beyond Ryanga: The Image of Africa in Contemporary Irish Theatre Lisa Fitzpatrick: Nation and Myth in the Age of the Celtic Tiger: Muide Éire?
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NBN International
Irish Theatre International Vol. 3 No.1 Autumn 2014
Description:
Articles:
«The Cries of Pagan Desperation»: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the Discontents of Historical Time by Christopher Collins Scenographic Interactions: 1950s Ireland and Dublin's Pike Theatre by Siobhan O'Gorman Uneasy Bedfellows: Culture, Commerce and the Rise of the «Production Hub» Paradigm in Irish Theatre by Lisa Fitzgerald Respond or Else: Conor MacPherson's The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse by Eamonn Jordan Gay Masculinities in Performance: Towards a Queer Dramaturgy by Cormac O'Brien Perform, or Else! Reflections from an Irish theatre maker by Neil Watkins.
Contents:
Christopher Collins: «The Cries of Pagan Desperation»: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the Discontents of Historical Time - Siobhan O'Gorman: Scenographic Interactions: 1950s Ireland and Dublin's Pike Theatre - Lisa Fitzgerald: Uneasy Bedfellows: Culture, Commerce and the ISBN: 9781788748155 Rise of the «Production Hub» Paradigm in Irish Theatre - Eamonn Jordan: Respond or Else: Conor MacPherson's The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse - Cormac O'Brien: Gay Masculinities in Performance: Towards a Queer Dramaturgy - Neil Watkins: Perform, or Else! Published: 28-02-19 Reflections from an Irish theatre maker.
Price: € 15.00
Editor/s: Haughton, Miriam / Kurdi, Mária
Extent: iv, 112
Format: 15x22,5 cm
Binding: Paperback
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Love's Betrayal
The Decline of Catholicism and Rise of New Religions in Ireland
Description:
This book provides a detailed analysis of the decline of Catholicism and the almost simultaneous surge of new religious movements in Ireland during the second half of the twentieth century.
After chronicling the sudden emergence of these new religious movements, some of which were associated with New Age spirituality, and considering the reactions they elicited in the Irish media and from religious and academic observers, the author explores the cultural, socioeconomic and political context in which they flourished.
Taking its title from President Mary McAleese’s response to the Ryan Report on clerical child abuse, the book traces the «systemic betrayal of the great Christian commandment to love one another» back through Irish history and into the heart of Catholic theology. It argues that the theology that transformed the «cult» of early Christianity into a great civilising power was implicated in the development of an authoritarian regime, and that this regime was undermining the faith and fostering interest in alternative spiritualities for decades before the abuse scandals of the 1990s brought the Church to its knees.
About Author/s: ISBN: 9781787071278 Peter Mulholland holds a PhD in social and cultural anthropology from Maynooth University. He has published papers on Marian apparitions in the Republic and sectarian parades in his Published: 30-04-19 hometown of Portadown, in Northern Ireland. He initiated the first multidisciplinary academic conference on new religious movements in Ireland and co-edited the essay collection Price: € 74.10 Ireland’s New Religious Movements (2011).
Author/s: Mulholland, Peter Contents: Extent: x, 362 The Winds of Change Format: 15x22,5 cm Man Turned God The Civilising Mission The Civilising Offensive Binding: Hardback Beating the Devil The Birthpangs of a New Civilisation The Brink of Apocalypse Attachment and Atonement Conclusions: Psyche and Circumstances.
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Navigating Ireland's Theatre Archive
Theory, Practice, Performance
Description:
The historiography of Irish theatre has largely been dependent on in-depth studies of the play- text as the definitive primary source. This volume explores the processes of engaging with the documented and undocumented record of Irish theatre and broadens the concept of evidential study of performance through the use of increasingly diverse sources.
The archive is regarded here as a broad repository of evidence including annotated scripts, photographs, correspondence, administrative documents, recordings and other remnants of the mechanics of producing theatre. It is an invaluable resource for scholars and artists in interrogating Ireland’s performance history.
This collection brings together key thinkers, scholars and practitioners who engage with the archive of Irish theatre and performance in terms of its creation, management and scholarly as well as artistic interpretation. New technological advances and mass digitization allow for new interventions in this field.
The essays gathered here present new critical thought and detailed case studies from archivists, theatre scholars, historians and artists, each working in different ways to uncover and reconstruct the past practice of Irish performance through new means.
ISBN: 9781787073722 About Editor/s:
Published: 30-04-19 Barry Houlihan is an archivist at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway, and teaches Irish theatre history at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway. Price: € 49.40 He holds a PhD on Irish theatre and social engagement. His research interests include theatre historiography, political and social theatre, archival and cultural theory and digital humanities. Editor/s: Houlihan, Barry He is also a project team member of the Abbey Theatre and Gate Theatre Digital Archive Projects. Extent: xiv, 292
Format: 15x22,5 cm Contents:
Barry Houlihan: Introduction: The Potential of the Archive Binding: Paperback Cillian Joy/Tricia O’Beirne: The Abbey Theatre Minute Book Transcription Project: Digitally Reading the Administrative Record of Irish Theatre Ciara Conway: Staging Absence for Digital Historiography: Feminist Irish Theatre Martin Bradley/John Cox: The Abbey Theatre Archive Digitisation Project at NUI Galway: Delivering Mass Digitisation of a Multimedia Archive with Positive Academic and Library Impact Freya Clare Smith/Hugh Denard: Digitally Re-envisioning Lost Theatre Spaces: Dublin’s Theatre Royal Barry Houlihan: «Creatures of his Imagination»: The Becoming of Plays and the Archive of Thomas Kilroy Emer McHugh: A Shared Language: Placing and Displacing Shakespeare in the Irish National Theatrical Repertoire Ruud van den Beuken: «Three cheers for the Descendancy!»: Middle-Class Dreams
Page 17/24 and (Dis)illusions in Mary Manning’s Happy Family (1934) Brenda Donohue: Women and the Archive: What Vision of the Present Will Be Preserved for the Future? Anne Etienne: «I Remember»; «I Forget»; «I Can’t Forget»: Oral History, the Archive and Remembering Corcadorca’s The Merchant of Venice Conor O’Malley: Performing the Troubles at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 1969–1981 Kieran Cronin/Elizabeth Howard: Identity, Legacy and the Official: Power Relations of the Documented and Undocumented in the Red Kettle Theatre Company Archive Colin Murphy: Sometimes the Archive Lies David Clare: Compiling a New Composite Draft of J. M. Synge’s When the Moon Has Set.
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Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland
Description:
This collection of essays explores the concept of patrimoine, a French word used to denote cultural heritage, traditional customs and practices – the Gaelic equivalent is dúchas – and the extent to which it impacts on France and Ireland. Borrowing from disciplines as varied as sociology, cultural theory, literature, marketing, theology, history, musicology and business, the contributors to the volume unearth interesting manifestations of how patrimoine resonates across cultural divides and bestows uniqueness and specificity on countries and societies, sometimes in a subliminal manner.
Issues covered include debt as heritage, Guinness as a cultural icon of «Irishness», faith-based tourism, the Huguenot heritage in Ireland, Irish musical inheritances since Independence, Skellig Michael and the commodification of Irish culture.
With a Foreword by His Excellency M. Stéphane Crouzat, French Ambassador to Ireland, this collection breaks new ground in assessing the close links between France and Ireland, links that will become all the more important in light of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.
About Editor/s: ISBN: 9781788746601 Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in Dublin Technological University – Tallaght Campus. He is editor of two series with Peter Lang: Published: 28-02-19 Studies in Franco-Irish Relations and Reimagining Ireland.
Price: € 49.40 Eugene O’Brien is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is also the editor Editor/s: Maher, Eamon / O'Brien, for the Oxford University Press Online Bibliography project in literary theory. He has directed Eugene thirty-one PhD theses on the areas of Irish Studies and Literary and Critical Theory. His recent publications include Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker: A Study of the Prose (2016); The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney (2016); Representations Extent: xvi, 274 of Loss in Irish Literature, with Deirdre Flynn (2018); and Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond, with Eamon Maher (2018). Format: 15x22,5 cm
Binding: Paperback Contents:
Eugene O’Brien: Metanoia and Reflexive Thinking: Towards a Deconstruction of Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage Eóin Flannery: Debt as Inheritance Harry White: «We did not choose this patrimony»: Irish Musical Inheritances since Independence Tony Kiely: «Protestant Strangers and Others»: Re-imagining the Contribution of French Huguenots and their Descendants to Ireland’s Ancient «Patrimoine» Catherine Maignant: The Reification of Sceilg Mhichíl Déborah Vandewoude: Faith-based Tourism in Ireland and France Patricia Medcalf: Irish Cultural Heritage through the Prism of Guinness’s Ads in the
Page 19/24 1980s Brian Murphy: A Traditional Irish Family Butcher Shop: «Harnessing the power of Patrimoine» – Julien Guillaumond: «Butter them up»: When Marketing Meets Heritage The Case of Irish Butter in Germany Maguy Pernot-Deschamps: «Enfants d’ici, parents d’ailleurs» Mary Pierse: George Moore: A Case of Dúchas/Patrimoine in Flux? Grace Neville: «I don’t think I could have made a decent living without the French»: An Analysis of Reviews of Irish Literature in Le Monde, 1950–2017.
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Redefining the Fringes in Celtic Studies
Essays in Literature and Culture
Description:
These essays in the language, literature and history of the broadly speaking Celtic world range widely over time and space and subject matter.
Subjects include the design of autobiographies in the early years of the Irish republic, the publishing scandal around Youth is my Sin by John Rowlands, the poetry of Francis Ledwidge, Gabriel Rosenstock and Sean Ó Ríordáin, Sheepshagger by Niall Griffiths, the Irish language in science fiction, medieval Welsh law, and Pádraig Ó Cíobháin’s landmark novel, The Brightness Out There.
About Editor/s:
Aleksander Bednarski is a lecturer in the Department of Celtic Studies at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He has published on the work of Niall Griffiths, Gwyneth Lewis, Jerry Hunter and Lloyd Jones.
Robert Looby is a lecturer in the Department of Celtic Studies at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He has written extensively on translation and censorship.
ISBN: 9783631775301 Contents: Published: 31-03-19 On request or please see: Price: € 46.70 https://www.peterlang.com/abstract/title/67632?rskey=DQaMLg&result=2 Editor/s: Bednarski, Aleksander / Looby, Robert
Extent: 160
Format: 14,8x21 cm
Binding: Hardback
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Theatre Stuff
Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre
Description:
Irish theatre has never been so successful, yet at the same time never more in need of rigorous evaluation. Many of the plays by Brian Friel, Thomas Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Frank McGuinness, Anne Devlin, Sebastian Barry, Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh (LondonIrish), Marina Carr, Billy Roche and Marie Jones have been critically acclaimed and won substantial awards. In addition, Irish directors, designers, actors and administrators have worked at some of the best theatres in the world and with some of the most talented professionals available.
In this comprehensive collection of essays, playwrights, directors, journalists, theatre practitioners, critics and academics, from many different countries and backgrounds, give their perceptive points of view. Each contributor takes an approach which is passionate, idiosyncratic, astute, provocative and refreshing. All of the writing, in one way or another, hints at the demands, magic, urgency and ephemeral qualities of good theatre.
This extremely valuable collection of accessible essays will promote discussion and is a timely and welcome addition to the critical debate on Irish drama.
About Editor/s: ISBN: 9781789970289 Eamonn Jordan is Associate Professor in Drama Studies and former Subject Head (2011-2014) at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. His book Published: 31-03-19 The Feast of Famine: The Plays of Frank McGuinness (1997) is the first full-length study on McGuinness's work. In 2000, he edited Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Price: € 25.00 Theatre. He co-edited with Lilian Chambers The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories (2006). His book Dissident Dramaturgies: Contemporary Irish Theatre was Editor/s: Jordan, Eamonn published in 2010 by Irish Academic Press. In 2012, he co-edited with Lilian Chambers The Theatre of Conor McPherson:'Right beside the Beyond'. In 2014 his monograph From Leenane to LA: The Theatre and Cinema of Martin McDonagh was published by Irish Extent: xlviii, 326 Academic Press. In 2016 he introduced and selected with Finola Cronin The Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance Studies Reader for Carysfort Press. September 2018 saw the Format: 15,5x22,5 cm publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance, a work he co-edited with Eric Weitz. The Theatre and Film of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Binding: Paperback Communities has been published by Methuen Bloomsbury in Feburary 2019.
Contents:
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‘Experienc’d Age knows what for Youth is fit’?
Generational and Familial Conflict in British and Irish Drama and Theatre
Description:
Over the centuries, drama has been an influential and imaginative medium for presenting, analysing and offering ways of resolving real or fictional battles. This volume provides readers with a timely study of inter-generational conflicts and crises as seen through the eyes of male and female British and Irish playwrights from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.
The contributions suggest that at the heart of inter-generational discord lies various crises between (the) age(d) and youth or, more generally, the idea of what is «old» and «new». The interaction and co-existence of age and youth in their embodied, symbolic or conceptual forms is the topic of this volume.
The collection is built around the words «age(d)»/«young», which denote both the biological age of the characters and the more conceptual potential of these terms. Ultimately, the contributors to this collection of essays analyse not only the idea of inter-generationality within selected dramatic works but also inter-generational conflicts seen in clashes of cultures, artistic visions, concepts and aesthetic idea(l)s.
About Editor/s:
ISBN: 9781788741620 Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She teaches the History of English Literature but specialises in Restoration theatre and drama. She has been exploring representations and dramatisations of Published: 30-04-19 ageing and old age and her current research on the matters of senescence, titled «Embodied sites of memory? Investigations into the definitions and representations of old age and ageing Price: € 80.30 in English drama between 1660 and 1750», is supported by a grant from the Polish National Science Centre. She is the author of the monograph And Yet I Remember: Ageing and Old(er) Editor/s: Bronk-Bacon, Katarzyna Age in English Drama between 1660 and the 1750s (Peter Lang, 2019).
Extent: xii, 342 Contents: Format: 15x22,5 cm Jamie Beckett: Fergus and the Virgin in Late Medieval York: Spectators and Inter- Generational Conflict Binding: Hardback Nizar Zouidi: «My Father is Deceas’d»: Kingship, Patriarchy and Inter-Generational Conflicts in Edward II by Christopher Marlowe Murat Ogutcu: Of Fathers and Sons: Inter-Generational and Intrafamilial Loyalties and Conflict in Shakespeare’s Elizabethan History Plays Ozge Ozkan-Gurcu: Once upon a Time Admired, Now Disregarded: Paternal Anguish and Loss of Authority with Old Age in The Merchant of Venice and King Lear Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon: Lessons on Age(ing): Inter-Generational and Intrafamilial Conflict in Thomas Shadwell’s The Squire of Alsatia, Susanna Centlivre’s Love at a Venture and James Miller’s The Man of Taste Maire MacNeill: Fashionable Confrontations: Decoding The Conscious Lovers Jess Hamlet: «Not of an Age, but for All Time»: Intergenerational Reflections of Shakespeare in Civil War Virginia Wei H. Kao: The Anglo-Irish Big House and War Memories in Three Plays
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