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"'Foul, strange and unnatural': Poison as a murder weapon in English Renaissance drama"
(2020)Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonorable and unmanly, poison was ... -
Friel and his 'Sisters'
(2010)This essay, occasioned by a revival of Brian Friel?s version of Chekhov?s Three Sisters at the Abbey Theatre in 2008, considers the circumstances surrounding its first production by the Field Day Theatre Company in 1981, ... -
From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)In the opening decades of the twentieth century a close connection was forged between Ireland and British East Africa (or the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya as it became in 1920) by three of the children of the fourth ... -
Horace Dorrington, criminal detective: investigating the re-emergence of the rogue in Arthur Morrison s The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897).
(2010)Regarding The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897), Arthur Morrison’s critically neglected second contribution to the post–Sherlock Holmes detective short story genre, the author argues that as Dorrington is both a detective and ... -
Illustrations from the Wellcome Library William Winstanley's pestilential poesies in "The Christians refuge: or heavenly antidotes against the plague in this time of generall contagion to which is added the charitable physician (1665)"
(PubMed Central, 2011)During the Great Plague of London (1665), William Winstanley veered from his better known roles as arbiter of success and failure in his works of biography or as a comic author under the pseudonym Poor Robin, and instead ... -
Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War
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Introduction to European Women in Early Modern
(2017)Introduction to the Special Issue of EMLS, entitled "European Women in Early Modern English Drama". -
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination
(Oxford University Press, 2022)This book asks how English authors of the early to mid-twentieth century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and ... -
The Irish Masque at Court (1613)
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Managing Uncertainty in the Humanities: Digital and Analogue Approaches
(ACM, 2018)This paper takes a high-level view of both the sources and status of uncertainty in humanities research and the attributes a digital system would ideally have. It draws upon both the experience of a number of digital ... -
'Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: the making of a "national reader"'
(Rodopi, 2014)This paper examines ‘national reading’ in nineteenth-century Ireland in relation to concepts of Irish modernity. Through William St Clair’s framework of the ‘reading nation’, I assess historical descriptions of reading ... -
Namelessness from Artaud to Beckett
(Brill, 2019)Abstract After a period of electroshock therapy, Antonin Artaud claimed to have been able to regain his name and sense of self. The dehiscence of name and identification is reprised in Artaud’s final work, the radio ... -
National Identity and Satire
(Oxford University Press, 2019)The eighteenth century was a period when ambitious Irish dramatists, particularly those based in London, deployed satire as a means of publicly displaying Irish improvement and Enlightenment. The Stage Irishman evolved ... -
On the Edge of Chaos: Space and Power in Maria Edgeworth's "The Grateful Negro" (1804)
(Cambridge Unversity Press, 2022)‘The Grateful Negro’ (1804) is one of Maria Edgeworth’s less well-known children’s stories. Set on a Jamaican plantation, it concerns the differing attitudes of two white plantation owners, Mr Edwards and Mr Jefferies, ... -
Open Minds and Open Learning in the 'Cosmopolitan' Internet
(2012)The promise of technology, in particular of the internet, was that access to information would become demography blind. But for all of the successes the global web of information has demonstrated to us, has it really ... -
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
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Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities
(TARA, 2022)This report provides the findings from an inter-disciplinary project that sought to investigate and advance the potential of shared reading groups to promote purposeful and meaningful dialogue among Northern Ireland interface ... -
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