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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[From the introductory paragraphs] [...] Yeats’s image of post-Enlightenment mankind as “passive” before nature hints at his interest in magic and mysticism, as well as his desire to search in and through nature and its ...

There was a time when Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent, first published in 1800, was considered the “first truly Irish novel.” Back in 1988, when the critic James Cahalan made this claim, the words “first,” “Irish,” ...