Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination

1. Introduction: the Rest is History
Christopher Collins, Mary P. Caulfield

Part I. Legacy and Heritage

2. Walking In and Out of Place: the Pedestrian Performances of Tim Robinson
Daniel Sack

3. A Theatre of the Unword: Censorship, Hegemony and Samuel Beckett
Nicholas Johnson

4. Re-considering Oscar Wilde’s Flamboyant Flop: Vera or The Nihilists
Aideen Kerr

5. Courtly Love and Heroic Death in W. B. Yeats’s Cuchulain Cycle of Plays
Paul Murphy

6. ‘… Whenever the Tale of ‘98 is Told’: Constance Markievicz, the National Memory and ‘The Women of Ninety-Eight’
Mary P. Caulfield

7. Theatre of Dissent: the Historical Imagination of the Irish Workers’ Dramatic Company
Lauren Arrington

8. Staging the Body in Post-Independence Ireland
Lionel Pilkington

Part II. Recollection and Remembrance

9. Pampooties and Keening: Alternate Ways of Performing Memory in J. M. Synge’s Plays
Hélène Lecossois

10. ‘Why Do You Always Be Singin’ That Oul’ Song?’: the Subversion of Emigrant Ballads in John B. Keane’s Many Young Men of Twenty
Joseph Greenwood

11. Boxed Rituals: Eamon de Valera, Television and Talbot’s Box
Michael Jaros

12. Unblessed Amongst Women: Performing Patriarchy Without Men in Contemporary Irish Theatre
Cormac O’Brien

13. The Abuse of History/A History of Abuse: Theatre as Memory and the Abbey’s ‘Darkest Corner’
Emilie Pine

14. Forgetting Follow
Christopher Collins

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies, British and Irish Literature