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    • As Camp as a Row of Pink Tents: Stephen's Portrait of Mr W. S. 

      Slote, Samuel (2024)
      In the ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ episode of Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus presents a theory about Shakespeare’s biographical motivations for writing Hamlet, which he ultimately claims, perhaps disingenuously, to not believe. ...
    • Civility, patriotism and performance: Cato and the Irish history play 

      O'Shaughnessy, David (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
    • Friel and his 'Sisters' 

      GRENE, NICHOLAS (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 

      Patten, Eve (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 ...
    • Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War 

      Patten, Eve (Cork University Press, 2012)
    • 'Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: the making of a "national reader"' 

      Patten, Eve (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 

      Slote, Samuel (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 

      O'Shaughnessy, David (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 ...
    • Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities 

      Whyte, P?draic (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 ...
    • Review of The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790 by Joe Lines 

      Killeen, Jarlath (2022)
      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,” ...
    • 'Staging an Irish Enlightenment' 

      O'Shaughnessy, David (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
    • 'Trinity Professors versus Men of Letters: Ferguson, Dowden and De Vere' 

      Patten, Eve (2022)
      This essay considers the relationships between Samuel Ferguson, Edward Dowden, and Aubrey de Vere in the late nineteenth century. In evaluating Ferguson’s career shortly after the poet’s death in 1886, W. B. Yeats considered ...
    • Yeats's Re-Enchanted Nature 

      Hewitt, Sean (2018)
      [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 ...