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Thinking with Theatre

Thinking with Theatre

Anthony Roche

The development of Yeats’s theatre from words to choreography

Understanding the Bards

Understanding the Bards

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

A fourteenth-century bardic poet and patronage in medieval Ireland

The Mystery of Moll

The Mystery of Moll

Geoff Ward

Linguistic paradoxes and the evasion of identity in ‘Moll Flanders’

The Book in the World

The Book in the World

Joe Cleary

Should ‘Ulysses’ be feted as a great novel, or a great something else?

The City and the Book

The City and the Book

Terence Killeen

The city centred: the importance of the culture of Dublin in ‘Ulysses’

Where To Next?

Where To Next?

Enda Duffy

Joe Cleary explores world literature and Irish literature’s place in it

Down on the Farm

Down on the Farm

Heather Laird

Farming, land and land hunger as a theme in modern Irish literature

Wild Child

Wild Child

Ann Kennedy Smith

Early to late: questions about the conventional Jane Austen timeline

Now This Is The Truth

Now This Is The Truth

Maura O’Kiely

A satire on the political PR industry reminiscent of Waugh’s ‘Scoop’

The Destruction Principle

The Destruction Principle

Alena Dvořáková

A working class striver and skiver in one, at home with the underdog

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