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Introduction: the rest is history / Christopher Collins and Mary P. Caulfield

Legacy and heritage. Walking in and out of place: the pedestrian performances of Tim Robinson / Daniel Sack

A theatre of the unword: censorship, hegemony, and Samuel Beckett / Nicholas Johnson

Re-considering Oscar Wilde's flamboyant flop: Vera or the nihilists / Aideen Kerr

Courtly love and heroic death in W.B. Yeats's Cuchulain cycle of plays / Paul Murphy

Whenever the tale of '98 is told: Constance Markievicz, the national memory and "the women of ninety-eight" / Mary P. Caulfield

Theatre of dissent: the historical imagination of the Irish Workers' Dramatic Company / Lauren Arrington

Staging the body in post-independence Ireland / Lionel Pilkington

Recollection and remembrance. Pampooties and keening: alternate ways of performing memory in J.M. Synge's plays / Hélène Lecossois

"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

Boxed rituals: Eamon De Valera, television, and Talbot's box / Michael Jaros

Unblessed amongst women: performing patriarchy without men in contemporary Irish theatre / Cormac O'Brien

The abuse of history/a history of abuse: theatre as memory and the Abbey's "Darkest corner" / Emilie Pine

Forgetting follow / Christopher Collins.

English drama > Irish authors > History and criticism.

Literature and history > Ireland.

Theater and society > Ireland.

Ireland > In literature.