"This collection of essays examines the work of award-winning and Tony nominated Irish playwright, Conor McPherson. McPherson's works include: The Weir, The Good Thief; This Lime Tree Bower, Shining City, and The Seafarer."
"The Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of over 400 songs praising the Virgin Mary and narrating her miracles, constitutes one of the most important collections of vernacular songs ('vernacular' in this case being Galician) to survive with their music from before 1300. The collection was assembled at the direction of Alfonso X 'The Learned', king (1252-84) of Castile and Leon, who may also have composed some of the texts and even melo ..."
"The purpose of this book is to locate this sense of crisis within Irish contexts, fill a current gap in academic discourse surrounding literary, theatrical, and cinematic depictions of Irish masculinity, and discuss how fictional ..."
""Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland is an important contribution to the fields of Irish theatre and performance studies, and gender and performance in Ireland. The essays and interviews explore the work of women directors, designers, and playwrights on both sides of the Irish Border, who are currently shaping theatre practice on the island. By gathering such an impressive range of material, Maria Kurdi and Miriam ..."
"Essays on the work of Marie Jones. Marie Jones is one of the most prolific and popular writers working in Northern Irish theatre today. Her work has achieved local relevance and international recognition. In the course of a remarkable career now spanning five decades, Jones has been an actor, playwright, and screenwriter; she also helped to establish two major Irish theatre companies (Charabanc and DubbelJoint) as well as playing a majo ..."
"This important publication is the first collection of articles on the work of the internationally recognised award-winning theatre of Enda Walsh. In a wide range of essays the book explores Walsh's radical theatrical imagination, its development, contexts and its ability to flourish across genres from theatre to film to musical. The volume aims to give a multitude of perspectives on Walsh's work with articles and interviews from leading ..."
"Sullied Magnificence: The Theatre of Mark O'Rowe is a collection of essays that combines the voices of Mark O'Rowe's collaborators and critics with analysis by leading academics. It examines the role of the actor and director in monologue theatre. It questions the use of violence in O'Rowe's films and plays. It explores influences and inspirations, and provides a thorough introduction to the work of one of Ireland's most unique theatric ..."
"Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice is the first collection to focus exclusively on devised theatre throughout the island of Ireland by bringing together a range of perspectives from both academics and practitioners. It situates the histories and contemporary practice of devised performance in the Irish theatre, responding to a decisive shift in the working approach of several prominent emerging com ..."
Goethe(Updated) Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst: Proceedings of the Conference hosted by the Department of Music, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 26 & 27 March 2004 (CarysfortPress Ltd.) by Lorraine Byrne, Susan Youens, Lorraine Hrsg. Byrne, CarysfortPressLimited Paperback, 375 Pages, Published 2008 by Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-904505-10-5, ISBN: 1-904505-10-4
"Contents: Susan Youens: Preface – Otto Biba: Goethe’s Presence in the Vienna Music Scene of his Era – Lorraine Byrne: Goethe and Zelter: An Exchange of Musical Letters – Claus Canisius: Göthe and Beethowen: Men of Genius between Distance and Affinity – Amanda Glauert: ‘Ich denke dein’: Beethoven’s Retelling of Goethe’s Poetry – Moray McGowan: Fidelio and Faust in the German ‘Wende’ of 1989/90 – Jan Smaczny: Goethe and the Czechs – Brion ..."
"Essays on death explored through the disciplines of art history, classics, history, music, languages and literatures. The essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death as an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes involving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration. The disciplines represented are as diverse as art history, classics, history, music, lan ..."
"To honor the life and times of The Focus Theatre, this new title provides an insight into Ireland's only arthouse theatre from the people who were there. Through interviews, articles, short memoirs, and photographs, Stanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty tracks the theatre from its inception. Many of Ireland's leading theatre and film artists trained and worked at Focus, including Gabriel Byrne, Joan Bergin, Olwen Fouere, Brendan Coyle ..."
"This collection of fourteen new essays by scholars of literature, theatre, historiography, psychology and political science explores aspects of feminism in Ireland four decades after the founding of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. The tremendous changes to the social, economic, educational and personal lives of Irish women are discussed and analyzed here in terms of the everyday performance of being a woman in Ireland, and the ev ..."
"These seven plays all exhibit a range in styles: Lewis Carroll's fantastical world; a couple on the brink of a philandering weekend disaster; a one-man show about Jonathan Swift; an examination of two shoplifters and the would-be writer who ..."
"Eminent Irish Composer, Seoirse Bodley's musical settings of Goethe's poetry. It is edited by Dr. Lorraine Byrne Bodley and at the heart of her musicological reflections musicological reflections is a detailed account of the poems that significantly shaped Bodley's settings. In her reading of each cycle she examines the cultural and poetic contexts, weaving together the confessional with larger cultural forces at play. These details rel ..."
"Billy Roche - musician, actor, novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter - is one of Ireland's most versatile talents. This anthology, the first comprehensive survey of Roche's work, focuses on his portrayal of one Irish town as a microcosm of human life itself, elemental and timeless. Among the contributors are fellow artists (Colm Toibin, Conor McPherson, Belinda McKeon), theatre professionals (Benedict Nightingale, Dominic Dromgoole, Ing ..."
"Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage challenges the notion that a country's dramatic tradition develops in cultural isolation. It uncovers connections between past productions of plays by Ibsen and Chekhov and contemporary literary adaptations of their works by Irish playwrights, demonstrating the significance of international influence for the formation of national canon."
"Since the late 1970s there has been a marked internationalization of Irish drama, with individual plays, playwrights, and theatrical companies establishing newly global reputations. This book reflects upon these developments, drawing together leading scholars and playwrights to consider the consequences that arise when Irish theatre travels abroad."
"This book gathers essays by leading scholars of Irish drama exploring the writers and movements that shaped John Millington Synge. Contributors include Ann Saddlemyer, Ben Levitas, Mary Burke, Paige Reynolds, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Mark Phelan, Shaun Richards, Richard Pine, Alexandra Poulain, Emilie Pine, Melissa Sihra, Sara Keating, Bisi Adigun, Adrian Frazier, and Anthony Roche."