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Head of Department of Design & Visual Arts, IADT. Loves culture, canines, deep chats and craic :)
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What happened on the very first Bloomsday in 1954?
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What happened on the very first Bloomsday in 1954?
Dublin's annual celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses may be a big event now, but its debut outing was rather inauspicious
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0616/1518012-bloomsday-1964-history-dublin-james-joyce-ulysses/
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Siobhán Bourke and Jane Daly are two of the most generous people and have supported countless theatre makers and artists - to be able to present them with the Outstanding Contribution to Irish Theatre award from
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was a real pleasure. Congrats Jane and Siobhán!
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Louise Lowe, Carnegie Library DLR
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will discuss performance, history, remembering, forgetting
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The Elephant of Revolutionary Forgetfulness: The Art of Commemoration
A free public talk by Louise Lowe of ANU Productions in the Old Carnegie Library DLR on art, theatre, history, remembering, and forgetting.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-elephant-of-revolutionary-forgetfulness-the-art-of-commemoration-tickets-1381659002269?aff=ebdsshios
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Some highlights from Day 2 of
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Some highlights from day 1 of
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annual conference 2025
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The third paper in Music and Cultural Mythologies is “Perpetuating cultural hegemony from the British Empire to AI: the case of bagpipes” by Cassandre Balosso-Bardin
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Continuing on Music & Cultural Mythologies,Fiona Fearon’s paper “Performing Otherness: Minstrels in Early Twentieth Century Ireland”
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In the final round of panels, Ciara Murphy
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‘s paper ‘Performing Stereotypes of Irish Nationalism Through Subversive Aesthetics’ is part of Music & Cultural Mythologies.
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Final panel of
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now with fellow feminist interventionist
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's excellent and engaging paper on "'Get Your Brits Out': Performing Stereotypes of Irish Nationalism Through Subversive Aesthetics"
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KNEECAP share garage-inspired new single 'Love Making' and announce US tour
Kneecap have shared a garage-inspired new single 'Love Making' and announced a US tour - find dates and tickets here.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/kneecap-share-new-single-love-making-and-announce-us-tour-3752515
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Kim Solga leading final panel on women making Shakespeare from diverse communities at
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2025
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Terrific keynote by Siân Adiseshiah
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Looking forward to Siân Adiseshiah's keynote on Staging Utopian Subjects
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Utopian Drama
Shortlisted for the TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the presen…
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/utopian-drama-9781474295796/
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Particularly liked the irony that we could literally see the stock market crashing on account of the newest beef in the lower right corner of Kurt's screen as he was questioning what the "great" evoked in MAGA is meant to represent
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Kurt Taroff raises thought-provoking points in ‘Circuses of stasis: performing the defence of the imperial state in the US and Northern Ireland’, juxtaposing the perfomativity and iconography of The Twelfth parades with Trump rallies (at one of which he apparently "signed a baby")
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on Abomination by Conor Mitchell and Belfast Ensemble at
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2025
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Excited to find out whether the audio will work or if my co-communications officer
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will actually sing during his paper on "Verbatim musicals in Britain during the rightward lurch", as promised
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Abomination: A DUP Opera
Cast of Abomination: A DUP Opera by Conor Mitchell.Image: Neil Harrison****Maybe it was a technical hitch that led to the ten minute delay. Longer again if you took your seat early. In which the endle...
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Second day of
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is off to a fantastic start as Brian Singleton discusses ANU Productions’ Hammam (2023), bringing it together with the context of the 2023 Dublin Riot
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ham...
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HAMMAM - Abbey Theatre
One of Ireland’s most innovative multidisciplinary theatre makers, ANU, in partnership with the Abbey Theatre, will excavate the final moments of the Battle of Dublin with this end of year show. Invit...
https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/hammam/
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on ANU’s Hammam written and directed by
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for
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2025
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We also heard the research of Rachel Fehily, Róisín O’Gorman, Michael R. Murphy & Sarah Hoover on Dramaturgies and Visibility
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Catching our breath after a flurry of brilliant panels this afternoon. The Government Policy & the Arts panel featured papers from Patricia O’Beirne, Ben McCabe & Charlotte McIvor.
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Elaine Sisson’s wonderful keynote paper, ‘Costume as Dissent: Ireland, Modernity and the Politics of Becoming’
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Emer O’Toole from Concordia Uni/Canada on the she-wolf for
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Final paper in Challenging Colonial Legacies: “Converging Narratives: The Importance of Intersectionality and Diverse Identities in Contemporary Irish Theatre” delivered remotely by Tara Mozafari
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Tuba (Tara) Mozafari now remotely contributing an intriguing talk on "Converging Narratives: The Importance of Intersectionality and Diverse Identities in Contemporary Irish Theatre", focussing on "Eclipsed" by Patricia Burke Brogan and "Rathmines Road" by Deirdre Kinahan
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Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan
The Lir offers courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in acting, directing, lighting design, stage design, stage management, technical theatre and writing for the theatre and related pro...
https://www.thelir.ie/gallery/eclipsed-by-patricia-burke-brogan
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Yousef Abu Amrieh delivering his and Ahmed Shalabi’s paper “Decolonizing George William Joy’s General Gordon’s Last Stand” as part of Challenging Colonial Legacies
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Yousef Abu Amrieh now presents his and Ahmed Shalabi's fascinating co-written paper on "Decolonizing George William Joyʼs General Gordonʼs Last Stand in Aboulelaʼs River Spirit"
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Victorian hero General 'Chinese' Gordon's Last Stand - at Khartoum by George William Joy | Leeds art gallery, Art uk, Historical painting
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Monica McCarthy from ATU Sligo on feminist resistance in trying times for
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Shonagh Hill
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also presenting in the Challenging Colonial Legacies panel, on “Mamtshawe - The Rise of Maqoma and decolonial feminism”
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David Clare
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delivering his paper “O’Neillian Echoes in Dennis Scott’s An Echo in the Bone (1974)” in our afternoon panel, Challenging Colonial Legacies at
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now explores Nandi Jola's "Mamtshawe – The Rise of Maqoma" in the context of decolonial feminism, raising thought-provoking points and referencing Vergès notion of decolonial feminism as "a never-ending struggle, revolution as daily work"
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Mamtshawe - The Rise of Maqoma | Collins Barracks: Tickets, Dates & Itineraries | Trip.com
Searching for information and tickets regarding Mamtshawe - The Rise of Maqoma | Collins Barracks taking place in Dublin on Jan 9, 2024 (UTC+0)? Trip.com has you covered. Check the dates, itineraries,...
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David Cregan from Villanova Uni on Safe House by Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey
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Great to see what went on in other panels!
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In another morning panel, Fiona Charlton, Clara Mallon and Dilek Öztürk Yağcı delivered papers on Performing Class.
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Andrew Galvin on Grief Cartography, devised theatre and colonial margins
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Attending the "Challenging Colonial Legacies" panel now, with David Clare starting off with a talk on "O’Neillian Echoes in Dennis Scott’s An Echo in the Bone (1974)"
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Great start to ISTR 2025 - End(s) of Empire - at
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. In our first round of panels, Terence McEneaney, Nora Grimes and Helen Lane delivered papers on public performance.
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off to a great start - super two days of papers, keynotes, awards, and launches hosted by
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Siobhan O'Gorman and Kevin Wallace
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Helen Lane's excellent paper on "Voicing the concerns of our generation: The affective charge of the Irish Spoken Word movement in mainstream media"
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sounds like it could be right up
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Really looking forward to Nora Grimes's talk on "(Re)imagining Irish Histories through Women's Public Performance: Feminist Interventions by the Inghinidhe na h'Éireann, Alice Milligan, and Lady Gregory, 1900-1912" now
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Sadly, we cannot be in two places at once despite the fascinating parallel panels - attending Terence McEneaney's engaging, evocative talk on "The Altered Altar: A Sensory and Autoethnographic Reflection of Mass" now
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kicking off any minute now - Follow this space for updates!
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