Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on the Contributors......Page 11
Introduction: Performance Studies and Irish Culture......Page 14
Part I: Tradition, Ritual, and Play......Page 24
1 Performing Ireland: A Performative Approach to the Study of Irish Culture......Page 26
2 Performing Tradition......Page 34
3 Sporting ‘Irish’ Identities: Performance and the Gaelic Games......Page 47
4 ‘It’s beyond Candide – it’s Švejk’: Wise Foolery in the Work of Jack Lynch, Storyteller......Page 58
5 Traditional Irish Music in the Twenty-first Century: Networks, Technology, and the Negotiation of Authenticity......Page 71
Part II: Place, Landscape, and Commemoration......Page 84
6 ‘Tapping Secrecies of Stone’: Irish Roads as Performances of Movement, Measurement, and Memory......Page 86
7 Commemoration and the Performance of Irish Famine Memory......Page 99
8 Performing ‘the Troubles’: Murals and the Spectacle of Commemorations of Violence at Free Derry Corner......Page 113
9 St Patrick’s Purgatory and the Performance of Pilgrimage......Page 127
Part III: Political Performances......Page 140
10 De Valera Performs the Oath: Word, Voice, Book, and Act......Page 142
11 Between the Living and the Dead: Performative ‘in-betweens’ in the Work of Alastair MacLennan......Page 154
12 Jus Soli/Jus Sanguinis: The Biopolitics of Performing Irishness......Page 166
Part IV: Gender, Feminism, and Queer Performance......Page 180
13 Ghosting Bridgie Cleary: Tom Mac Intyre and Staging This Woman’s Death......Page 182
14 Challenging Patriarchal Imagery: Amanda Coogan’s Performance Art......Page 193
15 Homelysexuality and the ‘Beauty’ Pageant......Page 209
Part V: Diaspora, Migration, and Globalization......Page 224
16 Taking Northern Irish Identity on the Road: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival of 2007......Page 226
17 Who’s Laughing Now? Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience......Page 238
18 Parading Multicultural Ireland: Identity Politics and National Agendas in the 2007 St Patrick’s Festival......Page 250
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Z......Page 268