Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Performance Studies and Irish Culture....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Performing Ireland: A Performative Approach to the Study of Irish Culture....Pages 13-20
Performing Tradition....Pages 21-33
Sporting ‘Irish’ Identities: Performance and the Gaelic Games....Pages 34-44
‘It’s beyond Candide — it’s àvejk’: Wise Foolery in the Work of Jack Lynch, Storyteller....Pages 45-57
Traditional Irish Music in the Twenty-first Century: Networks, Technology, and the Negotiation of Authenticity....Pages 58-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
‘Tapping Secrecies of Stone’: Irish Roads as Performances of Movement, Measurement, and Memory....Pages 73-85
Commemoration and the Performance of Irish Famine Memory....Pages 86-99
Performing ‘the Troubles’: Murals and the Spectacle of Commemoration at Free Derry Corner....Pages 100-113
St Patrick’s Purgatory and the Performance of Pilgrimage....Pages 114-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
De Valera Performs the Oath: Word, Voice, Book, and Act....Pages 129-140
Between the Living and the Dead: Performative ‘in-betweens’ in the Works of Alastair MacLennan....Pages 141-152
Jus Soli/Jus Sanguinis: The Biopolitics of Performing Irishness....Pages 153-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Ghosting Bridgie Cleary: Tom Mac Intyre and Staging This Woman’s Death....Pages 169-179
Challenging Patriarchal Imagery: Amanda Coogan’s Performance Art....Pages 180-195
Homelysexuality and the ‘Beauty’ Pageant....Pages 196-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Taking Northern Irish Identity on the Road: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival of 2007....Pages 213-224
Who’s Laughing Now? Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience....Pages 225-236
Parading Multicultural Ireland: Identity Politics and National Agendas in the 2007 St Patrick’s Festival....Pages 237-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-255