Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture

Contents

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Performance Studies and Irish Culture
• F.Walsh with S.Brady PART I: TRADITION, RITUAL AND PLAY Performing Ireland: A Performative Approach to the Study of Irish Culture
• J.Santino Performing Tradition
• B.Sweeney Sporting 'Irish' Identities: Performance and the Gaelic Games
• S.Brady 'It's beyond Candide it's Svejk': Wise Foolery in the Work of Jack Lynch, Storyteller
• M.Wilson Traditional Irish Music in the 21st Century: Networks, Technology, and the Negotiation of Authenticity
• S.Spencer PART II: PLACE, LANDSCAPE AND COMMEMORATION 'Tapping Secrecies of Stone': Irish Roads as Performances of Movement, Measurement, and Memory
• J.Morrison Commemoration and the Performance of Irish Famine Memory
• E.M.FitzGerald Embodying the Past for the Tourist Gaze: Performing History and Commemorations of Violence at Free Derry Corner
• M.Spangler St Patrick's Purgatory and the Performance of Pilgrimage
• D.Cregan PART III: POLITICAL PERFORMANCES Word, Voice, Book, and Act: De Valera and the Oath
• A.Pulju Between the Living and the Dead: Performative 'in-betweens' in the Work of Alastair MacLennan
• C.Szabo The Bio-politics of Performing Irish-ness
• M.Causey PART IV: GENDER, FEMINISM, AND QUEER PERFORMANCE Ghosting Bridgie Cleary: Tom Mac Intyre and Staging this Woman's Death
• C.McIvor Challenging Patriarchal Imagery: Amanda Coogan's Performance Art
• G.C.Novati Homelysexuality and the 'Beauty' Pageant
• F.Walsh PART V: DIASPORA, MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION Taking Northern Irish Identity on the Road: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival of 2007
• E.Moore Quinn Who's Laughing at What?: Currents of Humour in African-Irish Theatre
• E.Weitz Parading Multicultural Ireland: Identity Politics and National Agendas in the 2007 St Patrick's Festival
• H.Maples Index