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Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination Edited by Christopher Collins and Mary P. Caulfield Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination This page intentionally left blank Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination Edited by Christopher Collins and Mary P. Caulfield Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Christopher Collins & Mary P. Caulfield 2014 Individual chapters © Contributors 2014 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6 –1 0 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978–1–137–36217–9 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ireland, memory and performing the historical imagination / [editors] Christopher Collins, Mary P. Caulfield. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–1–137–36217–9 1. English drama—Irish authors—History and criticism. 2. Collective memory in literature. 3. History in literature. 4. Ireland—In literature. 5. Literature and history—Ireland. 6. Theater and society—Ireland. I. Collins, Christopher, 1984– editor. II. Caulfield, Mary P., 1978– editor. PR8795.C55I84 2014 822'.0099415—dc23 2014025314 Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. For Matthew DiBlasi and Shane O’Reilly This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements x Notes on Contributors xii Introduction: the Rest is History 1 Christopher Collins and Mary P. Caulfield Part I Legacy and Heritage 1 Walking In and Out of Place: the Pedestrian Performances of Tim Robinson 19 Daniel Sack 2 A Theatre of the Unword: Censorship, Hegemony and Samuel Beckett 36 Nicholas Johnson 3 Re- considering Oscar Wilde’s Flamboyant Flop: Vera or The Nihilists 55 Aideen Kerr 4 Courtly Love and Heroic Death in W. B. Yeats’s Cuchulain Cycle of Plays 69 Paul Murphy 5 ‘… Whenever the Tale of ’98 is Told’: Constance Markievicz, the National Memory and ‘The Women of N inety-Eight’ 87 Mary P. Caulfield 6 Theatre of Dissent: the Historical Imagination of the Irish Workers’ Dramatic Company 101 Lauren Arrington 7 Staging the Body in P ost- Independence Ireland 118 Lionel Pilkington Part II Recollection and Remembrance 8 Pampooties and Keening: Alternate Ways of Performing Memory in J. M. Synge’s Plays 139 Hélène Lecossois vii viii Contents 9 ‘Why Do You Always Be Singin’ That Oul’ Song?’: the Subversion of Emigrant Ballads in John B. Keane’s Many Young Men of Twenty 155 Joseph Greenwood 10 Boxed Rituals: Eamon de Valera, Television and Talbot’s Box 171 Michael Jaros 11 Unblessed Amongst Women: Performing Patriarchy Without Men in Contemporary Irish Theatre 190 Cormac O’Brien 12 The Abuse of History/A History of Abuse: Theatre as Memory and the Abbey’s ‘Darkest Corner’ 207 Emilie Pine 13 Forgetting Follow 223 Christopher Collins Index 239 List of Illustrations 7.1 Photograph of Ria Mooney and Sean O’Casey 118 8.1 Jane W. Shackleton, ‘At Dun Aengus, Inis Mór, County Galway’, c. 1899, Album 17/60/1 146 10.1 The Talbot Memorial Bridge with Ulster Bank complex in background 184 10.2 O’Connell St monument to Jim Larkin with Millennium Spire in background 185 ix
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