Introduction / Donald E. Morse -- Foundations and refoundations in historical perspectrive. The Irish theatre: the first hundred years 1897-1997 / Christopher Murray -- Engaging with a changing reality. Black hole experiences: moochers, smoochers, dig outs and the parables and spasms of time in Conor McPherson's The night alive / Eamonn Jordan -- Queer creatures, queer places: otherness and normativity Irish drama from Synge to Friel / José Lanters -- Troubled relations of gender and generation in Celtic tiger drama: Stella Feehily's Duck and O go my man / Mária Kurdi -- "The politics of aging": Frank McGuinness's The hanging gardens / Donald E Morse -- Enhanced theatricality. The play within the play in select contemporary Irish plays / Csilla Bertha -- When the mirror laughs: face to face with three Irish stage worlds / Eric Weitz -- Then like Gigli, now like Bette: the grotesque and the sublime in Mark O'Rowe's Terminus / Ondřej Pilný -- Reframing transition. Shakespearean productions at the Abbey Theatre: 1970-1985 / Patrick Lonergan -- Snapshots: a year in the life of a theatre judge / Nicholas Grene -- The Irish play on the London stage: an overview from independence to the present / Peter James Harris -- Inventiveness and expanding the stage. The diverse dramatic contributions of Frank McGuinness / Helen Heuser Lojek -- Pat Kinevane's Forgotten and silent: universalizing the abject / Joan Fitzpatrick Dean -- Writing for "the real national theatre": Stewart Parker's plays for television / Clare Wallace -- Playing with Beckett on film / Dawn Duncan -- On the "re-foundation" of the Irish theatre: Sam Shepard, Irish playwright / Stephen Watt.
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