Introduction: the rest is history / Christopher Collins and Mary P. Caulfield -- Legacy and heritage. Walking in and out of place: the pedestrian performances of Tim Robinson / Daniel Sack -- A theatre of the unword: censorship, hegemony, and Samuel Beckett / Nicholas Johnson -- Re-considering Oscar Wilde's flamboyant flop: Vera or the nihilists / Aideen Kerr -- Courtly love and heroic death in W.B. Yeats's Cuchulain cycle of plays / Paul Murphy -- Whenever the tale of '98 is told: Constance Markievicz, the national memory and "the women of ninety-eight" / Mary P. Caulfield -- Theatre of dissent: the historical imagination of the Irish Workers' Dramatic Company / Lauren Arrington -- Staging the body in post-independence Ireland / Lionel Pilkington -- Recollection and remembrance. Pampooties and keening: alternate ways of performing memory in J.M. Synge's plays / Hélène Lecossois -- "Why do you always be singin' that oul' song?": the subversion of emigrant ballads in John B. Keane's Many young men of twenty / Joseph Greenwood -- Boxed rituals: Eamon De Valera, television, and Talbot's box / Michael Jaros -- Unblessed amongst women: performing patriarchy without men in contemporary Irish theatre / Cormac O'Brien -- The abuse of history/a history of abuse: theatre as memory and the Abbey's "Darkest corner" / Emilie Pine -- Forgetting follow / Christopher Collins.
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