• "A form to accommodate the mess": a genetic (self-)translation study of Samuel Beckett’s dramatic writing 

  O'Neill, Shane (2023-10-02)

  This thesis analyses the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s self-translated dramatic texts in order to better understand how an author recaptures the cadences, originality and political implications of his earlier versions ...

• The teacher as co-creator of drama: a phenomenological study of the experiences and reflections of Irish primary school teachers. 

  McDonagh, Fiona; Finneran, Michael (Routledge, 2017-05-24)

  Classroom drama in the Irish primary school context remains a relatively new endeavour and is largely under-researched. The knowledge base for all aspects of teacher education should be informed by rigorous reflection on ...

• Re:membrance of Absence Disrupting perceptions of Jewish and minority identity in Ireland through theatre 

  Wylde, Aideen (2021-03-30)

  This research examines social, historical and theoretical reasons that have contributed to the noticeable omission of minority voices, specifically Jewish voices, from Irish theatre narratives to date. The creation of the ...

• The transnational roots of key figures from the early years of the Gate Theatre, Dublin (Pre-published) 

  Clare, David; Morris, Nicola (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020-11-04)

  When considering the avant-garde nature of the early Gate Theatre, critics rightly focus on the queer sexuality and liberal politics of many of the people associated with the theatre at the time. However, it is also important ...

• Traumatic childhood memories and the adult political visions of Sinéad O’Connor, Bono, and Phil Lynott (Pre-published) 

  Clare, David (Peter Lang Ltd, 2020-02-17)

  Sinéad O’Connor, Paul “Bono” Hewson of U2, and the late Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy are three of Ireland’s most famous rock musicians, but that is not all that these celebrated singer songwriters have in common. Memories ...

• Reflections on classic Gate plays by Mary Manning, Christine Longford, and Maura Laverty (Pre-published version) 

  Clare, David (ISA [Irish Society for Archives], 2018)

  Last June, the Waking the Feminists organisation published Gender Counts (its eagerly-anticipated report on gender representation in Irish theatre), and the report confirmed what many Irish theatre fans suspected: during ...

• Goldsmith, the gate, and the 'hibernicising' of Anglo-Irish plays (Pre-published version) 

  Clare, David (Peter Lang, 2018)

  In recent decades, Irish theatre-makers have frequently imposed Irish elements onto the “English” plays written by London-based, Irish Anglican playwrights. As discerning critics have long recognised, George Farquhar, ...

• John McGahern's 'Oldfashioned' and Anglo-Irish culture (Pre-published version) 

  Clare, David (Manchester University Press, 2017)

  In John McGahern’s 1985 short story ‘Oldfashioned’, he ably demonstrates why a sensitive, bookish, Catholic young man raised in the repressive, anti-intellectual Irish Free State might be attracted to the way of life being ...

• Under-regarded roots: the Irish references in Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" (Pre-published version) 

  Clare, David (CUP [Cork University Press], 2016)

  Laurence Sterne has always occupied an uncertain place within the Irish literary canon. Important commentators have consistently denied that his work is, in any significant way, Irish. Referring to the fact that the ...

• The intertextual presence of Samuel Beckett’s "All That Fall" in Martin McDonagh’s "Six Shooter" (Pre-published version) 

  Clare, David (EUP [Edinburgh University Press], 2015)

  As many critics have pointed out, Martin McDonagh's work for the stage and screen is deeply indebted to the drama of Samuel Beckett. While critics have spotted most of McDonagh's intertextual debts to Beckett, they have ...

• ‘Keep the aspidistra flying’: The satirising of Celtic Tiger, ‘aspirational’ lifestyles in Mark O’Rowe’s early work (Pre-published version) 

  Clare, David (UCC [University College Cork], 2014)

• Performing the fractured puppet self : employing auto-ethnopuppetry to portray and challenge cultural and personal constructions of the disabled body 

  Fisher, Emma C. (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)

  This research project examines personal and cultural constructs of the disabled body, with the creation of the puppet play Pupa as its practical culmination. The testimonials of six participants (including my own), all ...

• Review of Rough Magic's 2013 production of R.B. Sheridan's "The Critic" 

  Clare, David (University of Toronto Press, 2015)

• Review of Druid Theatre Company's 2016-17 production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" 

  Clare, David (Edinburgh University Press, 2017)

• George Bernard Shaw: Irish to the core 

  Clare, David (The Irish Times, 2017)

• Fired from the canon: Waking the feminists, the conference 

  Clare, David (The Irish Times, 2017)

• Irish-American identity in Eugene O'Neill's early plays 

  Clare, David (Penn State University Press, 2018)

  This article examines Irish-American identity in Eugene O’Neill’s early work, including his “lost” plays. It demonstrates that characters such as Al Devlin in The Movie Man, Joe and Nellie Murray in Abortion, Eileen Carmody ...

• Landlord–tenant (non)relations in the work of Bernard Shaw 

  Clare, David (Penn State University Press, 2016)

  As a child, Shaw was horrified by the appalling poverty of the Dublin slums, and, while working in a Dublin estate office as a teenager, he actually had to collect slum rents. On a more personal level, both sides of Shaw’s ...

• Review of "Bernard Shaw, W.T. Stead, and the new journalism: Whitechapel, Parnell, Titanic, and the Great War" by Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel 

  Clare, David (Penn State University Press, 2017)

• Review of "Where Motley is Worn; Transnational Irish Literatures" Amanda Tucker and Moira E. Casey eds. 

  Clare, David (Center for Irish Programs of Boston College, Massachusetts, 2016)

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