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Irish-American identity in Eugene O'Neill's early plays
(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 ...
Review of "Where Motley is Worn; Transnational Irish Literatures" Amanda Tucker and Moira E. Casey eds.
(Center for Irish Programs of Boston College, Massachusetts, 2016)
Review of Rough Magic's 2013 production of R.B. Sheridan's "The Critic"
(University of Toronto Press, 2015)
Review of Druid Theatre Company's 2016-17 production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
George Bernard Shaw: Irish to the core
(The Irish Times, 2017)
Fired from the canon: Waking the feminists, the conference
(The Irish Times, 2017)
Review of "Bernard Shaw, W.T. Stead, and the new journalism: Whitechapel, Parnell, Titanic, and the Great War" by Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel
(Penn State University Press, 2017)
C.S. Lewis: An Irish Writer (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2010-02-10)
This article examines the effect of C.S. Lewis's Irish background on his work. It attempts to contradict the assumption that this Belfast-born writer should be included in the English and not the Irish canon. It emphasises ...
Landlord–tenant (non)relations in the work of Bernard Shaw
(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 ...
The intertextual presence of Samuel Beckett’s "All That Fall" in Martin McDonagh’s "Six Shooter" (Pre-published version)
(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 ...