Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles from March 2002

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies archives from March 2002

Introduction.
March 22, 2002... Thoms Kilroy's plays have sought to challenge the complacent norms of Irish theatre, by constantly bringing a European dimension to bear on an historic experience most would prefer to regard as isolated and unique. Where dramatic...

From shroud.(Excerpt)(Fictional Work)
March 22, 2002... Out of the shadows into the long piazza I stepped, and paused to stand a moment. With a cold eye I took in what the guidebooks would call the panorama: the wedding-cake facades, the bronze horseman unsheathing his sword, the famed twin churches...

Kilroy's theatre of the conflicted self.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Social definitions of the ego or individual self often tend to restrict the different sides of people's personality to one single unshakeable image. Thomas Kilroy challenges this common view in his works, in which he uses conflicts as revealing...

The romance of history: Renegotiating the past in Thomas Kilroy's O'Neil and Brian Friel's Making History.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... The interplay between history and artifice and between appearance and reality is a key preoccupation of the theatre of Thomas Kilroy. Versions of historical personae regularly people his plots, while the prefaces to his works repeatedly insist...

Thomas Kilroy.(memories of the author as a teacher)
March 22, 2002... I went to Galway from Belfast in 1974. It was towards the end of the following year that I first met Tom as he was preparing the ground for what was to become the inaugural Arts Council National Writers Workshop which would be located at...

Another country, other days: revisiting Thomas Kilroy's The Big Chapel.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... The Times of London carried the following news item in a recent issue: A hospital chaplain preparing to undergo a sex-change operation has been asked to resign by his bishop, who objects to him continuing to work as a woman. The Bishop of...

The Railway Guard. (Poetry).(Poem)
March 22, 2002... The Railway Guard Past the church, a brambled lane, the remains of dairy farms, legal notes hammered onto fence posts and fields of assorted grasses burning dear to the iron track. Out of this dry clay near Gormanston, in...

Searching for Paul Henry's sky. (Poetry).(Poem)
March 22, 2002... Searching for Paul Henry's sky If the opening shot of such a small bed Of timber frames set down on the flats Confirms what Lewis and Clark had said What could be missing from our pleading? Neat New England spires with those...

Staging the self: person and persona in Kilroy's plays.(Thomas Kilroy)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... The central figures in the three plays I want to consider in this essay were all real people: Matt Talbot in Talbot's Box, Brendan Bracken and William Joyce in Double Cross, Constance Wilde, Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas in The Secret...

Thomas Kilroy: The Artist and the Critic.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... 1 Every artist is, no doubt, something of a self critic although it does not follow that he / she is gifted with critical analysis. It can be claimed that the best literary critics have always been the poets and writers themselves whereas...

Salt--the second chapter.(Fictional Work)
March 22, 2002... Salt, a novel, is set on Mount Leinster in The Blackstairs Mountains, County Wexford. In the opening chapter, Rose Tyrell marries Billy Fennell, a sheep-farmer who lives there in a house with his father, Martin. She has conceived a child. This...

Kilroy's vision of doubleness: the question of national identity and theatricality in Double Cross.(Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... I Thomas Kilroy wrote Double Cross in 1986 for the Field Day Theatre Company, his first play since Talbot's Box in 1977. (1) Field Day, founded by Brian Friel and Stephen Rea in 1980, produced a new Irish play or a new adaptation every...

'Against mindlessness': Thomas Kilroy and Field Day.(Irish playwright and theater group)
March 22, 2002... I Thomas Kilroy's association with Field Day officially dates back to 1986 when the Derry-based company, then in its sixth year of existence, performed Double Cross, his play on Brendan Bracken and William Joyce. Kilroy had been a close...

Masculinity and masquerade in Thomas Kilroy's Double Cross and The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... From Tea and Sex and Shakespeare (1976) to The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde (1997) Thomas Kilroy has foregrounded theatricality and the performance of identity. Using theatrical models as diverse as Brecht and bunraku, (1) he has combined...

Acting out.(performing in Thomas Kilroy's plays )
March 22, 2002... CONSTANCE -- No! It cannot be told. It can only be -- discovered. Revealed. OSCAR -- Please confide in me, Constance! Please! Don't you see? If you did that it would save me. Talk to me, Constance! Otherwise I'm finished. Back on the...

The doctor's daughter in antwerp.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... The Doctor's Daughter in Antwerp To Tom and Julie My father was mad enough to work miracles. He modelled himself on dear Jeanne d'Arc. His patients were practical, hearing his voices. They believed in a god that healed pain....

An interview with Thomas Kilroy.(Interview)
March 22, 2002... When and how did you first sense that you wanted to be a writer? How did it emerge as the thing that you would do? I think that writing comes out of reading and that writers are in the first place readers. There was also the fact that as a...

From BLAKE: a play.(Play)(Excerpt)
March 22, 2002... from BLAKE: a play Act One Scene One In the darkness of the theatre a single male voice sings: "And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England's mountain green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On England's pleasant...

Immortal eyes and fearful symmetry: towards a drama of vision.(Thomas Kilroy's latest play "Blake")(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Choosing a Romantic poet as a protagonist, and one moreover who was not only English but whose most famous poem has become indelibly associated with that raucous flag-waving celebration of old Imperialist fervour, the Last Night of the Proms...

Numerology.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... Numerology The cartographer lists and draws fourteen bastions, fourteen wall-towers, fourteen main thoroughfares, fourteen monasteries, fourteen castles, fourteen laneways... Joyce, 'The City of the Tribes' Purity of heart...

Thomas Kilroy: a bibliography.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2002... A. WORKS BY THOMAS KILROY A. 1. PLAYS (In chronological order of performance. All works in this section by Thomas Kilroy unless otherwise indicated) The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche Perf.: First perf. Olympia...

The Yalta Game. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Brian Friel, The Yalta Game (Loughcrew: Gallery Press, 2001), 36pp., IR[pounds sterling]5.95 Brian Friel has for long -- perhaps for ever -- been preoccupied by the notion of transfiguration, of transforming or re-inventing oneself,...

Le Theatre de Thomas Kilroy. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Thierry Dubost, Le Theatre de Thomas Kilroy. Caen (France): Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2001. [euro]10.67. Le Theatre de Thomas Kilroy by Thierry Dubost is the first volume in an exciting new series on contemporary Irish playwrights...

Walt Whitman & the Irish. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Joann P. Krieg, Walt Whitman & the Irish. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. xv 273 pages. Stg.[pounds sterling]16.95 (Paperback). Joann Krieg's book attempts to locate Walt Whitman within an Irish and Irish-American cultural...

Poems.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Patrick MacDonogh, Poems, edited ad introduced by Derek Mahon. Oldcastle, Co. Meath: The Gallery Press, 2001. 94 pages. IR[pounds sterling]8.95 (paperback); IR[pounds sterling]13.95 (hardback). The photograph of Patrick MacDonogh on the...

Unauthorised Versions: Irish Menippean Satire. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Jose Lanters, Unauthorised Versions: Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952. Catholic University of America Press, 2000 287 pp. US$59.95. It is not forty years since the late Vivien Mercier published The Irish Comic Tradition (Oxford University...

Changing Ireland: Strategies in Contemporary Women's Fiction. .(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Christine St. Peter, Changing Ireland: Strategies in Contemporary Women's Fiction. ix+217 pp. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000; London: Macmillan Press, 2000. No price given. In the final chapter of this ground-breaking and poised...

List of books received.
March 22, 2002... Baillie, Sandra M., Evangelical Women in Belfast: Imprisoned or Empowered? London: Palgrave, 2002. 264 pages. [pounds sterling]45.00 STG (hardback). Barton, Ruth, Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation. Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002. 175 pages....