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