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#Dublin #SmockAlleyTheatre #IrishDrama #IrishCulture #IrishTheatre or #IrishTheater can find and book it.

Bit of a trip for me, so I might have to miss it.

The late Brian Friel may be one of our best-known playwrights - the man behind Dancing at Lughnasa and Philadelphia, Here I Come! - but even he sometimes struggled to find the right words, as a new exhibition at Queen's University Belfast shows...🎭 #IrishDrama #Friel #QUB #IrishStudies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-63909394.amp
Exhibition recognises life and work of Brian Friel - BBC News

The Queen's University exhibit features Friel's notes and drafts for five of his iconic plays.

BBC News
Previous Seminars | Irish Studies Gateway | Queen's University Belfast

The playwright Teresa Deevy came up a few weeks back in discussion of Shonagh's Hill's talk on female dramatists and the IFS. Hear more about her here from Amanda Coogan: https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/the-womens-podcast/teresa-deevy-the-life-and-legacy-of-an-extraordinary-irish-playwright/ #IrishStudies #IrishDrama
Teresa Deevy: The life and legacy of an extraordinary Irish playwright

The Women’s Podcast: Performance artist Amanda Coogan remembers the life and legacy of the Waterford woman

The Irish Times

How did Parnell provide a paradigm of hygienic autonomy and virile celibacy for Synge and Lady Gregory? How did debates over sexual health shape the Playboy riots? And how did Lenox Robinson spoof the whole sordid business?

Find out in my new article for the Journal of Medical Humanities:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-022-09762-1

#IrishStudies #Modernism #IrishModernism #IrishDrama #HistMed #HistSex #MedHums #SexualHealth