Author: Edel Semple

CfP: Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference 2024

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CALL FOR PAPERS
12th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference
16-17 August 2024 ♦ University of Galway
Website: http://www.tudorstuartireland.com ♦ Twitter: @tudorstuartire
Email: 2024@tudorstuartireland.com

Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Sarah McKibben (University of Notre Dame) &
Dr Hiram Morgan (University College Cork)

Proposals for individual papers (20 minutes) and group panel submissions are now welcome on any aspect of Ireland or the Irish abroad during the Tudor and Stuart periods, including:
♦ Gaelic Ireland and the Irish language
♦ Gender and society
♦ Poetry, theatre, literature, and song
♦ Ireland in a comparative/European context
♦ Classical and medieval reception
♦ Political, military, and economic history
♦ The archaeology and architecture of the early modern period
♦ Religious/ecclesiastical history
♦ Writing (and rewriting) the past
♦ Environmental literature and history
♦ Archives and records – new directions
♦ Print and manuscript culture
♦ Parliaments, parliamentarians and law-making
♦ Mobility, migration, and the Irish abroad
♦ Digital humanities and methodologies

Postgraduates, postdoctoral scholars, early-career researchers, independent researchers, and scholars from the disciplines of English, Irish, history, archaeology, art history, theology, philosophy, music, digital humanities, and Irish studies are particularly welcome to submit proposals for consideration. Proposals for panels in Irish are strongly encouraged.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words can be submitted through the conference email:
2024@tudorstuartireland.com The call for papers will close on 3 May 2024

The 12th Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference is generously supported by the Department of English, University of Galway & Marsh’s Library, Dublin.

Irish Renaissance Seminar at Queen’s University Belfast

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IRS

Queen’s University Belfast

Saturday 28 January 2023

12.00-12:45 Arrival

12:45-1:45 Welcome Ramona Wray (QUB)/Jane Grogan (UCD) and Opening Plenary

Andrew Murphy (TCD): ‘Shakespeare comes to Dublin: Culture and colonialism in eighteenth-century Ireland’, Chair: Ramona Wray (QUB)

1:45-2:45pm Marie Curie Projects at IRS

Emer McHugh (QUB), Maria Shmygol (University of Galway), Helen Newsome (UCD), Chair: Ann-Maria Walsh (QUB)

2:45-3:45 New work in Shakespearean Adaptation

Edel Semple (University College Cork), Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth University), Mark Thornton Burnett (QUB), Chair: Edel Lamb (QUB)

3:45-4:15pm Break

4:15-5:15pm PGR Projects at IRS

Hannah Gregg (QUB), Alan Waldron (Maynooth University), Annie Khabaza (UCD), Chair: Anna Graham (QUB)

5:15-6:15pm Closing Plenary

Lillie Arnott (QUB) ‘Witnessing Grief: Sight, Subjectivity and Gender in Early Modern Literature’, Chair: Mark Thornton Burnett (QUB)

6:15-7:30 Reception

For all enquiries on this meeting of the IRS, please contact Dr Ramona Wray.

Theatre: “Lost Lear” at the Dublin Theatre Festival

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[Info from Dublin Theatre Festival website here.]

Lost Lear – Previews: 28-29 September 2022. Dates: 28 September – 8 October see DTF website for details.

All at once fast paced and thought-provoking, Lost Lear lands us into the world of Joy, a woman with dementia, who is being cared for through a method where people live inside an old memory.

Following the national and international tour of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Dan Colley and his company have turned their sights on a very (very) loose adaptation of King Lear, examining the self and that part of us that’s inaccessible to others.

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?” — King Lear, Act I Scene IV

For ages 14+

Talking Theatre – 5th Oct, post-show, with director Dan Colley and members of the company.

Lost Lear will also run from 13th-15th October 2022 in Wicklow at the Mermaid Arts Centre.

Co-produced by Mermaid Arts Centre and Riverbank Arts Centre and funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and supported by Fishamble’s New Play Clinic.

Theatre: “The Comedy of Errors” by Pilgrim Players

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The Pilgrim Players will perform The Comedy of Errors at Edmondstown House (aka The Bishop’s Palace) in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon, this weekend 12-14th August 2022. 

The Pilgrim Players return for a third year to the bishop’s Palace, with another stellar cast of stage and screen (stars of Poldark, Bohemian Rhapsody, Shakespeare’s Globe, RSC and BAFTA award-winners among them) who will be performing for just 3 days in the grounds of the house. The whole community are invited for the outdoor festival performances.

Tickets and info on the Pilgrim Players website: www.pilgrimplayers.co.uk

Theatre: “The Spanish Tragedy” by Dublin Youth Theatre

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[From the Project Arts Centre website here]

Dates: Weds 17th – Sat 20th August 2022. ISL interpreted performance: 19 Aug, 7:30pm Relaxed Performance: 20 August, 1pm. Show Time: 7:30pm, 1pm Matinée (Duration 2.30mins incl. Interval)

Contains mature themes, violence and suicide. Suitable for audiences 14+.

Witness Thomas Kyd’s classic revenge tragedy, The Spanish Tragedy, brought to the Project Arts Centre stage in a bold contemporary production by Dublin Youth Theatre, directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks.

Against a backdrop of warring kingdoms, two young lovers dare to steal a secret moment of forbidden tenderness. But when the murderous jealousy and ambition of powerful enemies leads to devastating violence, a grieving father is left to fight for justice for his murdered son.

Written in the late 16th century, Kyd’s play asks troubling questions that still ring true today: What is the value of justice in a system that seems designed only to protect the powerful and wealthy? What is the life of an individual worth compared to the fate of nations? And if justice is denied, is revenge the only alternative…and at what cost?

Tickets on the Project Arts Centre website here

The Spanish Tragedy: Special Fundraising Opening Night

Celebrate Dublin Youth Theatre’s 45th birthday with a special fundraising Opening Night of Thomas Kyd’s classic revenge tragedy, The Spanish Tragedy. With a dress to impress dress-code, and a post-show discussion with dramaturg Dr Tanya Dean, a ticket to our Opening Night will be a night to remember and will support Dublin Youth Theatre’s programmes that focus on the personal, social and artistic development of young people in Dublin through the medium of theatre.

Theatre: “The Tempest” by Rough Magic at Kilkenny Arts Festival

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[From Kilkenny Arts Festival programme webpage here]

Dates: 3rd – 6th, 8th – 13th August 2022, at 8pm. Venue: outdoors in the Kilkenny Castle Parklands

From Rough Magic and Kilkenny Arts Festival, the award-winning team that brought you A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing, comes a new take on Shakespeare’s classic The Tempest, filled with magic, mischief, music and romance.

Shakespeare’s lyrical revenge fantasy comes to the Castle. Eleanor Methven, one of Ireland’s most celebrated actresses, takes on the iconic role of Prospero, the deposed ruler turned elemental sorcerer. The fury of the storm she conjures hurls her enemies onto her shores – but it also brings a sad young prince, to the delighted curiosity of her daughter Miranda. Is their attraction a trick of fate – or the spectacle and sorcery of the enchanted island? A dark comedy filled with magic, music, mischief and romance, told beneath the Kilkenny summer skies.

Book tickets on Kilkenny Arts Festival website.

Theatre: “King John” and “Two Gentlemen of Verona” by PurpleDoor at Smock Alley, Dublin

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[Info from Smock Alley website here.]

Experience the best upcoming talent from the North of England as one cast stage two of Shakespeare’s least known plays…

What comes to mind when you think of King John? The Magna Carta? Forget it. Shakespeare’s rarely staged tragedy about Britain’s most useless king rediscovers this overlooked gem, relocated to the middle of Thatcher’s Britain amid the miner’s strike that led to a bloody revolution. Shakespeare’s play examines the responsibility of power, the need for war, and the inability of men to rule, in an uneasily patriotic play that raises as many questions about our leaders today as it did 400 years ago.

Paired in rep with King John, The Two Gentlemen of Verona takes you to mid-90’s Liverpool in a riotous production that celebrates the messy, filthy joy of young love. What happens when you fall in love with your best friend’s other half? Come on a sensory journey with us, in a production which seeks to bring the joy of togetherness after too many solitary years of Covid. Get your shellsuit and your pagers ready, it’s time to spice up your life.

Both productions alternate on different nights with the same cast. Book both shows for the price of €25.

TICKETS €15 | €13.50 CONCESSION (STUDENT/OAP) RUNNING TIME 120 MINS

WRITTEN BY William Shakespeare
DIRECTED BY Karl Falconer

About the company
PurpleDoor are a Liverpool based theatre (formerly PurpleCoat), whose work has toured the UK and Ireland and been produced in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Nominated for a National Lottery Award, PurpleDoor have been hailed as ‘one of the UK’s fastest rising ensembles’ with a body of work that has been championed by figures including Stephen Fry and Judi Dench. They aim to champion undiscovered talent and help new audiences enjoy Shakespeare.