When, in July 2012, Philadelphia, Here I Come! enjoyed a new production at the Donmar
Warehouse in London, the run was a sell-out. The reviews were so positive that one has to …

Teresa of Avila Page 125 3 Teresa of Avila Feminist and Lesbian Icon ... a markedly individual
and dangerous fellow creature. —Kate O’Brien, Teresa of Avila (1951) In January 1961 Kate …

In 2004, Seamus Heaney gave a reading at Mary Immaculate College. He spoke to an
audience of some 400 people and stayed on signing autographs for an hour after the …

The displacement of religion has been a predominant theme of recent analyses of Irish
society. General theories of secularization in the West have often been applied to the case of …

In Ireland the traditional family, encompassing two heterosexual married parents with
biological children, has undergone dramatic reconfiguration in recent decades. Indeed one …

This dissertation examines how the modern Irish novel negotiates shifting cultural
conceptions of death and dying across the twentieth century. Analyzing a cross-section of …

John B. Keane remains a hugely popular dramatist, his plays continue to fill theatres to this
day, and many of his characters have transcended from the stage and reside in common …