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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · 20h

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · 20h

Curran traces the archival presences of these photographs, which documented Sullivan's interventions into abandoned cottages on Great Blasket & argues for their historical, material & affective dimensions, foregrounding the complex & distributed dynamics of affect that circulate around/through them

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · 20h

According to Curran, Sullivan (1923– ) is relatively unknown outside of her native Québec and Canada, but in an exceptionally long and experimental career, has made work as a painter, dancer, sculptor, performance artist and conceptual artist.

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · 20h

Ann Curran explores Québécoise artist Françoise Sullivan's 1978 visit to the Blasket Islands, the series of performances for camera she developed during her time there & the complex relationship between photography & performances.

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · 7d

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A Choreographic Archive of Ireland's Recent Pasts: Iterative Contemporaneity in CoisCéim Dance Theatre's Palimpsest (2024) | Irish University Review

Staged as part of Dublin's St Patrick's Day celebration 2024, CoisCéim Dance Theatre's Palimpsest weaves together an embodied assortment of Ireland's recent pasts. From the War of Independence and wom...

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · 7d

The essay explores how choreographic movements & the dancers’ embodiment foster a kinaesthetically empathetic co-presence between the performers and audience, and injects liveness into the archive.

Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · 7d

Yang examines how the narrative episodes create contact zones between the historical and the contemporary. Motifs of gender, religion, emigration/immigration & social class, among others, oscillate intersectionally via the dancers’ bodies, which disturb cultural inscriptions & generate new meanings

Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · 7d

Huayu Yang argues that Palimpsest, CoisCéim Dance Theatre's performance that took place during Dublin's 2024 St Patrick's Day celebration, stages the 'iterative' contemporaneity of Ireland, where the past continues to frame present experiences and the present is incessantly conflated with the past

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 28

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‘Only a Canvas Between You and the Sea’: The Currach in Irish Feminist and Ecocritical Art Practice | Irish University Review

A currach (or curragh) is a small boat, traditionally made of skin or canvas stretched over wooden ribs and rowed with oars. In The Aran Islands (1907), J. M. Synge described ‘moving away from civiliz...

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 28

Gillett also points to one of the currach's current places in ecocritical art practice: as a mediator between human and sea, and a locus for an embodied experience – not of heroism, but of powerlessness.

Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 28

Gillett considers the currach's transition from a symbol of 'authentic' Irish identity and masculine heroism to a tool for the critique of essentialised Irish identity as well as gendered and environmental issues in the Irish context

Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 28

In the latest issue of the IUR, Molly-Claire Gillett charts the symbol of the 'currach', a small boat traditionally made of skin or canvas and stretched over wood ribs, in Irish art practice, from the early-twentieth century to the present day.

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Reconfiguring Intimacy in Contemporary Irish Queer Theatre and Performance through Party Scene: Chemsex, Community and Crisis (2022) | Irish University Review

The contemporary landscape of Irish queer theatre and performance is diverse and alive. THISISPOPBABY stands as a landmark company known for its blending of queer culture with pop culture. Their produ...

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 15

Torres-Fernández analyses the role of intimacy in the company's dance theatre piece, Party Scene: Chemsex, Community & Crisis (2022), created by Philip Connaughton & Phillip McMahon, arguing that it plays a fundamental role in the production's reconceptualisation of social norms

Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 15

In the latest issue of the IUR, J. Javier Torres-Fernández explores the contemporary landscape of Irish queer theatre and performance, focusing particularly on the landmark theatre company THISISPOPBABY, who have won awards for their
productions RIOT (2016), Wake (2022), more

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 5

Churchill's essay ‘Domestic Documents: Contemporary Photography and the Irish Housing Crisis’ is part of the special issue of Irish University Review published in May 2025: Irish Studies – Beyond the Text.

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Domestic Documents: Contemporary Photography and the Irish Housing Crisis | Irish University Review

By all accounts, Ireland currently faces an acute housing crisis not seen since the 1960s. While the country has historically struggled with housing inadequacy and eviction, this most recent crisis, u...

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 5

Sarah Churchill's blog post "Will the Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene?" is now live on EUP's website. Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts on how Ireland's housing crisis is shaping Irish art today.

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Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene? - Edinburgh University Press Blog

How is Ireland’s housing crisis shaping Irish art today? Sarah Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts.

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today's keynote at #IASIL2025 was provided by Prof Breandán Mac Suibhne, who produced a 'micro history', exploring the real-life people and Marconi radio (which, he notes, is almost a character in its own right) that inspired Brian Friel’s 'Dancing at Lughnasa'.

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Jul 22

Morales-Ladrón argues that Emma Donoghue's Haven explores a colonial appropriation of mind & land in the name of God, with characters ultimately disturbing the 'haven' of biodiversity on Skellig Michael. She argues that Haven critiques the Anthropocene & anticipates a post-Anthropocene Earth

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Jul 22

Lonergan conceptualises the Covid-19 pandemic as an allegory for future ecological crises, with Irish drama acting as a dress rehearsal for climate change. He points to how artistic responses accelerated their thematic preoccupations during this period, focusing on the non-human #IASIL2025

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Jul 22

One of the final panels today, titled 'Ecology, History, and
Historiography', is currently kicking off at the University of Galway, with Patrick Lonergan & Marisol Morales-Ladrón as speakers #IASIL2025

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Jul 22

Little interrogates carceral memory, tracing efforts to screen coercive confinement in Ireland (1971–1999) & arguing that historical accounts must consider its remediation across technologies. He ends by noting the importance of accounting for this history to prevent modern Irish carceral abuses

Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Jul 22

Haughton spoke about performance as technology, with her paper exploring how 'Anu', the production company, told stories that were previously side-lined or overlooked during the Decade of Centenaries by 'unfolding the body' and peeling back layers of sedimented signification in the Irish context

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Rachel McCarthy @rachel-mc.bsky.social · Jul 21

Looking forward to presenting at IASIL 2025 in Galway, Ireland, this week!

#DigitalHumanities #IASIL #IASIL2025

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Jul 22

Wallace presents on gender at the Abbey Theatre since Waking the Feminists, arguing that the movement made gender equality a public & policy issue - and despite some issues, has shifted programming with more adaptations/revivals by women writers & projects that highlight historical gender injustice

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