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Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre

Moran, James

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Authors

JAMES MORAN JAMES.MORAN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Modern English Literature and Drama



Contributors

Eric Falci
Editor

Paige Reynolds
Editor

Abstract

During the build-up to the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016, the Irish media reported upon, and helped to generate, a number of controversies about the planned commemorations. For example, in the wake of the Queen of England’s visit to Ireland in 2011 – the first such by a British monarch in a century – commentators debated whether a member of the British royal family should be present at the GPO, which served as headquarters of the Rising, for the official Irish state event on Easter Sunday. Others argued about how to involve the grandchildren and relatives of the dead rebels, and disputed how to treat the revisionist opinions of figures such as the former Taoiseach John Bruton. Some criticised the launch of the government’s commemorative programme at the GPO in November 2014, when the minute-and-a half-long video that was made especially for that launch – a breezily corporate piece called ‘Ireland Inspires’ – featured the international rugby player Brian O’Driscoll scoring a try and other uplifting images of modern Ireland, but lacked any mention of the actual Easter Rising or any of its participants.

Citation

Moran, J. (2020). Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre. In E. Falci, & P. Reynolds (Eds.), Irish Literature in Transition: 1980-2020 (152-167). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564373.011

Online Publication Date Feb 1, 2020
Publication Date Feb 28, 2020
Deposit Date Jan 9, 2019
Publicly Available Date Aug 2, 2020
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 152-167
Book Title Irish Literature in Transition: 1980-2020
Chapter Number 8
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564373.011
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1457273
Publisher URL https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/irish-literature-in-transition-19802020/adaptations-commemoration-and-contemporary-irish-theatre/E419EF604016D42BA7F79A436B29F54E
Contract Date Jan 3, 2019

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