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Synge and 'protestant comedy' (2014)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2014). Synge and 'protestant comedy'. In E. Weitz (Ed.), For the sake of sanity: doing things with humour in Irish performance. Carysfort Press

‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time (2014)
Journal Article
Collins, C. (2014). ‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time

This essay considers Synge’s staging of the caoine (keen) in Riders to the Sea(1904). It argues that the caoine in Riders to the Sea is not simply an aesthetic and unethical fetishization of pre-Christian cultural residue predicated on class insecuri... Read More about ‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time.

Forgetting Follow (2014)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2014). Forgetting Follow. In Ireland, memory and performing the historical imagination. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362186

Memory in Ireland is a performative cultural industry that is regulated by the threat of forgetting. Forgetting cannot be cured, because it determines the phenomenology of memory. The more one attempts to defend against forgetting as a phenomenon, th... Read More about Forgetting Follow.

Introduction: the rest is history (2014)
Book Chapter
Collins, C., & Caulfield, M. P. (2014). Introduction: the rest is history. In C. Collins, & M. P. Caulfield (Eds.), Ireland, memory and performing the historical imagination. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362186

If the past is a foreign country then it has been colonized. This is a book about lost histories and faded memories of Irish theatre and performance. Winners write history, no one remembers history’s so-called losers. Until now.