All Outputs (19)

Sean O'Casey in context (2025)
Book
Moran, J. (Ed.). (in press). Sean O'Casey in context. Cambridge University Press

Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. He is the most frequently performed playwright in the history of the Irish National Theatre, and his work is often revived onstage elsewhere. O'Casey is also widely studied in schools, colleges, an... Read More about Sean O'Casey in context.

Devon (2025)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (in press). Devon. In J. Moran (Ed.), Sean O'Casey in Context. Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Intermediality (2025)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. Intermediality. In B. Kent, & D. Kornhaber (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre. Cambridge University Press

Modern tragedy (2023)
Book
Moran, J. (2023). Modern tragedy. Bloomsbury Publishing

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century?

Partly motivated by... Read More about Modern tragedy.

Boucicault-O’Casey-Hansberry: Tracing a Line of Influence (2022)
Journal Article
Moran, J. (2022). Boucicault-O’Casey-Hansberry: Tracing a Line of Influence. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 49(2), 165–181. https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727221115038

In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway after a successful tour. This remarkable performance featured a black cast, and staged a generation that was beginning to find intellectual sources of race pride. By contrast,... Read More about Boucicault-O’Casey-Hansberry: Tracing a Line of Influence.

The Theatre of Fake News (2022)
Book
Moran, J. (2022). The Theatre of Fake News. Anthem Press

Modernists and the Theatre: The Drama of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf (2021)
Book
Moran, J. (2022). Modernists and the Theatre: The Drama of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Bloomsbury Publishing

Modernists and the Theatre is the first study to examine how theories of modernism intersect with those of the theatre within the works, philosophies and literary lives of six key modernist writers. Drawing on a wealth of unfamiliar archive material... Read More about Modernists and the Theatre: The Drama of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

Playlets (2021)
Book
Bernard Shaw, G. (2021). J. Moran (Ed.), Playlets. Oxford University Press

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

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... Read More about Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre.

Theatre (2018)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2018). Theatre. In A. Harrison (Ed.), D.H. Lawrence in context (131-140). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567862

Children of the revolution: 1916 in 2016 (2018)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2018). Children of the revolution: 1916 in 2016. In E. Weitz, & E. Jordan (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (866). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58588-2

During the 2016 centenary celebrations of the Easter Rising, one of the best-known images of the rebellion was the face of Seán Foster. His image appeared in numerous online articles; on RTÉ television over Easter weekend itself; and on a commemorati... Read More about Children of the revolution: 1916 in 2016.

The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials (2018)
Journal Article
Moran, J., & Cullen, F. (2018). The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials. Irish Studies Review, 26(4), 436-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2018.1514659

This paper examines the memorialisation of the Sherwood Foresters who fought during the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin. These men, from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the English midlands, suffered the greatest casualties of the British regiments... Read More about The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials.

Kate O'Brien in the theatre (2018)
Journal Article
Moran, J. (2019). Kate O'Brien in the theatre. Irish University Review, 48(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2018.0326

Class during the Irish Revolution: British soldiers, 1916, and the abject body (2017)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2017). Class during the Irish Revolution: British soldiers, 1916, and the abject body. In M. Pierse (Ed.), A history of Irish working-class writing (153-167). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316570425.010

Angel delight: Patrick Pearse and modernist experiment (2016)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2016). Angel delight: Patrick Pearse and modernist experiment. In R. Ní Gháirbhí, & E. McNulty (Eds.), Patrick Pearse and the Theatre. Four Courts Press

Irish theatre in Britain (2016)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2016). Irish theatre in Britain. In C. Morash, & N. Grene (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre. Oxford University Press

Lawrence's plays on the stage: an evolution from 2009 to 2016 (2016)
Journal Article
Moran, J. (2016). Lawrence's plays on the stage: an evolution from 2009 to 2016

Writing Lawrence’s plays: becoming a dramatist, 1885 to 1910 (2015)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2015). Writing Lawrence’s plays: becoming a dramatist, 1885 to 1910. In The theatre of D.H. Lawrence: dramatic modernist and theatrical innovator. Bloomsbury

The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence: Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator (2015)
Book
MORAN, J. (2015). The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence: Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator. Bloomsbury Publishing