Cultural Convergence

Ondřej Pilný is Professor of English and American Literature and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. His publications include The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama (2016) and Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama (2006).Ruud van den Beuken is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He was awarded the 2015 ISTR New Scholars’ Prize and his publications include Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1940 (2020).Ian R. Walsh is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway, Ireland. His publications include Experimental Irish Theatre: After W.B. Yeats (2012) and The Theatre of Enda Walsh (2015), co-edited with Mary Caulfield.

• 1. Introduction: Cultural Convergence at Dublin’s Gate Theatre; Ondřej Pilný (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic), Ruud van den Beuken (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Ian R. Walsh (NUI Galway, Ireland).- 2. The Internationalist Dramaturgy of Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir; Joan FitzPatrick Dean (University of Missouri – Kansas City, USA) and Radvan Markus (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic).- 3. Gearóid Ó Lochlainn: The Gate Theatre’s Other Irish-speaking Founder; Pádraig Ó Siadhail (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada).- 4. The Transnational Roots of Key Figures from the Early Years of the Gate Theatre, Dublin; David Clare (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland) and Nicola Morris (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland).- 5. The Other Gates: Anglo-American Influences on and from Dublin; Charlotte Purkis (University of Winchester, UK).- 6. The Brothers Čapek at the Gate: R.U.R. and The Insect Play; Ondřej Pilný (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic).- 7. Kismet: Hollywood, Orientalism and the Design Language of Padraic Colum’s Mogu of the Desert; Elaine Sisson (IADT, Dublin, Ireland).- 8. Prussian Discipline and Lesbian Vulnerability: Christa Winsloe’s Children in Uniform at the Gate; Yvonne Ivory (University of South Carolina, USA).- 9. ‘We belong to the world’: Christine Longford’s War Plays during Irish Neutrality; Erin Grogan (Texas Tech University, USA).