Navigating Ireland's Theatre Archive

Barry Houlihan is an archivist at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway, and teaches Irish theatre history at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway. He holds a PhD on Irish theatre and social engagement. His research interests include theatre historiography, political and social theatre, archival and cultural theory and digital humanities. He is also a project team member of the Abbey Theatre and Gate Theatre Digital Archive Projects.

• CONTENTS: Barry Houlihan: Introduction: The Potential of the Archive – Cillian Joy/Tricia O’Beirne: The Abbey Theatre Minute Book Transcription Project: Digitally Reading the Administrative Record of Irish Theatre –Ciara Conway: Staging Absence for Digital Historiography: Feminist Irish Theatre – Martin Bradley/John Cox: The Abbey Theatre Archive Digitisation Project at NUI Galway: Delivering Mass Digitisation of a Multimedia Archive with Positive Academic and Library Impact – Freya Clare Smith/Hugh Denard: Digitally Re-envisioning Lost Theatre Spaces: Dublin’s Theatre Royal – Barry Houlihan: «Creatures of his Imagination»: The Becoming of Plays and the Archive of Thomas Kilroy – Emer McHugh: A Shared Language: Placing and Displacing Shakespeare in the Irish National Theatrical Repertoire – Ruud van den Beuken: «Three cheers for the Descendancy!»: Middle-Class Dreams and (Dis)illusions in Mary Manning’s Happy Family (1934) – Brenda Donohue: Women and the Archive: What Vision of the Present Will Be Preserved for the Future? – Anne Etienne: «I Remember»; «I Forget»; «I Can’t Forget»: Oral History, the Archive and Remembering Corcadorca’s The Merchant of Venice – Conor O’Malley: Performing the Troubles at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 1969–1981 – Kieran Cronin/Elizabeth Howard: Identity, Legacy and the Official: Power Relations of the Documented and Undocumented in the Red Kettle Theatre Company Archive – Colin Murphy: Sometimes the Archive Lies – David Clare: Compiling a New Composite Draft of J. M. Synge’s When the Moon Has Set.

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