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Patrick lonergan

Patrick Lonergan is a graduate of University College Dublin and National University of Ireland, Galway.

Current Roles

Ø Lecturer in English, NUI Galway.

Ø Theatre critic, irish theatre magazine, Irish Times.

Ø Vice-president, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Ø Board member, Irish Theatre Magazine.

Ø Editorial board, Irish University Review

Ø Editorial board, Hungarian Journal for English and American Studies

Ø Executive member, Irish Society for Theatre Research,

Ø National Organising committee, Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project.

Ø Academic director, Synge Summer School.

Contact Details & Office Hours

Email: patrick.lonergannuigalway.ie

Phone: +353 91 49 5609.

Post: Room 301, English, School of Humanities, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

Research Interests/Supervision

Contemporary theatre, globalization and literature, Shakespeare and Ireland, Irish literature and drama.

Teaching, 2009/2010

Ø First Year lecture course – Introduction to Drama

Ø Second Year Seminar - Shakespearean Tragedy

Ø Third Year Lecture Course - Modern Irish Literature

Ø MA in Drama and Theatre Studies – Irish Playwrights since the 1960s

Current Research Projects

Ø The Internationalisation of Irish Drama (1975-2005), funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. This project runs from 2007 to 2010. Full information will be available online on the project website - http://www.irishtheatricaldiaspora.org/ .

Ø Shakespearean Performance in Dublin and Belfast, 1660-1904, funded by the IRCHSS.

Ø In preparation: Irish Theatre – Local and Global Dimensions (edited collection, with Nicholas Grene), 2010.

Ø In preparation: J.M. Synge and Modern Irish Theatre – Centenary Essays (edited collection, 2010).

Selected Publications

Books

Ø Patrick Lonergan, Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Winner – Theatre Book Prize 2008.

Ø Patrick Lonergan (editor), The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays (August 2008)

Ø Patrick Lonergan and Nicholas Grene (editors), Interactions: A History of the Dublin Theatre Festival (October 2008)

Ø Patrick Lonergan and Riana O’Dwyer (editors), Echoes Down the Corridor: Irish Theatre – Past, Present and Future (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2007).

Ø Patrick Lonergan (editor) Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore Student Edition (Methuen, 2009)

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles

Ø "Dancing at Lughnasa in Dublin and New York", in John Harrington (ed), Irish Theatre in America, Syracuse, 2008.

Ø ’Rethinking Anti-Irish Stereotypes – Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels and Victorian Prejudice’, New Hibernia Review, Volume 11, 2007.

Ø "Régionalisation et mondialisation dans le théâtre irlandais depuis 1990", L’Annuaire théâtral, number 40, automne 2006, pp. 12-15 (translated from English by Sara Migneron)

Ø Too Dangerous to be Done? – Martin McDonagh’s Lieutenant of Inishmore’, Irish Studies Review, Volume 13, Number 1, February 2005, pp. 65-78.

Ø ’The Laughter Will Come of Itself; the Tears are Inevitable’: Martin McDonagh, Globalization and Irish Theatre Criticism" in Karen Fricker and Brian Singleton (eds), Irish Theatre Criticism, Special Issue of Modern Drama, Volume 47, Number 4, 2004.

Ø "’The Representation of Phineas Finn: Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels and Victorian Ireland’, Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume 32, Number 1, March 2004, pp. 137-48.

Selected articles and chapters in books.

Ø “Globalization and Theatre: A Faustian Pact” in Eamon Maher (ed) Cultural Perspectives on Globalization and Ireland. (Lang, 2009)

Ø "Globalizing National Theatre – Two Abbey Theatre Productions of O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars" in Karen Fricker and Ronit Lentin (eds) Performing Networks, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Ø "The Irish Short Story, 1880-1930", in D & M Macolm (eds), the Blackwell Companion to British and Irish Short Fiction, Blackwell, Forthcoming 2008.

Ø "Hanif Kureishi’s Love in a Blue Time", in D & M Macolm (eds), the Blackwell Companion to British and Irish Short Fiction, Blackwell, Forthcoming 2008.

Ø "Never Mind the Shamrocks: Globalizing Martin McDonagh" in Richard R Russel (ed) Martin McDonagh: A Casebook, Routledge, 2007.

Ø "Druid Theatre’s Leenane Trilogy on Tour", in Nicholas Grene and Christopher Morash (eds), Irish Theatre on Tour (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2005), pp. 193-213.

Ø "’The Sneering, Lofty Conception of What They Call Culture’ – Sean O’Casey, Popular Culture, and the Irish Revival" in James H Murphy & Elizabeth Taylor-Fitzsimons (eds), The Irish Revival Reappraised (Dublin: Four Courts Press), pp. 217-28.

Media Work

"Irish Voices - Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman" 10 June 2007, Artworks, ABC Australia.

Programme Notes for Plays

Ø Bisi Adigun, The Playboy of the Sunny South East. Waterford Youth Theatre, 2009.

Ø Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Town Hall Theatre Galway, 2006.

Ø Samuel Beckett's Not I. Impact Theatre Company, Limerick, 2006

Ø "Sharing the Experience", for Orestes, Shared Experience Theatre Company, Dublin Theatre festival production October 2006.

Ø "’Picking Up the Pieces’ – Telling Stories in Fragmenting Times" for Everyday, Corn Exchange Theatre Company, October 2006.

Ø JM Synge – Poet and Provocateur: Programme for Druid Theatre production of The Well of the Saints and The Tinker’s Wedding, Dublin Theatre Festival Official programme, October 2004.

Ø "JM Synge" for programme of Druid Theatre production of The Playboy of the Western World, January – April 2004.

Online Articles

Ø Druid Theatre and Synge, DruidSynge website, http://www.druidsynge.com/

Ø John Millington Synge in Kerry and Connemara, DruidSynge website, http://www.druidsynge.com/

Ø ’Globalization and Irish Theatre’ Irish Writers Centre Online Anthology of Irish Writing, http://www.writerscentre.ie/

Editing

Ø Dublin Theatre Festival 2007: Programmes Editor.

Ø Dublin Theatre Festival 2006: Programmes Editor for productions of Hedda Gabler (Schaubuhne Theatre), Empress of India (Druid), The Exonerated, Orestes (Shared Experience), The Vacationers (Omsk State Theatre), The Syringa Tree, Emilia Galotti (Deutsches Theatre), The Bonefire (Rough Magic), La Tempête (4AD), Aalst (Victoria), Rattledanddisappeared (Katrina Josef), Everyday (Corn Exchange), Product (Paines Plough)

Ø Dublin Theatre Festival Programme 2005. Editor of programmes for productions of I Am My Own Wife, Laurel & Hardy, Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, The Winter's Tale (Propeller) The Most Excellent & Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, The Bull (Fabulous Beast), Brontë (Shared Experience) White Star ( see image above). Tshepang, Battle of Stalingrad: A Requiem, White Cabin

Ø Irish theatre magazine Reviews Editor, Issue 22-30, Books Editor, issue 12-30.

Selected Journalism

Review. My Brilliant Divorce. Irish Times. 9 November 2007.
"Are We Ready for The Lieutenant of Inishmore?" Irish Times 22 August 2006, p. 12.
" ’A Loss that Makes Us Richer? – Report on the Cúirt International Festival of Literature’, The Irish Times, 29 April 2003
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2003/0106/1040226953841.html’, The Irish Times, 6 January 2003.
An Taidhbhearc na Gaillimhe, Cre Na Cille, Irish Times. 31 July 2006, p. 2
Enda Walsh, The Walworth Farce, Druid Theatre, Irish Times. 22 March, p. 14.
Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, Gate Theatre, Irish Theatre Magazine, number 26, spring 2006, pp. 110-112
Tom Murphy’s Alice Trilogy, Royal Court Theatre, irish theatre magazine, spring 2006, number 26 p 46-48
Patricia Burke Brogan, Requiem of Love. Town Hall, Galway. Irish Times, 24 November, p. 15.
Tom Mac Intyre’s What Happened Bridgie Cleary, Abbey Theatre, irish theatre magazine, number 24, Autumn 2005.
Donal O’Kelly’s The Cambria, irish theatre magazine, number 23, Summer 2005.
Colm Toibin’s Beauty in a Broken Place, Peacock Theatre, irish theatre magazine, number 21, Winter 2004.
Rough Magic’s Improbable Frequency, Dublin Theatre Festival 2004, irish theatre magazine, number 21, Winter 2004.
Ché Walker, Flesh Wound, Royal Court Theatre at the Galway Arts Festival, Irish Times, 22 July 2004
Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Orange Flower Water, Galway Arts Festival 2004, Irish Times, 22 July 2004
Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa, number 19, Gate Theatre Dublin in irish theatre magazine, Summer 2004
Marie Jones, The Blind Fiddler, Lyric Theatre Belfast, irish theatre magazine, number 17, Winter, 2003.
Barrabas’s Hurl, Galway Arts Festival, irish theatre magazine, number 17, Winter 2003.
Hilary Fannin, Doldrum Bay, Peacock Theatre Dublin, irish theatre magazine, number 16, Autumn 2003.
Declan Hughes, Shiver, Rough Magic Theatre, and Malachy McKenna, Tilsonburg, Focus Theatre Dublin, irish theatre magazine, number 15, Summer 2003.
Patricia Burke Brogan, Stained Glass at Samhain, Town Hall Theatre Galway, Irish Times, 2 November 2002.

Contact

patrick.lonergannuigalway.ie

English Department
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)91 493339; Fax: +353 (0)91 524102
E-mail: English Department
This page was last updated Tuesday, August 25, 2009