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Patrick lonergan

Course Director - BA in Drama, Theatre and Performance (GY118), MA in Drama and Theatre Studies, and the BA Connect with Theatre and Performance (GY115). If you have queries about these programmes, please email patrick.lonergannuigalway.ie or phone +353 91 49 2631.

About

I am a graduate of University College Dublin and National University of Ireland, Galway. I am academic director of the Synge Summer School, a board member of Irish Theatre Magazine, and a theatre evaluator for the Irish Arts Council.

I am active in many scholarly organisations, acting as Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), and an executive member of the Irish Society for Theatre Research and the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project.

I have lectured on Irish literature in many countries, including Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, the U.S. and the UK. Most recently I was one of the keynote speakers at the 2010 IASIL conference ( podcast available here)

Research Interests

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students in any of the following areas: Globalization and literature (esp. drama), modern drama, Anglo-Irish literature and drama, Shakespeare and Ireland. J.M. Synge.

I have recently completed two funded IRCHSS projects, on the Internationalisation of Irish Drama (2007-2010) and Shakespeare and Ireland (2008-10).

Teaching 2011/2012

2BA: EN265 Renaissance Drama

3BA: EN388 Modern Irish Literature

EN441: Plays, Players and Playhouses

EN433: Twentieth Century Drama

MADT: Reviewing Theatre in Ireland Today

Research Awards

European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Book Awards 2010. Best First Book in the Area of Cultural Studies for Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era.

Theatre Book Prize 2008. Awarded by the Society for Theatre Research (UK) for Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era. Award granted in April 2009.

PRTLI5: Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Research Building. One of eight principal investigators.

Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences – Research Development Initiative Award – “Shakespearean Performance in Dublin and Belfast, 1660 to 1904”. December 2008 – September 2010.

Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences – Major Project Grant Award – Associate Investigator, “Internationalization of Irish Drama, 1975-2005” – September 2007 – September 2010.

Government of Ireland Scholarship from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2001 – 2004)

Visiting Scholarship to University of California, Berkeley, August – December 2003

Selected Publications

Books

Patrick Lonergan, The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh. London: Methuen, 2012.

Patrick Lonergan, Theatre and Globalization – Irish Drama and the Celtic Tiger Era (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; reprinted in paperback in 2010).

Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan (editors), Irish Theatre – Local and Global Dimensions. Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series, Volume 4. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2011.

Patrick Lonergan (editor), Synge and His Influences – Centenary Essays from the Synge Summer School. Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2010.

Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan (editors), Interactions – the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957-2007 (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008).

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

Patrick Lonergan (editor) The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh. Methuen Student editions. London: Methuen, 2010. In press.

Patrick Lonergan (editor), The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh. Student Edition with notes and commentary. (London: Methuen, 2009).

Patrick Lonergan (ed). The Methuen Book of Modern Irish Drama. (London: Methuen, 2008).

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

’ “I Found it Out By the Bogs”: Reviewing Shakespeare in Ireland’, Shakespeare, Volume 6, number 3, September 2010.

“Anything But Stand Still: The Theatre of Billy Roche” Ilha de Desterro. Special Issue on Contemporary Irish Drama. 2010.

“Rethinking Anti-Irish Stereotypes – Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels and Victorian Prejudice”, New Hibernia Review, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2007, 116-129.

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

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

’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. Reprinted 2007 in Lilian Chambers and Eamonn Jordan (ed), A World of Savage Stories – the Theatre of Martin McDonagh (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2007)

“’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 Chapters in Books

“Martin McDonagh and the Ethics of Irish Storytelling”, in The Blackwell Companion to Irish Literature, ed Julia M Wright, 2010.

“Donal O’Kelly” in Contemporary Irish Drama: 25 Playwrights in Summary, Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer (eds.), Methuen, 2010.

“Irish Theatre and Globalization: A Faustian Pact?” in Mark Caball and Eamonn Maher (eds), Cultural Perspectives on Globalization in Ireland (Peter Lang, 2009).

“All We Say is Life is Crazy” – Central and Easter Europe and the Irish Stage’ in Maria Kurdi (ed), Literary and Cultural Relations Between Ireland and Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2009)

“ Dancing at Lughnasa in Dublin and New York”, in John Harrington (ed), Irish Theatre in America, Syracuse University Press 2009

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

“Hanif Kureishi’s Love in a Blue Time”, in D & M Macolm (eds), The Blackwell Companion to British and Irish Short Fiction, Blackwell, 2008.

“’Never Mind the Shamrocks’ – Globalising Martin McDonagh” in Richard R Russel (ed) Martin McDonagh: A Casebook, London: Routledge, 2007

“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, pp. 163-181.

“Laughter and Tragedy in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore”, in Patricia Trainor de la Cruz and Blanca Krauel Heredia (editors), Humour and Tragedy in Ireland, Universidad de Malaga Press, 2005, pp. 223-234.

“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.

“’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, 2004), pp. 217-28.

’Recent Irish Theatre: The Impact of Globalisation’ in Ronan Kelly and Fionnuala Dillane (eds), New Voices in Irish Criticism Volume 4, (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), pp. 19-29.

Editorial Roles

Methuen Critical Companions to Drama. Series Editor. 2010 –

Editorial Advisory Board, Irish University Review,

Editorial Advisory Board, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies

Editorial Advisory Board, Hungarian Journal for English and American Studies.

Editorial Advisory Board, Platform E-Journal (published by Royal Holloway Drama Studies)

Recent Journalism

Article. “A Dance into the Unknown: Irish Theatre in 2010”. Irish Theatre Magazine. Winter 2010.

Book Review. Arthur Miller After Monre: An Artist's Life in the Shade, Irish Times, March 2011.

Review. The Field by John B. Keane. Olympia Theatre. Irish Tehatre Magazine. 19 January 2011.

Review. Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, Gate Theatre. Irish Theatre Magazine May 2010.

Review. Faith Healer by Brian Friel, Gate Theatre. Irish Theatre Magazine, Online edition, February 2010.

Media Work

“Irish Voices: Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman”. Artworks. ABC Radio National. Sunday 10 June 2007. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/artworks/stories/2007/1945214.htm

Recent Invited Lectures and conference papers (selected)

Beyond Nations. Keynote address at “The Mirror Crack’d? New perspectives on the nation/performance relationship in Ireland and Québec”. A research workshop at University College Dublin, 20-21 April 2011

“Irish Drama Today: Through and Beyond a Global Crisis”. University of Vienna, March 2011.

Globalisation and Anglophone Literature Conference. University of Tours, France. Keynote Speaker. 22-23 October 2010.

“The Values of Irish Theatre”. IASIL Annual Conference, Maynooth, 30 July 2010. Keynote speaker.

“Anthony Trollope and Irish Nationalism”. Ireland in the Nineteenth Century Irish and English Novel. University of Rome & Irish Pontifical College. 15-17 March 2010. Invited Lecture.

“Irish Theatre After the Boom”, Charles University Prague, December 2009. Guest Lecture.

’“I do repent and yet I do despair” – Irish Theatre and Globalisation: A Faustian Pact?’, Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation in Ireland, UCD/ITT Conference, Newman House, May 2008. Invited Lecture.

’Irish Theatre and Eastern Europe’ Hungarian Society for Irish Studies Annual conference, September 2007. Keynote Address.

JM Synge – Three Lecture Series, Edinburgh International Festival 2005, 29-31 August 2005.

“Canadian drama in Ireland since 2000”– lecture, Canadian Association of Irish Studies Annual Conference, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 22-25 June 2005. Invited Lecture.

“Reviewing Shakespeare in Ireland”. Reviewing Shakespeare – the State of the Art. Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, September 2009.

“Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer and Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus”, IASIL conference, Porto, July 2008.

“American Drama at the Abbey Theatre, 1990-2007”, ACIS Annual Conference, New York, 16-20 April 2007.

“Intertextuality in the Irish Monologue”, IASIL Conference 2006, University of New South Wales, July 2006.

“ Dancing at Lughnasa in the USA”, Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference 2006, New York University, 27-28 April 2006.

“Citizen Artists in an Age of Globalization: Two Abbey Theatre Productions of The Plough and the Stars”, International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference, Washington DC, June-July 2005.

Research Groups – international

Member, Ireland-Quebec Research Group 2010-2011.

Member, Irish Theatrical Diaspora Research Group, 2008-present.

Conference Organisation, 2003-2010

Performing Shakespeare in Ireland, 1660-1922. Moore Institute, 3-4 September 2010. Organiser.

American Conference for Irish Studies, 2009 Annual Conference. NUI Galway, June 2009. Organising Committee member.

The Local and the Global in Contemporary Irish Theatre. The Sixth Annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference, April 2009. Organiser.

Interactions: The Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007, Project Arts Centre Dublin, 4 and 5 October 2007. Organising Committee member.

“Beckett at St Nicholas”, St Nicholas Cathedral Galway, November 2005. Organising Committee member. .

International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Conference 2004, National University of Ireland Galway, July 2004, Organising Committee member.

Critical Conditions – the Future of Irish Theatre Criticism, Liberty Hall, Dublin, October 2003. Organising Committee member.

Contact Information

Email: Patrick.Lonergannuigalway.ie

Post: English, School of Humanities, NUI Galway, Ireland.

English Department
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