Dr. Lionel Pilkington B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
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Biography:
Books
| Pilkington, L. (2001) Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People. Routledge London and New York [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2010) Theatre & Ireland. : London: Palgrave. [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2011) Studies in Settler Colonialism: Identity, Politics and Culture. : Palgrave: London. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Pilkington, L. (2003) 'The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Theatre' In: Shaun Richards (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2004) 'Playboys of the Western World: Production Histories' In: Adrian Frazier (eds). Carysfort Press. [Details] |
| Pilkington, L., Ryder, S (2005) 'Was Ireland a Colony?' In: Terrence McDonough (eds). -. -: Irish Academic Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Pilkington, L. (1995) '[B.A. Distance Learning Textbook: contributor 4 chapter articles on 20th century'. theatre and drama, OSCAIL, National Distance Learning Centre, DCU, Dublin, . [Details] |
| PILKINGTON, L (1996) 'THEATRE AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN NORTHERN-IRELAND, THE 'OVER THE BRIDGE' CONTROVERSY, 1959'. Eire-Ireland, 30 :76-93. [Details] |
| Pilkington, L (1997) '''Every crossing sweeper thinks himself a moralist'': The critical role of audiences in Irish theatre history'. Irish University Review, 27 :152-165. [Details] |
| PILKINGTON, L. (2004) 'Historicising is not enough: Recent developments and trends in Irish theatre history'. MODERN DRAMA, 47 :721-731. [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2007) 'Trenchant Caution'. The Irish Review, 35 :162-165. [Details] |
Other Journals
| Pilkington, L. (2000) 'Review of Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000)' ROPES-Review of Postgraduate Studies :25-25. [Details] |
Conference Publications
| PILKINGTON, L. (1994) THEATER AND INSURGENCY IN IRELAND ESSAYS IN THEATRE-ETUDES THEATRALES , pp.129-140 [Details] |
Book Review
| PILKINGTON, L (1993) FOR THE LAND THEY LOVED, IRISH POLITICAL MELODRAMAS, 1890-1925 - HERR,C. Book Review [Details] |
| PILKINGTON, L (1995) JOYCE, OCASEY, AND THE IRISH POPULAR THEATER - WATT,S. Book Review [Details] |
| PILKINGTON, L (1996) CONTEMPORARY IRISH DRAMA, FROM BECKETT TO MCGUINNESS - ROCHE,A. Book Review [Details] |
| Pilkington, L (2004) Literature, partition and the nation state: Culture and conflict. Book Review [Details] |
| Pilkington, L (2005) Riotous performances: The struggle for hegemony in the Irish theater, 1712-1784. Book Review [Details] |
Conference Paper
| Pilkington, L. (1991) The Superior Game: Colonialism and the Stereotype in Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark. International Association for the Study of Irish Literature Conference. Leiden University, The Netherlands: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1992) The Border(s) in Irish Drama. American Conference for Irish Studies Conference. University College Galway: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1992) Performing Counter-Insurgency: Brian Friel and Bourgeois Nationalism. Gender and Colonialism Conference. University College Galway: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1992) Counter-Insurgency in the Plays of Brian Friel. International Association for the Study of Irish Literature Conference. Trinity College, Dublin: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1996) The Establishment and Ideology of “Literary” Theatre as an Irish National Institution, 1893-1913. Ideology and Ireland in the 19th Century Conference. UCG, Galway: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1997) Raymond Williams and Irish Theatre History. Red Stripe Conference: The British Left and Ireland. NUI, Maynooth: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1998) Irish Theatre Historiography. Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference. San Antonio, Texas: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1999) Colonial Status and Ireland’s National Theatre Project. Defining Colonies: Third Galway Conference on Colonialism. NUI, Galway: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1999) Postmodernism and the Cultural Politics of the Irish Literary . Theatre.’ Theatre in a Postmodern World Conference, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 10 April 1999. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2000) Anti-Catholicism and Literary Value: the Case of Yeats’s The Countess Cathleen (1899). ESSE Conference Helsinki. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2001) Murphy, history and society: from A Whistle in the Dark to Famine. Talking about Murphy symposium. Trinity College Dublin: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2001) Anti-Catholicism and the Plays of J. M. Synge. Spanish Association for Irish Studies Conference Burgos, Spain. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2003) Denominational ssumptions in Irish Cultural History: Problems for Critical Analysis. Identity and Cultural Diversity in Irish Writing Conference. Trinity College Dublin: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2003) Nation Building and Theatre in Post-Independence Ireland, 1922-33 , Conditions of Criticism: Models for Irish Theatre Today. TCD and Irish Theatre Magazine academic symposium TCD. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2003) The People Dancing: Irish Cultural Utopias in the 1930s. 4th International Utopian Studies Conference Universidad Europea de Madrid. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2004) The Pike Theatre on Tour. Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Re-thinking Irish Cultural History: Performing Protest in the 1980s. The First Ralahine Conference on Utopian Studies, ‘Exploring the Utopian Impulse’ University of Limerick. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Performance and Memory in Irish Cultural History. Symposium on Cross-Cultural, Intercultural and Postcolonial Theatre Unpublished University of London, Royal Holloway College. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2007) Modernity, Modernism and Moving Statues: Ireland, 1985. ‘Irish Modernism Conference’ Trinity College Dublin. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2007) Moving things in Ireland. ‘Real Things: Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the Present’ The University of York. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2008) Theatre, Performance and Irish Cultural History. New Voices Conference University College, Cork. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2009) The Superior Game: Colonialism and the Stereotype in Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark. International Association for the Study of Irish Literature Conference, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Conference Paper [Details] |
Editorial
| PILKINGTON, L,BARONCOHEN, D (1994) BARON-COHEN,DAN - RESISTANCE TO LIBERATION WITH DERRY-FRONTLINE CULTURE AND EDUCATION - AN INTERVIEW. Editorial [Details] |
Invited papers
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Rethinking 'the traditional' in Irish Cultural History. 'Revivals and Histories: Irish Criticism--its Past and Futures' Conor McCarthy Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin. Invited papers [Details] |
Media
| Pilkington, L. (2007) Television documentary on Charles Haughey. Media [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2009) 2009 Invited Participant: Consultative Forum on the Humanities, HEA, Dublin. Media [Details] |
Pilkington, L. (2010) 2010 TEDx video podcast.11 June 2010. Broadcast on Performing, Performance and Ireland. 8th Galway Symposium on Creativity and Higher Education. CELT, NUI Galway: Media [Details] |
Newspaper Articles
| Pilkington, L. (2000) Observe the Plays of Ireland, Review of Nicholas Grene’s The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel. The Sunday Tribune, 9. Newspaper Articles [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2004) Abbey Stage is no place to be doing business. Irish Examiner. Newspaper Articles [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Taking Action and Thinking Theatre. Village Magazine (in conjunction with Field Day). Newspaper Articles [Details] |
Other Item
| Pilkington, L. (1990) Killing the Barbarians: A Short Reading of Othello. Stet. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1990) Violence and Identity in Northern Ireland: Graham Reid’s The Death of Humpty Dumpty. Modern Drama. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1990) Language and Politics in Brian Friel’s Translations. Irish University Review. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1995) Gender and Colonialism. Galway: Galway University Press. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1995) The Superior Game”: Colonialism and the Stereotype in Tom Murphy’s . A Whistle in the Dark’, in C. C. Barfoot and Risas van den Doel, (eds), Ritual Remembering: History, Myth and Politics in Anglo-Irish Drama (Amsterdam: Rodopi. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1998) Irish Theater History and Political Resistance. Staging Resistance: Essays on Political Theater. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1998) Questioning Irish Protestantism. Graph: Irish Cultural Review. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1999) Round table discussion. ‘Protestant Identity in Ulster Now,’Cultures of Ireland/Cultúir na hÉireann closed conference. Dún Laoghaire: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington,L. (2000) Theatre History and the Beginnings of the Irish National Theatre Project. Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre. Dublin: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2002) Etexts and Archives (Roundatable contribution), Journal of Victorian Culture. Reinventing Ireland: Culture and the Celtic Tiger. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2002) Murphy, History and Society: A Response. Talking About Murphy. Dublin: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2003) The Abbey Theatre and the Irish State. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Theatre. Cambridge: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L., Bateman, F., Hoare, K. (2003) 75 Years of Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe. James Hardiman Library, NUI, Galway: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2003) The Future of Irish Studies. REA 3. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L (2004) The Abbey Theatre and the Irish State. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Cambridge: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2004) The Playboy of the Western World as Cultural Event. Playboys of the Western World: Production Histories. Dublin: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Theatre and Colonialism in Ireland. Was Ireland a Colony?. Dublin: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2006) Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel. The Blackwells Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama. Oxford: Basil Blackwell: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2006) Islands. Programme note for La Tempête by William Shakespeare. Dublin Theatre Festival: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2007) The “folk” and Irish Theatre: Re-Reading J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Autumn 2006/Winter 2007. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2007) Uninhabited Ireland: Tara, the M3 and Public Spaces in Galway. Two essays by Conor Newman and Ulf Strohmayer. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2007) Uninhabited Ireland. Introduction by Lionel Pilkington, Terry McDonough and Áine Ní Léime, Ibid. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L., Lillian Chambers (2008) Theatre, Sexuality, and the State: Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007’. Dublin: Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2009) Killing Miss Gwilt’s Double: Collins’s Dramatic Adaptation of Armadale. Mariaconcetta Costantini, Armadale: Wilkie Collins and the Dark Threads of Life (Studi di Anglistica, 17) (Rome: Aracne, 2009). Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2010) The Most Unpopular Man in Ireland: P.D. Kenny, J. M. Synge and Irish Cultural History. Irish Review. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2010) At a loss for words: Theatre, Performance and the Northern Ireland Prison Protests. Kritika Kultura: A refereed electronic journal of literary/cultural and language studies. Other Item [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2010) Moving Statues in Ireland: Theatre, nation and problems of agency. Theâtre et nation. Other Item [Details] |
Reviews
| Pilkington, L. (1990) Short Stories Re-membered, review of A Noise from the Woodshed . Onlywoman Press, 1989) in Graph: Irish Literary Review 8 (Summer 1990) 28-9. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1991) The State Line Review of Without Power, by Thomas MacCarthy (Dublin:Poolbeg Press, 1991) . Graph: Irish Literary Review. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1992) Cultural Politics in Rehearsal’, Review of Johannes Birringer’s Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992). Times Higher Educational Supplement. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1993) Review of For the Land they Loved: Irish Political Melodramas, 1890-1925 . (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991) in Essays in Theatre/ Études Théâtrales 11.2 (May 1993) 196-8. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1994) Defenders of the Faith, Review of Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders, by Vivian Mercier (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) . Times Higher Education Supplement. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1998) Imagining a Minority: Protestants and Irish Cultural Politics. Graph: Irish Cultural Review. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1999) An Awareness of Place: Review of Edward Said, Out of Place: A Memoir . (Granta Books, 1999) in The Sunday Tribune [People and Review section] 26 September. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2000) Irish Drama and its Contexts. The Irish Review. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2000) Review of Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge (Weidenfeld and Nicolson,2000) . ROPES-Review of Postgraduate Studies. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2001) Review of Mary Trotter, Ireland’s National Theatres: Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001) . Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal. Reviews [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2003) From Big House to People’s Park. Irish Arts Review. Reviews [Details] |
Workshops
| Pilkington, L. (1993) Representing “the Troubles” in Irish Theatre. Irish Theatre Archive Conference. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1993) Containing Insurgency in Irish Drama. Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference. Philadelphia: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1994) Irish Political Theatre After Shaw. Bernard Shaw 2nd International School. Dublin: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1995) Theatre and Nationalism in Ireland. Barcelona: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1996) The Impact of Critical Theory on Irish Studies. Department of English Faculty Seminar. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1997) Imperialism and Literary Culture. Postgraduate Seminar. Department of English, University of Barcelona, Spain: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1998) The Politics of the Irish National Theatre Movement. Irish Studies Programme. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (1999) Mary Carbery’s West Cork Journals, Ascendancy Ireland and the Irish Literary Revival, c. 1900. Rosscarbery Art and Literature Weekend. Rosscarbery, Co.Cork: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2001) Culture and Discrimination. Galway Centre for the Unemployed Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI, Galway. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2001) P.D. Kenny as a social and cultural critic. P.D. Kenny Winter School Aghamore, Co. Mayo. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2001) 100 years of Irish Theatre. NUI, Galway Arts Week, Galway. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2001) Synge and the Politics of Irish Unionism. Synge Summer School. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2001) The Shadows of Gunmen: Irish theatre and political revolution. Irish Writers’ Centre Dublin. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2002) Breaking Icons: Protest and Politics in Irish Theatre. The Martha Fox Lecture in Irish Studies Irish Cultural Centre, Boston and Fordheim University, New York. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2002) Theatre and Politics in Canada: Revisiting Irish Theatre History. The Celtic Arts of Canada Lecture, Canadian Association of Irish Studies University of Toronto at Missausagua, Canada. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2002) Heritage and Cultural Identity. Roscommon Arts Centre Roscommon. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2002) Iconoclasm in Irish Theatre. Department of English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2002) Ireland and the problem of History. Carnegie Library Centre East Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2002) Theatre and Agency in Post-Independence Ireland: the case of Teresa Deevy. Irish Studies Research Group Senate House, University of London. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2003) The Mahony Boatbuilding Store: Castletownshend, Buildings and Cultural Memory. Castletownshend Maritime Week Co. Cork. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2004) An Ideological History of the Abbey Theatre. Parnell Summer School Avondale, Co.Wicklow. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2004) The Playboy of the Western World in 1907. Focus on Synge Lecture Series Druid Theatre Company and Galway Arts Centre. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2004) Theatrical Performance and Political Agency: Brian Friel’s Translations and Republican Militancy in Northern Ireland. Drama and Performance Seminar Series Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Subversion and Performance: Public Dancing in 1930s Ireland. UCD Drama Studies Centre Research Seminar UCD. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Theatre Audiences and Peasant Communities. Department of Drama Trinity College Dublin, Dublin. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel. Department of English and Related Literature The University of York. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel. Department of English and Related Literature, The University of York: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2005) Breaking the Nose of the Cockshot Man: Performance and Agency in Irish Theatre. Theatre and Performance Research Association University of Manchester. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2007) Ireland, 1985. Guest Lecture, Department of English NUI, Maynooth. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2007) The Rose Tattoo at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957. Dublin Theatre Festival, Project Arts Centre. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2008) Theatre and Social Control in 20th Century Ireland. IFTR Historiography Working Group Ljubljiana, Slovenia. Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2009) Theatre and Nation: the theatrical creation and staging of national identities. Université du Maine, Le Mans, France: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2009) The Wildlife of West Cork. Maritime Week. Castletownshend, Co. Cork: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2009) J.M. Synge and Ireland’s Performance Culture. Synge Summer School. Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow: Workshops [Details] |
| Pilkington, L. (2009) Ideas of Performance in Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Aberdeen, Scotland: Workshops [Details] |

