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Papers by Mary Caulfield

Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination, 2014

Constance Markievicz’s plays and journalistic prose created a dialogue betwixt Irishwomen involve... more Constance Markievicz’s plays and journalistic prose created a dialogue betwixt Irishwomen involved in the nation-building process both past and present. By employing different theatrical and rhetorical strategies, Markievicz revealed an alternative condition and potential for women and for Ireland. Her artistry in all its forms was a means to examine themes of insurgency and political strife as they relate to both Ireland and women’s efforts in Ireland. Markievicz’s reappropriation of memory, folklore, commemoration and the interweaving of Irish history with an imagined past created a revised living history for Ireland and the potential for a new cultural and political memory complete with women’s integral involvement, free from British subjugation.

Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination, 2014

The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. I... more The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.

Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination, 2014

The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. I... more The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.

Theatre Research International, 2011

Women as playwrights, directors, designers and actors have played an indisputably integral part i... more Women as playwrights, directors, designers and actors have played an indisputably integral part in cultivating the theatrical landscapes of Ireland, but their work, however, has largely been overlooked. That said, this is not a new lament: the last twenty years of Irish theatre scholarship have sought to redress this gender imbalance by looking to women's involvement in the ‘imagining’ of the Irish nation. Colm Tóibín'sLady Gregory's Toothbrush(Lilliput Press, 2002) famously confirmed Augusta Gregory's co-authorship (with W. B. Yeats) ofKathleen ni Houlihan(1902). C. L. Innes's widely knownWomen and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880–1935(The University of Georgia Press, 1993), shed light on the ideologies behind the iconography of Mother Ireland, and Mary Trotter'sIreland's National Theaters: Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement(Syracuse University Press, 2001) revealed the impact of Maud Gonne and the all-women ...

This article analyses how the Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street in Lower Manhattan uses immers... more This article analyses how the Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street in Lower Manhattan uses immersive techniques to provide visitors with an opportunity to engage with nineteenth- and early twentieth-century immigrant experiences. My specific focus is the apartment tour entitled, Irish Outsiders, a living history installation curated as part of the Museum’s Hard Times exhibit that recreates the cramped apartment of Joseph and Bridget Moore, real-life residents of 97 Orchard Street in 1869. The Moores left an Ireland traumatized by the Great Famine only to arrive at the challenges of New York City immigrant living. This immersive recreation of Joseph and Bridget Moore’s apartment staged for a Catholic wake links this specific Irish immigrant experience with that of loss, suffering, poverty and trauma. Drawing on Alison Landsberg’s concept of ‘prosthetic memory’ alongside frameworks of heritage performance, this article examines the Irish Outsiders as an immersive performance curated t...

Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away

Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination, 2014

Constance Markievicz’s plays and journalistic prose created a dialogue betwixt Irishwomen involve... more Constance Markievicz’s plays and journalistic prose created a dialogue betwixt Irishwomen involved in the nation-building process both past and present. By employing different theatrical and rhetorical strategies, Markievicz revealed an alternative condition and potential for women and for Ireland. Her artistry in all its forms was a means to examine themes of insurgency and political strife as they relate to both Ireland and women’s efforts in Ireland. Markievicz’s reappropriation of memory, folklore, commemoration and the interweaving of Irish history with an imagined past created a revised living history for Ireland and the potential for a new cultural and political memory complete with women’s integral involvement, free from British subjugation.

Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination, 2014

The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. I... more The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.

Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination, 2014

The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. I... more The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.

Theatre Research International, 2011

Women as playwrights, directors, designers and actors have played an indisputably integral part i... more Women as playwrights, directors, designers and actors have played an indisputably integral part in cultivating the theatrical landscapes of Ireland, but their work, however, has largely been overlooked. That said, this is not a new lament: the last twenty years of Irish theatre scholarship have sought to redress this gender imbalance by looking to women's involvement in the ‘imagining’ of the Irish nation. Colm Tóibín'sLady Gregory's Toothbrush(Lilliput Press, 2002) famously confirmed Augusta Gregory's co-authorship (with W. B. Yeats) ofKathleen ni Houlihan(1902). C. L. Innes's widely knownWomen and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880–1935(The University of Georgia Press, 1993), shed light on the ideologies behind the iconography of Mother Ireland, and Mary Trotter'sIreland's National Theaters: Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement(Syracuse University Press, 2001) revealed the impact of Maud Gonne and the all-women ...

This article analyses how the Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street in Lower Manhattan uses immers... more This article analyses how the Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street in Lower Manhattan uses immersive techniques to provide visitors with an opportunity to engage with nineteenth- and early twentieth-century immigrant experiences. My specific focus is the apartment tour entitled, Irish Outsiders, a living history installation curated as part of the Museum’s Hard Times exhibit that recreates the cramped apartment of Joseph and Bridget Moore, real-life residents of 97 Orchard Street in 1869. The Moores left an Ireland traumatized by the Great Famine only to arrive at the challenges of New York City immigrant living. This immersive recreation of Joseph and Bridget Moore’s apartment staged for a Catholic wake links this specific Irish immigrant experience with that of loss, suffering, poverty and trauma. Drawing on Alison Landsberg’s concept of ‘prosthetic memory’ alongside frameworks of heritage performance, this article examines the Irish Outsiders as an immersive performance curated t...

Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away