Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland Dissent and Disorientatio

This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.

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Contemporary Performance InterActions Series Editors: Elaine Aston, Lancaster University Brian Singleton, Trinity College Dublin Editorial Advisory Board: Khalid Amine, Bishnupria Dutt, Mark Fleishman, Janelle Reinelt, Freddie Rokem, Joanne Tompkins, Harvey Young Theatre’s performative InterActions with the politics of sex, race and class, with questions of social and political justice, form the focus of the Contemporary Performance InterActions series. Performative InterActions are those that aspire to affect, contest or transform. International in scope, Contemporary Performance Interactions publishes monographs and edited collections dedicated to the InterActions of contemporary practitioners, performances and theatres located in any world context. Published titles: Joanne Tompkins THEATRE’S HETEROTOPIAS Performance and the Cultural Politics of Space Forthcoming titles include: Alyson Campbell & Stephen Farrier (editors) QUEER DRAMATURGIES International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer Des O’Rawe & Mark Phelan (editors) POST-CONFLICT PERFORMANCE, FILM AND VISUAL ARTS Cities of Memory Sarah French PERFORMING POSTFEMINISMS Sexuality and Gender Politics in Contemporary Australian Theatre and Performance Charlotte McIvor MIGRATION AND PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND Towards a New Interculturalism Nobuko Anan CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE WOMEN’S PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL ARTS Playing with Girls Contemporary Performance InterActions Series Standing Order ISBN 978–1–137–35987–2 Hardback 978–1–137–45593–2 Paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and one of the ISBNs quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England

Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland Dissent and Disorientation Fintan Walsh Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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