This book contains an exciting collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. While it highlights the particular representations of gay and lesbian identity it also brings to light how diversity has always been part of Irish culture and is, in fact, shaping what it means to be Irish today. Inside there are provocative chapters from scholars, theatre producers, and theatre artists from around the world analysing everything from the drag scene in Dublin to the Gay Pride Parades in Belfast. Cathleen Ni Houlihan will never be the same!

CONTENTS: Eibhear Walshe: Queering Oscar: Versions of Wilde on the Irish Stage and Screen – Kathryn Conrad: The Politics of Camp: Queering Parades, Performance, and the Public in Belfast – Mária Kurdi: Lesbian Versions of the Female Biography Play: Emma Donoghue’s and – Fintan Walsh: Touching, Feeling, Cross-dressing: On the Affectivity of Queer Performance. Or, What Makes Panti Fabulous – Michael Patrick Lapointe: Edward Martyn’s Theatrical Hieratic Homoeroticism – Brian Merriman: The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival – Niall Rea: Sexuality and Dysfuntional City: Queering Segregated Space – Samuele Grassi: Gender as Performance in the Works of Glasshouse Producions, Dublin – Todd Barry: Queer Wanderers, Queer Spaces: Dramatic Devices for Re-imagining Ireland – Charlotte McIvor: « on « : Queering the «Irish Question» for Global Film Audiences – Kathleen A. Heininge: Living by the Code: Authority in The Gay Detective – David Cregan: «There’s Nothing Queer Here»: The Abbey Theatre and the Problem of Practice.