The Irish Theatrical Diaspora in association with New York University hosted a conference on ‘Irish Theatre in America ' at Glucksman Ireland House on 27-28 April 2006, organised by John P. Harrington. Speakers included Mick Moloney, Christopher Berchild, Claire Gleitman, Deirdre McFeely, Gwen Orel, Peter Kuch, Lucy McDiarmid, Nicholas Grene, Patrick Lonergan, Joan Fitzpatick Dean, John Harrington, Christina Mahony, Belinda McKeon and Joseph Hurley.

Carysfort Press published the volume of essays, Irish Theatre on Tour , edited by Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash, as the first volume of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora series in June 2005. The book, arising out of the first ITD conference at the Royal Irish Academy in 2004, includes contributions from Seamus Heaney, Richard Cave , John P. Harrington, Anthony Roche, Peter Kuch, Adrian Frazier, Chris Morash, Helen Burke, Deirdre McFeely, Richard Pine, Melissa Sihra and Patrick Lonergan. For full details and order form see [link] http://www.carysfortpress.com.

Irish Theatre in England to be published by Carysfort Press, Dublin, is the volume of essays deriving from the two-day conference organised by Richard Cave and Ben Levitas at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2005. After an introduction by the editors, there follow essays by Cathy Leeney, Enrica Cerquoni, Carmen Szarbo, Elizabeth Schafer, Michael McAteer, Jerry Nolan, Peter Kuch, Wallace McDowell, Ben Levitas, Jonathan Statham, Tim Miles and Graham Saunders. An unusual feature of the volume will be a Chronological Table of all Irish Plays Produced in London since 1920, the product of a remarkable period of research by Peter Harris. This, the second volume in the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series, is now in print. Click HERE for more details.

The third volume of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora series, edited by John P. Harrington, based on the 2006 New York conference, is in the course of preparation and will be submitted for publication by Syracuse University Press in 2007. The contributors include Mick Moloney, Christopher Berchild, Claire Gleitman, Deirdre McFeely, Gwen Orel, Peter Kuch, Lucy McDiarmid, Nicholas Grene, Patrick Lonergan, Joan Fitzpatick Dean, John Harrington, Christina Mahony, Belinda McKeon and Joseph Hurley.