Christopher Morash



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Research Interests

  • Irish theatre history from the 17th century to the present
  • History of the forms through which knowledge has been mediated in Ireland, extending from print, through performance, cinema, radio, television and the Internet

Select Publications

  • Writing the Irish Famine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Winner of Theatre Book Prize.
  • A History of Irish Media, 1550-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Research Students

  • Denis Condon, Early Irish cinema, including its links with theatre.
  • Anna Broad, Shelah Richards, Nora Lever and Ria Mooney
  • Lynne Kinlon, Ethnographic research on contemporary Irish theatre companies
  • Michael Connolly, Representations of Northern Loyalism (including theatre)