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)