Contents

Foreword
Teresa Deevy: A Journey of Discovery

Marjorie Brennan

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Teresa Deevy: Life, Scholarship, Practice

Úna Kealy and Kate McCarthy

ACCESS AND ARCHIVES

1. ‘Why Would Anyone Be Interested in My Old Aunt Teresa?’:
Illuminating Teresa Deevy’s Legacy

Eileen Kearney

2. The Teresa Deevy Archive and the Development of
Collections and Curation in Maynooth University Library

Hugh Murphy

3. TSI: Teresa Deevy, or What Do We Know about [The] Reapers?

Shelley Troupe

4. Mysteries of the Teresa Deevy Archive:
Reconsidering the plays of D.V. Goode

Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin Mitchell

DEEVY’S IRELAND: A COUNTRY IN CONTEXT

5. ‘Very Seldom Are Messages Properly Given’:
Teresa Deevy’s Dark Matter

Chris Morash

6. ‘I Must Just Make an Opening Elsewhere’:
Teresa Deevy’s Involvement with Studio Theatre Practice,
1934–1958

Úna Kealy and Kate McCarthy

7. ‘It Is Myself I Seen in Her’:
Points of Departure in Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935)

Willy Maley

DRAMATURGY, GENRE, AND THEORY

8. Finding Money in the Walls: Uncovering the Feminist Power of Teresa Deevy’s Dramaturgy through an Embodied, Practice-Based Approach

Ann M. Shanahan

9. Becoming a Domesticated Irish Woman: Teresa Deevy’s
Critique of Idealised Representations
of Womanhood in Katie Roche

Dayna Killen and Úna Kealy

10. The Liminal Space of Widowhood
in Teresa Deevy’s Wife to James Whelan (1937)

Christa de Brún

PRODUCTIONS AND PRACTITIONERS

11. Teresa Deevy’s Katie Roche:
Art, Culture, and Performance

Cathy Leeney

12. Teresa Deevy and Contemporary Performance Practice:
Edited Transcript of Teresa Deevy Practitioner Panel Discussion

Jonathan Bank, Caroline Byrne, Amanda Coogan, and Lianne Quigley

13. ‘You Can Feel the Change in the Air’:
Reflecting on Talk Real Fine, Just Like a Lady,
a Shapeshifting of Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter

Amanda Coogan, Alvean Jones, and Lianne Quigley

Index

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