Deviant Acts
Essays on Queer Performance
Edited by David Cregan

This book contains an exciting collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. Diversity has always been a 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 analyzing everything from the drag scene in Dublin to the Gay Pride Parades in Belfast.

April 2010, 5½ x 8½, 260 pages (Carysfort)
ISBN 978-1-904505-42-6 Paper $39.95

Performing Violence
in Contemporary Ireland
Edited by Lisa Fitzpatrick

This interdisciplinary collection of fifteen new essays explores aspects of the performance of violence in contemporary Ireland. These essays investigate such wide-ranging issues as the diegetic and mimetic representation of violence on stage, ethical questions involved in performing violence, audience reception, the role of place and space, and social and political performances such as processions, parades, and commemorations. The book aims to contribute to the ongoing international debate on the performance of violence in contemporary societies.

April 2010, 5½ x 8½, 260pp (Carysfort)
ISBN 978-1-904505-44-0 Paper $39.95

Only an Apple
Tom MacIntyre

Only an Apple is a lusty and disquieting play of an ailing playboy Taoiseach. On the brink of being overthrown by upstart Government Chief Whip McPhrunty, the Taoiseach must act fast. Enter surprise guests - Queen Elizabeth the First and Grace O’Malley. The brazen administrations of these fantasy creatures wreak havoc among the men. Are these women sexual playthings or more sinister messengers of fate? Only an Apple, takes us on a characteristically mischievous and theatrical journey between our world and that of the imagination.

Praise for MacIntyre’s previous work:
“MacIntyre is one of Ireland’s strongest and most individual voices.”—Booklist

2009, 5½ x 8½, 100 pages (New Island Books)
ISBN 978-1-84840-034-4 Paper $22.95

The Quiet Man…and Beyond
Reflections on a Classic Film:
John Ford & Ireland
Edited by Seán Crosson & Rod Stoneman

This book involves both critical analysis of aspects of The Quiet Man as myth, commodity, and fetish and the celebration of a film that has sustained considerable academic attention and popular appreciation since its release in 1952. Among the topics considered are the complexity of the film’s relation to Ireland, Irish literature, and to John Ford’s other films; its perceived place with regard to indigenous Irish cinema; and the phenomenon of its circulation and reception as a cult film over the years.

2009, 5½ x 8½, 280 pages (Liffey)
ISBN 978-1-905785-56-8 Paper $31.95