1. FROM NATIONAL TO GLOBAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH THEATRE Maria Rosaria Coda

2. REVIVALISTS LADY GREGORY W.B. YEATS THE ABBEY THEATRE RURAL IRELAND TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE REACTING TO BRITISH STEREOTYPES

3. BRITISH STEREOTYPES OF IRISH PEASANTS PADDY “CHIMPANZEES” (Charles Kingsley 1860)

4. THE IMAGINARY PEASANT TRUTH AND NATURE ROMANTIC SPIRITUAL ANTIMATERIALISTIC IRISH TRADITION & LANGUAGE

5. POST-COLONIAL TIMES Plays concerned with promises, realities and disappointments of national independence Opening to multicultural issues (see analysis by Jochen Achilles of Friel’s Making History & Berry’s Preyers of Sherkin)

6. BRIAN FRIEL (1929) FIELD DAY THEATRE DONEGAL POST-COLONIAL ISSUES IN HIS PLAYS CULTURAL IDENTITY

7. DANCING AT LOUGHNASA NOSTALGIA INDUSTRIALIZATION CHANGING PLACE CHANGING CULTURE HUMAN NATURE

8. JOHN B. KEANE (1928) SOCIAL PROBLEMS CLASH OF VALUES TRANSFORMATION OF IRELAND RURAL SETTINGS

9. THE FIELD INDUSTRIALIZATION SMALL VILLAGE BULL MCCABE VALUES

10. MARTIN MCDONAGH (1970) BORN IN LONDON SUMMERS IN CONNEMARA DISTANCING

11. THE LONSOME WEST DESOLATE LAND FATHER WELSH OBJECTS THE CHURCH THE CELTIC TIGER

12. MARINA CARR (1964) MIDLAND SETTINGS MIDLAND ACCENT LANDSCAPE AS ACTOR FEMALE CHARACTERS

13. BY THE BOG OF CATS NATURE FAMILY DEPARTURE MOTIVE

14. ENDA WALSH (1967) VIOLENCE PARANOIA FARCE

15. THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM FARCE ANONYMOUS SETTING

16. CHATROOM VIRTUAL WORLD BULLYING GLOBAL TOPICS

17. IDENTITY ARE CULTURES NATURALLY NATIONAL? WHAT IS IDENTITY? WHAT IS NATURAL, WHAT IS JUST A CONSTRUCTION?

18. THANK YOU! CIAO!