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Politics and Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland
author
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Harrington, John P.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558491961
print isbn13
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9781558491960
ebook isbn13
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9780585340746
language
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English
subject
Political plays, English--Northern Ireland--History and criticism, Theater--Political aspects--Northern Ireland--History--20th century, Politics and literature--Northern Ireland--History--20th century, English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism,
publication date
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1999
lcc
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PR8789.H38 1999eb
ddc
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941.60824
subject
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Political plays, English--Northern Ireland--History and criticism, Theater--Political aspects--Northern Ireland--History--20th century, Politics and literature--Northern Ireland--History--20th century, English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism,
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Politics and Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland
Edited by John P. Harrington and Elizabeth J. Mitchell
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Copyright 1999 by American Conference for Irish Studies All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America LC 98-32257 ISBN 1-55849-196-1 (cloth); 197-X (pbk.)
Designed by Dennis Anderson Set in Sabon Printed and bound by BookCrafters, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harrington, John P. Politics and performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland / edited by John P. Harrington and Elizabeth J. Mitchell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55849-196-1 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-197-X (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Political plays, English Northern Ireland History and criticism. 2. Theater Political aspects Northern Ireland History 20th century. 3. Politics and literature Northern Ireland History 20th century. 4. English drama Irish authors History and criticism. 5. Northern Ireland Politics and government. I. Mitchell, Elizabeth, 1943 . II. Title. PR8789.H38 1999 941.60824 dc21 98-32257 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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Contents
Introduction
John P. Harrington and Elizabeth J. Mitchell
1
Living in Interesting Times: Stewart Parker's Northern Star
Marilynn Richtarik
7
Music and Politics in Ireland: The Case of Loyalism
Bill Rolston
29
Still "No Surrender"?: New Loyalism and the Peace Process in Ireland
James White Mcauley
57
Playing Politics with Belfast's Charabanc Theatre Company
Helen Lojek
82
Policing and the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Roger Mac Ginty
103
Forgiving the Other Side: Social Identity and Ethnic Memories in Northern Ireland
Mchel D. Roe, William Pegg, Kim Hodges, & Rebecca A. Trimm
122
Brenton's The Romans in Britain and Rudkin's The Saxon Shore: Audience, Purpose, and Dramatic Response to the Conflict in Northern Ireland
Maureen S. G. Hawkins
157
Local Government and the Peace Process
William A. Hazleton
174
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Recontextualizing the Conflict: Northern Ireland, Television Drama, and the Politics of Validation
Jennifer C Cornell
197
Notes on Contributors
219
Index
223
Page 1
Introduction
John P. Harrington and Elizabeth J. Mitchell
Youngsters in Northern Ireland who exaggerate a hurt are apt to be urged by their parents to "Stop that playactin'!" The improper behavior of an acquaintance, especially one who has passed beyond earshot, may be demeaned in everyday conversation by the demand: "Did you see thon performance?" Despite a local wariness of contrived behavior, Northern Ireland's charged atmosphere of sectarian division encourages a considerable amount of dramatic political performance within, and about, its borders. Social and dramatic actors, in and out of the theater, give performances scripted to alter or confirm their particular definition of political reality. Paramilitary violence of the last thirty years has inflicted devastating casualties. In many instances, however, even that violence has been part of larger symbolic performances designed to preserve and consolidate contested political beliefs. As the essays in this volume show, in Northern Ireland the symbolic struggle continues both within and beyond the confines of the theater This, the second collection of essays from the American Conference for Irish Studies, brings together contributors from many disciplines, and from Northern Ireland, the United States, Canada, and England, to study the junctures of politics and performance in contemporary Northern Ireland.
Symbolic struggle is especially important during the current period of fragile cease-fires and governmental agreements in Northern Ireland. With the cessation of paramilitary action, more attention now focuses on symbolic performances. Handshakes and photographs with heads of state have additional symbolic power when political violence recedes. Government activity is not all symbolic, and other phenomena of critical importance such as economic development need to be considered in a comprehensive analysis of social and political life; nevertheless symbolic performance is a form of social action that has had special resonance in Northern Ireland. As Marilynn Richtarik notes in the first essay in this collection, at the end of the twentieth century, the
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