David Clare

Department Drama and Theatre Studies

Profile URL https://maryimmaculate.academia.edu/DavidClare

Orcid ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9617-6294

Research Interests Irish Drama and Theatre
Irish Protestant Identities
Irish Women's Writing
Irish Diaspora
Irish Film and Television
Twentieth-Century Irish Short Fiction
Irish Popular Music
Canon Formation

Courses Taught in Irish Studies At Mary Immaculate College, UL: "Contemporary Irish Theatre 1", "Contemporary Irish Theatre 2", "Literature and Drama of the 'Long' EIghteenth Century",* "Performance and Music"* and "Writing for Theatre"*

Previously, at NUI Galway: "Beckett on Page and Stage", "C.S. Lewis and Irish Children's Literature", "Studies in Modern Irish Literature", "Irish Drama from Wilde to O'Casey", and "Theatre and Globalization"*

Previously, at University College Dublin: "Memory and the Irish Stage", "Victorian to Modern Literature",* and "Twentieth-Century Drama"*

*While the starred module titles might not seem explicitly related to Irish Studies, the assigned texts were predominantly Irish.

Institutional Affiliation Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick

Dr. David Clare is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He previously held two Irish Research Council-funded postdoctoral fellowships at NUI Galway (now University of Galway). His books include the monographs Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Irish Anglican Literature and Drama: Hybridity and Discord (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and Ireland in the Life and Work of C.S. Lewis (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) and the edited collections The Gate Theatre, Dublin: Inspiration and Craft (Carysfort/Peter Lang, 2018), The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716-2016 (2 vols., Liverpool UP, 2021), and Jonathan Swift: Across Borders and Time (SPECHEL, 2022). Dr. Clare is curator of the IRC-funded www.ClassicIrishPlays.com database.

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