Queer Notions

This is a very exciting collection which will make a vital contribution to literature on Irish theatre and drama studies. It will also greatly help in documenting the rich challenging and vibrant nature of LGBTQ culture in Ireland. Perhaps most importantly it should provoke and entertain a wide audience ~Ivana Bacik Senator and Reid Professor of Law Tr

Queer Notions then is more than just an anthology. It is an archive of ten years worth of performances a collection of work that tells us something about a specific time and place but which also has bigger and broader resonances. In its variety its internal contradictions its discordances its contrasts it challenges us to think and re think what we know: about sexuality about our theatre about Ireland itself. It s an urgent and important book: inspiring as it is challenging informative as it surprising and one that deserves the widest possible audience ~Patrick Lonergan teaches at NUI Galway. Irish Thea

Fintan Walsh s Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland serves as a critical intervention and unique resource for researchers and artists alike [...]Walsh s Queer Notions creates space in Irish archives for queer stories and lives and provides an important text for queer theatre and performance studies at large [...] By centralizing queer Irish histories embodied and transmitted through performance Walsh s book expands the canon of Irish dramatic literature and makes a powerful and urgent case for the necessary analysis of queer transnational flows vis vis performance historie ~Charlotte McIvor Theatre Survey