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CONTENTS: Christopher Murray: The Masks of Hugh Leonard:
as an Irish Comedy - Marie Kelly: Dead Funny: Mortality and comic comeuppance in Tom Mac Intyre’s
- Rhona Trench: «Flann O’Brien’s Dublin drift»: The comedy of literary disorientation in Blue Raincoat Theatre Company’s,
- Bernard Farrell: The Joyful Mysteries of Comedy - Ian R. Walsh: The Dublin Dame: From Biddy Mulligan to Mrs Brown - Sarah Jane Scaife: «Still getting above our stations»: Slagging as national pastime and the cultural body in the comedy of Samuel Beckett and Marina Carr - Eric Weitz: «The problem with laughter»: The clown as double agent in Barabbas’
- John Waters: «Talk about laugh»: Why is the Irish personality renowned for being so funny but Irish comedy on television somewhat less so? - Christopher Collins: «Synge and ‹Protestant Comedy›» - Meadhbh McHugh: The Glass Ceiling and the Gag: Fifth Wave Feminism & Ireland’s National Theatre, 2010-2014 - Susanne Colleary: The Savage Eye Sees Far: «Militant Irony» and the Jacobean Corrective in Contemporary Irish Satire - Eamonn Jordan: Playwrights, Screenplays, Criminality, Gangland and the Tragicomic Imperatives in
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- Jim Culleton: Along the thin line: Dublin comedy in recent Fishamble plays - Kunle Animashaun: Stand-up comedy in a multicultural setting: Between raw nerve and a funny bone - Justin Murphy/Declan Rooney: The inmates take the mic: Irish comedians on standup comedy.
