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urn:uuid:ee1ca965-4931-4e27-b070-222870280f45 03 15 9781805114338 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Active Speech Critical Perspectives on Teresa Deevy 1 B01 Úna Kealy Úna Kealy lectures in Theatre Studies and English in South East Technological University (SETU). Prior to her career in academia, Úna worked as a drama workshop facilitator and arts manager in Britain and Ireland in both state-funded and commercial theatre organisations. In 2022, she worked with Amanda Coogan, Alvean Jones, Lianne Quigley, Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, Cork Deaf Community Choir, and SETU staff and students on a research project entitled Lyrical Bodies, an investigation of Teresa Deevy’s ballet Possession, which was performed in Project Arts Centre, Dublin and The Granary Theatre, Cork as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival in 2024. With Kate McCarthy, she has co-authored ‘Writing from the Margins: Re-framing Teresa Deevy’s Archive and Her Correspondence with James Cheasty c.1952–1962’, Irish University Review 52.2 (2022); ‘Shape Shifting the Silence: An Analysis of Talk Real Fine, Just like a Lady by Amanda Coogan in collaboration with Dublin Theatre of the Deaf: An Appropriation of Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935)’, in The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Vol 1: 1716–1992 (Liverpool University Press, 2021); and ‘Participatory Performances: Spaces of Creative Negotiation’, in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (Palgrave, 2018). Other publications include ‘Resisting Power and Direction: The King of Spain’s Daughter by Teresa Deevy as a Feminist Call to Action’, Estudios Irlandeses, 15 (2020) and ‘Stasis, Rootlessness and Violence in Lay Me Down Softly’, in The Art of Billy Roche: Wexford as the World (Peter Lang, 2012). With Richard Hayes, she co-authored ‘Artistic Vision and Regional Resistance: The Gods Are Angry, Miss Kerr and the Red Kettle Theatre Company, a Case Study’, in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (Palgrave, 2018). 2 B01 Kate McCarthy Kate McCarthy is Lecturer in Drama at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, South East Technological University (SETU). Her public engagement takes many forms, including: theatre practice, workshops, drama and theatre education projects, educational resources, public talks, and podcasts, as well as publications and conference contributions. Alongside co-authored publications on Teresa Deevy and contemporary regional theatre practice with Úna Kealy, she has co-authored book chapters and co-created educational resources about Waterford’s Magdalene Laundry and Saint Dominick’s Industrial School (with Jennifer O’Mahoney, SETU) and on drama education (with Marian McCarthy, UCC). As a practitioner, she facilitates and devises performances and drama education projects in Ireland and Britain. Kate is a co-researcher on the Lyrical Bodies Project and the Waterford Memories Project. She is the Policy and Advocacy Elected Member of the Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) (2023–2026). 01 eng 00 360 03 10 LIT013000 23 Teresa Deevy 23 Theatre 23 European Studies: English and Irish Studies 23 Irish drama, theatre, and performance 10 PER011030 23 Deaf 10 PER003100 23 Deafened 10 SOC032000 23 Archive 10 BIO022000 23 Twentieth-century Ireland 01 06 03 00 'Active Speech' is a groundbreaking collection of scholarly essays and practitioner interviews focused on the work of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy. Acts of recovery in the 1980s and 1990s challenged Deevy’s exclusion from the literary canon, reclaiming her contributions as significant to Irish drama and theatre. The recent resurgence of scholarship and productions evidences that, as a deafened woman and Irish playwright, Deevy’s creative power continues to disrupt and tilt the canon of Irish drama, theatre, and performance.Essays within the collection explore how Deevy’s work interrogates early to mid-twentieth century Irish social norms and ideologies and provide a rich context for understanding her plays. The collection highlights the interdisciplinary nature of research on Deevy and offers insights on her work through archival research, literary analysis, and practitioner perspectives from Deaf and hearing theatremakers.One of the collection's strengths lies in its collaborative and inclusive approach, showcasing diverse methodologies and rigorous scholarship. The chapters on archival research and practitioner perspectives offer compelling models and avenues for future studies. This volume is an essential resource for scholars, educators, and theatremakers alike. 04 00 Foreword Teresa Deevy: A Journey of Discovery Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Figures List of Abbreviations Teresa Deevy: Life, Scholarship, Practice ACCESS AND ARCHIVES 1. ‘Why Would Anyone Be Interested in My Old Aunt Teresa?’: Illuminating Teresa Deevy’s Legacy 2. The Teresa Deevy Archive and the Development of Collections and Curation in Maynooth University Library 3. TSI: Teresa Deevy, or What Do We Know about [The] Reapers? 4. Mysteries of the Teresa Deevy Archive: Reconsidering the plays of D.V. Goode DEEVY’S IRELAND: A COUNTRY IN CONTEXT 5. ‘Very Seldom Are Messages Properly Given’: Teresa Deevy’s Dark Matter 6. ‘I Must Just Make an Opening Elsewhere’: Teresa Deevy’s Involvement with Studio Theatre Practice, 1934–1958 7. ‘It Is Myself I Seen in Her’: Points of Departure in Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935) DRAMATURGY, GENRE, AND THEORY 8. Finding Money in the Walls: Uncovering the Feminist Power of Teresa Deevy’s Dramaturgy through an Embodied, Practice-Based Approach 9. Becoming a Domesticated Irish Woman: Teresa Deevy’s Critique of Idealised Representations of Womanhood in Katie Roche 10. The Liminal Space of Widowhood in Teresa Deevy’s Wife to James Whelan (1937) PRODUCTIONS AND PRACTITIONERS 11. Teresa Deevy’s Katie Roche: Art, Culture, and Performance 12. Teresa Deevy and Contemporary Performance Practice: Edited Transcript of Teresa Deevy Practitioner Panel Discussion 13. ‘You Can Feel the Change in the Air’: Reflecting on Talk Real Fine, Just Like a Lady, a Shapeshifting of Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20250407 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805114307 06 15 9781805114314 06 15 9781805114321 06 15 9781805114345 06 15 9781805114338 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD