Professor Christopher Morash
Seamus Heaney Prof of Irish Writing, English
Biography
I am the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, a post dedicated to the teaching and research of Irish writing, based in the School of English. I have published a histories of Irish theatre, and of Irish media, both extending from the 17th century to the present; I have also published on Irish Famine writing, and, most recently, on theories of space in relation to theatre. I am currently working on Yeats's theatre. My research interests in the field of Irish studies thus range fairly widely over the field, with theatre and concepts of information flow as a kind of epicentre. I have also served as Chair of the Compliance Committe of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and thus have an interest in broadcasting regulation.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Morash, Christopher, Yeats on Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, vii - 250pp
Yeats and Oedipus: The Dark Road in, editor(s)Torrance, Isabelle and O'Rourke, Donncha , Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp218 - 236, [Morash, Christopher]
'Where All Ladders Start': Famine Memories in Yeats's Countess Cathleen in, editor(s)Marguéite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Lindsay Janssen, Ruud van den Beuken , Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2014, pp119 - 136, [Chris Morash]
Ghosts and Wires: The Telegrah and Wire in, editor(s)Karen Steele and Michael de Nie , Ireland and the New Journalism, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp21-34 , [Christopher Morash]
Christopher Morash & Shaun Richards, Mapping Irish Theatre: Theories of Space and Place , Cambridge:, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 1 - 225pp
Christopher Morash, Ethical and Cultural Diversity': Can Irish Studies Be Oppositional and Institutional at the Same Time?, The Irish Review, 46, 2013, p71 - 78
Making Space: Towards a Spatial Theory of Irish Theatre in, editor(s)P. Lonergan and N. Grene , Irish Drama: Local and Global Perspectives, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2012, pp7 - 22, [Christopher Morash]
Synge's Typewriter: The Technological Sublime in Edwardian Ireland in, editor(s)B, Cliff and N. Grene , Synge and Edwardian Ireland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp21 - 33, [Christopher Morash]
Ibsen in Inish: Lennox Robinson, Ibsen and the Censorship of Publications Act in, editor(s)R. Dixon and I. Ruppo Malone , Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2012, pp37 - 50, [Christopher Morash]
Literature and the Famine in, editor(s)J. Crowley, W. J. Smyth and M. Murphy , Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52,, Cork, Ireland, Cork University Press, 2012, pp640 - 647, [Christopher Morash]
Christopher Morash & Jonathan Bank and John P. Harrington, Teresa Deevy Reclaimed: Volume One, New York, Mint Theater, 2011, 158 pppp
Theatre in, editor(s)J. Murphy , The Oxford History of the Irish Book: Vol. IV: The Irish Book in English, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp587 - 594, [Christopher Morash]
Christopher Morash, The Hungry Voice: Poetry of the Irish Famine., 2, Dublin, Irish Academic Press,, 2009, 299pppp
Disenchanted Island: From Celtic Twilight to Celtic Tiger in, editor(s)G. Girard , Territoires de l'estrange dans la littérature irlandaise au XXe siècle, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009, pp251 - 266, [Christopher Morash]
Christopher Morash, A History of the Media in Ireland. , Cambridge:, Cambridge University Press, 2009, xvii - 244pp
...how feeble and inexpressive is the word!": Staging the Irish Famine" in, editor(s)E. Angel-Perez and A. Poulain , Hunger on Stage, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp132 - 148, [Christopher Morash]
John Devitt, Nicholas Grene, Chris Morash, Shifting Scenes: Irish Theatre-Going, 1955-1985, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2008, 108pp
Christopher Morash, Denis Johnston's Swift Project: 'There Must Be Something Wrong with the Information, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 33, (2), 2007, p56 - 59
The Remains of Ellen Hanley: Theatre, Commodification, and Irish Identity in the Nineteenth Century in, editor(s)N. Allen and E. Patten , That Island Never Found: Essays and Poems for Terence Brown, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp19 - 32, [Christopher Morash]
Theatre and Print, 1550-1800 in, editor(s)R. Gillespie and A. Hadfield , The Oxford History of the Irish Book: Volume III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800. , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp319 - 334, [Christopher Morash]
Theatre in Ireland 1690-1800: From the Williamite Wars to the Act of Union in, editor(s)M. Kelleher and P. O'Leary , The Cambridge History of Irish Literature. Vol. 1: To 1890., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp372 - 406, [Christopher Morash]
An Afterword on Silence in, editor(s)G. Cusack and S. Goss , Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon, Dublin, Irish Academic Press,, 2006, pp300 - 308, [Christopher Morash]
The Road to God Knows Where: Can Theatre be National? in, editor(s)N. Grene and C.Morash , Irish Theatre on Tour. Irish Theatre Diaspora Series 1, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2005, pp101 - 115, [Christopher Morash]
Theatre in, editor(s)Joseph Cleary and Claire Connolly, , Cambridge Companion to Irish Culture, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp322 - 338, [Christopher Morash]
Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash , Irish Theatre on Tour: Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series 1, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2005, xix + 229 pp
Tantalized by Progress in, editor(s)C. Connolly , Theorising Ireland, London, Macmillan, 2003, pp114 - 124, [Christopher Morash]
Christopher Morash, A History of Irish Theatre,1601-2000, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, xx - 322pp
Murphy, History, and Society in, editor(s)N. Grene , Talking About Tom Murphy, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2002, pp17 - 30, [Christopher Morash]
Something's Missing': Theatre and the Republic of Ireland Act, 1949 in, editor(s)R. Ryan , Writing in the Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 1949-1999, London, Macmillan, 2000, pp64 - 81, [Christopher Morash]
All Playboys Now: The Playboy of the Western World and the Audience in, editor(s)N. Grene , J.M. Synge and Irish Theatre., Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2000, pp135 - 150, [Christopher Morash]
To One Thing Constant Never': Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing in, editor(s)M. Kelleher , Making it New: Essays on the New Leaving Certificate English Syllabus, Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2000, pp220 - 234, [Christopher Morash]
Celticism: Between Race and Nation in, editor(s)Tadhg Foley and Seán Ryder , Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp206 - 213, [Christopher Morash]
The Time is Out of Joint (O Cursèd Spite)': Towards a Definition of Supernatural Narrative in, editor(s)Bruce Stewart , That Other World: The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature and its Contexts, Colin Smythe, 1998, pp123 - 143, [Christopher Morash]
Christopher Morash, Maley, W. and Richards, S, The Triple Play of Irish History, The Irish Review , 20, (Winter/Spring), 1997, p23 - 46
Christopher Morash, Famine/Holocaust: Fragmented Bodies, Éire/Ireland, 32, (1), 1997, p136 - 150
Augustine...O'Brien...Vico...Joyce in, editor(s)Anne Clune and Tess Hurson , Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O'Brien,, Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies, 1997, pp133 - 142, [Christopher Morash]
Making Memories: The Literature of the Irish Famine in, editor(s)Patrick O'Sullivan , The Meaning of the Famine. Vol. 6 of The Irish World Wide: History, Heritage, Identity,, London, Leicester UP, 1997, pp40 - 56, [Christopher Morash]
Christopher Morash, Sinking Down into the Dark: The Famine on Stage, Bullán, 3, (1), 1997, p75 - 86
Christopher Morash & R. Hayes, Fearful Realities: New Perspectives on the Irish Famine. , Dublin:, Irish Academic Press,, 1996, 180pp.pp
Ever Under Some Unnatural Condition': Bram Stoker and the Colonial Fantastic in, editor(s)Brian Cosgrove , Literature and the Supernatural, Dublin, Columba Press, 1995, pp95 - 119, [Christopher Morash]
Christopher Morash, Spectres of the Famine, The Irish Review,, 17-18, (Winter), 1995, p74 - 79
The Rhetoric of Right in Mitchel's Jail Journal in, editor(s)Joep Leerssen, A.H. van der Weel, and Bart Westerweel , Forging in the Smithy: National Identity and Representation in Anglo-Irish Literary History, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1995, pp207 - 218, [Christopher Morash]
Christopher Morash, Creativity and Its Contexts. , Dublin, Lilliput Press, 1995, 83 pp.pp
Christopher Morash, Writing the Irish Famine, Oxford, Clarendon, 1995, 213pppp
Christopher Morash, The Little Black Rose Revisited: Church, Empire and National Destiny in the Writing of Aubrey De Vere, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 20, (2), 1994, p45 - 52
Reflecting Absent Interiors: The Big House Novels of Charles Lever in, editor(s)Otto Rauchbaue , Ancestral Voices: The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature, Hildesheim, Zürich, and New York, Georg Olms, 1992, pp61 - 78, [Christopher Morash]
On Minor Literature: Nineteenth-Century Ireland in, editor(s)Joseph McMinn , The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama, Gerrards Cross, Colin Smyth, 1992, pp209 - 216, [Christopher Morash]
Lever's Post-Famine Landscape in, editor(s)Tony Bareham , Charles Lever: New Evaluations,, Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe, 1991, pp86 - 95, [Christopher Morash]
Research Expertise
Description
I have published a histories of Irish theatre, and of Irish media, both extending from the 17th century to the present; I have also published on Irish Famine writing, and, most recently, on theories of space in relation to theatre. I am currently working on Yeats's theatre. My research interests in the field of Irish studies thus range fairly widely over the field, with theatre and concepts of information flow as a kind of epicentre. I have also served as Chair of the Compliance Committe of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and thus have an interest in broadcasting regulation.Projects
- Title
- Co-Editing Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre
- Summary
- Co-editing, with Prof. Nicholas Grene of TCD, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre. This volume will include 40+ contributors, and will be approx. 330,000 words in length, covering all aspects of the field.
- Date From
- 01/01/2012
- Date To
- 01-12-2014
Recognition
Awards and Honours
Member, Royal Irish Academy
Honorary Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Theatre Book Prize
Memberships
Member of the Royal Irish Academy
International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL)
Canadian Association of Irish Studies (CAIS)