This one-day academic symposium showcases current work on Shakespeare on the Irish stage and page from the Restoration to today.

Hibernian Shakespeare

Recorded June 14, 2025.

David Dickson (Trinity College Dublin): 'The social backdrop: Eighteenth-century Dubliners'

Linzi Simpson: ‘Smock Alley: the rediscovery of Dublin’s oldest surviving theatre’

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Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 1

Recorded June 14, 2025.

Tara Lyons (Illinois State University): ‘A Colonial Collection? English Drama in the First Duke of Ormonde’s Irish Libraries’

Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Shakespeare, the Charlemont Library and the Politics of Identity’

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Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 2

Recorded June 14, 2025.

Eilís Smyth (Trinity College Dublin): ‘The Smock Alley Promptbooks in the 21st Century’

Madeleine Saidenberg: (Worcester College, Oxford): ‘Hamlet in Irish Wool: Fashioning an Anglo-Irish Shakespeare, 1721’

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Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 3

Recorded June 14, 2025.

Conrad Brunström (Maynooth University): ‘Shakespeare and Sheridan's Coriolanus: Who banished who?’

Ceola Daly (St Cross College, Oxford): ‘“Ó Moeloins” Malone: Ireland's Most Famous Forgotten Shakespearean’

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Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 4

Recorded June 14, 2025.

Emer McHugh (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘National Questions: Shakespeare and Ireland studies, and where we are now'

Final Round Table: Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin), Edel Semple (University College Cork), Ramona Wray (Queen’s University Belfast), Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth University)

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Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 5

Opened in 2010, the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute is dedicated to advancing Trinity College Dublin’s rich tradition of research excellence in the Arts and Humanities, on an individual, collaborative and inter-disciplinary basis.

Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 4

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