Active speech : critical perspectives on Teresa Deevy / edited by Úna Kealy and Kate McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Kealy, Úna, editor.

McCarthy, Kate (Writer on theater), editor.

Conference Name:

Active Speech: Sharing Scholarship on Teresa Deevy (Conference) (2020 : Waterford, Ireland)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deevy, Teresa--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Deevy, Teresa.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2025.

Summary:

'The Teresa Deevy Archive and the Development of Collections and Curation in Maynooth University Library' outlines the traditional library role and approach to archival collection of Maynooth University Library (MUL) in the context of Maynooth University (MU) and Saint Patrick's College Maynooth (SPCM). It argues that, in recent decades, MUL has developed curatorial holdings and special collections to better reflect a long-standing commitment to scholarship and activism in areas of social justice, focussing particularly on the theme of the outsider. The chapter reflects on the evolution of this collections development strategy and positions the Teresa Deevy Archive as a case study of sorts, exemplifying current collection policy orientation and practice. Focusing on collection management since the beginning of the twenty-first century and identifying the advantages of a planned strategic approach to collection management, the chapter considers how MUL's special collections evolved and the identification of the multidisciplinary theme of 'The Outsider'-a categorisation left deliberately loose to encompass individuals whose work or social and/or political contribution was either marginalised, or considered marginal, within their lifetime or after their death. Teresa Deevy's life and work and the value of her archive is considered in this light, and the story of how her archive came to be held and conserved by MUL and some of the curatorial decisions made are in relation to it are detailed. The challenges and impacts of curatorial decisions and practice are illustrated through this narrative as are the complexities of where and how scholars access the Teresa Deevy Archive, in particular, and archives, generally. The chapter concludes asserting the importance of stakeholder involvement in matters of special collection acquisition, curation, and access and the ironic success in identifying the theme of 'The Outsider' in relation to improving engagement with the archives.

Contents:

Teresa Deevy: Life, Scholarship, Practice / Úna KealyKate McCarthy

1. 'Why Would Anyone Be Interested in My Old Aunt Teresa?': Illuminating Teresa Deevy's Legacy / Eileen Kearney

2. The Teresa Deevy Archive and the Development of Collections and Curation in Maynooth University Library / Hugh Murphy

3. TSI: Teresa Deevy, or What Do We Know about [The] Reapers? / Shelley Troupe

4. Mysteries of the Teresa Deevy Archive: Reconsidering the plays of D.V. Goode / Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin

5. 'Very Seldom Are Messages Properly Given': Teresa Deevy's Dark Matter / Chris Morash

6. 'I Must Just Make an Opening Elsewhere': Teresa Deevy's Involvement with Studio Theatre Practice, 1934-1958 / Úna Kealy, Kate McCarthy

7. 'It Is Myself I Seen in Her': Points of Departure in Teresa Deevy's The King of Spain's Daughter (1935) / Willy Maley

8. Finding Money in the Walls: Uncovering the Feminist Power of Teresa Deevy's Dramaturgy through an Embodied, Practice-Based Approach / Ann M. Shanahan

9. Becoming a Domesticated Irish Woman: Teresa Deevy's Critique of Idealised Representations of Womanhood in Katie Roche / Úna Kealy, Dayna Killen

10. The Liminal Space of Widowhood in Teresa Deevy's Wife to James Whelan (1937) / Christa de Brún

11. Teresa Deevy's Katie Roche: Art, Culture, and Performance / Cathy Leeney

12. Teresa Deevy and Contemporary Performance Practice: Edited Transcript of Teresa Deevy Practitioner Panel Discussion / Jonathan Bank, Lianne Quigley, Amanda Coogan, Caroline Byrne

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 / Amanda Coogan, Alvean Jones, Lianne Quigley.

Notes:

Papers from the conference Active Speech: Sharing Scholarship on Teresa Deevy, held in 2020 in Waterford, Ireland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website, viewed on June 8, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Active speech.

ISBN:

9781805114321

1805114328

9781805114338

1805114336

9781805114345

1805114344

OCLC:

1522800180

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access