Patrick J Duggan

Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre: Politics, Aesthetics and Forms

Between 1960 and 2010, a new generation of British avant-garde theater companies, directors, designers, and performers emerged. Some of these companies and individuals have endured to become part of theater history while others have disappeared from the scene, mutated into new forms, or become part ...

Saluki: The Desert Hound and the English Travelers Who Brought It to the West

One of the oldest known breeds of domesticated dogs, the Saluki traveled throughout the Middle East with desert tribes, who valued the dogs for their ability to hunt gazelles. Famously painted on the walls of the Pharaohs' tombs, the Salukis' history intrigued English dog enthusiasts who were instru...

Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of contemporary performance

Trauma-Tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could help us to understand trauma on personal and social levels. In a world increasingly preoccupied with...

The Travelling Boy

[(Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance )] [Author: Patrick Duggan] [Oct-2012]

Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis, Extremity

This book investigates trans-historical and international instances of performance that arise directly out of situations of crisis and extremity to ask what performance is for in such contexts. It explores how people living in oppressive, dangerous or deprived conditions use performance to survive, ...

The travelling people

Juvenile fiction set in Ireland.

The golden horseshoe

Patrick Duggan

The Most Reverend Patrick Duggan (18131896) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Clonfert from 1872 until his death. ...