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Professor Christopher Morash

Seamus Heaney Prof of Irish Writing (English)
      
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Professor Christopher Morash

Seamus Heaney Prof of Irish Writing (English)

 morashc@tcd.ie

 


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 histories of Irish theatre, of Irish media (especially the telegraph), and of the Irish novel. Much of my work has been on Irish theatre, with books on theories of space in Irish theatre, and a monograph on Yeats's theatre. A 2013 book (with Shaun Richards) on theories of theatre space evolved into an interest in urban place-writing more generally, and in 2023 I published Dublin: A Writer's City. That book is the first of a series, Imagining Cities, for which I am Series Editor for Cambridge University Press, with a book on New Orleans in print, and London, New York, San Francisco, and Cambridge commissioned. In 2021, I was invited to curate the Unseen Plays series of audio plays for the Abbey Theatre. I have given keynote addresses to many of the major Irish Studies associations, including IASIL, CAIS, and ACIS. I chair the judging panel for the Dublin Literary Award, the world's richest prize for a single novel in English, and deliver the annual Dublin UNESCO City of Literature lecture. I am currently editing The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel
  Anglo-Irish literature, poetry   Cinema and Ireland   CULTURE   Dramatic/Theatre Arts   IRELAND   Irish History   Irish political, intellectual and social history, 1660-1800   Irish Social History   Irish theatre   Irish Theatre, Film and Cultural Performance   Irish urban history, Dublin and Cork   Irish Writing   Irish writing, poetry, Drama, cinema   IRISHNESS   Journalism   Literary Criticism   MEDIA   Performance Theory   POETS   Radio   Television   THEATER-MAKING   THEATERS   Theatre History   Theatre/Film Criticism
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
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Member of the Royal Irish Academy 2007
International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL) 1987
Canadian Association of Irish Studies (CAIS) 1987
The Abbey Theatre in, editor(s)James Moran , Sean O'Casey in Contetxt, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp57 - 68, [Christopher Morash], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Knowing Ruskin's Cat: Yeats and the Proper Names of the Aesthetic in, editor(s)Charles I. Armstrong, Adrian Paterson, and Tom Walker , The Edinburgh Companion to W.B. Yeats and the Arts, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp99-111 , [Chris Morash], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Padraic Colum, Playwright in, editor(s)Pádraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan , 'That Queer Thing, Genius': The Writings of Padraic Colum, London, 2024, pp8-30 , [Chris Morash], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Chris Morash, Dublin: A Writer's City, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, ix - 314pp, xi-xvi, 1-314pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Technologies of Sound: Telephone/Gramophone in, editor(s)Margaret Kelleher, James O'Sullivan , Technology in Irish Literature and Culture, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp65-82 , [Chris Morash], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'Cityful Passing Away': Resituating Dublin in, editor(s)Ato Quayson, Jini Kim Watson , The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature,, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp99-121 , [Chris Morash], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'A Dead, Living Murdered Man': Staging the Irish Gothic in, editor(s)Jarleth Killeen, Christina Morin , Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2023, pp65-81 , [Chris Morash], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Chris Morash, The Problem of The Herne's Egg: Yeats, Theatre and Materiality, International Yeats Studies, 7, (1), 2023, p107-122 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Morash, Christopher, Yeats on Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, vii - 250pp, Book, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Displaced States: The Imagined Annihilation of Time and Space in, editor(s)Annex (collective) , States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape, Barcelona, Actar, 2021, pp174-188 , [Chris Morash], Notes: [This publication formed part of the Irish entry to the Venice Biennale 2020 [held in 2021].], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Award Date
Member, Royal Irish Academy 2007
McGeorge Fellow, University of Melbourne 10-12/2022
Jakob Fugger Research Fellow, University of Augsburg 05-07/2015
Honorary Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University 2007
Theatre Book Prize for A History of Irish Theatre, 1601-2000 (Cambridge, 2002) 2003
My research interests range widely across the field of Irish literary and cultural studies. I have published widely on Irish theatre, including a standard history, as well as a theorical work on theatre space. I am also the editor of the Cambridge History of the Irish Novel. However, I'm also very interested in technology and culture (and have published the only synoptic history of Irish media to range from the 16th century to the 21st century, and have published on the transatlantic telegraph). I have a long-held interest in Yeats, and have published the most recent monograph on his theatre and theatre theory. My interest in Irish Famine writing goes back to the 1990s, but remains active. Today, however, I am probably best known now for my work on literary Dublin, arising out of my book, Dublin: A Writer's City (2023), which is part of a series I am editing for Cambridge University Press, and which has given rise to many public talks, as well as feeding into my annual UNESCO City of Literature lecture. I am currently editing the 330,000-word Cambridge History of the Irish Novel, due for publication early in 2026.