James IrelandApr 22, 20213 minRevising Atrocious Cultural Histories through Theatre: Oliver Cromwell and Genocide in IrelandTHERE IS A STATUE of Oliver Crowell outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. Whenever lists of the greatest Britons are...
James IrelandJul 4, 20204 minVoices to Amplify in Irish Theatre: Black Irish Playwrights and MakersWe need to produce work from our Black Irish writers and makers - otherwise the experience of Blackness in Ireland is absent.
James IrelandJul 4, 20202 minEver considered why Britain’s National Theatre's "colour-blind"* casting doesn't cut it?When the plays being programmed do not address the way the characters on stage are subjected to the racialized gaze it is a form of erasure.