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London 2012

I just flew in from London on the 11th, and boy, are my arms tired! That’s just a little humor. Sorry. Sorry. Last week I returned from seven weeks in London. For the first three weeks, I researched at...

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Arduino and DMX512: I end with both pride and some significant reservations

I have a product! It’s an arduino microcontroller that receives a DMX signal and does things with it! What it does well: Successfully receives a DMX signal Interprets the data sent by the signal Acts...

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Imagining the Financial Crisis in Contemporary Irish Drama: Dublin Plays,...

My research this summer began with a two week stay in and around Dublin seeing plays, finding playscripts, chatting with folks, and generally getting a feel of the theatre climate in Dublin.  I was...

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Imagining the Financial Crisis in Contemporary Irish Drama: Dublin plays,...

As I noted in my last post, during my first week seeing plays in Dublin I became interested in the connections between sexuality, identity, and economics in both new Irish plays and revivals of classic...

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Imagining the Financial Crisis in Contemporary Irish Drama: Dublin plays,...

The other two shows I saw during the second half of my time in Dublin were new scripts written for small casts (two and three, respectively) in small workshop spaces. The first of these was Overtime at...

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On motivation, reaching out, and making it up as you go along

Hello once more! It’s been a while since my last post, although it appears from reading other students’ blogs that that is a common theme among us student researchers (although I may just be seeing...

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Imagining the Financial Crisis in Contemporary Irish Drama: Dublin Playscripts

During my time in Dublin and in the time since I have been back, I have been working to collect and read play-scripts of shows from after the financial crisis in order to get a broader perspective on...

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Imagining the Financial Crisis in Contemporary Irish Drama: Contemporary...

The fifth and final source of information for my research came from collections of Irish plays published in the past couple of years, namely The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays: ‘This is...

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Goodness Grace-ious me!

Post #3! And it’s only…um…2 weeks since my last post! Oops I should probably pick up the posting pace. Anyways! I’m here in D.C. for the week, seeking new intellectual stimulation at the fabulous [read...

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More time, more time, my kingdom for more time!

Hello again! One week (okay, 4 days–eek!) left, one more blog post to go, a whole laundry list of things to accomplish. (Plus, you know, packing for school and writing a thesis proposal and getting...

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