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If the past is a foreign country then it has been colonized. This is a book about lost histories and faded memories of Irish theatre and performance. Winners write history, no one remembers history’s so-called losers. Until now.
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Collins, C., Caulfield, M.P. (2014). Introduction: the Rest is History. In: Collins, C., Caulfield, M.P. (eds) Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362186_1
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