Carysfort Press Ltd. / For the Sake of Sanity

CONTENTS: Christopher Murray: The Masks of Hugh Leonard: Da as an Irish Comedy - Marie Kelly: Dead Funny: Mortality and comic comeuppance in Tom Mac Intyre's Only an Apple - Rhona Trench: "Flann O'Brien's Dublin drift": The comedy of literary disorientation in Blue Raincoat Theatre Company's, At Swim Two Birds - Bernard Farrell: The Joyful Mysteries of Comedy - Ian R. Walsh: The Dublin Dame: From Biddy Mulligan to Mrs Brown - Sarah Jane Scaife: "Still getting above our stations": Slagging as national pastime and the cultural body in the comedy of Samuel Beckett and Marina Carr - Eric Weitz: "The problem with laughter": The clown as double agent in Barabbas' City of Clowns' - John Waters: "Talk about laugh": Why is the Irish personality renowned for being so funny but Irish comedy on television somewhat less so? - Christopher Collins: "Synge and 'Protestant Comedy'" - Meadhbh McHugh: The Glass Ceiling and the Gag: Fifth Wave Feminism & Ireland's National Theatre, 2010-2014 - Susanne Colleary: The Savage Eye Sees Far: "Militant Irony" and the Jacobean Corrective in Contemporary Irish Satire - Eamonn Jordan: Playwrights, Screenplays, Criminality, Gangland and the Tragicomic Imperatives in I Went Down and Intermission - Jim Culleton: Along the thin line: Dublin comedy in recent Fishamble plays - Kunle Animashaun: Stand-up comedy in a multicultural setting: Between raw nerve and a funny bone - Justin Murphy/Declan Rooney: The inmates take the mic: Irish comedians on standup comedy.