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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2017-10-31</publicationDate>
        <volume>12.2</volume>
    <issue>12.2</issue>
        <startPage>73</startPage>
    <endPage>90</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>7587</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ Reliving Island Life: Staging Stories of the Blasket Islands ]]></title>

    <authors>
     
      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Daithí Kearney ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ The Blasket Islands are located off the south-west coast of Ireland. No longer inhabited, the Great Blasket Island and its distinctive culture have been documented by a variety of writers and are celebrated today in an interpretative centre on the mainland and in performances by Siamsa Tíre, The National Folk Theatre of Ireland. “Siamsa” developed from local initiatives in North Kerry during the early 1960s and is located today in Tralee, Co. Kerry. It aims to present Irish folklore and folk culture through the medium of theatre involving music, song, dance and mime but invariably no dialogue. In this paper, I focus on the production Oiléan, based loosely on the stories of the Blasket Islanders, which was initially devised as part of the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the departure of the last inhabitants of the islands in 2003.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Folk Theatre</keyword>
              <keyword>Siamsa Tíre</keyword>
              <keyword>Blasket Islands</keyword>
              <keyword>Irish Traditional Music</keyword>
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