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This chapter introduces the work of Christina Reid as well as what each chapter of the book includes.
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Rubber bullets were developed as a “non-lethal” weapon used primarily for riot control during the Troubles. After the death of three people, the seemingly less harmful plastic bullet was developed. “Between 1975 and 1989 more than a dozen people, many of them children, suffered fatal injuries because of those rounds.” Nate Jones, “Riot Control,” Time, August 6, 2010, http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2009006,00.html. Accessed May 20, 2018.
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At the time of this writing, 2 peace walls had been demolished leaving 108 still standing. Henry MacDonald, “Belfast ‘peace wall’ between communities felled after 30 years,” The Guardian, (September 20, 2017), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/20/belfast-peace-wall-between-communities-felled-after-30-years, Accessed May 20, 2018.
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Anthony Roche. Contemporary Irish Drama: From Beckett to McGuinness, (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan Ltd., 1994), 235.
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Nicholas Green, The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 235.
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Lynda Henderson, “A Fondness for Lament,” Theatre Ireland, no. 17 (Dec. 1988/Mar 1989): 18.
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Henderson, “Fondness,” 20.
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Richard Pine, “Continuing Commitment,” Theatre Ireland, no. 18 (April–June 1989): 18.
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Pine, “Continuing,” 20.
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Henderson, “Fondness,” 18.
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Pine, “Continuing,” 20.
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Philomena Muinzer, 62, 63.
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Scholarship in the 1980s and 1990s included Headrick, Charlotte J. “A Time to Heal: Women Playwrights on ‘The Troubles’.” Paper delivered at the American Conference for Irish Studies/Canada Association for Irish Studies. Belfast: June 27, 1995; Luft, Joanna. “Brechtian Gestus and the Politics of Tea in Christina Reid’s Tea in a China Cup.” Modern Drama. XLII.2 (Summer 1999): 214–221; Roll-Hansen, Diderik. “Dramatic Strategy in Christina Reid’s Tea in a China Cup.” Modern Drama. 30.3 (Sept. 1987): 389–395.
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Catherine Leeney, “‘Truths of Womanhood’ and Theatrical Values: Five Irish Women Playwrights, 1900–1939. (PhD diss., National University of Ireland, 2000), 4.
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Mark Phelan, “From Troubles to Post-Conflict Theatre in Northern Ireland,” in The Oxford Companion to Modern Irish Theatre, eds, Nicholas Grene & Chris Morash, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), location 11,395, 371.
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Mark Phelan, “From Troubles,” location 11,400, 372.
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Interview with Christina Reid, London, June 27, 2010.
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Tracie, R. (2018). A Troubles Playwright?. In: Christina Reid's Theatre of Memory and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97876-5_1
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