This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.

Fintan Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for Contemporary Theatre. Recent publications includeTheatre& Therapy (2013),Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis (2010), and the edited collection'That Was Us': Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (2013). He is Associate Editor ofTheatre Research International.

1. Introduction: Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland2. Activism, Drag and Solo Performance3. Reparative Therapies and Political Performers4. Transforming Shame and Testimonial Performance5. Intergenerational Moves and Documentary Theatre6. Sex, Class and the City: Site-Specific Roots and Routes7. Vertiginous Loss, Love and Belonging on the National StageAfterword: Reeling-FeelingBibliographyIndex