Dr Denis Condon
Biography
Books
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| 2008 | Early Irish Cinema, 1895–1921.
Condon, D.J. (2008) Early Irish Cinema, 1895–1921. : Irish Academic Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
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| 2018 | 'Players Must Be of a Good Class: Women and Concert Musicians in Irish Picture Houses, 1910-1920'
Condon, Denis (2018) 'Players Must Be of a Good Class: Women and Concert Musicians in Irish Picture Houses, 1910-1920' In: Barton, Ruth and Simon Trezise (eds). Music and Sound in Silen Film: From the Nickelodeon to The Artist. New York, London: Routledge. [Details] |
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| 2014 | 'Offensive and riotous behaviour? Performing the role of an audience in Irish Cinema of the mid-1910s'
Condon D. (2014) 'Offensive and riotous behaviour? Performing the role of an audience in Irish Cinema of the mid-1910s' In: Performing New Media, 1890-1915. [Details] |
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| 2018 | 'Falling Desparately in Love with the Image on Screen: The Flictoflicker Girl (1913) and Cinematic Structures of Fascination'
Condon, Denis (2018) 'Falling Desparately in Love with the Image on Screen: The Flictoflicker Girl (1913) and Cinematic Structures of Fascination' In: Curtis, Scott, Philippe Gauthier, Tom Gunning and Joshua Yumibe (eds). The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material. Bloomington: Indiana UP. [Details] |
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| 2018 | 'The Taste of the Moment Seems All for Pictures: Irish Historical Bodies before the Early Cinema Screen'
Condon, Denis (2018) 'The Taste of the Moment Seems All for Pictures: Irish Historical Bodies before the Early Cinema Screen' In: Dahlquist, Marina, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson and Valentine Robert (eds). Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form. Bloomington: Indiana UP. [Details] |
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| 2014 | '‘Offensive and Riotous Behaviour’? Performing the Role of an Audience in Irish Cinema of the mid-1910s'
Denis Condon (2014) '‘Offensive and Riotous Behaviour’? Performing the Role of an Audience in Irish Cinema of the mid-1910s' In: Performing New Media, 1890-1915. New Barnet, Herts: John Libbey. [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2013 | 'Temples to the art of cinematography: The cinema on the Dublin streetscape, 1910-1920'
Condon, Denis (2013) 'Temples to the art of cinematography: The cinema on the Dublin streetscape, 1910-1920' In: Visualizing Dublin: Visual culture, modernity and the representation of urban space. Bern: Peter Lang. [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2012 | ''Baits to entrap the pleasure-seeker and the worldling': Charity bazaars introduce moving pictures to Ireland'
Condon, Denis (2012) ''Baits to entrap the pleasure-seeker and the worldling': Charity bazaars introduce moving pictures to Ireland' In: Beyond the screen: Institutions, networks and publics of early cinema. New Barnet, Herts: John LIbbey. [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2010 | 'Limelight on the Colleen Bawn: Resisting Autoexoticism in Provincial Irish Picture Houses in the Early 1910s'
Condon, Denis (2010) 'Limelight on the Colleen Bawn: Resisting Autoexoticism in Provincial Irish Picture Houses in the Early 1910s' In: Peripheral Early Cinemas; Domitor 2008. Perpignan: Presses Universitaires de Perpignan. [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2009 | 'Irish Audiences Watch Their First U.S. Feature: The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897)'
Condon, Denis (2009) 'Irish Audiences Watch Their First U.S. Feature: The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897)' In: Screening Irish-America: A Reader. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2005 | 'Spleen of a Cabinet Minister at Work: Exhibiting X-Rays and the Cinematograph in Ireland, 1896'
Condon, Denis (2005) 'Spleen of a Cabinet Minister at Work: Exhibiting X-Rays and the Cinematograph in Ireland, 1896' In: Film History and National Cinema: Studies in Irish Film 2. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2005 | 'Cinematographing Killarney'
Condon, Denis (2005) 'Cinematographing Killarney' In: Killarney: History and Heritage. Cork: Collins. [Details] |
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| 2004 | 'Filming the Story of Ireland: The Yoking Together of Historical Drama and Contemporary Newsreel in Silent Irish Films'
Condon, Denis (2004) 'Filming the Story of Ireland: The Yoking Together of Historical Drama and Contemporary Newsreel in Silent Irish Films' In: National Cinemas and Beyond: Studies in Irish Film 1. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
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| 2004 | 'Rebels and Redcoats: Political Melodrama in the Kalem Company’s Irish Films'
Condon, Denis (2004) 'Rebels and Redcoats: Political Melodrama in the Kalem Company’s Irish Films' In: To the Other Shore: Cross-Currents in Irish and Scottish Studies. Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
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| 2017 | 'Film: A New Form of Propaganda and Entertainment'
Condon, Denis (2017) 'Film: A New Form of Propaganda and Entertainment'. History Ireland, 25 (Ireland 1916-18):62-66 [Details] |
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| 2014 | 'Film exhibition and distribution in Ireland, 1909-2010'
Condon, D. (2014) 'Film exhibition and distribution in Ireland, 1909-2010'. EARLY POPULAR VISUAL CULTURE, 11 :444-446 [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2013 | 'Brightening the dreary existence of the Irish peasant': Cinema transforms leisure in provincial Ireland'
Condon, D (2013) 'Brightening the dreary existence of the Irish peasant': Cinema transforms leisure in provincial Ireland'. Early Popular Visual Culture, 11 :126-139 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2011 | 'Receiving news from the seat of war: Dublin audiences respond to Boer war entertainments'
Condon, D (2011) 'Receiving news from the seat of war: Dublin audiences respond to Boer war entertainments'. Early Popular Visual Culture, 9 :93-106 [DOI] [Details] |
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| 2016 | ''Pictures in Abeyance': Irish Cinema and the Aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising'
Condon, Denis (2016) ''Pictures in Abeyance': Irish Cinema and the Aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising'. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 16 (1):30-43 [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2013 | 'Brightening the Dreary Existence of the Irish Peasant: Cinema Transforms Leisure in Provincial Ireland'
Condon, Denis (2013) 'Brightening the Dreary Existence of the Irish Peasant: Cinema Transforms Leisure in Provincial Ireland'. 11 :126-139 [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2013 | 'A Taste in Pictures: The Second Birth of Cinema in Cork'
Condon, Denis (2013) 'A Taste in Pictures: The Second Birth of Cinema in Cork'. 6 [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2012 | 'Pointing a Topical Moral at the Present: Watching Knocknagow in 1918'
Condon, Denis (2012) 'Pointing a Topical Moral at the Present: Watching Knocknagow in 1918'. SCREENING THE PAST, 33 [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2011 | 'Receiving News from the Seat of War: Dublin Audiences Respond to Boer War Entertainmetns'
Condon, Denis (2011) 'Receiving News from the Seat of War: Dublin Audiences Respond to Boer War Entertainmetns'. EARLY POPULAR VISUAL CULTURE, 9 :93-106 [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2008 | 'Politics and the Cinematograph: The Boer War and the Funeral of Thomas Ashe'
Condon, Denis (2008) 'Politics and the Cinematograph: The Boer War and the Funeral of Thomas Ashe'. FIELD DAY REVIEW, 4 :127-139 [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2003 | 'Touristic Work and Pleasure: The Kalem Company in Killarney'
Condon, Denis (2003) 'Touristic Work and Pleasure: The Kalem Company in Killarney'. FILM AND FILM CULTURE, 2 [IR Link] [Details] |
Other Journals
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| 2007 | 'The Volta Myth'
Condon, D.J. (2007) 'The Volta Myth' Film Ireland, 116 . [IR Link] [Details] |
Conference Contributions
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| 2019 | ECREA Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities.
Condon, Denis (2019) ECREA Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities. [Oral Presentation], Beyond Living Memory: Researching Ireland’s Historical Audiences, Ghent, Belgium , 18-OCT-19 - 19-OCT-19 [Details] |
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| 2019 | 15th Irish Screen Studies Seminar.
Condon, Denis (2019) 15th Irish Screen Studies Seminar. [Keynote Address], Stealing Cinema: Juvenile-Delinquent Media in 1910s Ireland, NUI Galway , 09-MAY-19 - 10-MAY-19 [Details] |
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| 2018 | HoMER@NECS 2018: Media Tactics and Engagement.
Condon, Denis (2018) HoMER@NECS 2018: Media Tactics and Engagement. [Oral Presentation], The Film Company of Ireland’s Distribution and Exhibition Strategies, 1916-21, Amsterdam , 27-JUN-18 - 29-JUN-18 [Details] |
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| 2018 | Inaugural Irish Audience Research Network Seminar.
Condon, Denis (2018) Inaugural Irish Audience Research Network Seminar. [Conferences hosted], Early Irish Ciema Audiences, Maynooth University , 08-DEC-18 - 08-DEC-18 [Details] |
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| 2017 | NECS 2017: Sensibility and the Senses: Media, Bodies, Practices.
Condon, Denis (2017) NECS 2017: Sensibility and the Senses: Media, Bodies, Practices. [Oral Presentation], “The Taste of the Moment Seems All for ‘Pictures’”: Irish Historical Bodies before the Early Cinema Screen, Sorbonne, Paris , 29-JUN-17 - 01-JUL-17 [Details] |
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| 2017 | Rural History.
Condon, Denis (2017) Rural History. [Oral Presentation], “The Wonder-Seeking Mind of the Peasant”: Cinema’s Emergence in Rural Ireland, Leuven , 11-SEP-17 - 14-SEP-17 [Details] |
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| 2016 | 1916, Cinema and Revolution.
Condon, Denis (2016) 1916, Cinema and Revolution. [Keynote Address], Pictures in Abeyance: Irish Cinema and the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, NUI Galway , 25-MAY-16 - 27-MAY-16 [Details] |
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| 2016 | Music and Visual Cultures.
Condon, Denis (2016) Music and Visual Cultures. [Oral Presentation], Complementing or Competing with the Images on Screen? Irish Cinema Music in the 1910s, Maynooth University , 21-JUL-16 - 23-JUL-16 [Details] |
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| 2016 | Viscera, Skin and Physical Form: Corporeality and Early Cinema, 14th International Domitor Conference.
Condon, Denis (2016) Viscera, Skin and Physical Form: Corporeality and Early Cinema, 14th International Domitor Conference. [Oral Presentation], “The Taste of the Moment Seems All for ‘“Pictures’”: Irish Historical Bodies before the Early Cine, University of Stockholm , 14-JUN-16 - 17-JUN-16 [Details] |
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| 2015 | What is Cinema History? A HoMER Network conference.
Condon, Denis (2015) What is Cinema History? A HoMER Network conference. [Oral Presentation], Commemorating Irish Cinema of the 1910s, University of Glasgow , 22-JUN-15 - 24-JUN-15 [Details] |
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| 2002 | Muckross House Autumn Illustrated Talks.
(2002) Muckross House Autumn Illustrated Talks. [Oral Presentation], The Kalem Company in Killarney, Muckross House, Killarney, Co, Kerry [Details] |
Book Review
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| 2015 | Review: James Naremore's An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema.
Condon, Denis (2015) Review: James Naremore's An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema. Book Review [Details] |
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| 2012 | MAGIC LANTERN, PANORAMA AND MOVING PICTURE SHOWS IN IRELAND, 1786-1909.
Condon, D (2012) MAGIC LANTERN, PANORAMA AND MOVING PICTURE SHOWS IN IRELAND, 1786-1909. DUBLIN: Book Review [Details] |
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| 2013 | Film exhibition and distribution in Ireland, 1909-2010.
Condon, D (2013) Film exhibition and distribution in Ireland, 1909-2010. ABINGDON: Book Review [DOI] [IR Link] [Details] |
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| 2012 | Magic lantern, panorama and moving picture shows in Ireland, 1786-1909.
Denis Condon (2012) Magic lantern, panorama and moving picture shows in Ireland, 1786-1909. Book Review [Details] |
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| 2009 | Irish Films, Global Cinema.
Denis Condon (2009) Irish Films, Global Cinema. Book Review [Details] |
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| 2004 | Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918.
Denis Condon (2004) Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918. Book Review [Details] |
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| 2003 | Young and Innocent? The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930.
Denis Condon (2003) Young and Innocent? The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930. Book Review [Details] |
Working Paper
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| 2002 | The Colleen Bawn Rock and Daniel O’Connell’s Bed: Sights on the Kalem Company’s Virtual Tour of Killarney.
Condon, D.J. (2002) The Colleen Bawn Rock and Daniel O’Connell’s Bed: Sights on the Kalem Company’s Virtual Tour of Killarney. Working Paper [Details] |
Conference Hosted
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| 2008 | The Irish Cinema Institution: A Symposium.
Denis Condon (2008) The Irish Cinema Institution: A Symposium. Conference Hosted [Details] |
Honours and Awards
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| 2007 | Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences | |
| 2001 | Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar | Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences |