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UPCOMING: Canny Cunningham

Declan McCormack has been invited by the North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies to give a paper on the Irish actor and poet John Cunningham.

Friday 6 December 4-6pm, Newcastle University (Percy Building, room G.09)

UPCOMING: Richmond Players on the Boards

Richmond Civic Society public talk (25.3.25). Declan McCormack has been invited to give a talk about Samuel Butler’s Theatre Company at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire. Declan provided research material and advised on the Butler Company for the theatre’s new museum and visitor centre ’The Georgian Theatre Experience’ which won a White Rose Award upon opening. The ‘White Rose’ is the largest tourism event of its kind in the UK.

 

John Cunningham: Irish émigré, pastoral poet and player

Declan McCormack was invited to give a paper on the Irish poet and actor John Cunningham who made his living as a stroller in the North of England and Scotland at the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Annual Conference 2024  held at the University of Galway on 20-21 June  2024. The programme is available here

Under the Influence: Provincial Players in the Georgian North

The Society of Genealogists ONLINE talk (25.5.24) – Book here

Geordie Players: Georgian theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne

Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne pubic talk (23.4.24)

Under the Influence: Provincial Players in Georgian Northumberland

Morpeth County Hall public talk (7.2.24)

Under the Influence: Provincial Players in the Georgian North

Northumberland Archives 2023 series of online talks  (7.12.23)