TY - JOUR AU - Khalil, Rania M Rafik PY - 2020/06/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Ireland Is My Home JF - Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies JA - SiJis VL - 10 IS - 10 SE - Sezione monografica / Monographic Section DO - UR - https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/11755 SP - 101-113 AB - <p class="p2">The representation of outsiders is a common theme in Irish drama as a method to interpret and reinterpret Irish national identity. More recently, Irish theatre has explored the meaning and experiences of the “new Irish” (Salis 2010, 43). This paper, through a postcolonial analysis, compares the experiences of the returned Irish migrant in Tom Murphy’s <em>Conversations on a Homecoming </em>(1985) to the fragility of tolerance exhibited toward the “other” by the native Irish in Donal O’Kelly’s <em>Asylum! Asylum! </em>(1994) and contrasts asylum to the celebration of Irish residency in <em>The Cambria </em>(2005). The analysis highlights perceptions on migration from Ireland and the complications of immigration to modern-day Ireland. The notions of home, Irishness and citizenship are explored against a backdrop of racism, othering and multiculturalism.</p> ER -