Download or read book Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy written by S. Colleary and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins.