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Publications: Prof Caoimhe McAvinchey

Mcavinchey C, Bartley S ( 2025 ) . Rewriting Women, Crime, and Punishment: Commissioning and collaborative processes in the work of Clean Break Theatre Company . The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre , Editors: Fragkou, M, Benzie, R , Methuen Drama ( London ),
Mcavinchey C, Bartley S, Dean D, Greene A-M, Mcavinchey C ( 2024 ) . Clean Break Theatre Company . Editors: Aston, E, Sihra, M , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge ),
Mcavinchey C ( 2023 ) . un:mute – Why Clean Break’s theatre matters . Conference: New Starts, Prison Arts ( Liverpool Hope University ) from: 28/09/2023 to: 28/09/2023 ,
Dean D, Greene A-M, Bartley S, Mcavinchey C ( 2023 ) . One Size Fits All . Conference: Caoimhe McAvinchey ( The American University of Paris ) from: 12/07/2023 to: 15/07/2023 ,
Greene A, Dean D, Bartley S, McAvinchey C ( 2022 ) . Locked up and down: Incarceration, care, and art in a pandemic . Gender Work and Organization vol. 29 , ( 4 ) 1346 - 1359 .
Bartley S, Dean D, Greene A-M, Mcavinchey C ( 2021 ) . Doing Time: Origin Stories, Endurance and the Work of Clean Break Theatre Company . Conference: International Federation of Theatre Research ( University Of Galway - online ) from: 12/07/2021 to: 16/07/2021 ,
Mcavinchey C ( 2021 ) . Garotas más, monstros e mocinhas acorrentadas. Desvios da representação de mulheres, crime e prisão pela Clean Break Theatre Company . Teatro em prisões e a crise global do encarceramento , Editors: Lucas, A ,
Prentki T, Breed A ( 2020 ) . The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance Volume Two – Brazil, West Africa, South and South East Asia, United Kingdom, and the Arab World . Routledge
Mcavinchey C ( 2020 ) . Clean Break: A practical politics of care . Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance , Manchester University Press
McAvinchey C ( 2019 ) . Applied Theatre: Women and the Criminal Justice System . Methuen Drama
McAvinchey C, Santos F, Richardson L ( 2018 ) . Phakama Making Participatory Performance . Bloomsbury Publishing
MCAVINCHEY C ( 2017 ) . The Performance of Prison Theatre Practices: Questions of Evidence . Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art , Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ( New York ),
Mcavinchey C ( 2016 ) . Rooms with a View: Disrupting and Developing Narratives of Community through Intergenerational Arts Practice . Magic Me
MCAVINCHEY C ( 2013 ) . ‘Coming of Age: Arts Practice With Older People In Private And Domestic Spaces’ . Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre Research vol. 4 , ( 18 )
MCAVINCHEY C, Mayo S ( 2013 ) . Wild Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women’s Library led by Magic Me in collaboration with Mulberry School for Girls and local, older women .
MCAVINCHEY C ( 2013 ) . ‘Together: The Practice of Participatory Arts’ . If I Were In Your Shoes Now , Tallagh Community Arts ( Dublin ),
MCAVINCHEY C ( 2013 ) . In the Afterwards: The LIFT Living Archive . from: 2009 to: 2013 , N/A Medium: Multiple mediums and practice-based projects ,
MCAVINCHEY C ( 2013 ) . Meeting and Making: Intergenerational Arts Practice . from: 2007 to: 2013 , N/A Medium: Multiple mediums and practice-based projects ,
MCAVINCHEY C ( 2013 ) . Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies . Editors: McAvinchey, C , Methuen Drama ( London ),
MCAVINCHEY C ( 2012 ) . Refugees, Theatre and Crisis by Alison Jeffers . NTQ: New Theatre Quarterly vol. 4 , ( 28 ) 399 - 400 .
McAvinchey C ( 2011 ) . Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect by James Thompson – Book Review . Contemporary Theatre Review
McAvinchey C ( 2011 ) . Theatre & Prison . Palgrave Macmillan
McAvinchey C ( 2010 ) . Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive . LIFT ( London ),
McAvinchey C, Gilfolye K ( 2009 ) . Our Generations: Report on a three year programme on intergenerational arts projects in Tower Hamlets, East London, April 2006-June 2009 . Magic Me ( London ),
McAvinchey C ( 2009 ) . “Is This the Play?” Applied Performance in Pupil Referral Units . The applied theatre reader , Editors: Preston, S, Prentki, T , Routledge ( London and New York ),
McAvinchey C ( 2008 ) . Theatre, Education and the Making of Meaning by Anthony Jackson – Book review . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 18 , ( 4 )
McAvinchey C ( 2007 ) . Ideas with Legs: Participatory Arts Recipes . Taking A Journey: From Consultation to Participation through the Arts , Editors: Ings, R , Isle of Wight Children's Fund ( Isle of Wight ),
McAvinchey C ( 2007 ) . Possible Fictions: The Testimony of Applied Performance with Women in Prison in England and Brazil . Supervisors: Heritage, PP, Delgado, PM , Presented at: QMUL ,
McAvinchey C ( 2006 ) . Theatre in Prisons by Michael Balfour – Book Review . New Theatre Quarterly vol. 22 , ( 2 ) 206 - 207 .
McAvinchey C ( 2006 ) . Unexpected Acts: Women, Prison and Performance . Drama as Social Intervention , Editors: Sommers, J, Balfour, M , Captus University Press ( Concord, Ontario ),
McAvinchey C ( 2005 ) . In Place of War – Conference Review . Research in Drama Education vol. 10 , ( 3 ) 8 - 10 .
McAvinchey C ( 2000 ) . Theatre: Act or Place? . Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre, ed. by Eamonn Jordan, (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2000), pp. 84-88. , Carysfort Press ( Dublin ),