Books by Eamon Maher

Book SynopsisThis collection of essays sets out to correct an injustice to citizens of the Irish Free State, or Twenty-Six Counties, whose contribution to the victory against Nazi Germany in the Second World War has thus far been obscured. The historical facts reveal a divided island of Ireland, in which the volunteers from the South were obliged to fight in a foreign (that is, British) army, navy and air force. Recent research has now placed this contribution on a secure basis of historical and statistical fact for the first time, showing that the total number of Irish dead (more than nine thousand) was divided more or less equally between the two parts of Ireland. The writers in this volume establish that the contribution by Ireland to the eventual liberation of France was not only during the fighting at Dunkirk in 1940 and in Normandy in 1944, but throughout the conflict, as revealed by the list of the dead of Trinity College Dublin, which is examined in one chapter. Respect for human values in the midst of war is shown to have been alive in Ireland, with chapters examining the treatment of shipwreck casualties on Irish shores and the Irish hospital at Saint Lô in France. Other essays in the volume place these events within the complex diplomatic network of a neutral Irish Free State and examine the nature and necessity of memorial in the context of a divided Ireland.Table of ContentsContents: Sarah Alyn Stacey: Patria non immemor: Ireland and the Liberation of France – Edward Arnold: Irish Neutrality between Vichy France and de Gaulle, 1940-1945 – Gavin Hughes: Commitment, Casualties and Loss: Comparative Aspects of Irish Regiments at Dunkirk 1940 and in Western Europe, 1944-1945 – David Truesdale: Irish Soldiers and the D-Day Airborne Operations – Phyllis Gaffney: A Hospital for the Ruins: The Irish Hospital at Saint-Lô – Kevin Myers: Perceptions of Irish Participation in the Second World War – Fergus D’Arcy: Second World War Graves in Ireland – Gerald Morgan: The Trinity College Dublin War Dead, 1939-1945 – Yvonne McEwen: ‘Their Ancient Valour’: The Politics of Irish Volunteering and Volunteer War Deaths in the Second World War – Donal Buckley: Postscript: ‘And so to D-Day…’.

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Book SynopsisCatholicism has played a central role in Irish society for centuries. It is sometimes perceived in a negative light, being associated with repression, antiquated morality and a warped view of sexuality. However, there are also the positive aspects that Catholicism brought to bear on Irish culture, such as the beauty of its rituals, education and health care, or concern for the poor and the underprivileged. Whatever their experience of Catholicism, writers of a certain generation could not escape its impact on their lives, an impact which is pervasive in the literature they produced. This study, containing twelve chapters written by a range of distinguished literary experts and emerging scholars, explores in a systematic manner the cross-fertilisation between Catholicism and Irish/Irish-American literature written in English. The figures addressed in the book include James Joyce, Maud Gonne, Constance Markievicz, Kate O’Brien, Edwin O’Connor, Brian Moore, John McGahern, Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan, Vincent Carroll and Brian Friel. This book will serve to underline the complex relationship between creative writers and the once all-powerful religious Establishment.Table of ContentsContents: Eamon Maher/Eugene O’Brien: Introduction – Jeanne I. Lakatos: The Semiotic Theory of Iconic Realism and Cultural Dissonance in de Meun’s and de Lorris’s Roman de la Rose and James Joyce’s Ulysses – Cathy McGlynn: ‘In the buginning is the woid’: Creation, Paternity and the Logos in Joyce’s Ulysses – Mary Pierse: The Donkey and the Sabbath – Sharon Tighe-Mooney: Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O’Brien’s Pray for the Wanderer – Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka: Catholic Agnostic - Kate O’Brien – James Silas Rogers: Edwin O’Connor’s Language of Grace – Eamon Maher: Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) – Peter Guy: ‘Earth’s Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with God’: Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern – Eugene O’Brien: ‘Any Catholics among you …?’: Seamus Heaney and the Real of Catholicism – John McDonagh: ‘Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain’: Revision and Catholicism in the Poetry of Paul Durcan – Victor Merriman: ‘To sleep is safe, to dream is dangerous’: Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland – Tony Corbett: Effing the Ineffable: Brian Friel’s Wonderful Tennessee and the Interrogation of Transcendence.

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Book SynopsisThe cultural, political, social and economic interaction between Ireland and Poland has a long and complex history. This volume hopes to contribute to an emerging debate around the issues concerned by looking at alternative frameworks for understanding the relationship between the two countries. While the topic has attracted growing interest among researchers from various disciplines in recent years, this is the first book dedicated to exploring this cultural relationship in the context of Polish migration to Ireland. The essays in this collection tease out significant strands that connect the two countries, including literature, visual media, education, politics and history. Examining Polish-Irish relations in their wider historical and cultural context allows for new definitions of Irish, Polish and European identities in the New Europe. Especially important in view of the challenges and opportunities that a multicultural Ireland faces after the hard landing of the Celtic Tiger, this book provides new perspectives on a substantial and vibrant cross-cultural relationship.Table of ContentsContents: John Belchem: Patterns of Mobility: Irish and Polish Migration in Comparative Historical Perspective – Róisín Healy: Religion and Rebellion: The Catholic Church in Ireland and Poland from 1848 to 1867 – Paul McNamara: Sean Lester and Polish Foreign Policy in the Free City of Danzig, 1934-1937 – Jonathan Murphy: ‘Common Resolutions to Common Problems?’ Drawing Parallels between Irish and Polish Experiences with Frontier Issues in the Twentieth Century – John Merchant: Universal Identities and Local Realities: Young Poland’s (Mis)readings of Synge – Robert Looby: Politics and the Reception of Irish Drama in Post-War Poland – Joanna Rostek: From a Polish in Dublin to Polish Dublin: Retracing Changing Migratory Patterns in Two Recent ‘Dublin Novels’ by Polish Migrants – Patrick Nugent: Ireland’s Symbolic Landscapes: A Polish Perspective – Bartlomiej Walczak: School, Family and EU-migration: Sociological and Educational Implications – Liliana Kalinowska: Systems in Process: A Historical Review of Polish and Irish Early Childhood Education – Joanna Baumgart/Fiona Farr: Polish Teenagers’ Integration into Irish Secondary Schools: Language, Culture and Support Systems – Ewelina Debaene/Romana Kopečková: Adult Learners Encountering the Polish Language in Ireland – Rozalia Ligus: ‘Adult Children’ of Emigrants and their Migration Experience – Tomasz Kamusella: Immigrants, Migrants or New Irish? – Nanette Schuppers: An Initial Report on the Integration of Polish Migrants in Ireland: The Issues of Language and Deskilling – Kinga Olszewska: Towards a Cosmopolitan Identity: ArtPolonia and the Aughnacloy Truagh European Schools Project – Simon Warren: Against Cosmopolitanism? A Theoretical Exploration of the Tensions between Irish-Speaking and Post-Nationalist Multicultural Ireland.

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Book SynopsisRecent years have seen the topic of victims and victimhood brought to the fore on the island of Ireland, both in the North with the publication of the controversial Eames/Bradley report dealing with victims of the Troubles, and in the Republic with the publication of the final Ryan Report on institutional abuse. In this collection, drawing on the cross-disciplinary nature of Irish studies, contributors from the fields of history, literary and cultural studies, politics, sociology and civic society provide multifaceted perspectives from which to examine the issue of victimhood in Ireland. The volume explores in detail how a traumatic past, whether repressed or proclaimed, can continue to impact on the present, both at a personal and societal level.Table of ContentsContents: Marianne Elliott: Foreword – Lesley Lelourec/Gráinne O’Keeffe-Vigneron: Ireland and Victims: Addressing the Issues – Claire Dubois: ‘The Wooing of Erin’: Women as Victims in the Visual Arts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries – Richard S. Grayson: Veterans as Victims: The Experiences and Rediscovery of Irish Nationalists in the British Military in 1914-1918 – Charlotte Barcat: ‘A Truth for the World’: From Widgery to Saville, the Campaign for Truth and Justice about Bloody Sunday – Stephen Hopkins: Victims and Memoir-Writing: Leaving the Troubles Behind? – Stéphane Jousni: Haunting Memories and Haunted Narratives: Ghost Languages and Forbidden Tongues in Hugo Hamilton’s Autobiographies – Jo Dover/John M. Kabia/Rosie Aubrey: Dialogue in Conflict Transformation: A Journey towards Understanding and Humanization – Graham Dawson: Storytelling, Imaginative Fiction and the Representation of Victims of the Irish Troubles: A Cultural Analysis of Deirdre Madden’s One by One in the Darkness – Ryszard Bartnik: ‘No Bones’ on the Road to Recovery: Anna Burns’ Socio-Psychological Study of the Northern Irish Predicament – Victoria Connor: ‘A School for Bad Boys’: The Representation of the Industrial School System in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy – Fabrice Mourlon: Assessing the Achievements of Assistance to the Victims of the Conflict in Northern Ireland – Agnès Maillot: Torture, Coercion and Intimidation: The Assassination of Robert McCartney – Déborah Vandewoude: The Industrial Schools in the Republic of Ireland: From Idealistic Salvation to Institutional Abuse – Valérie Morisson: Willie Doherty: Troublesome Portraits/Schizoid Identities – Emma Grey: ‘Returning to the Same Places’: Trauma in the Work of Willie Doherty – Trevor Parkhill: The Ulster Museum History Galleries and Post-Conflict Community Engagement – Hélène Alfaro: The Contribution of Community Arts Activity to the Reconciliation Process.

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Book SynopsisTwenty years after the peace process began in the North of Ireland, many thorny political issues remain unresolved. One of the most significant questions involves the means by which acts of violence and the ideologies that subtended them can be dealt with, interrogated and questioned without rekindling conflict. This book focuses on a number of fictional and non-fictional texts published during the last two decades and analyses, through the prism of French cultural philosopher Jacques Rancière’s work, the emergence of an aesthetics of dissensus within these novels, short stories, graphic novels and memoirs. Associating close textual analyses with wider contextual readings, the book investigates the overlap of politics, aesthetics and the redistribution of the sensible in recent prose works, revealing how the authors avoid the pitfalls of a facile discourse of peace and reconciliation that whitewashes the past and behind which unaddressed tensions may continue to simmer.Table of ContentsContents: Between Understatement and Overkill: Anna Burns’ No Bones And Little Constructions – ‘The Post-past City’: Apocalyptic Cityscapes and Cultural Stagnation in the Fiction of Sean O’Reilly – Postcolonial Gothic and Body Politics in Recent Novels by Patrick McCabe – The Politics of Identity and the Language of Dissensus in Ciaran Carson’s Exchange Place – Whodunnit or Who Didn’t Do it? Authority and Poetic (In)Justice in Eoin McNamee’s The Ultras, The Blue Tango and Orchid Blue – Consensus and Dissensus in Fictional Representations of Working Class Protestantism and Loyalism – Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Irish Short Fiction – Subverting Authority or Reinforcing Convention? Garth Ennis’s Graphic Novels – Troubling Narratives of the Troubles: Commemoration, Sensationalism and Authority.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years Irish scholars have become increasingly interested in Ireland’s profound and ongoing relationship with continental Europe. This volume is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays on Irish comparisons and contacts with the Czech Lands from the early modern period to contemporary times. Written by leading specialists and emerging scholars, the essays explore Irish-Czech exchanges and parallels in a variety of fields including history, politics, literature, theatre, journalism and physical education. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that Ireland and the Czech Lands have much in common and that they have enjoyed deep cultural connections: both countries are small European states with imperial pasts and a tradition of mutual migration and cultural transfer. Until now, however, Czech-Irish commonalities and connections have largely been overshadowed by both countries’ interactions with bigger, more powerful nations. This book remedies this neglect, offering new research which not only sheds light on Irish-Czech connections and contacts, but also offers new perspectives on the positions of both societies within the wider European context.Table of ContentsContents: Gerald Power/Ondřej Pilný: Ireland and the Czech Lands: An Introduction – Gerald Power: Monarchy, Nobility and State Formation in Bohemia and Ireland, c. 1526-1609 – Jiří Brňovják: The Integration of Irish Aristocratic Émigré Families in the Czech Lands, c. 1650-1945: Selected Case Studies – Hedvika Kuchařová/Jan Pařez: The Last Community: Irish Franciscans after the Dissolution of the Prague College, 1786 – Martina Power: From Indirect to Direct Comparison: Bohemian-Irish Analogies in German and British Travel Writing, c. 1750-1850 – Lili Zách: Irish Intellectuals and Independent Czechoslovakia in the Interwar Period: Reflections in Catholic Journals – Daniel Samek: The Czech Sokol Gymnastic Programme in Ireland, c. 1900-1950 – Bohuslav Mánek: The Czech Reception of Irish Poetry and Prose, c. 1790-2013 – Justin Quinn: California Dreaming: Miroslav Holub and Seamus Heaney – Ondřej Pilný: Irish Drama in the Czech Lands, c. 1900-2013.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collaborative reassessment of the writing of John McGahern. The contributors provide provocative readings of his major works and also examine some of his lesser-known short stories, essays and unpublished archival materials which have not yet received due critical attention. The book also has a focus on topics and issues in McGahern’s writing that have been overlooked, thus extending the critical discourse on this important Irish author. The contributors to the volume range from emerging voices in Irish literary criticism to established scholars in comparative and postcolonial literature. They share an innovative approach to McGahern’s writings, challenging conventional readings of his fiction.Table of ContentsContents: Antonella Trombatore: Communicating with Nature: An Ecosemiotic Reading of Elizabeth’s Umwelt in The Barracks – Maggie Pernot-Deschamps: Habits and Rituals in The Barracks – Bridget English: ‘All real seeing grew into smiling […] all else was death, a refusal, a turning back’: Narrative, Death and Subjectivity in The Barracks – Paula McDonald: The Literary and Empirical Origins of McGahern’s Ecological Consciousness – Brendan Thomas Mitchell: Emergence of the Self: McGahern and Joyce – Fergal Casey: Camus’s Philosophy of Revolt in The Leavetaking and The Pornographer – Christine O’Dowd-Smyth: The Caretakers of the Condition of ‘nothing new being possible’: Post-Colonial Landscapes of Peripherality in McGahern’s Amongst Women and Abdelhak Serhane’s Le Soleil des obscurs – Nicholas Collins: ‘[L]ike a shoal of fish moving within a net’: King Lear and McGahern’s Family in Amongst Women – Jennifer Mullen: The Law of the Father: Tyrannical Fathers and Rebellious Sons in McGahern’s Amongst Women and Driss Chraïbi’s Le Passé simple – Graham Price: The Fact is a Fiction: Representations of Memory, Place and Modernity in Friel and McGahern’s Short Stories – Malachi O’Doherty: Gossip and Reality: Wondering Who to Believe in McGahern’s Stories – Niamh Campbell: This is Mine: Phatic Communion and Textual Space in That They May Face the Rising Sun and Memoir – Michelle Kennedy: Isolated Fathers: The Powerlessness of Powerful Patriarchs in McGahern’s Works.

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Book SynopsisThis volume sets out to investigate how various forms of authority in Irish culture and history have been challenged and transformed by a crisis situation. In literature and the arts, a reappraisal of the authority of canonical authors – and also of traditional forms, paradigms and critical discourses – principally revolves around intertextuality and rewriting, as well as the wider crisis of (authoritative) representation. What is the authority of an author, of a text, of literature itself? How do works of fiction represent, generate or resolve crises on their own aesthetic, stylistic and representational terms? The Irish Republic has faced a number of serious crises and challenges since it came into existence. In recent years, the collapse of the Celtic Tiger has acted as a catalyst for change, revealing various structures of political, religious and economic authority giving way under pressure. In Northern Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement has led to major developments as new authorities endowed with legislative and executive powers have been set up. In its focus on the subject of authority and crisis in Ireland, this book opens up a rich and varied field of investigation.Trade Review«The volume [...] demonstrates with undeniable authority that despite – or because of – the numerous crises experienced in Ireland, Irish studies are in full bloom.» (Christophe Gillissen, CERCLES Sept. 2016) Read the full review hereTable of ContentsContents: Nicholas Grene: Irish English as a Literary Language: Authority and Subversion – Brigitte Bastiat/Frank Healy: Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty. From Written Translation to Stage Interpretation – Bertrand Cardin: Authorities in Crisis and Intertextual Practice: The Example of Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin – Audrey Robitaillié: «Come Away, Stolen Child»: Colum McCann’s and Keith Donohue’s New Readings of the Yeatsian Motif – Mehdi Ghassemi: Authorial and Perceptual Crises in John Banville’s Shroud – Virginie Girel-Pietka: Looking for Oneself in Denis Johnston’s Plays: Authorities in Crisis and Self-Authorship – Chantal Dessaint: «Suffer the little children …»: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Strategies of Subversion – Mathew D. Staunton/Nathalie Sebbane: Authority and Child Abuse in Ireland: Rethinking History in a Hostile Field – Valerie Peyronel: The Banking Crisis in Ireland and its Resolution: Authority(ies) in Question? – Marie-Violaine Louvet: Challenging the Authority of the Irish State on the Question of the Middle East: The Two Gaza Flotillas of May 2010 and November 2011 – Michel Savaric: The IRA and ‘Civil Administration’: A Challenge to the Authority of the State? – Fabrice Mourlon: The Crisis of Authority in You, Me and Marley – Claire Dubois: «Through Darkest Obstruction»: Challenging the British Representation of Ireland (1880-1910) – Ciaran Brady: An Old Kind of History: The Anglo-Irish Writing of Irish History, 1840-1910.

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Book SynopsisAs far as Irish history is concerned, consuming Irish children was not only a matter for Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Late nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a thriving home-grown advertising industry, and the Irish child played a pivotal role in developing a nascent consumer state from the 1860s until 1921. Through extensive analysis of advertising copy, historical materials, ephemera and literature, this study links the child-centred consumer culture of Victorian Ireland with its impact on the establishment of the independent state. This form of «Celtic consumerism» was also evident in Scotland following the Gaelic Revival, positioning the child as the newest participant in a national process of consumption. Due to high child literacy rates, which outstripped those of mainland Britain, Ireland’s children were appealed to as literate consumers in advertising copy and were informed of the perils or benefits of consumer culture in late Victorian Irish literature. This book presents a fascinating picture of the role of the child in the Irish marketplace at the fin de siècle, as well as investigating simultaneous developments in the Irish education system and laws concerning the care and welfare of children.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Message in a Bottle – Positioning the Irish Fin-de-Siècle Child in Literature, Popular Press and Advertising – Peaceful Pearse and Shaw the Social Critic? National Advertising, Educational and Social Development – «Moocows» and the Masses: Children in Literature, Advertising and Consumer Culture in Victorian Ireland – Child Readers, Child Buyers – «Affluenza» and Advertising: Commodifying and Curing Children in Ireland, 1860–1921 – «The Charity Myth» and Consumer Culture: Irish Charity Children and Franco-Irish Foundlings – Second Cities of Empire: Celtic Consumerism Exhibited – The Convenient Timing of CCAL Ireland.

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Book SynopsisOnce a country of emigration and diaspora, in the 1990s Ireland began to attract immigration from other parts of the world: a new citizenry. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, the ratio between GDP and population placed Ireland among the wealthiest nations in the world. The Peace Agreements of the mid-1990s and the advent of power-sharing in Northern Ireland have enabled Ireland’s story to change still further. No longer locked into troubles from the past, the Celtic Tiger can now leap in new directions. These shifts in culture have given Irish literature the opportunity to look afresh at its own past and, thereby, new perspectives have also opened for Irish Studies. The contributors to this volume explore these new openings; the essays examine writings from both now and the past in the new frames afforded by new times.Table of ContentsContents: Paddy Lyons/Alison O’Malley-Younger: Introduction – Tom Herron: Learning How to Live: David Park’s The Truth Commissioner – José Lanters: ‘Nothing Is Ever Arrived At’: Otherness and Representation in Colum McCann’s Zoli – Paddy Lyons: The Montage of Semblance: Martin McDonagh’s Dramaturgy – Willy Maley: A Few Shakes of a Bard’s Tale: Some Recent Irish Appropriations of Shakespeare – Matt McGuire: Northern Irish Poetry in the Twenty-First Century – Britta Olinder: Art and the Artist in Deirdre Madden’s Fiction – Caroline Magennis: Interview with Glenn Patterson – Damien Shortt: ‘A River Runs Through It’: Irish History in Contemporary Fiction, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle – John Coyle: Flann O’Brien in the Devil Era: Building Hell in Heaven’s Despite – Barry Lewis: Joyce’s City of Remembering – Caroline Magennis: Sexual Dissidents and Queer Space in Northern Irish Fiction – Patrick Maume: Futures Past: The Science Fiction of Bob Shaw and James White as a Product of Late-Industrial Belfast – Claire Nally: ‘Protestant Suspicions of Catholic Duplicity’: Religious and Racial Constructs in Le Fanu and Yeats – Deirdre O’Byrne: ‘One of themselves’: Class Divisions in Eilis Dillon’s Blood Relations and The Bitter Glass – Alison O’Malley-Younger: ‘Dressing Up In Ascendancy Robes’: The Big House and Brian Friel’s Aristocrats – Terry Phillips: No Man’s Land: Irish Women Writers of the First World War.

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Book SynopsisThis book was shortlisted for the ESSE Junior Scholars book award for Cultural Studies in English, 2012 Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. The experiences of British colonialism in Ireland and India are marked by many commonalities, not least in terms of colonial and indigenous imaginings of the relationships between colony or former colony and imperial metropolis. Cinematic representations of Ireland and India display several parallels in their expressions and contestations of visions of Empire and national identity. This book offers a critical approach to the study of Ireland’s colonial and postcolonial heritage through a comparative exploration of such filmic visions, yielding insights into the operations of colonial, nationalist and postcolonial discourse. Drawing on postcolonial and cultural theory and employing Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism, the author engages in close readings of a broad range of metropolitan and indigenous films spanning an approximately fifty-year period, exploring the complex relationships between cinema, colonialism, nationalism and postcolonialism and examining their role in the (re)construction of Irish and Indian identities.Table of ContentsContents: Orientalism, Celticism and the Emergence of Cinema – Imperial Imaginings – Nationalism and Pre-Independence Cinema – Cinema and Nation-Building – The Nation and its Supplements.

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Book SynopsisAdvertisements are often viewed as indices of cultural change, just as the advertising industry is often imagined as innovative and transformative. Advancing from an alternative position, which borrows much from practice-based research, this book instead highlights the routinisation of practices and representations in advertising. Drawing extensively from his own study, the author uses Irishness to investigate the relationship between cultural symbolism in advertising and the cultural vocabularies of advertising practitioners. While globalisation and immigration to Ireland have putatively unhinged taken-for-granted understandings of Irish identity, the author argues that representations of Ireland and Irishness in the global context continue to draw from a stock of particularisms and that advertising practitioners continue to operate with largely essentialist understandings of culture and identity. As the first of its kind in Ireland, this book makes a case for renewed attention to advertising by academic scholars and promotes the benefits of interdisciplinary research.Trade Review«Neil O’Boyle’s study of Irishness and the Irish advertising business significantly enriches our understanding of important industrial and cultural phenomena. His deft analysis treats a number of key and interrelated dynamics including national identity, representation and self-representation, consumerism and globalisation. Among the book’s many strengths is the way it opens up a lens on Celtic Tiger circumstances in a post-Celtic Tiger era.» (Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin)Table of ContentsContents: The Irish Advertising industry and internationalisation – Advertising and Irish identity – Irishness and the nation brand – Cultural encoding in advertising – The cultural vocabularies of advertising producers in Ireland – Knowing what it means to be Irish – The Smithwick’s ‘Locals’ Campaign.

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Book SynopsisWhen one considers issues that are crucial to the evolution of French and Irish culture and behaviour, it is doubtful if there is anything more pertinent than globalisation and secularisation. Clearly, the experience of these concepts in both countries varies greatly: for example, while the French demonstrate a certain ‘méfiance’ – even ‘mépris’ – towards the globalistion project, which they associate with Hollywood, Microsoft, McDonalds and very little that is positive, the Irish, particularly during the Celtic Tiger years, were enthused by the possibilities it offered in terms of material gain and liberation from the excessive control of the Roman Catholic Church. In relation to the latter, many commentators argue that globalisation brought a more secular mindset to Ireland in recent decades, whereas in France the term ‘laïcité’ is strongly identified with the Republican ideology that dates back to the French Revolution. Clearly, therefore, the theme is a revealing one. Cet ouvrage, qui contient des articles rédigés en anglais et en français, est composé des Actes du 4e Colloque franco-irlandais qui a eu lieu à l’université Rennes 2 en mai 2008 sous l’égide du NCFIS.Table of ContentsContents: Eamon Maher : « Ma paroisse est dévorée par l’ennui » : Secularisation in George-Bernanos’ Journal d’un curé de campagne and John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun – Brian Walsh: The Place of the Present in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon – Paula Murphy: From Ferry to Flight: Globalising and Secularising Irish Women – Peter D. T. Guy: McGahern, Proust and the Universality of Memory – Wacław Grzybowski: Lux ex Armorica: The Celtic Contemplative Consciousness versus Secularisation in Thomas McGreevy’s Breton Oracles – Brigitte Bastiat: The Hostage by Brendan Behan: A Tolerant and Secular Representation of Irish Society – Jean Brihault : Dermot Bolger, romancier de la mondialisation ? – Catherine Maignant: Strategies to ‘save’ Globalised Society: A Critical Assessment – Mary Pierse: In Careful and Carefree Secular Engagements: Towards Understanding the Saecula – Jean-Christophe Penet: Ultramodernity and the Redefinition of Secularisation as the Restructuration of Belief in Contemporary France and Ireland – Véronique Gauthier : Religion, économie et mondialisation : une analyse institutionnaliste – Patrick Claffey: Masters and Servants: Joseph Pagnol, Brian McMahon and the Primary School – Anne Goarzin: Faith, Hope and Debris: Globalisation and Secularisation in the Work of Paul Durcan and John Kindness – Catherine Fravalo/Angela Feeney : La Laïcité à la française peut-elle apporter des solutions aux défis que pose à l’enseignement en Irlande le multiculturalisme ? – Eugene O’Brien: ‘The Humanities of Tomorrow’: Negotiating Globalisation and Secularisation.

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