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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.
