Brigitte Bastiat holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies (University of Paris Saint-Denis). She taught English at the University of La Rochelle for 25 years and was a member of the CRHIA (EA 1163 Research Centre for International Atlantic History). Frank Healy holds a PhD in Immunology, is a lecturer in English for Special Purposes at La Rochelle Université, and a member of the CRHIA (EA 1163 Research Centre for Atlantic and International History).

• Brigitte Bastiat and Frank Healy: Introduction: Adventure: Perspectives from France and Ireland – Mary Pierse: Considering Adventure on Literary Pathways – Claudia Luppino: "Well, you are about to enter the land of the free and the brave": The adventure of self-discovery and re-invention in Colm Tóibín’s writing – Eamon Maher: Memory and Adventure: Marcel Proust and John McGahern – Benjamin Keatinge: Paddy Bushe in Paris: Adventures in Ekphrasis – Martine Pelletier: Staging Brian Friel in France – Quite an adventure! – Serge Linkes: De «　Chez les Sinn Féiners　» (1920) à Mary de Cork (1924), Joseph Kessel témoin de «　L’Irlande révolutionnaire　» – Estelle Epinoux and Cathy Roche: «　Mary de Cork　»　: une aventure au féminin en clair-obscur dans la nouvelle de Joseph Kessel (1924) et l’adaptation cinématographique de Maurice Cazeneuve (1967) – Claire Dubois: «　Un roman d’aventure réel　»: reporting on the Irish war of independence for a French audience – Tony Kiely: William Orpen’s Exposure to The Great War: A Human and Artistic Adventure – Danielle Baraka: De la France à l’Irlande　: Marguerite Mespoulet et Madeleine Mignon, une expédition photographique en Irlande en 1913 – Ugo Ryckman: Surfing in Ireland: beyond frontiers – Elaine Mahon: ‘An intriguing but Ambiguous Privilege’: Adventures in Franco-Irish Relations through the Prism of the Diplomatic Meal.