Ireland and the Czech Lands

Gerald Power lectures in history and Irish Studies at Metropolitan University Prague. His first book, A European Frontier Elite: The Nobility of the English Pale in Tudor Ireland, 1496-1566, was published in 2012. His research interests lie in early modern history, and particularly in the interplay between monarchies and local elites in the context of the developing state. Ondřej Pilný is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama (2006) and editor of Global Ireland: Irish Literatures in the New Millennium (with Clare Wallace), Time Refigured: Myths, Foundation Texts and Imagined Communities (with Martin Procházka), and an annotated volume of J.M. Synge’s works in Czech. He has translated plays by J.M. Synge, Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh and Enda Walsh, and Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman.

• Contents: 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.