Ireland in the Life and Work of C.S. Lewis

David Clare is Lecturer in Drama and English at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. His previous books include the monographs Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Irish Anglican Literature and Drama: Hybridity and Discord (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and the edited collections The Gate Theatre, Dublin: Inspiration and Craft (2018), The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716-2016 (2 vols., 2021), and Across Borders and Time: Jonathan Swift (2022).

• Introduction.- The man from God knows where Four Plays about C.S. Lewis that Ignore or Downplay his Irish Background.- Gods and fighting (wo)men” Irish Mythology in the Work of C.S. Lewis.- Lit up inside C.S. Lewis’s Joy and Ulster Protestant Ecstasy.- Four Nations C.S. Lewis’s Ulster Irish Attempts to Redefine Britishness.