Irish Expatriatism, Language and Literature

Michael O’Sullivan is Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked for universities in Ireland, the UK, the US, Japan and Hong Kong. He has published widely in Irish Studies and in the humanities. Recent books include The Humanities and the Irish University and The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Swift: The Irish expat ‘at home’ with “our language”.- 3. Goldsmith: The Irish expat in London as “Chinaman”.- 4. Irish expat empire builders in China and Hong Kong: Robert Hart and John Pope Hennessy.- 5. Yeats: The expat buys property back home.- 6. Joyce: The expat and the ‘loss of English’.- 7. Bowen: the unspeakable loneliness of the Anglo-Irish expat.- 8. Boland: can the expat find a ‘home’ in language?.- 9. A Forgotten Irish Cosmopolitanism: Goh Poh Seng’s Ireland.- 10. Social Network Expatriatism and new departures in John Boyne and Donal Ryan.