Irish Shame

Seán Kennedy is Coordinator of Irish Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. Joseph Valente is Distinguished Professor of English and Disability Studies at SUNY, Buffalo.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Writing Irish ShameSeán Kennedy and Joseph ValentePart I. Ethnic Shame1. Colonial Emasculation in Early Modern Irish Poetry: From Shame to HumiliationSarah E. McKibben2. Young Ireland, Slavery and the Gender of ShameMarjorie HowesPart II. Religious Shame3. Recovering from Catholicism: The Internalisation Problem in JoyceSeán Kennedy4. Let Us Prey: Child Sex Abuse and Catholic BildungJoseph ValentePart III. Biopolitical Shame5. Laundering Complicity: Experimental Drama and the Temporalities of Irish ShameClaire Bracken6. Shame and the Breastfeeding Mother in IrelandAbby Bender7. "you: are you complicit?" Shame, Trauma and Gender in Susanah Dickey’s Tennis Lessons Alison GardenPart IV. Shame and Disability8. Disability, Embodiment and Shame in Caitriona Lally's EggshellsKathleen Costello-Sullivan9. "that old shame trick": Mothering, Trauma and Neurodiversity in Emilie Pine’s Ruth & Pen Moynagh SullivanPart V. Psychoanlaytic Shame10. The Shame of Ireland’s Mother and Baby HomesEve Watson8. "then die of shame": Reading Beckett’s Not I with LacanAlexandra PoulainPart VI. Shame’s Joyce12. Flirting with Shame: Performing Narration in UlyssesKezia WhitingBibliographyIndex

A well-structured collection that provides not only insightful readings of key literary texts, but also sensitive critiques of Irish culture that help us to understand how and why shame so often undermines human flourishing