Reimagining Ireland Reader

Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in IT Tallaght. His main areas of interest are the twentieth-century novel in Ireland and France, representations of Catholicism in literature and Franco-Irish relations. He has written, edited and co-edited a number of books, the most recent of which are Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond (with Eugene O’Brien, 2017) and Assessing a Literary Legacy: Essays on John McGahern (1934–2006) (with Derek Hand, forthcoming). He is currently working on a pictorial exploration of image and text in John McGahern’s representation of Leitrim with photographer Paul Butler.

• CONTENTS: David Lloyd: Preface – Eamon Maher/Christabel Scaife: Introduction: Examining Our Past and Shaping Our Future – Luke Gibbons: Roots of Modernity: Primitivism and Primitive Accumulation in Nineteenth-Century Ireland – Catherine Maignant: Reimagining Ireland through Early Twentieth-Century French Eyes – Tina O’Toole: Unregenerate Spirits: George Egerton and Elizabeth Bowen’s Radical Irish Fiction – Jean-Michel Rabaté: Dublin, 1913: Irish Modernism and International Modernism – Victor Merriman: «To Sleep is Safe, To Dream is Dangerous»: Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland – Gerald Dawe: From Borstal Boy and Ginger Man to Kitty Stobling: A Brief Look Back at the 1950s – Caroline Magennis: Sexual Dissidents and Queer Space in Northern Irish Fiction – Eugene O’Brien: «Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse»: Catholicism, Deconstruction and Postmodernity in Contemporary Irish Culture – Jason King: Irish Multicultural Fiction: Metaphors of Miscegenation and Interracial Romance – Neil O’Boyle: Advertising, Media and Irish Identity: Reflections on the Celtic Tiger Period – Jennifer Way: O’Connell Street as the «Nation’s Main Street»: The Image of Ireland’s Modernity and Irelantis – Lucy Collins: Clearing the Air: Irish Women Poets and Environmental Change – Sylvie Mikowski: Nomadic Artists, Smooth Spaces and Lines of Flight: Reading Colum McCann through Joyce, and Deleuze and Guattari – Carmen Zamorano Llena: Multiculturalism and the Dark Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger: Redefinitions of Irishness in Contemporary Ireland – Michael Cronin: Inside Out: Time and Place in Global Ireland.

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