Werner Huber, Michael Böss, Catherine Maignant, Hedwig Schwall (eds.):

Irish Studies in Europe is the title of a new series of publications in Irish Studies. As the first two words of the title suggest, the projected thematic and methodological range of this series goes well beyond literary studies to include also aspects of social and cultural studies – in the most neutral sense, i.e. cultural studies as an advance over traditional academic disciplines such as, for example, civilisation or Landeskunde . The focus is, of course, on the island of Ireland (the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) as well as the Irish diaspora in all aspects of society, history, culture, literature, the arts, and the media.

Table of Contents

Full Volume
Preface
W. Huber; Introduction
A. Saddlemyer; John Synge in Context; or, Re-Positioning Synge: the Point of Balance
L. Pereira; 'The Death of an Author': Collaborative Voices in J.M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910)
E. D'hoker; The Contemporary First-Person Novel in Ireland: Renewal of an Old Tradition?
T. Casal; 'Frightened with my own hatred': Telling Violence in Jennifer Johnston's Fool's Sanctuary and The Invisible Worm
Y. Igoe; 'Northen and Troubled, Southern and Peaceful': Absence, Punishment and the Disappeared in Films on the North of Ireland
J. Erskine; Ulster-Scots History and Culture: a North Channel Perspective
M. Hill, E. Rooney; Representation and Responsibility: Women in Northen Ireland/the North of Ireland: A Conversation in Descant
A. Lobo; To Act or Not To Act: Parliamentary Representations of Irish Poverty in the 1830s
M. Böss; De Valera Remembering: a Study in Memory and Self-Representation
G. O'Keeffe-Vigneron; The Irish in Post-War Britain: towards Greater Visibility?
M.J. Breen; Deconstructing Media Reports of Sexual Abuse: an Analysis of Framing in Irish Print Media Coverage of Sexual Abuse
J. Mercereau; Public Representations of a Private Choice: Irish Daily Newspapers and the Referenda on Abortion of 1992 and 2002
C. Maignant: Faith and Responsibility in Contemporary Ireland
Notes on Contributors