Huber, Werner; Mayer, Sandra; Novak, Julia (eds.)

“Hibernicise Europe and Europeanise Ireland” 1 – this apocryphal quotation from James Joyce seemed a good motto for an EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) conference precipitating a volume of essays on Irish-European cross-currents and exchanges. Vienna as the venue for that conference (University of Vienna, 3-6 September 2009) and the editors’ home base also evinced its potential as a place of exchange and negotiation. Ever since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Austria in general and Vienna in particular have been branded and promoted as the hub, cross-roads, and marketplace of a redefined Central Europe.

Table of Contents

Full volume
W. Huber, S. Mayer, J. Novak; Introduction
S. Heaney; Mossbawn via Mantua: Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges
B. Freitag; Hy Brasil: Cartographic Error, Celtic Elysium, or the New Jerusalem?
E. Remport; "My Change of Character": Rousseauisme and Maria Edgeworth's Ennui
G. Vöo; The Rise of the Hungarian Dandy
S. A. O'Connell; Published in Paris: Samuel Beckett, George Reavey, and the Europa Press
U. A. Mittermaier; Franco's Spain: a Dubious Refuge for the Poets of the 'Irish Beat Generation' in the 1960s
S. Heinz; From Utopia to Heterotopia: Irish Writers Narrating the Spanish Civil War
M. G. Cronin; Fantastic Longings: The Moral Cartography of Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle
E. Maher; John Broderick and the French Catholic Novel
C. Luppino; A Fruitful Exchange
M. Schrage-Früh; "Aren't We Citizens of the World?"
H. Friberg-Harnesk; A Clearing in Inferno: Banvillean Constructions of Prague in Prague Pictures and Kepler
A. Vaupel; Exile, Migration, and 'The Other' in Contemporary Irish Writing
J. FitzGerald; Two Recessions and a Boom: Where Next for Ireland?
A. Groutel; Whither the State?: The Recent Evolution of the Role of the State in Ireland
C. Maignant; Ireland and European Post-Secularism
C. Dubois; The Representation of Ireland in Two Nineteenth-Century French Journals
A. O'Malley-Younger; The Business of Pleasure: Modernity, Marketing, and Music Hall in Fin-de-Siècle Ireland
G. O'Keeffe-Vigneron; The Irish Continental Europe and Ireland: Sustained Connectedness across a Virtual Diaspora Space?
T.S. Illés; Mutational Patterns in the Teaching of Irish as a Foreign Language at the University of Vienna
L. Lelourec; Promoting Mutual Understanding and/or Enriching the Curriculum?
Notes on Contributors