Ondřej Pilný, Radvan Markus, Daniela Theinová, James Little (eds.) 2022

Ranging across the fields of history, literary studies, music studies, theatre and performance studies, film studies, media studies, and the study of material culture, this volume provides a snapshot of some of the most exciting emerging European research on Ireland. The essays gathered here approach Ireland as an interface, a locus that allows intercultural exchange, examining contact zones with other cultures as sites of productive and mutually enriching dialogue. Featuring three sections – Transnational and Intercultural Interactions, Dialogues with the Past, and Hauntings and Traumas – the collection aims at a discussion and further development of interdisciplinary dialogues in Irish studies, treating the frontiers of disciplines, research areas, and methodologies as interfaces that are changing how we understand Ireland past, present, and future. This dimension of the book is enhanced by two extensive interviews with renowned Irish documentary film-makers (Alan Gilsenan, Gillian Marsh, and Pat Collins) and leading performance practitioners and activists (Lian Bell and Maeve Stone). 

Table of Contents 

Full Volume
J. Little; Introduction
G. Titley; The Strange Life of Free Speech Today: A Transnational Reflection on Nationalism, Racism and Noise
M. Bourdeau; Transcultural Dialogue through Connection: Storytelling as a Hopeful Interface in Colum McCann's Apeirogon
J. Achilles; Synge’s Playboy as Intercultural Contact Zone: The Globalization of the Western World
V. Halama; From Director to Coordinator: The Irish State and the Official Commemoration of the Easter Rising in 1966 and 2016
S. Curley Meyer; Women, War, and Wearable History: Winifred Carney, Grace Gifford- Plunkett, and a Classically Inspired Cameo B
M. McAuliffe; A “Woman’s Doom”: Class and Gendered Violence during the War of Independence
R. Andrews; Digital Witnessing as Memory Work: The Case of Bessborough Planning Hearing
M. Lydon; A Popular Centenary: Irish Popular Music's Re-interpretation of the 1916 Rising
A. Falkenau; Intersections, Confluence, and Embodiment of Irish Traditional and Folk Music Revivals: Galway, 1961-1981
S. Crosson (Chair); Roundtable on Irish Documentary Cinema with A. Gilsenan, G. Marsh, and P. Collins
C. Wallace (Chair); Art-making, Activism, and Collaboration: Plenary Conversation with Lien Bell and Maeve Stone
L. Ní Choistealbha; “I’m Their Ghost”: Trauma, Radiance, and the Macabre in Anthony Glavin's "Living In Hiroshima"
R. Markus; The Epidemic and the Carnivalesque: Ó Cadhain's Unpublished Play Typhus
A. Boller; “Ties Constitute What We Are”: Haunted Gender and Class Identities in Post-Celtic Tiger Narratives of Community
J. Bundschuh; Post-Agreement Border Infringements and Listicle Framing in Michelle Gallen's Big Girl, Small Town
List of Contributors