Titlebook: Contemporary Irish Fiction; Themes, Tropes, Theo Liam Harte (Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies),Mich Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a divisio

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New Noises from the Woodshed: the Novels of Emma Donoghue,. Not only did Dorcey’s stories break a contemporary Irish fictional silence; their explicit and primary focus on the delights and difficulties of living as a lesbian in Ireland was a new departure in a national literature which had elided lesbians by consigning them to sub-plots, depicting them as

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Bourgeois Redemptions: the Fictions of Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson,mands which, in the final analysis, have a class character’.. For this reason, then, literature takes its place as part of the superstructural relations of production just as, concomitantly, it functions in the context of these relations. Indeed, to take the argument one step further, while it can b

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Reconfiguring Identities: Recent Northern Irish Fiction,rthern novelists have shown themselves equally adept at what Declan Kiberd, in another context, has termed ‘anticipatory illumination’,. and have been no less reluctant to respond imaginatively to the political changes taking place in the province. Many of their texts, too, claim a transformative ro

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High-Density Planning and Challenges,f rapid and far-reaching social and cultural change in the Republic, has deeply marked Ireland’s literary texts and compelled writers from all traditions not only to question inherited pieties and verities, but also the authority and efficacy of art itself. In their uncertainty about how to respond

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High-Density Planning and Challenges,moving in time as well as in space. Even as Martin was writing, new ‘Dublins’ were emerging — post-industrial sprawl, misplanned conurbation, heroin capital of Europe — a spatial organization incorporating a wide range of diverse and amorphous micro-communities: self-conscious bourgeoisie, increasin