Table of contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Irish Literature and Theatre at the Intersection of Tradition and Experimentation
Chapter 1: Re-Running the Rising: Centenary Stagings
Chapter 2: Fraught Bodily Topographies: Watching Eva O’Connor’s Mustard as Unintentional Covid Play
Chapter 3: “I always make a point of following the works of Mr Eliot”: Radical Tradition in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds
Chapter 4: Half-Formed Modernism: Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Chapter 5: Experimenting with Tradition: Elizabeth Bowen’s Literature Laboratory
Chapter 6: Memorials of the Irish West: John McHugh, Paul Durcan, and Harry Clifton
Chapter 7: Irish Native Autobiography: Tomás O’Crohan’s The Islandman
Chapter 8: Gaelic Masculinities: Violence and the Experiment with Realism in the Short Fiction of Daithí Ó Muirí
Chapter 9: Narrative Experimentation in Writing the Self and the Northern Irish Border: Liminal Spaces, Memory, and the Body in Kerri Ní Dochartaigh’s Memoir Thin Places
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
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