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Early Modern Catholic Women and Mobility
This entry considers the impact of religion on the mobility of Catholic English women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The legislation...
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Early Modern Women Writers in Ireland
Early modern Ireland was a multilingual, fractious place, peopled by Irish Gaelic-speaking natives, bilingual Norman descendants, and anglophone...
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The Story of Tuberculosis in Ireland: An Overview
This chapter presents an overview of Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction. I seek to place the history...
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Forging the medieval amidst loss: The Public Record Office of Ireland and Ireland’s medieval history
In the aftermath of the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland (PROI) in June 1922 during the opening battle of the Irish Civil War, and...
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The Nameless Scourge: Tuberculosis in Ireland, 1800–the Present
The scourge of tuberculosis has long loomed large in world history, and perhaps our ongoing grappling with COVID-19 turns our thoughts to the...
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Ireland in Fascist Italy
This chapter describes how Ireland’s partial independence was mirrored in the images of the country that circulated in Italy, especially from the...
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Introduction: America and Northern Ireland
This chapter explores the broad conceptions of Northern Irish and American writing which Heaney absorbed as a young student and poet in Belfast....
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Introduction: Imagining Ireland in Italy
In the introduction, I argue that the specificity of Irish literature is perceived in Italy only through a tight entanglement of political, literary,...
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The Anticolonial Heart of Rural Ireland: Possession and Dispossession in Bram Stoker’s Short Fiction
The usage of physical spaces as decolonising tools has long been attested by postcolonial theory. Both Boehmer (Colonial and Postcolonial Literature....
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Godwin, Ireland, and Historical Tragedy
This chapter places William Godwin’s historical tragedy Abbas, King of Persia (1801) in the context of the Act of Union (1801) of Britain and...
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The Unspoken Menace
Representations of tuberculosis in early nineteenth-century Irish fiction stand in marked contrast with later writing. They are notable for the...
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From Regional Remembrance to Transatlantic Heritage: The Transportability of Famine Memory in Fiction by Mary Anne Sadlier, Anna Dorsey, and Alice Nolan
This chapter examines Famine fiction by women writers who contributed extensively to the literary landscape of the Irish Famine diaspora: Mary Anne...
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Introduction
This introduction contextualizes the massive Irish Famine diaspora to the United States from the perspective of gender. What has so far been...
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Irish Sentimentality and White Racial Projects in the Civil War Novels of Mary Anne Sadlier and Mary L. Meaney
In their Civil War-era novels, Mary Anne Sadlier and Mary L. Meaney assert Irish whiteness on the one hand through tropes of Europeanness,...
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English and Irish Missionaries in New Spain: A Hydrocolonial Reading of Religion and Empire
This essay examines the lives and maritime crossings of two early modern missionaries—one Irish and one English—who represent a small but significant...
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Ireland’s Languages of Landscape
Ireland has a culture of dindsenchas, or place-lore, dating from ancient courts of High Kings. Mythical cycles feature superhumans and rove the...
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Early Irlandesisti
This chapter discusses the images of Ireland that were disseminated by Italian irlandesisti in the first two decades of the century. It primarily...
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“Six Thousand Half Forgotten Victims”: Mary Anne Sadlier, Contested Famine Memory, and French-Canadians
This chapter examines why Mary Anne Sadlier did not write about her eyewitness impressions of the Irish Famine migration to Montreal in 1847 until...
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Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction Silences that Speak
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which...