Issues
Contents
Literature
Fran Brearton
‘Ploughing by the Tail’: Longley, Muldoon, and Anxiety of Influence
Scott Brewster
‘Something Else, then Something Else Again’. Transformation and Translation in Paul Muldoon
Elin Holmsten
‘Those Deeply Carnal Moments’: The Hermeneutics of Flesh in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry
Ake Persson
Polishing the Working-Class?: A Sociolinguistic Reading of Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy and Later Fiction
Maryna Romanets
Degenerating the Myth of Transhistorical Masculinity: Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s C6t Chulainn Cycle
Politics, Society, Culture
Michael Breen and Eoin Devereux
Setting up Margins: Public Attitudes and Media Construction of Poverty and Exclusion in Ireland
Dorte Kulle
Where’s the Middle? The ‘Less-Aligned’ in a Context of Absolutes: An Anthropological Perspective on Identities in Northern Ireland
Nils Arne Sorensen
Commemorating the Great War in Ireland and the Trentino: An Essay in Comparative History
Book Reviews
Billy Gray
Chris Anderson’s The Billy Boy: The Life and Death of L. V.F. Leader Billy Wright
Irene Gilsenan Nordin
‘The Uncatchable Mystery of Being’: Chris Arthur’s Irish Willow
Tommy P. Christensen
Michael Brss’ Irland efter hungersnoden: Visioner og virkelighed
Heidi Hansson
Other Voices, Other Words: The Field Day Anthology of Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions
Thomas Korthals
Joachim Fischer’ s Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890-1939: Geschichte, Form, Fiktion
Thomas Korthals
Glenn Hooper (ed.), The Tourist’s Gaze. Travellers to Ireland