Breaking the Mould

The concepts of Ireland and 'Irishness' are in constant flux in the wake of an ever-increasing reappraisal of the notion of cultural and national specificity in a world assailed from all angles by the forces of globalisation and uniformity. interrogates Ireland's past and present and suggests possibilities for the future by looking at Ireland's literature, culture and history and subjecting them to the most up-to-date critical appraisals associated with sociology, literary theory, historiography, political science and theology.

Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght. He is currently completing a monograph entitled . Eugene O’Brien is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. His previous publications include (2009).

Contents: Eamon Maher/Eugene O’Brien: Introduction – Jeanne I. Lakatos: The Semiotic Theory of Iconic Realism and Cultural Dissonance in de Meun’s and de Lorris’s and James Joyce’s – Cathy McGlynn: ‘In the buginning is the woid’: Creation, Paternity and the Logos in Joyce’s – Mary Pierse: The Donkey and the Sabbath – Sharon Tighe-Mooney: Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O’Brien’s – Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka: Catholic Agnostic - Kate O’Brien – James Silas Rogers: Edwin O’Connor’s Language of Grace – Eamon Maher: Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) – Peter Guy: ‘Earth’s Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with God’: Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern – Eugene O’Brien: ‘Any Catholics among you …?’: Seamus Heaney and the Real of Catholicism – John McDonagh: ‘Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain’: Revision and Catholicism in the Poetry of Paul Durcan – Victor Merriman: ‘To sleep is safe, to dream is dangerous’: Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland – Tony Corbett: Effing the Ineffable: Brian Friel’s and the Interrogation of Transcendence. Inhaltsverzeichnis