07 Introduction
09 Interviewing Roxana Silbert and Tessa Walker from Paines Plough
Munira H. Mutran
19 Interviewing Ciaran Carson
María Graciela Eliggi and María Graciela Adamoli
Theatre
27 From Playboys to Disco Pigs: Irish Identities on a World Stage
Linda Gunn
39 Elizabeth Kuti’s Treehouses: Toward a new definition of Irish Theatre
Charlotte J. Headrick
47 Rewriting the “caoineadh”: Dermot Bolger’s The Lament for Arthur Cleary
Giovanna Tallone
Fiction
63 The Aleph and the Labyrinth
Carlos Gamerro
73 Translating James Joyce’s Dubliners: Confronting Literalness and Revision
José Roberto O’Shea
77 Irish Women’s Migrant Writing: George Egerton’s The Wheel of God (1898)
Tina O’Toole
89 Childhoods in Irish writing
Noriko Ito
Culture and History
99 Irish Society and Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Fintan O’Toole
111 Representing Ireland in the Periodical Press During 1848
Malcolm Ballin
Poetry
127 Matrophobia or Matrocompliance?: Motherhood as ‘Experience and Institution’ in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan
Pilar Villar Argáiz
147 Perceptions of Contemporary Ireland in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Luci Collin Lavalle
165 Irish Neutrality: Louis MacNeice’s Poetic Politics at the Outset of “The Emergency”
Matthew Schultz
The Irish in South America
183 Unframing the Black. Diaries of Roger Casement
Angus Mitchell
Voices from Brazil
205 Notes on Four Texts by Ana Cristina Cesar
Viviana Bosi
Reviews
217 Irish Cinema: The Last Decade
Lance Pettitt
221 Ondřej Pilnýs Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama
Mária Kurdi
225 Chris Arthur’s Words of the Grey Wind
Luci Collin Lavalle
229 Manuela Palacios and Laura Logo’s Writing Bonds: Irish and Galician Contemporary
Women Poets and Manuela Palacios González and Helena González Fernández’s
Palabras extremas: Escritoras gallegas e irlandesas de hoy
Gisele Giandoni Wolkoff
233 Ciaran Carson’s The Pen Friend
Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação
237 Books Received
239 Contributors