1st Edition
Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing Feminist Interventions and Imaginings
1. A Continuum of Women’s Writing: Reflections on the Post-Celtic Tiger Era
Claire Bracken and Tara Harney-Mahajan
2. Claire Kilroy: An Overview and an Interview (with a 2020 Addendum)
Mary Burke
3. "no difference between the different kinds of yesterday:" The Neoliberal Present in The Green Road, The Devil I Know, and The Lives of Women
Mary McGlynn
4. Transformative Tales for Recessionary Times: Emma Donoghue’s Room and Marian Keyes’ The Brightest Star in the Sky
Margaret O’Neill
5. Queer Possession and the Celtic Tiger: Affect and Economics in Belinda McKeon’s Tender
Patrick Mullen
6. Gina and the Kryptonite: Mortgage Shagging in Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz
Rachael Sealy Lynch
7. Waking the Feminists: Re-imagining the Space of the National Theatre in the Era of the Celtic Phoenix
Emer O'Toole
8. A Girl is A Half-formed Thing?: Girlhood, Trauma, and Resistance in Post-Tiger Irish Literature
Susan Cahill
9. Melatu Uche Okorie: An Introduction to her Work and a Conversation with the Author (with Preface: 2020 Update)
Sara Martín-Ruiz
10. This Hostel Life
Melatu Uche Okorie
Biography
Claire Bracken is Associate Professor in the English Department at Union College, New York, USA, where she teaches courses on Irish literature and film. She has published articles on Irish women’s writing, feminist criticism, and Irish cultural studies. She is co-editor of Anne Enright (Irish Academic Press, 2011) and Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts (Cork University Press, 2013). Her book, Irish Feminist Futures (2016), was published by Routledge as part of the Transformation series.
Tara Harney-Mahajan is Assistant Professor of English at Caldwell University, New Jersey, USA, where she teaches courses on Irish literature and Global Anglophone literature. Her research specializes in contemporary Irish and South Asian literature, and her scholarship has been published in journals such as Women’s Studies and New Hibernia Review. In the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series, she has a chapter forthcoming on representations of Ireland’s architecture of containment in recent films. She is also co-editor of the literary studies journal LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.
