Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan is the inaugural Mary A. Carroll Endowed Professor in Arts and Sciences at Le Moyne College. She is the author of Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel and Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín.Derek Hand is the executive dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences at Dublin City University. He is the author of A History of the Irish Novel and John Banville: Exploring Fictions.Neil Murphy is professor of English at Nanyang Technological University. He is the author of John Banville and Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt.

"This collection, covering forty years of exceptional output in the contemporary Irish novel, is an invaluable resource for students and academics alike." —Eamon Maher, editor of Cultural Perspectives on Globalization"This edited collection offers a much-needed, updated overview of contemporary narratives, paying particular attention to textual and discursive experimentation as a mirror of transformations in contemporary Irish society." —Pilar Villar-Argáiz, author of Eavan Boland’s Evolution as an Irish Woman Poet: An Outsider Within an Outsider’s Culture

Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan is the inaugural Mary A. Carroll Endowed Professor in Arts and Sciences at Le Moyne College. She is the author of Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel and Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín.Derek Hand is the executive dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences at Dublin City University. He is the author of A History of the Irish Novel and John Banville: Exploring Fictions.Neil Murphy is professor of English at Nanyang Technological University. He is the author of John Banville and Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt.

"This collection, covering forty years of exceptional output in the contemporary Irish novel, is an invaluable resource for students and academics alike." —Eamon Maher, editor of Cultural Perspectives on Globalization"This edited collection offers a much-needed, updated overview of contemporary narratives, paying particular attention to textual and discursive experimentation as a mirror of transformations in contemporary Irish society." —Pilar Villar-Argáiz, author of Eavan Boland’s Evolution as an Irish Woman Poet: An Outsider Within an Outsider’s Culture