Discourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe

Maurice Fitzpatrick is a lecturer, film director, author, and visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Boys of St. Columb’s and John Hume in America: From Derry to DC.Christoph Reinfandt is professor of English literatures and cultures at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of Englische Romantik: Eine Einführung and Romantic Communication: On the Continuity of Romanticism in Modern Culture.Raphael Zähringer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of Hidden Topographies: Traces of Urban Reality in Dystopian Fiction.

"The collection stands as a valuable and much welcomed approach to the topic of unity, which deserves further study nowadays on an international scale." —Auxiliadora Pérez Vides, author of Only Them: Family and Feminism in the Contemporary Irish Novel"Discussing Irish unity at this time is not only desirable but necessary. For decades, the topic was deemed to be both unrealistic and subversive of peace and order on the island." —Liam O'Dowd, coeditor of Religion, Violence and Cities

• Introduction Maurice Fitzpatrick, Christoph Reinfandt, and Raphael Zähringer Part One. Philosophy and the Public Sphere 1. Unity beyond Sovereignty: Some Philosophical Reflections from an Irish Perspective Richard Kearney 2. Anarcho-Cosmopolitan Imaginings of a Future Ireland and Europe? The 1980s Public Intellectual Writings of Richard Kearney and a Europe of Regions Fergal Lenehan Part Two. Politics and the Public Sphere 3. Toward Irish Unity David Donoghue 4. Reconstructing the Good Friday Agreement on Social Media: Discourses of Unity and (Dis-)Alignment Patricia Ronan 5. Partition Revisited: On National Literatures and Reunification in the Late Capitalist and "Post-Literary" Era Joe Cleary Part Three. Literature and the Public Sphere 6. Working Models of Wholeness: Writers and the Peace Process Marilynn Richtarik 7. A Memorial to Hospitality: The Formal Challenge of Cherry Smith’s Poetic Sequence Famished on the Great Hunger Jessica Bundschuh 8. Between Unity and Dispersion: Irish and English Drama in Times of Brexit Michal Lachman 9. The Fractured Unity of the Nuclear Family: John McGahern’s Amongst Women Ralf Haekel 10. Family Fragments: Discourses of (Dis-)Unity in Anne Enright’s The Green Road Carolin Steinke 11. Haunted Terrain: Narrative Representations of Trauma in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland Galyna Hartischyn 12. Writing Home: Ethnic Minorities in Ireland, the Negotiation of Borders, and the Idea of Irish Unity in the Works of the "New Irish" Poets Gerold Sedlmayr 13. Strange Encounters? Narratives of (Comm)Unity and Frames of Perception in Melatu Uche Okorie’s "Under the Awning" Alessandra Boller List of Contributors Index