Éamonn Ó Ciardha is Senior Lecturer in the School of Irish Language and Literature at the Ulster University. Gabriela Vojvoda is a Research Assistant at the Visiting Professorship Europaicum and Lecturer at the University of the Saarland.

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• 1 Introduction Éamonn Ó Ciardha and Gabriela Vojvoda Section I The Impact of Empire on Ireland and the Balkans 2 ‘Dangerous Fumes’: Religion, Tobacco and the English Colonial Mind in the 17th Century Matthias Bähr 3 War and Division in the Golden Valley: Sarajevo's Twentieth Century Cathie Carmichael 4 The Lies My Diary Told: Use of Autobiography in the Study of Mixed Marriage in the Former Yugoslavia Fedja Burić 5 Traitors Within and Bridges across Derry and Mostar: An Exploratory Comparison Brendan O’Leary 6 War and a Herzegovinian town: Mostar’s Un-bridged Divisions Gerard Toal 7 Northern Ireland in a Balkan Perspective: The Cultural Dynamics of Complex Conflicts Jennifer Todd Section II City Infrastructure, Culture-specific Architecture and Natural Boundaries 8 Our Side, Their Side and All Those Places In-between: Neutrality and Place in a Divided City Ana Aceska 9 Rubbers, pens and crayons. Rebuilding Mostar though art interventions Giulia Carabelli 10 Mitrovica: A City (Re)shaped By Division Jaume Castan Pinos 11 The New "Old" Face of Skopje: Photo-Essay on the Rise and Demise of a Balkan City Rozita Dimova 12 The Neman River: The Multicultural Diversity of the River’s Space Rūta Eidukevičienė 13 Catchment Identity, Connections and Water Governance in the Contested Landscapes in Northwest Ireland Liam Campbell 14 The ‘New Ulster’ Project: Culture, Reform and Crisis 1945-72 James Loughlin 15 Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in an Already Divided Society: Dealing with ‘New’ Diversity in Northern Ireland Philip McDermott Section III Space, Place, Location and Border in the Literatures and Identities of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland 16 Trashing (Ethno-)Nationalism. Writing about the War in Contemporary Bosnian literature Elena Messner 17 A Funeral, a Wolf and Bruce Lee in Mostar: Revised Urban Contract and the Intersection of Time and Space Miranda Jakiša 18 Belfast Memories: Narrating the Self in Owen McCafferty’s Dramatic Oeuvre Eva Michely 19 (Re)locating Identities in the Post-Conflict Literatures of Mostar and Derry/Londonderry Gabriela Vojvoda