Tom Herron is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Irish Writing London is, in both of its impressive, high-powered volumes, a tour de force of critical and analytical insight and originality . . . . The reader comes away seeing London from the inside but with different lenses, and so becomes aware of a wholly different vision and understanding of the cityscape. Together, the two volumes of Irish Writing London present an unimpeachable case for being considered the nonpareil of critical intervention on the modern metropolis.’

• Introduction: The London-Irish - Insiders/Outsiders, Tom Herron \ Notes on Contributors \ Timeline \ 1. Gaelic London and London Gaels in Donall MacAmhlaigh’s An Irish Navvy, Jean-Philippe Hentz \ 2. Borstal Boys and Cockney Chinas, Claire Lynch \ 3. What she lost and how: Eavan Boland’s London childhood, Lucy Collins \ 4. Aliens: London in Irish women's writing, Heather Ingman \ 5. Netherworld: London in John McGahern's Fiction Grace Tighe Ledwidge \ 6. Displaced diasporas: From Deoraíocht to Kings, Éadaoin Ni Mhuircheartaigh \ 7. Persistence of memory: an exegesis of exile in I Could Read the Sky, Thomas O’Grady \ 8. Troubled Tales: Short Stories about the Irish in 1970s London, Tony Murray \ 9. Going Transmetropolitan in the County Hell: Shane MacGowan's Early London Lyrics, J. Greg Matthews \ Bibliography \ Index

Tom Herron is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Irish Writing London is, in both of its impressive, high-powered volumes, a tour de force of critical and analytical insight and originality . . . . The reader comes away seeing London from the inside but with different lenses, and so becomes aware of a wholly different vision and understanding of the cityscape. Together, the two volumes of Irish Writing London present an unimpeachable case for being considered the nonpareil of critical intervention on the modern metropolis.’

• Introduction: The London-Irish - Insiders/Outsiders, Tom Herron \ Notes on Contributors \ Timeline \ 1. Gaelic London and London Gaels in Donall MacAmhlaigh’s An Irish Navvy, Jean-Philippe Hentz \ 2. Borstal Boys and Cockney Chinas, Claire Lynch \ 3. What she lost and how: Eavan Boland’s London childhood, Lucy Collins \ 4. Aliens: London in Irish women's writing, Heather Ingman \ 5. Netherworld: London in John McGahern's Fiction Grace Tighe Ledwidge \ 6. Displaced diasporas: From Deoraíocht to Kings, Éadaoin Ni Mhuircheartaigh \ 7. Persistence of memory: an exegesis of exile in I Could Read the Sky, Thomas O’Grady \ 8. Troubled Tales: Short Stories about the Irish in 1970s London, Tony Murray \ 9. Going Transmetropolitan in the County Hell: Shane MacGowan's Early London Lyrics, J. Greg Matthews \ Bibliography \ Index

Tom Herron is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Irish Writing London is, in both of its impressive, high-powered volumes, a tour de force of critical and analytical insight and originality . . . . The reader comes away seeing London from the inside but with different lenses, and so becomes aware of a wholly different vision and understanding of the cityscape. Together, the two volumes of Irish Writing London present an unimpeachable case for being considered the nonpareil of critical intervention on the modern metropolis.’

• Introduction: The London-Irish - Insiders/Outsiders, Tom Herron \ Notes on Contributors \ Timeline \ 1. Gaelic London and London Gaels in Donall MacAmhlaigh’s An Irish Navvy, Jean-Philippe Hentz \ 2. Borstal Boys and Cockney Chinas, Claire Lynch \ 3. What she lost and how: Eavan Boland’s London childhood, Lucy Collins \ 4. Aliens: London in Irish women's writing, Heather Ingman \ 5. Netherworld: London in John McGahern's Fiction Grace Tighe Ledwidge \ 6. Displaced diasporas: From Deoraíocht to Kings, Éadaoin Ni Mhuircheartaigh \ 7. Persistence of memory: an exegesis of exile in I Could Read the Sky, Thomas O’Grady \ 8. Troubled Tales: Short Stories about the Irish in 1970s London, Tony Murray \ 9. Going Transmetropolitan in the County Hell: Shane MacGowan's Early London Lyrics, J. Greg Matthews \ Bibliography \ Index