Sounding the Margins

Sarah Nolan Balen is President of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) and a lecturer in Literature at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), Dublin. She completed a doctoral thesis at the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin which analysed interconnections between the works of several city poets including Charles Baudelaire, Fernando Pessoa, T.S. Eliot and Peter Sirr – and has published on these and other poets. Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin – Tallaght Campus and general editor of the Reimagining Ireland and Studies in Franco-Irish Studies series with Peter Lang. His most recent book (with Eugene O’Brien) is Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century (2021) and he is currently working on a monograph on the Catholic Novel.

• Contents: Engaging the Margins – Grace Neville: Ça mange comme les Irlandais des pommes de terre: The Great Irish Famine Comes in from the Margins in French Literature – Joseph Heininger: Representing the Marginalized in Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Chosen Garden, Globe and The Five Quintets: Perspectives on Jean Vanier and Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Eamon Maher: Ministering on the Margins: Fictional Priests in the Work of Jean Sulivan and Colum McCann – Joan Dargan: Seeing and Surveillance: Periscope and Watchtower in Susan Howe and Paul Muldoon – Voicing the Margins – Sylvie Mikowski: Space, Place and the Non-human in Sara Baume’s Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2016) – Marie Mianowski: Margins and Marginalities in Ireland: Being Jewish and Irish in Ruth Gilligan’s Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan – Helen Penet: Hugo Hamilton’s Hand in the Fire: Exploring Ireland’s Marginalities through the Prism of Immigration – Eugene O’Brien: Paul Howard and the Celtic Tiger: A Voice from the «Morgins» – Pilar Villar-Argáiz: The Ethical Implications of Irish Transcultural Fiction: Representations of the Immigrant in Roisín O’Donnell’s Wild Quiet and Donal Ryan’s From a Low and Quiet Sea.