Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama

Marc C. Conner is the President of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA, where he is also professor of English. Julie Grossman is Professor of English and Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College, USA.R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature emeritus at Clemson University, USA, where he taught from 1995-2019.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Filming Global Ireland: Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments.- Chapter 3: The Riddle of the Models of John Carney’s Sing Street (2016).- Chapter 4:  The Women Incarnate of Words Upon the Window Pane.- Chapter 5: Mouth Not Eye: Neil Jordan’s Adaptation of Beckett’s Not I.- Chapter 6: Re: Imagining Ulysses.- Chapter 7:  One Beetle Recognizes Another: translation, transformation, transgression in Cartoon Saloon’s film The Secret of Kells.- Chapter 8: Bad Da’s: Rewriting Fatherhood in Breakfast on Pluto.- Chapter 9: What Richard Did: Sort of Adapting Irish History.- Chapter 10: Plagues of Silence: Adaptation and Agency in Colm Tóibín’s and John Crowley’s Brooklyns.- Chapter 11: The Program, Seven Deadly Sins, and Stephen Frears.- Chapter 12: An Un-retrieval Sacrificial/Penitent Sensibility in the Diasporic Films of John Michael and Martin McDonagh.- Chapter 13: ’How should we remember what happened?’: Cultural Representations of Institutional Abuse in Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture.