Polish-Irish Encounters in the Old and New Europe

Sabine Egger is a Lecturer in the Department of German Studies at Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick). She holds a PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin and has published on memory in East German writing, questions of identity in twentieth-century German and Irish literature and culture, and the teaching and learning of intercultural awareness. Her book From the Margins to the Centre: Irish Perspectives on Swiss Culture and Literature, edited with Patrick Studer, was published by Peter Lang in 2007.John McDonagh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick). He is the author of Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts (2004) and editor, with Stephen Newman, of Michael Hartnett Remembered (2006). His latest book, A Fine Statement: An Irish Poets’ Anthology, was published in 2008.

• Contents: John Belchem: Patterns of Mobility: Irish and Polish Migration in Comparative Historical Perspective – Róisín Healy: Religion and Rebellion: The Catholic Church in Ireland and Poland from 1848 to 1867 – Paul McNamara: Sean Lester and Polish Foreign Policy in the Free City of Danzig, 1934-1937 – Jonathan Murphy: ‘Common Resolutions to Common Problems?’ Drawing Parallels between Irish and Polish Experiences with Frontier Issues in the Twentieth Century – John Merchant: Universal Identities and Local Realities: Young Poland’s (Mis)readings of Synge – Robert Looby: Politics and the Reception of Irish Drama in Post-War Poland – Joanna Rostek: From a Polish in Dublin to Polish Dublin: Retracing Changing Migratory Patterns in Two Recent ‘Dublin Novels’ by Polish Migrants – Patrick Nugent: Ireland’s Symbolic Landscapes: A Polish Perspective – Bartlomiej Walczak: School, Family and EU-migration: Sociological and Educational Implications – Liliana Kalinowska: Systems in Process: A Historical Review of Polish and Irish Early Childhood Education – Joanna Baumgart/Fiona Farr: Polish Teenagers’ Integration into Irish Secondary Schools: Language, Culture and Support Systems – Ewelina Debaene/Romana Kopečková: Adult Learners Encountering the Polish Language in Ireland – Rozalia Ligus: ‘Adult Children’ of Emigrants and their Migration Experience – Tomasz Kamusella: Immigrants, Migrants or New Irish? – Nanette Schuppers: An Initial Report on the Integration of Polish Migrants in Ireland: The Issues of Language and Deskilling – Kinga Olszewska: Towards a Cosmopolitan Identity: ArtPolonia and the Aughnacloy Truagh European Schools Project – Simon Warren: Against Cosmopolitanism? A Theoretical Exploration of the Tensions between Irish-Speaking and Post-Nationalist Multicultural Ireland.