Urban and Rural Landscapes in Modern Ireland

Irene Gilsenan Nordin is Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden, and is originally from Co. Meath, Ireland. She is founder and Director of DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies) and former president of the Nordic Irish Studies Network. She is co-founder and literary editor of Nordic Irish Studies.Carmen Zamorano Llena is Associate Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden, and previously taught at the University of Lleida, Spain. Her current research focuses on literary representations of postnationalist identity, ageing, and the migrant experience in contemporary Irish and British fiction.

• Contents: Irene Gilsenan Nordin/Carmen Zamorano Llena: Introduction: The Urban and the Rural in the Irish Collective Imaginary – Raymond Hickey: Rural and Urban Ireland: A Question of Language? – Kevin McCafferty: Belfastards and Derriers - Culchies at Heart? Urban and Rural Influences in Northern Irish English – Kieran Keohane: Ireland’s Haunted Landscape: From the Deserted Homes of the ‘Faithful Departed’ to the Post-Celtic Tiger Social Desert – Catherine Nash: ‘But the Land Itself Does Not Really Change’: Diasporic Negotiations of Ancestral Connection and Difference in Ireland – Britta Olinder: The Glens of Antrim and the Streets of Belfast in John Hewitt’s Poetry – Hedda Friberg-Harnesk: Between ‘Pavements Grey’ and Nature’s Shades of Green: Rural and Urban Landscapes in Liam O’Flaherty’s Novels – Irene Gilsenan Nordin: ‘The Habits of Attention’: Landscape and Place. An Interview with Moya Cannon – Anne Karhio: The City in a Raindrop: The Urban Ecology of Paula Meehan – Taffy Martin: ‘Churning Land to Liquid’: Landscape and Memory in the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella – Katharina Walter: ‘Lilac Rooting in the Coldest Part of Ocean’: The Topography of Maternity in Eavan Boland’s Domestic Violence.