Ireland, West to East

Aidan O’Malley teaches at the University of Rijeka and at the University of Zagreb, where he is establishing a Centre for Irish Studies. The author of Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing Contradictions (2011), he has also published articles and chapters on contemporary Irish literature and cultural translation. He has also edited a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies, ‘Myths of Europe: East of Venice’, that examines literary and cultural interactions between Central and Eastern Europe and the Anglophone world in the post-Cold War period. Eve Patten is Associate Professor of English and Head of School at Trinity College Dublin. She graduated from Oxford and completed her PhD at Trinity, then held a two-year Junior Fellowship at the Institute of Irish Studies in Queen’s University Belfast. She worked for several years for the British Council in Eastern Europe before returning to Trinity as a lecturer in 1996. She teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Irish writing, specializing in modern and contemporary Irish fiction in English and the literature of the Second World War. Her most recent publication is Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning’s Fictions of War (2012).

• Contents: Eve Patten/Aidan O’Malley: Introduction: Ireland: West to East – Barra Ó Seaghdha: A Journey Eastward: Reframing the History of Irish Classical Music – Lili Zách: Ireland, Czechoslovakia and the Question of Small Nations in the Context of Ireland’s Wartime Neutrality – Natalie Wynn: Irish-Jewish Constructs of Tsarist Eastern Europe – Philip Coleman: Writing Between: Hungarian Affinities in Contemporary Irish Poetry – Guy Woodward: ‘We must know more than Ireland’: John Hewitt and Eastern Europe – Borislav Knežević: An Exceptional Common Culture: Postcolonial Nostalgia and Ulysses – Tatjana Jukić: Between Auschwitz and Siberia: James Joyce, Danilo Kiš and a Zoning of Totalitarianism – Vital Voranau: Beckett Country: Irish Motifs in a Belarusian Landscape – Aidan O’Malley: Hubert Butler ‘In Europe’s Debatable Lands’ – Michael McAteer: From Ireland to Croatia: Hubert Butler and Alojzije Stepinac – Stipe Grgas: Hubert Butler’s Non-Presence in Croatia – John McCourt: Eastern European Images in the Irish Novel from Charles Lever to Colum McCann – Aisling McKeown: ‘A distraction in other people’s worlds’ or ‘an insider taking action’? The Representation of the Eastern European Male Migrant in Chris Binchy’s Open-handed and Hugo Hamilton’s Hand in the Fire – Mária Kurdi: Hungarian Migration to Ireland after the 1956 Revolution: Mark Collins’s Novel Stateless in the Celtic Tiger Context – Eglantina Remport: ‘History repeating’: From Belfast to Budapest in Glenn Patterson’s Number 5.