No Country for Old Men

The Editors: Paddy Lyons is convenor for Irish literature at the University of Glasgow; he also holds a personal professorship at the University of Warsaw. He has published extensively on the literature of the Restoration, as well as in Irish Studies.Alison O’Malley-Younger is Senior Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Sunderland. She is founder of the annual Irish Studies conferences at the University of Sunderland and Director of the North East Irish Culture Network. She has published widely on Irish theatre.

• Contents: Paddy Lyons/Alison O’Malley-Younger: Introduction – Tom Herron: Learning How to Live: David Park’s The Truth Commissioner – José Lanters: ‘Nothing Is Ever Arrived At’: Otherness and Representation in Colum McCann’s Zoli – Paddy Lyons: The Montage of Semblance: Martin McDonagh’s Dramaturgy – Willy Maley: A Few Shakes of a Bard’s Tale: Some Recent Irish Appropriations of Shakespeare – Matt McGuire: Northern Irish Poetry in the Twenty-First Century – Britta Olinder: Art and the Artist in Deirdre Madden’s Fiction – Caroline Magennis: Interview with Glenn Patterson – Damien Shortt: ‘A River Runs Through It’: Irish History in Contemporary Fiction, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle – John Coyle: Flann O’Brien in the Devil Era: Building Hell in Heaven’s Despite – Barry Lewis: Joyce’s City of Remembering – Caroline Magennis: Sexual Dissidents and Queer Space in Northern Irish Fiction – Patrick Maume: Futures Past: The Science Fiction of Bob Shaw and James White as a Product of Late-Industrial Belfast – Claire Nally: ‘Protestant Suspicions of Catholic Duplicity’: Religious and Racial Constructs in Le Fanu and Yeats – Deirdre O’Byrne: ‘One of themselves’: Class Divisions in Eilis Dillon’s Blood Relations and The Bitter Glass – Alison O’Malley-Younger: ‘Dressing Up In Ascendancy Robes’: The Big House and Brian Friel’s Aristocrats – Terry Phillips: No Man’s Land: Irish Women Writers of the First World War.