Ageing in Irish Writing

Heather Ingman is Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Her publications include Irish Women’s Fiction from Edgeworth to Enright (2013), A History of the Irish Short Story (2009), and Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender (2007). She is co-editor, with Clíona Ó Gallchoir, of A History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature, forthcoming 2018.

“Highly recommended for all Irish Studies collections and for many general collections.” (Donald E. Morse, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 26 (1), 2020)

• 1. Introduction: Gerontology and its Challenges.- 2. Ageing, Time and Aesthetics: Dorian Gray, W. B. Yeats and Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls.- 3. Resisting the Narrative of Decline: Molly Keane, Time After Time, Deirdre Madden Authenticity and Anne Enright The Green Road.- 4. Ageing, the Individual and the Community: Iris Murdoch, John Banville and John McGahern.- 5. A Voice of Their Own: Portraits of Old Age in the Irish Short Story.- 6. Frail Old Age.- 7. Epilogue: The Bedbound and Dying.