History in Stories: The Irish Past and the Challenges of the Present

Ina Bergmann is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany and co-head of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ).Maria Eisenmann is Professor of TEFL at the University of Würzburg, Germany and co-head of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ).

• Acknowledgements – Ina Bergmann & Maria Eisenmann - History in Stories: The Irish Past and the Challenges of the Present – Part I: History – Damian Bracken - Salvation Beyond the Empire: Patrick, Salvation History, and Ireland – Helmut Flachenecker - History in Stories: The Irish Benedictines in Ratisbon and Their – Attempts to Interest a New Audience About Ireland in the Twelfth Century – Beatrix Färber - Carl Gottlob Küttner: In Search of an Older Ireland – Part II: Literary and Cultural Studies – Jochen Achilles - Cautionary Tales: Deirdre Kinahan’s Dramatic Reassessment of Irish History in Raging (2022) – Antonios Smyrnaios - Transatlantic Quest: The Fusion of Immram and Initiation in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea (2003), Mary Pat Kelly’s Galway Bay (2009), and Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic (2013) – Anne- Sophie Hornung - An “American Idea”: Irish American Musical Theatre in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries – Hedwig Schwall - Resilient Women and the Belfast Blitz: Lucy Caldwell’s These Days (2022) – Raphaël Ingelbien - Brexit and the Remaking of Irish Diasporic Writing: Recovering Irish and European Pasts in Patrick McGuinness’s Throw Me to the Wolves – Miriam Wallraven - “Brexit, borders, barriers, identity”: Connected Forms of Liminality in Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Irish Memoir Thin Places – Franca Leitner - Houses with Histories: Ruins as Lieux d’Oubli in Tana French’s The Likeness (2008), Dervla McTiernan’s The Ruin (2018), and Stuart – Neville’s The House of Ashes (2021) – Maureen O’Connor - Moya Cannon’s Anthropocene Poetics: Writing the Knot That Binds Past, Present, and Future – Ina Bergmann - Irish History, Personal Memory and Stupid Ideas: A Conversation with Patrick Freyne – Part III: TEFL - Aimée Waha - “Irish Stories”: Ireland in German EFL Schoolbooks – Maria Eisenmann - Irish American History and Hybrid Identity: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn (2009) in the EFL Classroom – Maria Eisenmann - The Troubles: Kenneth Branagh’s Film Belfast (2021) in the EFL Classroom – Elke D’hoker - Teaching Language, Literature, and History Through Irish Short Stories: An Integrated and Dialogic EFL Approach – Manfred Schewe - Engaging with History Through Story: A Performative Perspective – List of Contributors