CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) BOUNDARIES, PASSAGES, TRANSITIONS: AN INTRODUCTION 1 TRANSITIONING BOUNDARIES 11 Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame) GOING GLOBAL? 13 Katherine Side (Memorial University of Newfoundland) UNGENEROUS, THOUGH NOT MEAN: THE SCHEME FOR THE PURCHASE OF EVACUATED DWELLINGS, BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND 25 DRAMA AND FILM 41 Stefanie Lehner (Queen's University Belfast) PERFORMING BELFAST: STEWART PARKER'S NORTHERN STAR (1984) AND PENTECOST (1987) 43 Stephanie Schwerter (University of Valenciennes) BEYOND THE TROUBLES: PARODY AND THE NORTHERN IRISH THRILLER IN CEASEFIRE CINEMA 55 Seán Crosson (National University of Ireland, Galway) GAELIC GAMES AND THE FILMS OF JOHN FORD 67 Jochen Achilles (University of Würzburg) INTERMEDIAL DRAMA AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF IRISH IDENTITIES 77 Ondrej Pilný (Charles University Prague) DID YOU LIKE HOW I MADE THAT TURN, OFFICER?: MARTIN MCDONAGH'S HANGMEN AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 91 Joan FitzPatrick Dean MARTIN MCDONAGH'S EPISTEMOLOGICAL INSTABILITY: THE NOOSE OF HANGMEN 101 Mária Kurdi (University of Pécs) POST-CELTIC TIGER CRISIS GENDERIZED AND THE ESCAPE TO VIRTUAL REALITIES IN NANCY HARRIS'S NO ROMANCE 113 FICTION 127 Gerry Smyth (John Moores University Liverpool) ANOTHER LISTEN TO THE MUSIC IN JAMES JOYCE'S A MOTHER 129 Paul Fagan (Salzburg University/University of Vienna) OUT OF JOINT: JAMES JOYCE AND 'IRISH TIME' 143 Tamara Radak (University of Vienna) 'SIGMUND FREUD ... ANALYZE THIS': THE JOYS OF FREUD AND THE 'CYCLOANNALISM' OF FINNEGANS WAKE 163 John McCourt (Macerata University) BEYOND ENGLAND: BRINGING IRELAND INTO THE VICTORIAN NOVEL, THE CASE OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE 179 Donatella Abbate Badin (University of Turin) THE SOUL WITHIN ME BURNED / ITALIA, MY ITALIA, AT THY NAME: WILDE'S EARLY POEMS AND HIS FASCINATION WITH ITALY 193 Elena Cotta Ramusino (University of Pavia) BEYOND TRANSITION: ELIZABETH BOWEN'S SEVEN WINTERS 209 Keith Hopper and Neil Murphy (University of Oxford and Nanyang Technical University, Singapore) THE HOUSE OF FICTION: DERMOT HEALY'S SHORT STORIES 219 Sylvie Mikowski (University of Reims-Champagne) RACE AND ETHNICITY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC: REVISING THE DISCOURSE OF NATION-BUILDING IN COLUM MCCANN'S TRANSATLANTIC, SEBASTIAN BARRY'S ON CANAAN'S SIDE AND COLM TÓIBÍN'S BROOKLYN 233 WERNER HUBER TESTIMONIES 245 The English department of the University of Vienna 247 Klaus Lubbers (Germany) 249 Catherine Maignant (France) 251 Filomena Louro (Portugal) 253 Giovanna Tallone (Italy) 255 Paul Fagan (Austria) 257 Seán Crosson (Ireland) 259 Notes on Contributors 261 Skryť popis