Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary fiction and sparked a global conversation about intimacy, politics, and the millennial condition. This new collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to offer fresh critical readings of Rooney’s influential novels, alongside adaptable strategies for teaching her work ...

This book focuses on the satirical practice of four contemporary Irish writers spanning over three decades: Patrick McCabe, Emer Martin, Alan McMonagle, and Naoise Dolan, and places these writers in the context of a tradition of Irish satirical writing. Drawing on seminal publications in satiric theory and recent research into satire of a more complex and rhetorical nature, the discussion engages with theories related to genre, gender (also viewed through a queer lens), the sociology of li...

The last two centuries of Irish history have seen great traumas that continue to affect Irish society.Through constructing cultural trauma, Irish society can recognize human pain and its source/s and become receptive to the idea of taking significant and responsible measures to remedy it. The intention of this volume is to show the mediating role of the literature and film scholar, the archivist, the social media professional, the historian, the musician, the artist and the poet in identif...