Contents: Edwina Keown/Carol Taaffe: Introduction: Ireland and Modernism – Jean-Michel Rabaté: Dublin, 1913: Irish Modernism and International Modernism – Jim Shanahan: ‘Vivid Irish History’: Frank Mathew’s The Wood of the Brambles and the Prehistory of Irish Modernist Fiction – Anne Markey: Modernism, Maunsel and the Irish Short Story – Michael McAteer: Expressionism, Ireland and the First World War: Yeats, O’Casey, McGuinness – Robert Baines: Seeing through the Mask: Valery Larbaud’s ‘James Joyce’ and the Problem of Irish Modernism – Karen E. Brown: Thomas MacGreevy and Irish Modernism: Between Word and Image – Eamonn Hughes: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction – Rhiannon Moss: Thomas MacGreevy, T.S. Eliot and Catholic Modernism in Ireland – Jennika Baines: A Rock and a Hard Place: Sweeny as Sisyphus and Job in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds – James Matthew Wilson: Late Modernism and the Marketplace in Denis Devlin’s The Heavenly Foreigner – Róisín Kennedy: Experimentalism or Mere Chaos? The White Stag Group and the Reception of Subjective Art in Ireland – Ellen Rowley: Transitional Modernism: The Case of 1950s Church Architecture in Dublin – Edwina Keown: New Horizons: Irish Aviation, Lemass and Deferred Anglo-Irish Modernism in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love.
The Editors: Edwina Keown holds an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Trinity
College Dublin and a B.A. (Hons) from Cardiff University. In 2007
she was the inaugural Lecturer in Irish Culture at Zagreb
University. She lectures in Irish and English literature at St
Patrick’s College, Dublin. Her research interests are in
Anglo-Irish literature, Irish modernism, British modernism and
twentieth-century Irish fiction and poetry.
Carol Taaffe holds a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin, where she
was later IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of English. In
2007-8 she was Lecturer in Irish and British Studies at Beijing
Foreign Studies University. She is the author of Ireland through
the Looking-Glass: Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish
Cultural Debate (2008).
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