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The first two decades of the 21st century were a time of rapid change, with Ireland becoming an island of cosmopolitan global adaptation, from which the pall of clerical authority had lifted; a society of enlightened debate and constitutional renewal, whose Europhile integration contrasted with its neighbour's Brexit Europhobia and xenophobia.
Yet as always, the country is stranger than we might imagine : the unanticipated surge in support for Sinn Féin in February 2020 is evidence that the present and the future of Ireland are indeed surprising and strange. Today's unpredictability is not unique to Ireland, but this book aims to draw out the specificities of the Irish present and its relationship to past history, memory and identity.
Ireland can be examined as the spectacular manifestation of an enduring singularity. Strange and also illuminating, because it is a small and peripheral territory, a "readable" site for the exploration of the political and cultural condition of our common world, two decades into the 21st century.
Several issues are examined through the prism of political and economic discourse, along with the practices of 21st century Irish literary and artistic creation.
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I. Liminal identities
Callum BATESON: 'Between an Ocean and a Rock': Exploring Liminality and Irish Identity in Song of the Sea (2014) - Némo GORECKI: An Mhuruch: Irishness and Transness through the Mermaid figure - Nuala Ní Dhomnhaill and Mia Gallagher - Léa SINOIMERI: Strange Soundscapes of Past and Present Migrations in Lucy Caldwell's Martians (2019) - Tom HEDLEY: Kafka's Belfast: Modernism, Metaphor and Magic in Jan Carson's The Fire Starters (2019)
II. Territory, sense of place, landscape and the arts
Danielle BARAKA: The representation of rural Ireland through Irish photography and cinema from the Celtic Tiger years to the present day: the emergence of plural counter-cartographies - Helen PENET: Photography, memorialising and bearing witness in Dermot Bolger's A Second Life - Dennin ELLIS: Late capitalism meets gas cuntism: the Rubberbandits
III. Memory Politics in post-Troubles Ireland
Frédéric ARMAO: Robinson, McAleese, Higgins: The Fire Festivals of reconciliation - Émilie BERTHILLOT: Shootings and Intimidations versus Undercover Surveillance Operations: a Post-Devolution Northern Ireland - Fabrice MOURLON: Turning the Page and Closing the Book: Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 - Nathalie SEBBANE: The cultural aftermath of the Magdalene Laundries in contemporary Irish culture and memory.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Flore Coulouma is Associate Professor in Anglophone Studies, Université Paris Nanterre
Cornelius Crowley is Emeritus Professor of British Studies, Université Paris Nanterre
Florence Schneider is Associate Professor in Anglophone Studies, Université Paris Nanterre
