The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

I. Narrative Imaginings: Between Ideology and Resistance

1. Counterfactual Geographies: Creating Urban Space in Post-Crash Irish Fiction

Liam Lanigan

2. Representations of Catholicism in Contemporary Irish Fiction

Eamon Maher

3. Four Recent Irish-language Novels, A Century after Pearse

M¡ire N­ Annrach¡in

4. Conversational Ethics and Aesthetics in the Contemporary Family Novel: Anne Enrightâs The Green Road (2015) and Donal Ryanâs The Queen of Dirt Island (2022)

Katharina Rennhak

5. Liquid Modernity and Twenty-First Century Irish Young Adult Fiction

Ian Hickey

6. The Biopolitics of Emotions and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary Irish Writing by Non-White Authors

Jun Du

7. Embodied Pasts and Precarious Futures: Somatic Storytelling in Trespasses (2022) and Close to Home (2023)

Caroline Magennis

8. The Ethics of Care in Sally Rooneyâs Novels: Between Self and Other

Mar­a Amor Barros-del R­o

9. âFeeling Cattyâ: Reading Animals in Short Stories by Contemporary Irish Women Writers

Anne Fogarty

II. A Poetics of the Unfinished and the Transformative

10. Remapping Ireland in Poems by Paula Cunningham, Eil©an N­ Chuilleana­n and Nithy Kasa

Lucy McDiarmid

11. Twenty-First Century Migrant Irish Poets in the UK: Martina Evans and Fran Lock

Ailbhe Darcy

12. âThe art of yieldingâ: Contemporary Irish Ecopoetics

Eoin Flannery

13. Wilful renewing: Tradition and Innovation in the work of Aifric Mac Aodha and S©amus Barra " Sºilleabh¡in

Ailbhe N­ Ghearbhuigh

14. Micheal OâSiadhail: Intersecting, Resonant and Polyglot Voices

Eugene OâBrien

15. Queer Poetry

Kit Fryatt

16. âThe Art of Losingâ: Ailbhe Darcyâs Ekphrastic Touch

Daniela Theinov¡

17. âEcho is dumbâ: Modes of Address and Generational Dialogue in Irish Poetry

David Wheatley

18 âMemory followed you / on the waterâ: Oceanic Perspectives in Contemporary Irish Womenâs Poetry

Lucy Collins

III. Theatrical Engagements and Critiques

19. Ecodramaturgy and the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Abbey Theatreâs Adaptation of Patrick Kavanaghâs The Great Hunger (2020)

Patrick Lonergan

20. THISISPOPBABY: Glorious Energy, Grief, and the Twenty-First Century Craic Tax

Martin Kenny and Miriam Haughton

21. Class Matters: Working-Class Theatre in the Wake of the Economic Crash

Clara Mallon

22. Talking about Sex in Twenty-First-Century Irish Prose and Performance

Paige Reynolds

23. Ethnotheatre in Northern Ireland: Research-Led Work by Kabosh Theatre Company

Lisa Fitzpatrick

24. Visceral Injustices in The Blue Boy (2011), Woman Undone (2018) and The Examination (2019) by Brokentalkers

Eamonn Jordan

25. Agonistic Spaces: Dissensus and Ethical Conflicts in Recent Irish Theatre

Clare Wallace

IV New Voices, New Forms, New Modes of Material Production

26. The Rise of Irelandâs Campus Novel

Deirdre Flynn

27. Irish Fantasy Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

Jack Fennell

28. The Personal Essay

Claire Lynch

29. Global Irish Crime Fiction in the Twenty-First Century: Expanding the Scope

Molly Slavin

30. Contemporary Irish Poetry off the Page

Julie Morrissy

31. Still Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Epochal Change in Twenty-First -Century Irish Poetry

Alexander Muller and Jefferson Holdridge

32. Changing Irish Identity: Black Writing in Contemporary Ireland

Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro and Victor Augusto da Cruz Pacheco

33. The Stinging Fly and Contemporary Irish Short Fiction

Elke Dâhoker

34. The Journal Era: Style and Twenty-First Century Irish Literary Magazines

Liam Harrison

35. Languages and Publishing in Contemporary Irish Writing

Tim Groenland and Margaret Kelleher