Affecting Irishness

The Editors: James P. Byrne is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Emerson College, Boston. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Massachusetts in 2000. He has recently co-edited the three-volume work Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (2008). Padraig Kirwan is currently Lecturer in the Literature of the Americas at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the University of California in 2002 and an Irish Research Council Scholar from 2000 to 2001. His work has appeared in a number of journals including the Journal of American Studies. Michael O'Sullivan is Assistant Professor of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His recent publications include Michel Henry: Incarnation, Barbarism and Belief (published by Peter Lang in 2006) and The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh (2008).

Contents: Raphaël Ingelbien: Irish Studies, the Postcolonial Paradigm and the Comparative Mandate - Oona Frawley: 'Who's he when he's at home?' Spenser and Irishness - Anne-Catherine Lobo: Irishness and the Body: The Presence of the Body in the Debates on Poverty in the Early Nineteenth Century - Linda M. Hagan: The Ulster-Scots and the 'Greening' of Ireland: A Precarious Belonging? - Niall O'Gallagher: 'Ma Right Insane Yirwanny Us Jimmy?': Irishness in Modern Scottish Writing - Carol Baraniuk: The Leid, the Pratoe and the Buik: Northern Cultural Markers in the Works of James Orr - Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh: 'No Rootless Colonist': John Hewitt's Regionalist Approach to Identity - Maureen T. Reddy: Representing Travellers - Jason King: Irish Multicultural Fiction: Metaphors of Miscegenation and Interracial Romance - Iris Lindahl-Raittila: Subversive Identities: Femininity, Sexuality and 'Irishness' in Novels by Edna O'Brien - Justin Carville: A 'Sympathetic Look': Documentary Humanism and Irish Identity in Dorothea Lange's 'Irish Country People' - Thomas W. Ihde: Irish-American Identity and the Irish Language - William H. Mulligan, Jr: Shades of Green and Orange: Irish Identity in Diaspora - Florence Schneider: Muldoon's Palimpsestic Irishness - Ruth Barton: The Voice of Pierce Brosnan - Daniel Tobin: Shades, Minstrel and Majestic - Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem: Self-Contradiction in a Small Place: Anne Devlin's 'Other at the Edge of Life'.