‘Lost, Unhappy and at Home’: The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture

Maria Gaviña-Costero is a lecturer at the English Department of the University of Valencia. Dina Pedro is Assistant Professor at the Department of English and German at the University of Valencia (Spain). Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill is a lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University (UK) specializing in theatre and screenwriting.

DÓNALL MAC CATHMHAOILL: Introduction: The Impact of Violence on Irish Culture – LUCA BERTOLANI AZEREDO: Manly Physique, Attractive Uniforms and Drill Manoeuvres – YANN BÉVANT: From the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit, an Assessment of Republican and Northern Irish Politics – PILAR IGLESIAS-APARICIO: Historical Institutional Abuse against Women in Ireland and Spain during the Twentieth Century – MARIE JONIETZ: ‘Dreamers Turned Fighters’: Celticism as an Ideological Foundation for Bloodshed and Self-sacrifice in the Easter Rising – SARA ROMERO OTERO: ‘Those who had no voice’: Ethnicity, Racism and Discrimination During and After the Northern Irish Troubles in Anna Lo’s The Place I Call Home – E. GUILLERMO IGLESIAS-DÍAZ: Beyond Sectarian Violence: Vulnerable Male Bodies in the Communitas through a Situated Gaze – DINA PEDRO: Representing the Aftermath of Ireland’s Great Famine in Neo-Victorianism on Screen: Colonization and Forced Diaspora in Carnival Row (2019–2023) – STEPHANIE SCHWERTER: The Experience of Political Violence in Belfast and Mickybo and Me – TIMOTHY J. WHITE: From the Troubles to a Troubled Peace: Representation of Violence in Recent Northern Irish Film – LISA FITZPATRICK: Gender, Activism, and Performance in Northern Ireland – DÓNALL MAC CATHMHAOILL: The Trouble with Trouble: Restaging Historic Acts of Violence – J. JAVIER TORRES-FERNÁNDEZ: Exploring LGBTIQA+ Violence, Trauma and Shame in A Cure for Homosexuality (2005) by Neil Watkins – SARA DE SOUSA: ‘This brute site’: Violence in the Mothering/Ageing Phenomenological Continuum in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Sinéad Morrissey – PRZEMYSLAW MICHALSKI: The Problem of Purposive Violence in Seamus Heaney’s Bog Poems – ROSANNE GALLENNE AND PAULA VILLALBA PÉREZ: Ways of Violence in Medbh McGuckian’s and Sinéad Morrissey’s Nature Poems.