The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture

Chapter 2 Where Does It Hurt? How Pain Makes History in Early Modern Ireland

Chapter 3 ‘Most barbarously and inhumaine maner butchered’: Masculinity, Trauma, and Memory in Early Modern Ireland’

Chapter 4 ‘Those Savage Days of Memory’: John Temple and His Narrative of the 1641 Uprising

Chapter 5 Severed Heads and Floggings: The Undermining of Oblivion in Ulster in the Aftermath of 1798

Chapter 6 ‘Tá mé ag imeacht’: The Execution of Myles Joyce and Its Afterlives

Chapter 7 Pain, Trauma, and Memory in the Irish War of Independence: Remembering and Contextualising Irish Suffering

Chapter 8 Pain, Pleasure, and Revolution: The Body in Roger Casement’s Writings

Chapter 9 ‘Targets of Shame’: Negotiating the Irish Female Migrant Experience in Kathleen Nevin’s You’ll Never Go Back (1946) and Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936)

Chapter 10 ‘Intertextual Quotation’: Troubled Irish Bodies and Jewish Intertextual Memory in Colum McCann’s ‘Cathal’s Lake’ and ‘Hunger Strike’

Chapter 11 The Vulnerable Body on Stage: Reading Interpersonal Violence in Rape as Metaphor

Chapter 12 Recovery and Forgetting: Haunting Remains in Northern Irish Culture

Chapter 13 ‘That’s not so comfortable for you, is it?’: The Spectre of Misogyny in The Fall

Chapter 14 ‘The Art of Grief’: Irish Women’s Poetry of Loss and Healing