Representations of Loss in Irish Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction: Defining Representations of Loss

Chapter 2 In Search of Lost History: Embodied Memory and the Material Past in Post-millennial Irish Fiction

Chapter 3 Holding on to ‘Rites, Rhythms and Rituals’: Mike McCormack’s Homage to Small Town Irish Life and Death

Chapter 4 Evental Time and the Untime in Finnegans Wake

Chapter 6 ‘A Pure Change Happened’: Seamus Heaney and the Poetry of Loss

Chapter 7 Lost? Technology and Place in Recent Irish Poetry

Chapter 8 Resisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish EcoPoetry

Chapter 9 Grief, Guilt, and Ghosts: Fantastic Strategies of Staging Loss on the Contemporary Irish Stage

Chapter 10 ‘The Wake? What of It?’: Figures of Loss in the Migrant Plays of Colm Ó Clubhán