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

This volume explores the impact of violence and resistance on Irish society, and their representations in fiction. Its fifteen chapters, divided into four sections, violence against women, against minorities, historical trauma, and violence in the context of The Troubles, offer new insights into the way violence has shaped Ireland's history.

Violence, in its myriad forms, is a central theme in contemporary Irish history and culture and has long been a preoccupation for writers of Irish narrative fiction. This volume investigates representations of and resistance to violence in the Irish novel, offering fresh insights into the field of Irish literary studies and exploring the enduring impact of conflict on Irish society and culture. Authored by fifteen experts in Irish studies, the book explores the multifaceted nature of violence, including its patriarchal manifestation, armed conflict, sectarianism, terrorism and colonialism. Organised into four thematic sections, this volume examines narratives that feature its effect on women; minorities; historical and intergenerational trauma; and the turbulent era of the Irish Troubles. It thereby presents a panoramic overview in Irish fiction of a subject that remains painfully timeless.

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Maria Gaviña-Costero is a lecturer at the Department of English and German at the University of Valencia (Spain). 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.

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Contents: Maria Gaviña-Costero: Introduction: The Impact of Violence on Irish Literature - Charlie Jorge: Times of Trouble and the Evil Stepmother in Charles Maturin's Fatal Revenge (1807) - Virginie Roche-Tiengo: The Violent Claustration of Irish Women in Brian Friel's Theatre - Madalina Armie: All That We Still Do Not Know or Want to Acknowledge: An Analysis of the Multi-layered Systems of Violence and Trauma in Donal Ryan's All We Shall Know - David Clark: 'No Visible Scars': Coercive Control in Irish Domestic Noir in Louise O'Neill's After the Silence - Marta Martín Amor: Overcoming Critical Amnesia: The (In)visibility of Institutional Violence in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These - Elisa Lima Abrantes: Representations of the Irish in the US Western Frontier in Days Without End by Sebastian Barry - Elena Cotta Ramusino: Narrative Strategies and the Persistence of Violence in The Pages by Hugo Hamilton - Giovanna Tallone: Mary O'Donnell's Empire and the Discourse of Violence - Angela Vaupel-Schwittay: International Conflict, Violence and Trauma in John Banville's Crime Novel April in Spain (2021) - Maria Butler: 'It's Bludeh Unnatural what they Get up to': How Marian Keyes' Last Chance Saloon Uses Cancer to Confront Homophobia - Esther de la Peña: Invisible Violence: Social Narratives in Erskine's Sweet Home and MacLaverty's Blank Pages and Other Stories - Maria Gaviña-Costero: The Related Discourses of History and Fiction: The Case of Anna Burns' Novels about Ardoyne - Galyna Hartischyn: Haunted Terrain: Narrative Representation of Trauma in Post-agreement Northern Ireland - Marisol Morales-Ladrón: Othering Reality: Magic Realism in Jan Carson's Malcolm Orange Disappears and The Fire Starters - Hedwig Schwall: Material and Immaterial Communications in Post-GFA Times: Rosemary Jenkinson's Love in the Times of Chaos.