Sally Rooney's second novel, Normal People (2018), tells the story of two teenagers who
become involved in a complicated sexual and affective relationship that lasts from their …

ABSTRACT This article analyses Donal Ryan's representation of individual and community
vulnerability in his three novels, The Spinning Heart (2012), The Thing About December …

The present article takes a look at recent developments within the field of contemporary Irish
fiction and the relation of these developments to the canon of Irish literature. It is not …

In recent times, the Irish literary arena has witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of women's
life writing, with a special interest in the examination of the female body. These works …

This article analyses Mike McCormack's novel Solar Bones (2016) which narrates in a run-
on sentence Marcus Conway's everyday life within the rural context of a 2008 Celtic Tiger …

Despite attempts to label her a postnationalist writer, Anne Enright's fiction is rooted in the
Irish landscape geographically, psychologically and emotionally. Enright reimagines …

Normal People, the TV series, aired in Ireland during the pandemic lockdown in spring 2020
and became an instant hit. This romantic drama, based on Sally Rooney's acclaimed novel …

National identities may be one of the most problematic aspects of Irish history, in part
because they can hardly be detached from the symbolic instrumentalisation of more-than …

This thesis extensively explores the nuanced depiction of the human-animal bond in
contemporary Irish literature, with a specific emphasis on works authored by women. The …

Through reading forms of domestic labour undertaken by the two daughter figures of Anne
Enright's 2015 novel, The Green Road, this article contends that the novel not only captures …