Representations of Loss in Irish Literature

1. Introduction: Defining Representations of Loss.- 2. 'In search of lost history: Embodied Memory and the Material Past in post-millennial Irish fiction'; Maria Beville.- 3. Holding on to 'rites, rhythms and rituals' Mike McCormack's homage to small town Irish life and death; Deirdre Flynn.- 4. Evental Time and The Untime in Finnegans Wake; Shahriyar Mansouri.- 5. 'It's only history': Post-Agreement Belfast in Rosemary Jenkinson's Short Fiction; Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado.- 6. 'A Pure Change Happened': Seamus Heaney and the Poetry of Loss; Eugene O'Brien.- 7. Lost? Technology and Place in Recent Irish Poetry; Anne Karhio.- 8. Resisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish EcoPoetry; Eoin Flannery.- 9. Grief, Guilt, and Ghosts: Fantastic Strategies of Staging Loss on the Contemporary Irish Stage; Eva Marie Kubin.- 10. 'The wake? What of it?': Figures of Loss in the Migrant Plays of Colm Ó Clubhán; Ed Madden.