Ranging across the fields of history literary studies music studies theatre and performance
studies film studies media studies and the study of material culture this volume provides a
snapshot of some of the most exciting emerging European research on Ireland. The essays
gathered here approach Ireland as an interface a locus that allows intercultural exchange
examining contact zones with other cultures as sites of productive and mutually enriching
dialogue. Featuring three sections - Transnational and Intercultural Interactions Dialogues
with the Past and Hauntings and Traumas - the collection aims at a discussion and further
development of interdisciplinary dialogues in Irish studies treating the frontiers of
disciplines research areas and methodologies as interfaces that are changing how we
understand Ireland past present and future. This dimension of the book is enhanced by two
extensive interviews with renowned Irish documentary film-makers (Alan Gilsenan Gillian Marsh
and Pat Collins) and leading performance practitioners and activists (Lian Bell and Maeve
Stone). CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix JAMES LITTLE (Charles University Prague) Introduction 1
TRANSNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL INTERACTIONS GAVAN TITLEY (Maynooth University Swedish School
of Social Science University of Helsinki) The Strange Life of Free Speech Today: A
Transnational Reflection on Nationalism Racism and Noise 9 MARION BOURDEAU (Jean Moulin -
Lyon 3 University) Transcultural Dialogue through Connection: Storytelling as a Hopeful
Interface in Colum McCann's Apeirogon 23 JOCHEN ACHILLES (University of Würzburg) Synge's
Playboy as Intercultural Contact Zone: The Globalization of the Western World 35 DIALOGUES WITH
THE PAST: MEMORY RECOVERY AND COMMEMORATION VOJTECH HALAMA (Charles University Prague) From
Director to Coordinator: The Irish State and the Official Commemoration of the Easter Rising in
1966 and 2016 53 SUSAN CURLEY MEYER (University College Dublin) Women War and Wearable
History: Winifred Carney Grace Gifford-Plunkett and a Classically Inspired Cameo Brooch 65
MARY MCAULIFFE (University College Dublin) A woman's doom: Class and Gendered Violence during
the War of Independence 83 RACHEL ANDREWS (University of Galway) Digital Witnessing as Memory
Work: The Case of the Bessborough Planning Hearing 97 MICHAEL LYDON (University of Galway) A
Popular Centenary: Irish Popular Music's Re-Interpretation of the 1916 Rising 113 ANNA FALKENAU
(University of Galway) Intersections Confluence and Embodiment of Irish Traditional and Folk
Music Revivals: Galway 1961-1981 125 SEÁN CROSSON (University of Galway) Roundtable on Irish
Documentary Cinema with Alan Gilsenan Gillian Marsh and Pat Collins 145 CLARE WALLACE
(Charles University Prague) Art-making Activism and Collaboration: Plenary Conversation with
Lian Bell and Maeve Stone 161 HAUNTINGS AND TRAUMAS: COMMUNITY CLASS AND GENDER LAOIGHSEACH
NÍ CHOISTEALBHA (University of Galway) I'm their ghost: Trauma Radiance and the Macabre in
Anthony Glavin's Living in Hiroshima 185 RADVAN MARKUS (Charles University Prague) The
Epidemic and the Carnivalesque: Ó Cadhain's Unpublished Play Typhus 201 ALESSANDRA BOLLER
(University of Siegen) Ties constitute what we are: Haunted Gender and Class Identities in P
