TABLE OF CONTENTS
Michelle Ryan-Sautour and Gérald Préher
Foreword
Bertrand Cardin
Introduction
PART ONE: TRACES OF ORAL TRADITION: VOICES, DIALOGUES AND CONVERSATIONS
Marie Mianowski
Skipping and Gasping, Sighing and Hoping in Colum McCann’s “Aisling”: The Making of a Poet
Catherine Conan
Narration as Conversation: Patterns of Community-making in Colm Tóibín’s The Empty Family
Eoghan Smith
“Elemental and Plain”: Story-Telling in Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields
Chantal Dessaint-Payard
“The Moon Shines Clear, the Horseman’s Here” by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne or the Art of Reconciling Orality and Literacy
Vanina Jobert-Martini
“Black Flower”: Dichotomy, Absurdity and Beyond
Claudia Luppino
The Old and the New in Claire Keegan’s Short Fiction
PART TWO: RESONANCE, REVISION AND REINVENTION
Elke D’hoker
Rereading the Mother in Edna O’Brien’s Saints and Sinners
Flore Coulouma
The Irish (Short) Story, Level 1: Julian Gough’s “The Orphan and the Mob”
Jeanette Roberts Shumaker
Questioning the Paddy Stereotype in Edna O’Brien’s “Shovel Kings”
PART THREE :THE IRONIC OBSERVATION OF CONTEMPORARY IRELAND
Bertrand Cardin
Country of the Grand by Gerard Donovan or the Chronicle of a Collapse Foretold
Thierry Robin
Anne Enright’s Short Fiction: “Post-Freudian and Post-Feminist and, of course (three cheers!), Post-Nationalist”?
Eugene O’Brien
The Subjective Real in William Trevor’s “Justina’s Priest”
PART FOUR: METANARRATIVE REFLECTIONS
Debbie Brouckmans and Elke D’hoker
Rewriting the Irish Short Story: Emma Donoghue’s The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
John McCourt
“All Stories Overlap”: Reading Keith Ridgway’s Short Fiction
Claire Majola-Leblond
Writing Aslant: Putting Chisel to Paper—William Trevor’s A Bit on the Side
Bertrand Cardin
Selective Bibliography
Contributors’ Notes