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IASIL 2020: Creative Borders 19-23 July 2021 The Book of Abstracts 1 Table of Contents KEYNOTE LECTURES ........................................................................................................................... 8 Maud Ellmann (University of Chicago) Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border ........................................................................................ 9 Margaret Mills Harper (University of Limerick) Cuchulain the Cowboy: A Tale of W. B. Yeats and the Wild West .............................................................. 10 Patrick Lonergan (National University of Ireland, Galway) Irish Theatres for the Anthropocene: Druid Theatre, Lady Gregory and Coole Park ................................ 11 PAPERS ................................................................................................................................................ 12 Madalina Armie (University of Almería) About Porous – Although at Times Impenetrable – Borders: Exploring Kevin Barry’s Short Story “Doctor Sot” (2013) ......................................................................................................................................... 13 Samuel Beckton (Ulster University) The Unbroken Covenant: Could Ulster Unionists have Controlled a Nine-County State, 1920-1939? .... 14 Alessandra Boller (University of Siegen) Entangled and Entangling: Short Narratives and/in Irish Magazines of the Late 1820s ........................... 15 Phyllis Boumans (University of Leuven) “Changing the Content”: Peadar O’Donnell’s Literary Poetics and Periodical Vision in The Bell .......... 16 Geraldine Brassil (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) Mary Banim: A Voice from the Margins: ‘It takes a genuine Irishman – better still, Irishwoman – to understand the quick sensitive hearts that are common to us all’ ............................................................. 17 Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Completing the Union: Maria Edgeworth's National Tales and the Early Brazilian Novel ........................ 18 Niels Caul (University College Dublin) Making Ready to Go: Emigration and Paths to Maturity in the Irish Bildungsroman ............................... 19 Mar González Chacón (University of Oviedo) Creative Encounters and Spaces for Transformation in Unpublished Irish Versions of The House of Bernarda Alba .................................................................................................................................................. 20 Tsung Chi (Hawk) Chang (University of Hong Kong) ‘God, the hypocrisy of (wo)men!’: Religion and Gender in Frank O’Conner’s “First Confession” ......... 21 Shinjini Chattopadhyay (University of Notre Dame, IN) Towards a New Cosmopolitanism: Subverting Stranger Fetishism in the Works of Twenty-first Century Migrant Writers of Colour in Ireland .............................................................................................................. 23 Adel Cheong (Dublin City University) Place and Displacement in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016) ........................................................... 24 David Clare (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) Gradations of Class Among Irish Anglicans in Leland Bardwell’s Girl on a Bicycle ................................ 25 Lucy Collins (University College Dublin) Reading Interiors in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Italy ....................................................................................... 26 2 Francesco Costantini (Jagiellonian University) “L’anima celtica, come quella slava alla quale in molte cose rassomiglia…” (“The Celtic soul which resembles in so many ways the Slavic one…”) Transcultural Paradigms between Irishness and Polishness: Liminality and Peripherality across the Borders of Europe ................................................... 27 Kate Costello-Sullivan (Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY) Joseph Valente (SUNY-Buffalo) Molly Ferguson (Ball State University) Uneaseful Stirrings: Disability, Trauma, and Irish Society in Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells ....................... 28 Eóin Ó Cuinneagáin (Linnaeus University, Sweden) The Birth of Irish Studies: Epistemic and Ontological Extractivism in the early 19th Century ................ 30 Miriam Cummins (Trinity College Dublin) Modern Slavery: The Postmodern Question and the Magdalene Laundry in Contemporary Irish Performance .................................................................................................................................................... 32 Eloísa Dall’Bello (Federal University of Santa Catarina) “‘Who do you think you are?’”: Migrant’s Social Agency in “This Hostel Life” by Melatu Uche Okorie 33 Leszek Drong (University of Silesia in Katowice) Partitioning Irish Memory: Cultural Representations of Borders, Barriers and Divisions in Northern Ireland in the Aftermath of 1968 ..................................................................................................................... 34 Jun Du (University College Dublin) ‘Third Spaces’, Transformation and Translation in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry ........................................ 35 Adam Duke (independent scholar) Towards a Hauntological Reckoning: Ghost Estates in Post-Recession Irish Genre Fiction .................. 36 Ashim Dutta (University of Dhaka) Teaching Irish Poetry in Bangladesh: a Transcultural Approach ............................................................... 37 José Manuel Estévez-Saá (University of A Coruña) Language and the Short Story in Ireland: Transcultural Reconstructions ................................................ 38 Margarita Estévez-Saá (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) Post Celtic Tiger Literature (II): Back to the West of Ireland ....................................................................... 40 Hamid Farahmandian (Sun Yat-sen University) James Joyce and the Romanticized Persia .................................................................................................. 41 Fiona Fearon (Dundalk Institute of Technology) Culture on the Border: Theatre and the Arts in Dundalk 1918-2020 ........................................................... 42 Jianming (Séamus) Feng (Shanghai University of International Business and Economics) Joyce’s Conscious Rejection of Established Rules in Narration ............................................................... 43 Mark Fitzgerald (TU Dublin Conservatoire) ‘Where there are no words there is less to spoil’: Yeats’s Theatrical Collaborations with Composers in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s ..................................................................................................................... 44 Andrew Fitzsimons (Gakushuin University) The Moment of a Poem: Kinsella’s ‘Baggot Street Deserta’ ........................................................................ 45 Dieter Fuchs (University of Vienna) Ulysses – a Borderland Narrative? ................................................................................................................ 46 Marine Galiné (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne) The Bog as Liminal and Performative Space in Somerville and Ross’s An Irish Cousin (1889) .............. 47 3 Rosanne Gallenne (University College Dublin) Beat Drum, Beat Heart: Contested Boundaries ............................................................................................ 48 Rene Gannon-O’Gara (National University of Ireland, Galway) Micheál MacLiammóir: Liminal Identities and the Queer Horizon .............................................................. 49 Mar Garre García (University of Almería) ‘Who Shall Find me’: Liminal Spaces and Cosmopolitan Encounters in Samuel Beckett’s Poetry ........ 50 Matthew Gibson (University of Macau) Two Forgotten Depictions of Literary Dublin: the Novels of Garrett Anderson ........................................ 51 Sara Gilbert (Oklahoma State University) Feminism, Religion, and Cultural Memory: Derry Girls, Portrayals of the Troubles, and Other Effects on 21st Century Irish Texts .................................................................................................................................. 52 Caitilín Gormley (independent scholar) “Blabbing on about guns”: The Ghost of the Gun in Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle .................... 53 Rui Carvalho Homem (Universidade do Porto) Cognitive and Medial Borders: Notes on Action, Contemplation and the Visual Arts in Ciaran Carson 54 Moonyoung Hong (Trinity College Dublin) “The Trinity of Jesus Freaks”: The Sacred Theatre of Tom Murphy .......................................................... 55 Barry Houlihan (NUI Galway) Locating Home: Memory, Identity and Form: Performing Contemporary Europe at the Gate Theatre ... 56 Dearbhaile Houston (Trinity College Dublin) A Box in the Corner: Television, Space and Memory in Anne Enright’s The Wig My Father Wore (1995) ...................................................................................................................................................... 57 Ellen Howley (independent scholar) Writing Women, Writing Water: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Mother House (2019) ................................. 58 Shan-Yun Huang (National Taiwan University) Mourning His Own Death: 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