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A Journal of Irish Studies, n. 9 (2019), pp. 7-10 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-25546 Indice / Contents Ringraziamenti / Acknowledgements 13 Tom Murphy: il trionfo del Sì alla vita, al di là del ricordo con rabbia e dell’angoscia Rosangela Barone 15 Whose Homelands? Fictions, Facts and Questions of the Irish Diaspora edited by Loredana Salis Whose Homelands? Fictions, Facts and Questions of the Irish Diaspora. Introduction 29 Loredana Salis Fictions Two Diasporic Moments in Irish Migration History: The Famine Generation and the Contemporary Era 43 Kevin Kenny “Exiles at home, neither in exile nor at home”. New Insights in Pearse Hutchinson’s Image of Spanish Regionalism in the 1950s-1970s 67 Verónica Membrive Lesbian Migrant Writing: from Lesbian Nation to Queer Diaspora 91 Anna Charczun Coming Home: Lesbian Poetics and Homelessness 113 Emer Lyons Star of the Sea: Resistance and Adapted Homelands 137 Heather Levy ISSN 2239-3978 (online) http://www.fupress.com/bsfm-sijis 2018 Firenze University Press 8 INDICE / CONTENTS Displacing the Nation: Performance, Style and Sex in Eimear McBride’s The Lesser Bohemians 161 Gerry Smyth Like a Scattering from a Fixed Point: Austerity Fiction and the Inequalities of Elsewhere 179 James Buchanan Facts Irish Diaspora Politics: The West Riding of Yorkshire, 1879-1886 205 Andrew Maguire Irish Diaspora, Cultural Activism and Print Media in Transatlantic Contexts between Ireland and North America 229 Fiona Lyons “This cemetery is a treacherous place”. The Appropriation of Political, Cultural and Class Ownership of Glasnevin Cemetery, 1832 to 1909 251 Patrick Callan Scotland’s Easter Rising Veterans and the Irish Revolution 271 Thomas Tormey “… a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun…”. A Brief Non-Academic Reflection onRiverdance , a Seemingly Never-Ending Success Story of Diasporic Cultural Cross-Fertilisation 303 Kay McCarthy Questions Lost (and Found) in Translation. Women and Emigration in Two Poems by Eavan Boland, Translated into Italian, with an Italian Envoi 317 Carla De Petris When Did the Irish-American Diaspora Make a Difference? Influencing US Diplomacy towards Northern Ireland 329 Timothy J. White and Emily Pausa STUDI IRLANDESI. A JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES 9 Southern Celts: Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand 347 Celine Kearney and Martin Andrew Decolonizing the Irish: the International Resistance and Entrenchment of the Global Irish Diaspora 365 Aedan Alderson The Irish in France. Assessing Changes in the Profile of Irish Emigrants Over the Last 30 Years 383 Gráinne O’Keeffe-Vigneron Miscellanea The Island of the Saints and the Homeland of the Martyrs: Monsignor O'Riordan, Father Hagan and the Boundaries of the Irish Nation (1906-1916) 413 Simon Pietro Cefaloni Where Does the State End and the Church Begin? The Strange Career of Richard S. Devane 439 Aidan Beatty A Female Odyssey of Romantic iIlusion: Abject Women in Edna O’Brien’s Five Love Stories 461 Ann Wan-lih Chang Ecological Theory, Protestant Theology, and Derek Mahon's Sense of the Natural World 479 James Mc Elroy TheAngel Controversy: An Archival Perspective 503 Carlos Menéndez-Otero Adapting the Story of Suibhne in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods 523 Victoria Yee Wei Wen Voices Detached Lyricism and Universal Rootedness: A Critical Introduction to the Poetry of Pat Boran 543 Pilar Villar-Argáiz 10 INDICE / CONTENTS Poetry as “an immersion in the actual”: An Interview with Pat Boran 559 Pilar Villar-Argáiz Writings The Echo of an Echo: Translating Hopkins ... Cautiously 577 Giuseppe Serpillo The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo / L’eco di piombo e l’eco d’oro 582 G.M. Hopkins An Experiment in Life Writing: Evelyn Conlon’s “Imagine them …” 587 Melania Terrazas “Imagine them …” 593 Evelyn Conlon Recensioni / Reviews 601 Libri ricevuti / Books received 629 Autori / Contributors 633 This issue is dedicated to the loving memory of Mirella Billi Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, n. 9 (2019), pp. 13-14 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-25594 Ringraziamenti / Acknowledgements Questa volta vogliamo ringraziare Eavan Boland e Eugenio Lucarelli per aver concesso il permesso di riprodurre le poesie contenute nel saggio di Carla de Petris; Evelyn Conlon per aver regalato ai lettori di Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies l’intenso racconto inedito “Imagine them …”; Fa- bio Luppi per il suo validissimo “sostegno esterno”; Marco Vanchetti per il dono di un’altra bellissima copertina; tutti i tirocinanti e gli studenti del La- boratorio Open Access (LabOA) del Dipartimento di Formazione, Lingue, Intercultura, Letteratura