Wasafiri 62: Ireland, Texts and Contexts

Issue 62: Summer 2010

Ireland, Texts and Contexts

Interviews with Deirdre Gribbin and Dermot Healy

Poems by Colette Bryce, Vona Groarke, Mary Noonan and Matthew Sweeney

Fiction by Matthew Sweeney

Life writing by Chris Arthur and George O'Brien

Articles on Edward Said, Ireland and the everyday, Justin Quinn's poetry and translating contemporary Irish language poetry

Reviews of Declan Kiberd's Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday, Dennis Condon's Early Irish Cinema: 1895-1921, Leland Bardwell's A Restless Life, Glenn Patterson's Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times, Sefi Atta's News From Home and Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry edited by Gerald Dawe

Declan Kiberd Edward Said, Ireland and the Everyday Stephanie McBride Kisses: Dubliners after the Tiger Colotte Bryce Poems Fintan Cullen Ireland in New York Vona Groarke Poems Clíona Ní Ríordáin Translating Contemporary Irish Language Poetry Timothy O'Grady Dermot Healy: An Interview Matthew Sweeney Fiction: The Weasel Matthew Sweeney Poems Selina Guinness New Irish Poetry: Atomisation and Embodiment in Justin Quinn's Fuselage Chris Arthur Memoir: Pencil Marks Declan McGonagle A Shout in the Street: Reflections on another way of looking George O'Brien Memoir: Snapshots of Ramu Conor McCarthy Irish Criticism and the Political Mary Noonan Poems Gary McKeone An Interview with Deirdre Gribbin Alain Chouinard Water-sites in the Fiction and Cinema of Neil Jordan Reviews Frank Shovlin Patrick Kavanagh, ed John Kenny John Banville Stan Smith Dennis O'Driscoll Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney Declan Kiberd Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Oonagh Walsh Leland Bardwell A Restless Life Conn Holohan Dennis Condon Early Irish Cinema: 1895-1921 Partick Maume Glenn Patterson Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times Richard Danson Brown Gerald Dawe, ed Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry Cahal Dallat Anthony Roche, ed The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel Harry White Music and the Irish Literary Imagination André Naffis-Sahely Fred D'Aguiar Continental Shelf Nuzhat Abbas Betool Khedairi Absent Alastair Hagger Hirsh Sawhney ed, Delhi Noir Anjana Basu Rana Dasgupta Solo Kachi A Ozumba Sefi Atta News From Home Karla Williams 'Not Black and White' Season at the Tricycle Theatre Roy Williams Category B Kwame Kwei-Armah Seize the Day Bola Agbaje Detaining Justice