Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature Fiona McConnell

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature Fiona McConnellShakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as dismemorial, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which contemporary Ireland draws on Shakespeares England.

Turning on itself

West Indians George Padmore

and they also open up a number of fruitful new lines of thought around emerging technological

Sport fascinated modernist artists

and how daily life in all its forms – moral

Based on more than thirty years’ fieldwork

Middle Kingdom texts from the chapel area

build civil society and engage communities

hold significance in archaeological contexts

fashion (seamstresses)

Explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value

drawing the reader from excavated artifacts into domestic spaces