IASIL 2005 Charles University, Prague
Ireland – A Global Village?
25-28 July 2005

Literature of the Irish Diaspora

Literature of the Irish Diaspora

The aim of this panel is to explore narratives of displacements focusing on the recurrence of literary devices that conform to the aesthetics of the Literature of the Irish diaspora.

Chair: Laura Izarra (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Respondent: Michael Kenneally (Concordia University, Canada)

Panellists:
Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University, NY)
The Maids in their Midsts: Domestic Discourse in the Literature of the Irish Diaspora

Frank Molloy (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
Contemporary Fiction and the Irish Diaspora

Tony Murray (London Metropolitan University)
‘Strange, Thwarted, Sacrificial Women’: Edna O’Brien’s Migrant Heroines

Laura Izarra (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Retelling stories of the Irish in South America