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

Location and Space in Contemporary Irish Fiction

This panel will focus on the heterogeneous use of location and space in the fiction of contemporary Irish authors ranging from John Banville and Carlo Gébler to Partrick McCabe and John McGahern.

Chair: Bruce Stewart (University of Ulster)

Panellists:
Christopher Barnes (Trinity College Dublin)
From Derry to the Congo: Political Position and Geographic Location in Ronan Bennett’s The Catastrophist.

John Kennedy (Trinity College Dublin)
John McGahern and Death’s Place

Ian McCourt (Trinity College Dublin)
The Results of the Dismantling of the Ideology Behind Place on the Protagonists of The Butcher Boy and Vernon God Little

Raymond Mullen (Trinity College Dublin)
From Stony Grey Soil to Plymouth Rock: History, Memory and Location in Carlo Gébler’s How to Murder a Man and Ernest Gébler’s The Plymouth Adventure—The Voyage of the Mayflower

Thomas Walker (Trinity College Dublin)
The Mapping of Ireland’s Past in the Contemporary Novel