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

Women’s Writing
Convenors: Tina O’Toole, Claire Bracken, Patricia Coughlan

(1) Femininities, Utopias, and the Public Sphere

Clíona Ó Gallchoir (Dept. of English, University College Cork)
"Sell-Out?" Commercialism, Femininity and the Commodification of Irish Identity after 1800

Tina O’Toole (University of Limerick)
Exploring the “terra incognita of herself”: The Utopian Impulse in Irish Women’s Writing

Sarah O’Connor (University College Dublin)
Poverty and Obscurity: Women’s Negotiation of the Public and Private Spheres

(2) Irish Women Poets in Postmodernity

Borbála Faragó (School of English, University College Dublin)
Brushed Out Words: The Ethics of Linguistic Care in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Pádraig de Paor (Roinn na Gaeilge, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra)
Liminality in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s Mermaid Poems

Claire Bracken (IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, School of English, University College Dublin)
“Becoming-Irish-Woman”: The Poetry of Catherine Walsh

(3) Irish Women’s Fiction: Home, Houses, Bodies

Patricia Coughlan (Dept. of English, University College Cork)
“Home is a place in the mind”: Maeve Brennan and The Failure of Domesticity

Moynagh Sullivan (Dept. of English, National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Chicklit: The “I Want a Big House” Novel

Susan Cahill (School of English, University College Dublin)
Corporeal Configurations in the Fiction of Anne Enright