PUBLICATION: Nordic Irish Studies on JSTOR

Vol. 19, 2021/2022, Special issue: Justice on the Island

Nordic Irish Studies

Published by: Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies

Is now available on Jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/e27332357

Contents


Legalistic Perspectives:

Ruben Moi and Anthony Johnson
Introduction: ‘Justice on the Island’ 1

Adam Hanna
Contemporary Encounters with the Law: Kimberly Campanello’s MOTHERBABYHOME (2019) and Julie Morrissy’s Positions Gendered Male in Bunreacht na hÉireann / 1937 Constitution of Ireland (2020) 13

Ciaran McDonough
Medieval Irish Law as Alternative Justice in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland 31

Spatiotemporal Perspectives

Hedda Friberg-Harnesk
‘Not justice exactly’: Utopian Hopes of Fair Solutions in the Wars and at Home in Sebastian Barry’s Days without End 47

Jason Finch
Beckett in Bedsitland: Murphy and Urban Spatial Justice 67

Deirdre Flynn
Migrants in the City: Spatial Injustice and Inward Migration in Contemporary Irish Literature 87

Carceral Perspectives

Ruben Moi
Poetry, Prisons, and Voices from the Grave: Some Thoughts on Justice in Sinéad Morrissey’s The State of the Prisons and Current Memoirs of Murder in Northern Ireland 105

John Braidwood
‘A young man is dead, a legend has been born’ – The Self-Sacrifice of Bobby Sands: An Extreme Act of Redemptive Violence 121

William Dwyer and Ruben Moi
The Northern Irish Border Does Not Exist 153

Poetic Perspectives

Charles I. Armstrong
Germinal Ironies: Justice and the Poetry of Derek Mahon 173

Charika Swanepoel
To ‘sweeten Ireland’s wrong’: Contemporary Performance Poetry and Digital Activism in Ireland 191

Posthuman Perspectives

Anne Karhio
Canine Companions: Dogs, Justice, and Posthuman Voice in Contemporary Irish Poetry 209

Contributors 229