New Beginnings: Perspectives from France and Ireland

Contents: Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Eamon Maher: Introduction: New Beginnings: Perspectives from France and Ireland – Wording New Beginnings – Anne Goarzin: From Gulliver’s Travels to The Quick: Trans-Temporal Literature as Life Form in a Pandemic – Anke Klitzing: New Beginnings in Reading (Irish) Literature: A Gastrocritical Look at George Moore’s «Home Sickness» and Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn – Brian A. Murphy: An Irishman in Paris: Seán T. O’Kelly as Dáil Envoy, February 1919–April 1922 – Benjamin Keatinge: «A taste for black sole»: Richard Murphy, Patricia Avis, Tony White and the Red Bank Restaurant – Ian Hickey: Seamus Heaney’s New Beginnings in «The Riverbank Field» and «Route 110» – Contemporary Representations of New Beginnings – Eugene O’Brien: «Welcoming the Difference»: Michael O’Siadhail and the Gift of Tongues – J. Javier Torres-Fernández: Disrupting the Stigmatizing Cultural Narrative of AIDS through Contemporary Irish Theatre – Sylvie Mikowski: «So What Else Is New?» The Case of Sally Rooney’s Normal People – Sarah Nolan: «This is a female text, I think»: «New Words» and Franco-Gaelic Sources in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat – New Beginnings in the Post-Digital Age – Maria Parsons: Nature, the Post-Digital, and the Neganthropocene in Zone Blanche (Black Spot) – Caitríona Nic Philibín and Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire: Surfing the Irish Folklore Commission’s Schools’ Collection: New Beginnings in the Democratisation of Learning through Digital Archives – Gráinne Murphy: Learning from the UK Experience: How the Social Entrepreneurship Model Can Help Save the Rural Irish Pub – Julien Guillaumond: Ireland’s Newly Found Influence in the Twenty-First Century: New Beginnings on the World Stage? – Brigitte Bastiat and Frank Healy: Hold-Up: A Conspiracy of Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics.