This new study investigates how Spain was represented in Irish fiction, plays, poems and travelogues written in a period covering the first five decades of Irish independence as well as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975).

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Ute Anna Mittermaier holds a PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin. She has published essays on the representation of Spain and the Spanish Civil War in the works of Irish writers, including Kate O Brien, Peadar O Donnell, Charles Donnelly, Maura Laverty, and Aidan Higgins. She currently works as an English teacher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien.

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CONTENTS: Images of Spain in Irish Literature, 1922-1936 - Images of the Spanish Civil War in Irish Literature, 1936-1939 - Images of Franco's Spain in Irish Literature, 1939-1975.