New Beginnings

'New Beginnings' deals with a word brought to a standstill by COVID-19. The need to recalibrate, to find new and more effective ways of dealing with the climate crisis, domestic and international politics, literary expression, and technology, was clearly felt by everyone. These essays explore that in some depth.

This collection emerged from a conference held in TU Dublin at a time when the theme of «New Beginnings» seemed particularly apposite. In the few years prior to the gathering, COVID-19 had brought the world to almost a complete standstill. The need to recalibrate, to find new and more effective ways of dealing with the climate crisis, domestic and international politics, literary expression, and technology, was clearly felt by everyone. The fourteen essays deal with literary figures such as Jonathan Swift, George Moore, Colm Tóibín, Richard Murphy, Seamus Heaney, Michael O'Siadhail, Sally Rooney and Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Other issues broached are the diplomatic work carried out by Seán T. O'Kelly as Ireland's envoy to Paris when an independent Ireland was seeking international recognition; depictions of the AIDS crisis in Irish theatre; the Neganthropocene in the French TV series Zone Blanche ; new opportunities for learning through digital archives; strategies to save the rural Irish pub; innovative strategies employed by Ireland on the world stage, and the use of science to manipulate the French public's beliefs about COVID-19. The diversity of material and approaches guarantees that New Beginnings will appeal to a large number of readers.

Auteur

Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is a senior lecturer at Technological University Dublin, chef, culinary historian, broadcaster and ballad singer. Co-founder and chair of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, he also chairs the Masters in Gastronomy and Food Studies in TU Dublin. He co-edited «Tickling the Palate»: Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture (Peter Lang: 2014), «The Food Issue» of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2018), and in 2021, guest edited a special issue of Folk Life on Irish food ways. Máirtín also co-edits the European Journal of Food Drink and Society. In 2021 and 2022, he was awarded a Research Ally Prize by the Irish Research Council. Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin. He is General Editor of Reimagining Ireland and Studies in Franco-Irish Relations and has edited and co-edited several books in both series. He is currently working on a monograph in English on the French priest-writer Jean Sulivan (1913-1980).

Contenu

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 1919April 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.