Chapter 1: Introduction Patricia Boyle Haberstroh Christine St. Peter Chapter 2: Engendering the Postmodern Canon? The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volumes IV / V: Women's Writing and Traditions Gerardine Meaney Chapter 3: Becoming the Patriarch? Masculinity in Maria Edgeworth's Ormond Eilean Ni Chuilleanain Chapter 4: Stuck on the Canvas: Harriet Martin's Canvassing and Locational Feminism Heidi Hansson Chapter 5: Rereading Peig Sayers: Women's Autobiography, Social History and Narrative Art Patricia Coughlan Chapter 6: 'But Greek...usually knows Greek': Recognizing Queer Sexuality in Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle Katherine O'Donnell Chapter 7: Feminist Meanings of Presence and Performance in Theatre: Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan Cathy Leeney Chapter 8: 'Wide Open...to Mirth and Wonder: Twentieth-Century Sheela-Na-Gigs as Multiple Signifiers of the Female Body in Ireland Luz Mar Gonzalez Arias Chapter 9: All of Their Own Making: Contemporary Women's Poetry from Northern Ireland Rebecca Pelan Chapter 10: 'Diving into the Wreck': Mary Morrissy's, Mother of Pearl Ann Owens Weekes Chapter 11: Feminism and Postmodernism: Representations of Identity in Mary Morrissy's The Pretender Anne Fogarty DEDICATION To Chuck Haberstroh and John Tucker ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Patricia Haberstroh acknowledges the support of the Fulbright Foundation and La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Christine St. Peter acknowledges the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Patricia Coughlan is a professor of English at National University of Ireland (Cork). She has edited Spenser and Ireland (1990), co-edited Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry of the 1930s (1995), and written many essays and articles on Irish writing, including Irish Gothic, Beckett, Bowen, Kate and Edna O'Brien, Heaney, Montague, Banville, and other contemporary poetry and fiction. Her interests focus on 16th--17th-century colonial discourse and on gender representations in Irish writing. She jointly devised and led the research for the bilingual Dictionary of Munster Women Writers 1800-2000 (2005, ed. Tina O'Toole). Anne Fogarty is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama, University College Dublin. Ireland. She was Director of the James Joyce Summer School 1997-2005 and is currently editor of the Irish University Review. She has published numerous essays on aspects of Spenser and early modern Ireland, on the historical dimensions of the fiction of James Joyce, and on Irish women writers, including Kate O'Brien, Lady Gregory, and Maria Edgeworth. Her study of Eavan Boland is forthcoming from Liffey Press. Luz Mar Gonzalez Arias is a full-time lecturer and researcher in the English Department, University of Oviedo, Spain. She has published two books and several articles on female corporeality in the work of Irish women, revisions of Celtic and Christian mythology from a feminist perspective, and Irish women poets and their relationships with Nationalism and Postcolonialism. She is currently researching the youngest generation of Irish women poets. Patricia Boyle Haberstroh is a Professor of English and Chair of Fine Arts at La Salle University in Philadelphia, USA. She has published Women Creating Women, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, which was selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books of 1997, and My Self, My Muse, Irish Women Poets Reflect on Life and Art. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the New Hibernia Review and the Irish Feminist Review and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Ireland in 2002 for research and teaching at University College Dublin. Heidi Hansson is a Senior Lecturer in English at Umea University, Sweden. She is currently finishing a book on the Irish writer Emily Lawless and editing a collection of essays on nineteenth-century Irish women's prose writing. She is also the leader of an interdisciplinary project about foreign travellers to northern Scandinavia in the nineteenth century, and is working on a study of writings by Irish visitors to the region. Cathy Leeney teaches at the Drama Studies Centre at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is currently completing a book on Irish women playwrights from 1900 to 1939. Her research interests include contemporary Irish theatre, directing, performance theory, and Irish women playwrights. Gerardine Meaney is Director of Irish Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of (Un)Like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction (Routledge, 1993) and of a short study of Pat Murphy's film Nora, for the Ireland into Film series (Cork University Press and the Film Institute of Ireland, 2004). Her articles on gender and Irish culture have appeared in Colby Quarterly, Textual Practice and Women: A Cultural Review. She is a co-editor of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Women's Writing and Traditions, volumes 4 and 5 (Cork University Press, 2002). Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, educated at University College Cork, has since 1966 taught at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland where she is now Associate Professor of English. She has published a number of academic books and articles, including articles of Maria Edgeworth, as well as poetry and translated poetry. She edited Edgeworth's Belinda for the Everyman Paperback series. Katherine O'Donnell is currently the Head of Women's Studies at the School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published widely on Eighteenth-Century Irish literature and the history of sexuality. Rebecca Pelan is Director of Women's Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway and is the general editor of Irish Feminist Review. She lived in Australia for many years, where she lectured in English at the University of Queensland; she returned to Ireland in 2001 to take a position in the Department of English at the University of Ulster. She has published extensively on the subject of Irish women's writing, Edna O'Brien's fiction, feminist/literary theory, and women and 'the Troubles.' She is a member of the Editorial Board of Hecate (Australia), and of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Australian Journal of Irish Studies. Her book, Two Irelands: Literary Feminisms North and South was published by Syracuse University Press in 2005. Christine St. Peter is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. She has published widely in the fields of Irish and Canadian women's writing. Her editing projects have been in the areas of Canadian oral history, Irish drama, Irish women's studies and reproductive technologies in Canada and she presently serves on the editorial boards of Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and Irish Feminist Review. Her book on contemporary Irish women's writing, Changing Ireland (Macmillan) was selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books of 2000. She is currently working on Irish women's Bildungsromane. Ann Owens Weekes is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, USA, where she teaches Irish literature. Her 1990 work, Irish Women Writers: An Uncharted Tradition, a discussion of writers from Maria Edgeworth to Julia O'Faolain, was the first work exclusively devoted to Irish women writers. This was followed in 1993 by Unveiling Treasures: The Attic Guide to the Published Work of Irish Women Writers, an introduction to the works and lives of over 250 writers of fiction, poetry, and drama. She has written many articles on individual writers and is currently working on the fictional representations of women as mothers in twentieth-century Ireland.
