TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE 1981 HUNGER STRIKES IN THE VISUAL ARTS; "THE SAME SEED THAT CARRIED ME TILL ITSAW ITSELF AS FRUIT"; SEAMUS HEANEY AND OSIP MANDELSTAM; DEREK MAHON'S POETRY OF COMMUNITY; 'KEEPING THAT WOUND GREEN'; PUBLIC SKAITH OR WELL FEIGNED SORROW?; "AMONG THE MANY WONDERS OF WORLD"; DOMESTICITY AND DIASPORA; "THE HISTORIES OF YEER BLOOD"; CELTIC IDENTITY, IRISH IMMIGRATION AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS TENSIONS IN SCOTTISH INTERWAR LITERATURE AND SOCIETY; KEEPING IT REEL; GHOST WRITER; JOYCEAN FORM IN JAMES KELMAN'S EARLY FICTION
"A DAY ON WHICH NORTHING OF IMPORTANCE HAPPENED"LOOKING FOR LITERARY SCOTLAND; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary
A collection of research papers which investigates key literary and historical issues in Irish and Scottish Studies, providing a view onto the range of research interests both within and across the two disciplines