Non-Violent Resistance

CONTENTS: Jennifer Bruen: Introduction: Counter-Discourses, Counter Arguments, and New Paradigms - Emilie Berthillot: Police Informers and Spies versus Irish Violent Agrarian Societies: A Non-Violent Secret Alternative to Rebellion - Pauline Collombier-Lakeman «A Calculated Instrument of Reprisal»: Irish Parliamentary Obstructionism (1874-1887) - Åke Persson «Mixed-Up Mess of a Botched Family»: Re-Locating «The Family» in Siobhán Parkinson's Teen Novel Sisters ... No Way! - Jan Freytag: Counter-Discourse as Dialogue Invitation: Reappraising Archbishop Ó Fiaich's «Slums of Calcutta» Speech - Magali Dexpert: Counter-Discourse and Irreverence in a Context of Political Reconciliation: The Example of Ian Paisley and the DUP - José Manuel Estévez-Saá: A Study of Mary O'Donnell's «Storm over Belfast» and Where They Lie from the Perspective of Classic and Pluralistic Trauma Discourses - Stéphanie Schwerter: Counter-Discourse and Political Violence: Belfast in '71 and A Belfast Story - Catherine Maignant: Irish Dissenting Priests and the Renewal of the Church (Perhaps) - Nathalie Sebbane: Counter Hegemonic Discourses on Institutional Abuse in Ireland - Mel Duffy: Emerging, Submerging Lesbians in Ireland - Marion Naugrette-Fournier: «Resistance Days»: From Dark Interiors of Resistance to the Disobedient Resistance of Raw Materials in Derek Mahon's Poetry - Jeanne-Marie Carton-Charon: Christy Moore on Stage: Loss, Echoes and Movement - Pádraig Ó Liatháin: Dialogues des Morts: A Subversive Representation of Hades in an Eighteenth-Century Irish Manuscript.

Agnès Maillot is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. Her main area of research is the Northern Irish conflict, particularly Sinn Féin and the IRA, on which she has published widely. She is also interested in multiculturalism in France and Ireland and is currently working on issues of refugees and asylum seekers in the French and Irish contexts. Jennifer Bruen is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. Her research interests include many aspects of applied linguistics as well as political and citizenship education. She has published widely in these and related fields and is currently a member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Language, Literature, Culture and Communication.