New Beginnings

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 1919-April 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.

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).