Strange Country

I. Liminal identities
Callum BATESON: 'Between an Ocean and a Rock': Exploring Liminality and Irish Identity in Song of the Sea (2014) - Némo GORECKI: An Mhuruch: Irishness and Transness through the Mermaid figure - Nuala Ní Dhomnhaill and Mia Gallagher - Léa SINOIMERI: Strange Soundscapes of Past and Present Migrations in Lucy Caldwell's Martians (2019) - Tom HEDLEY: Kafka's Belfast: Modernism, Metaphor and Magic in Jan Carson's The Fire Starters (2019)
II. Territory, sense of place, landscape and the arts
Danielle BARAKA: The representation of rural Ireland through Irish photography and cinema from the Celtic Tiger years to the present day: the emergence of plural counter-cartographies - Helen PENET: Photography, memorialising and bearing witness in Dermot Bolger's A Second Life - Dennin ELLIS: Late capitalism meets gas cuntism: the Rubberbandits
III. Memory Politics in post-Troubles Ireland
Frédéric ARMAO: Robinson, McAleese, Higgins: The Fire Festivals of reconciliation - Émilie BERTHILLOT: Shootings and Intimidations versus Undercover Surveillance Operations: a Post-Devolution Northern Ireland - Fabrice MOURLON: Turning the Page and Closing the Book: Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 - Nathalie SEBBANE: The cultural aftermath of the Magdalene Laundries in contemporary Irish culture and memory.