English · Boston College
Mary Robinson, in her inaugural speech in 1990, hoped that her presidency of Ireland would "promote the telling of stories, stories of celebration through the arts and stories of conscience and of social justice." Concentrating on contemporary fiction, this course examines the confluence of "stories" representing Irish society since the late-1980s. We will consider the (re)-emergence in the 1990s of the novel as Ireland's dominant cultural form and question what that means in terms of cultural aesthetics. We will examine how the texts represent significant cultural shifts and attempt answers t
