Unlike previous studies on Irish fiction this collection offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a key narrative element which makes visible for the reader inconvenient, often hidden, truths of Irish society. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the project addresses, among other issues, the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of vulnerability in today’s neoliberal Ireland. In its treatment of silence, the project does not limit itself to a specific time or cultural scenario, but aims to trace relevant continuities between past and present. weiterlesen