Polish-Irish Encounters in the Old and New Europe

The concepts of Ireland and ’Irishness’ are in constant flux in the wake of an ever-increasing reappraisal of the notion of cultural and national specificity in a world assailed from all angles by the forces of globalisation and uniformity. Reimagining Ireland interrogates Ireland’s past and present and suggests possibilities for the future by looking at Ireland’s literature, culture and history and subjecting them to the most up-to-date critical appraisals associated with sociology, literary theory, historiography, political science and theology.

Sabine Egger is a Lecturer in the Department of German Studies at Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick). She holds a PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin and has published on memory in East German writing, questions of identity in twentieth-century German and Irish literature and culture, and the teaching and learning of intercultural awareness. Her book From the Margins to the Centre: Irish Perspectives on Swiss Culture and Literature, edited with Patrick Studer, was published by Peter Lang in 2007.
John McDonagh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick). He is the author of Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts (2004) and editor, with Stephen Newman, of Michael Hartnett Remembered (2006). His latest book, A Fine Statement: An Irish Poets’ Anthology, was published in 2008.