This volume comprises articles by scholars from three disciplines literary studies, TEFL methodology, and history from three universities University College Cork (UCC), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (KU Leuven/LCIS), and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg/Irish Studies Würzburg (JMU/ISWÜ) in three European countries Ireland, Belgium, and Germany. The contributors explore Irish history in stories from the vantage point of their national and disciplinary contexts, emphasizing cultural knowledge and historical lessons to be drawn from texts from and about the Irish past.
Acknowledgements Ina Bergmann & Maria Eisenmann - History in Stories:
The Irish Past and the Challenges of the Present Part I: History Damian
Bracken - Salvation Beyond the Empire: Patrick, Salvation History, and
Ireland Helmut Flachenecker - History in Stories: The Irish Benedictines in
Ratisbon and Their Attempts to Interest a New Audience About Ireland in the
Twelfth Century Beatrix Färber - Carl Gottlob Küttner: In Search of an
Older Ireland Part II: Literary and Cultural Studies Jochen Achilles -
Cautionary Tales: Deirdre Kinahans Dramatic Reassessment of Irish History in
Raging (2022) Antonios Smyrnaios - Transatlantic Quest: The Fusion of
Immram and Initiation in Joseph OConnors Star of the Sea (2003), Mary Pat
Kellys Galway Bay (2009), and Colum McCanns TransAtlantic (2013) Anne-
Sophie Hornung - An American Idea: Irish American Musical Theatre in the
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Hedwig Schwall - Resilient
Women and the Belfast Blitz: Lucy Caldwells These Days (2022) Raphaėl
Ingelbien - Brexit and the Remaking of Irish Diasporic Writing: Recovering
Irish and European Pasts in Patrick McGuinnesss Throw Me to the Wolves
Miriam Wallraven - Brexit, borders, barriers, identity: Connected Forms of
Liminality in Kerri nķ Dochartaighs Irish Memoir Thin Places Franca
Leitner - Houses with Histories: Ruins as Lieux dOubli in Tana Frenchs The
Likeness (2008), Dervla McTiernans The Ruin (2018), and Stuart Nevilles
The House of Ashes (2021) Maureen OConnor - Moya Cannons Anthropocene
Poetics: Writing the Knot That Binds Past, Present, and Future Ina Bergmann
- Irish History, Personal Memory and Stupid Ideas: A Conversation with
Patrick Freyne Part III: TEFL - Aimée Waha - Irish Stories: Ireland in
German EFL Schoolbooks Maria Eisenmann - Irish American History and Hybrid
Identity: Colm Tóibķns Brooklyn (2009) in the EFL Classroom Maria
Eisenmann - The Troubles: Kenneth Branaghs Film Belfast (2021) in the EFL
Classroom Elke Dhoker - Teaching Language, Literature, and History Through
Irish Short Stories: An Integrated and Dialogic EFL Approach Manfred Schewe
- Engaging with History Through Story: A Performative Perspective List of
Contributors
Ina Bergmann is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany and co-head of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ). Maria Eisenmann is Professor of TEFL at the University of Würzburg, Germany and co-head of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ).
