Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / EAMON MAHER AND EUGENE O'BRIEN
  • Precursors of Change. The Semiotic Theory of Iconic Realism and Cultural Dissonance in de Meun's and de Lorris's Roman de la Rose and James Joyce's Ulysses / JEANNE I. LAKATOS
  • "In the buginning is the woid": Creation, Paternity and the Logos in Joyce's Ulysses / CATHY MCGLYNN
  • The Donkey and the Sabbath / MARY PIERSE
  • Developments in the Irish and Irish-American Novel. Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O'Brien's Pray for the Wanderer / SHARON TIGHE-MOONEY
  • A Catholic Agnostic : Kate O'Brien / AINTZANE LEGARRETA MENTXAKA
  • Edwin O'Connor's Language of Grace / JAMES SILAS ROGERS
  • Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) / EAMON MAHER
  • "Earth's Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with God": Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern / PETER GUY
  • The Poets and the Playwrights. "Any Catholics among you ...?": Seamus Heaney and the Real of Catholicism / EUGENE O'BRIEN
  • "Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain": Revision and Catholicism in the Poetry of Paul Durcan / JOHN MCDONAGH
  • "To sleep is safe, to dream is dangerous": Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland / VICTOR MERRIMAN
  • Effing the Ineffable: Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee and the Interrogation of Transcendence / TONY CORBETT.