Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Part I Texts That Blur Frontiers: The Island of Ireland and Beyond -- 1 Transculturality and the Ghost of Roger Casement in Ulysses, By James Joyce -- Introduction -- Some Thoughts On Transculturality and the Expanding of Cultural Borders -- Roger Casement and James Joyce: Where the Global and the Local Meet -- The "Cyclops" Episode: A Transcultural Rendering of Roger Casement -- Final Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 2 Censorship and the Poetry of Ciaran Carson and Marin Sorescu: A Transcultural Reading -- Introduction -- A Case for Comparison -- Censorship and Surveillance in Northern Ireland and Romania -- Censorship and the Roles of Carson and Sorescu as Transcultural Agents -- Translation and Transculturality -- Literary Analysis -- Historical Transitions: Post-Censorship Poetry -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Transculturality and Seán Dunne's Translation of Russian Poetry -- Introduction -- Life, Death and the Subversive Power of Poetry -- Exploring Political Violence -- The Second World War and the Troubles -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part II Transcultural Writers and Global Entanglements -- 4 Social Borders and Contact Zones in Leland Bardwell's Different Kinds of Love -- Contextualising Different Kinds of Love From Leland Bardwell's Proto-Transcultural Perspective -- On Public Spheres, Contact Zones and the Margins of Home -- On Institutionalised Social Borders and Non-Places -- Concluding Remarks -- Funding Statement -- Notes -- References -- 5 Contested Boundaries and Uncharted Entanglements in Evelyn Conlon's Moving About the Place -- Evelyn Conlon, a Transcultural Writer -- Moving About the Place: On Contested Boundaries and Uncharted Entanglements.

Conclusions -- Funding Statement -- Notes -- References -- 6 Transculturality and Ken Bruen's Crime Fiction -- Introduction -- The Early Phase: London -- Dissecting Celtic Tiger Ireland -- The American Works -- Textual Contacts -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part III Irish Social Diversity and Contemporary Literature in Dialogue -- 7 Transcultural Practices, Teenage Pregnancy and Abortion in Irish Young Adult Literature -- Transcultural Dialogues On Abortion in the Republic of Ireland -- Teenage Pregnancy and Abortion in Irish Young Adult Literature: A Review -- Anti-abortion Strategies in Pre-Repeal Ireland: Like Other Girls and All the Bad Apples -- Challenging Stereotypical Representations of Teenage Pregnancy and Abortion -- Conclusions -- Funding Statement -- Notes -- References -- 8 Migrations in Times of Referendums. Transcultural Negotiations in Donal Ryan's Strange Flowers and Oona Frawley's Flight: "Why Ireland?… Don't Go to England" -- Funding Statement -- Notes -- References -- 9 Negotiating Second-Generation Transcultural Irishness: Susan Ryan's The King of Lavender Square -- Introduction: Representing Transculturality in Ireland -- Transcultural Approaches to Second-Generation Immigrants in Ireland -- Analysis: Transculturality in The King of Lavender Square -- Concluding Remarks -- Funding Statement -- Notes -- References -- 10 Resistance and Activism in Queer and HIV/AIDS Irish Theatre -- Deconstructing Queer and HIV/AIDS Cultural Narratives in Contemporary Irish Theatre -- Contextualising Selected Authors and Works -- Weakening Shame and Stigma From a Transcultural Lens -- Conclusion -- Funding Statement -- Notes -- References -- Coda -- 11 The Past, the Present and the Wonderful, Worrisome Future: Transculturalism, Memory and Crisis in Irish Studies -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- References -- Index.