Contents -- Introduction 1 -- Part I Irish Texts and Foreign Impulse 9 -- Charles I. Armstrong Drinking Tea, Drawing Ideograms and Making Waves: Pursuing the 'Japanese Ef fect' in Irish Poetry 11 -- Billy Gray 'Less like marching, more like meditation': Zen Buddhism, Haiku, and the Theme of Tolerance in the Work of Chris Arthur 31 -- Åke Persson Recalibrating the Mind: Globalization, Viticulture, Wine-Tasting and Change in Kate O'Riordan's The Memory Stones 53 -- Carmen Zamorano Llena Multiculturalism and the Dark Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger: Redefinitions of Irishness in Contemporary Ireland 85 -- Róisín Keys 'Why is a gramophone like a parrot?': Intermediality and (Inter)cultural Identity in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa 101 -- Part II Re-Turning Narration 121 -- Anne Karhio 'Immram', 'Haggadah' and the New Jersey Suburb: Jewish and Irish America in Paul Muldoon's Poetry 123 -- Martin Shaw Warning Signs and Ref lexivity in Nan Joyce's Anti-Traveller Protest Story 139 -- Lene Yding Pedersen Cultural Images and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Colum McCann's Zoli 159 -- Part III States of Suspension 179 -- Ruben Moi 'Drawn by the colour and light': Ekphrases and Aesthetics in the Poetics of Derek Mahon 181 -- Gerald Porter Distant Transformations: The Shifting Topologies of a Diaspora Song 197 -- Joakim Wrethed 'Horribly pleasurable transgression': Metaphor, Theology and Evil in John Banville's The Book of Evidence 217 -- Part IV Borders and Cross-Cultural Encounters 241 -- Hedda Friberg-Harnesk Encounters Across Borders in a European Arena: John Banville's Kepler and Carl-Henning Wijkmark's Dacapo 243 -- Britta Olinder Cross-Cultural Encounters and Clashes in John Hewitt's Work 267 -- Anders Olsson Walk the Line: Experience and Interpretation in Colm Tóibín's Bad Blood 291.

Ronald Paul Frederick Engels and the International Significance of Irish History 311 -- Notes on Contributors 327 -- Index 331.