Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Raymond Mullen and Adam Bargroff Introduction -- Antonella Trombatore Communicating with Nature: An Ecosemiotic Reading of Elizabeth's Umwelt in The Barracks -- Maggie Pernot-Deschamps Habits and Rituals in The Barracks -- Bridget English 'All real seeing grew into smiling […] all else was death, a refusal, a turning back': Narrative, Death and Subjectivity in The Barracks -- Paula McDonald The Literary and Empirical Origins of McGahern's Ecological Consciousness -- Brendan Thomas Mitchell Emergence of the Self: McGahern and Joyce -- Fergal Casey Camus's Philosophy of Revolt in The Leavetaking and The Pornographer -- Christine O'Dowd-Smyth The Caretakers of the Condition of 'nothing new being possible': Post-Colonial Landscapes of Peripherality in McGahern's Amongst Women and Abdelhak Serhane's Le Soleil des obscurs -- Nicholas Collins '[L]ike a shoal of fish moving within a net': King Lear and McGahern's Family in Amongst Women -- Jennifer Mullen The Law of the Father: Tyrannical Fathers and Rebellious Sons in McGahern's Amongst Women and Driss Chraïbi's Le Passé simple -- Graham Price The Fact is a Fiction: Representations of Memory, Place and Modernity in Friel and McGahern's Short Stories -- Malachi O'Doherty Gossip and Reality: Wondering Who to Believe in McGahern's Stories -- Niamh Campbell This is Mine: Phatic Communion and Textual Space in That They May Face the Rising Sun and Memoir -- Michelle Kennedy Isolated Fathers: The Powerlessness of Powerful Patriarchs in McGahern's Works -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.