Table of Contents:
  • In the name of the mother : reading and revision in Edna O'Brien's Country girls trilogy and epilogue / Kristine Byron
  • Hysterical hooliganism : O'Brien, Freud, Joyce / Helen Thompson
  • Edna O'Brien's "love objects" / Rebecca Pelan
  • Edna O'Brien and the lives of James Joyce / Michael Patrick Gillespie
  • Godot land and its ghosts : the uncanny genre and gender of Edna O'Brien's "Sister Imelda" / Wanda Balzano
  • Blurring boundaries, intersecting lives : history, gender, and violence in Edna O'Brien's House of splendid isolation / Danine Farquharson, Bernice Schrank
  • On the side of life : Edna O'Brien's trilogy of contemporary Ireland / Sophia Hillan.