Contents
Acknowledgements
1 | Introduction
Christina Hunt Mahony																																1
 2 | From Rhetoric to Narrative: The Poems of Sebastian Barry 
Peter Denman																					 																	8
3 | Transcending Genre: Sebastian Barry?s Juvenile Fiction
¿il¡s N¡ Dhuibhne																																		23
4 | ?To have a father is always big news?: Theme and Structure in The Engine of 
Owl-Light
Bruce Stewart																																					35
5 | Everyman?s Story is the Whisper of God: The Sacred Nature of the Secular in the 
Dramaturgy of Sebastian Barry 
David Cregan																																					59
6 | Children of the Light amid the Risky Dancers: Sebastian Barry?s Naifs and the 
Poetry of Humanism
Christina Hunt Mahony 																				 											78
7 | ?All the Long Traditions?: Loyalty and Service in Barry and Ishiguro 
John Wilson Foster																																		94
8| Colonial Policing: The Steward of Christendom and The Whereabouts of Eneas 
McNulty 
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford 																 										115
 9| Redressing the Irish Theatrical Landscape: Sebastian Barry?s The Only True 
History of Lizzie Finn 
Anthony Roche																																	 140
10 | Out of History: from The Steward of Christendom to Annie Dunne 
Nicholas Grene																								 										160
11 | ?Something of us will remain?: Sebastian Barry and Irish History
Roy Foster																										 										176
 12 | Hinterland: The Public Becomes Private 
Colm T¢ib¡n																									 										191
 13 | ?In the dank margins of things?: Whistling Psyche and the Illness of Empire
Claire Gleitman																								 										201
14 | Bibliography of the Works of Sebastian Barry and Selected Secondary Sources
Fintan Walsh																																			220
[List of Contributors]																														239
[Index]