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]