This volume explores different aspects of Ireland, its history and cultural as well as artistic expressions, around the theme of the concert of nations, since independence and the partition of the country back in 1922. The angle chosen is at once historical, political and aesthetic. The two parts of the book – the political and the artistic – reflect the multidisciplinary approach of Irish studies in France, and the desire to give substance to this theme well beyond the most obvious question of international relations between states.
The book follows in the footsteps of the Decade of Commemorations that marked the centenary of the events ranging from 1912 to 1923 in Ireland. It bears witness to the abundant historiographical and creative activity of the early twenty-first century. It examines the increasingly complex issues and imaginaries of migration and diaspora, on a planet that seems to be shrinking, reminiscent of the "global village" described by Marshall McLuhan as early as 1967, where socio-economic, political and environmental questions and crises arise and collide more dramatically than ever.
Karin Fischer, Élodie Gallet et Thierry Robin : Introduction
Negotiating History and Decolonisation
Heather Laird : Remembering Lost Trajectories : Reflections on Commemoration and Decolonisation on the Centenary of 1922
Christophe Gillissen : The first steps of the Irish State on the World Stage: Paris, 1919-1923
Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh et Liam Weeks : A Flag of Inconvenience ? Reaction to Irish Independence in the British Empire in 1922
Olivier Coquelin : The Long Road to the Emergence of a Left-Right Divide in Ireland, 1922-2020
Nathalie Sebbane : Holocaust Education and Remembrance in Ireland : Lessons Learnt ?
Bernard Cros : The 1969-1970 South African Rugby Tour of the British Isles as a Turning Point in the Politics of Confrontation and Neutrality in Ireland
Marie-Violaine Louvet : The Republic of Ireland and the East Timor Question, 1975-2002 : What Score Was Played in the Concert of Nations?
Projecting Irish identities in Literature and Arts
Fiona McCann : Between Ireland and India : Affective Political Agencies in Cauvery Madhavan's The Tainted (2020)
Máirtín Coilféir : Irish-Language Translation : A Concert of Nations ?
Bertrand Cardin : "O Lord what a row" – Molly Bloom, a One-Woman Orchestra
Lea Sinoimeri : Heterolingualism and Transnational Poetics in Melatu Uche Okorie's Short Fiction
Helen Penet : "A story retold" : Photography and Rewriting the Past in Henrietta McKervey's What Becomes of Us
Fabrice Mourlon : Branagh’s Belfast : A Message to the World
Geneviève Guétemme : The Inter-Linguistical Matrix of Tree / Crann
Erick Falc’her-Poyroux : A Concert for the Centenary of Ireland’s Partial Independence : Explorations in Arts Practice
Karin Fischer, Élodie Gallet et Thierry Robin : Afterword