{"product_id":"discourses-of-unity-in-ireland-and-europe-philosophy-politics-and-literature-hardback-9780815612117","title":"Discourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe; Philosophy, Politics, and Literature (Hardback) 9780815612117","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDiscourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePhilosophy, Politics, and Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaurice Fitzpatrick (Edited by), Christoph Reinfandt (Edited by), Raphael Zähringer (Edited by), Richard Kearney (Contributions by), Fergal Lenehan (Contributions by), David Donoghue (Contributions by), Joseph N Cleary (Contributions by), Patricia Ronan (Contributions by), Marilynn Richtarik (Contributions by), Jessica Bundschuh (Contributions by), Michal Lachman (Contributions by), Ralf Haekel (Contributions by), Carolin Steinke (Contributions by), Galyna Hartischyn (Contributions by), Gerold Sedlmayr (Contributions by), Alessandra Boller (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780815612117\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 August 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e306 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The collection stands as a valuable and much welcomed approach to the topic of unity, which deserves further study nowadays on an international scale.\" —Auxiliadora Pérez Vides, author of \u003ci\u003eOnly Them: Family and Feminism in the Contemporary Irish Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Discussing Irish unity at this time is not only desirable but necessary. For decades, the topic was deemed to be both unrealistic and subversive of peace and order on the island.\" —Liam O'Dowd, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eReligion, Violence and Cities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe binary between a united Ireland and the current form of partition has provoked writers and scholars and established an important debate about what unity would look like. \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe\u003c\/i\u003e charts and critically discusses the challenges of articulating unity while one-sided discourses—on either nationalist or unionist grounds—have gradually been integrating an Irish identity that finds itself between Britain and Europe. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tCrucial to all of this is the role of writers in reimagining Irish writing before and after the Northern Ireland peace process and in reconstituting an idea of Irish unity in their works. Maurice Fitzpatrick, Christoph Reinfandt, and Raphael Zähringer bring together scholars from the fields of philosophy, political science, diplomacy, history, and literary and cultural studies to interpret how the concept of unity has manifested in literary, historical, and political texts. This wide-ranging approach considers a variety of economic perspectives, including how generations of economic shifts have impacted the image of Ireland’s relationship with the UK and Europe. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tUltimately, \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe\u003c\/i\u003e provides coordinates for current debates about how to prepare for Irish unity and what shape it should or could take.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \t\u003cbr\u003e \tMaurice Fitzpatrick, Christoph Reinfandt, and Raphael Zähringer \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tPart One. Philosophy and the Public Sphere \t\u003cbr\u003e \t1. Unity beyond Sovereignty: Some Philosophical Reflections from an Irish Perspective \t\u003cbr\u003e \tRichard Kearney \t\u003cbr\u003e \t2. Anarcho-Cosmopolitan Imaginings of a Future Ireland and Europe? The 1980s Public Intellectual Writings of Richard Kearney and a Europe of Regions \t\u003cbr\u003e \tFergal Lenehan \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tPart Two. Politics and the Public Sphere \t\u003cbr\u003e \t3. Toward Irish Unity \t\u003cbr\u003e \tDavid Donoghue \t\u003cbr\u003e \t4. Reconstructing the Good Friday Agreement on Social Media: Discourses of Unity and (Dis-)Alignment \t\u003cbr\u003e \tPatricia Ronan \t\u003cbr\u003e \t5. Partition Revisited: On National Literatures and Reunification in the Late Capitalist and \"Post-Literary\" Era \t\u003cbr\u003e \tJoe Cleary \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tPart Three. Literature and the Public Sphere \t\u003cbr\u003e \t6. Working Models of Wholeness: Writers and the Peace Process \t\u003cbr\u003e \tMarilynn Richtarik \t\u003cbr\u003e \t7. A Memorial to Hospitality: The Formal Challenge of Cherry Smith’s Poetic Sequence \u003ci\u003eFamished\u003c\/i\u003e on the Great Hunger \t\u003cbr\u003e \tJessica Bundschuh \t\u003cbr\u003e \t8. Between Unity and Dispersion: Irish and English Drama in Times of Brexit \t\u003cbr\u003e \tMichal Lachman \t\u003cbr\u003e \t9. The Fractured Unity of the Nuclear Family: John McGahern’s \u003ci\u003eAmongst Women\u003c\/i\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tRalf Haekel \t\u003cbr\u003e \t10. Family Fragments: Discourses of (Dis-)Unity in Anne Enright’s \u003ci\u003eThe Green Road\u003c\/i\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tCarolin Steinke \t\u003cbr\u003e \t11. Haunted Terrain: Narrative Representations of Trauma in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland \t\u003cbr\u003e \tGalyna Hartischyn \t\u003cbr\u003e \t12. Writing Home: Ethnic Minorities in Ireland, the Negotiation of Borders, and the Idea of Irish Unity in the Works of the \"New Irish\" Poets \t\u003cbr\u003e \tGerold Sedlmayr \t\u003cbr\u003e \t13. Strange Encounters? Narratives of (Comm)Unity and Frames of Perception in Melatu Uche Okorie’s \"Under the Awning\" \t\u003cbr\u003e \tAlessandra Boller \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570003439896,"sku":"9780815612117","price":51.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/discourses-of-unity-in-ireland-and-europe-philosophy-politics-and-literature-hardback-9780815612117","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}