Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning

Shame has haunted Ireland since the inception of Irishness itself. As such, it has come to seem an ineluctable modality of Irish life. In fact, the contours of Irish shame have evolved over time, shifting with alterations in their colonial predicament, and in their response, whether complicit or resistant, to economic, political, and cultural dispossession. Irish Shame offers an anatomy of that condition. In twelve essays, it traces the ethnic, religious, biopolitical, psychosocial and neurodiverse parameters of shame as a force in Irish life.

Author: Se?n Kennedy
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 04/30/2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781399546911