Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama

1. Introduction: Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama
R. Barton Palmer, Marc C. Conner

2. Liam O’Flaherty’s The Informer and the Aesthetics of Terror
Homer B. Pettey

3. Deconstructing Political Adaptations: Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars

Laurence Raw

4. Genre and Charisma in Shaw’s Major Barbara

Douglas McFarland

5. Lewin’s Wilde: Aestheticism, Moralism, and Hollywood
Edward Adams

6. “Wonderful and Incomparable Beauty”: Adapting Period Aesthetic for The Importance of Being Earnest

Jennifer L. Jenkins

7.
The Quiet Man: From Story to Film
Michael Patrick Gillespie

8. The British New Wave Screens Ireland: Desmond Davis’s The Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
R. Barton Palmer

9. John Huston’s The Dead (1987)
Cóilín Owens

10. Sheridan’s Supercrip: Daniel Day-Lewis and the Wonder of My Left Foot (1989)
Tiffany Gilbert

11. Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy and Filming Ireland’s “New Picture”
Julieann Veronica Ulin

12. Popular Culture in 1960s Provincial Ireland: Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy

Michael Kissane

13. The Ritual of Memory in Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa

Marc C. Conner

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film Theory, British Culture, British Cinema, British and Irish Literature, Screenwriting, Cultural Policy and Politics