Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama

Chapter 1 Introduction: Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama

Chapter 2 Liam O’Flaherty’s The Informer and the Aesthetics of Terror

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

Chapter 4 Genre and Charisma in Shaw’s Major Barbara

Chapter 5 Lewin’s Wilde: Aestheticism, Moralism, and Hollywood

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

Chapter 8 The British New Wave Screens Ireland: Desmond Davis’s The Girl with Green Eyes (1964)

Chapter 9 John Huston’s The Dead (1987)

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

Chapter 11 Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy and Filming Ireland’s “New Picture”

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

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