Biography

Michaela Schrage-Früh joined UL as Associate Professor in German in 2023. Prior to this she was a Lecturer in German at the University of Galway (2017-2023), DAAD-Lecturer at UL (2012-2017) and Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Mainz (2001-2012).
In UL she is Director of the Centre for European Studies and Erasmus coordinator for outgoing students.

Her main research interests include gender and ageing studies; cultural, literary, and philosophical dream studies, and German-Irish Studies. She is a founding member of WARN (Women and Ageing Research Network; and a member of the Network of Cultural Dream Studies. In December 2021 she was an invited guest lecturer at the Research Training Group 'European Dream Cultures', University of Saarbrücken. From 2019-2022 she was part of the Irish research team of the ERC-funded project "MASCAGE: Ageing Masculinities in European Cinemas and Literatures" and from 2021-2022 she was PI of the IRC-funded project "Restorying Ageing: Older Women and Life Writing".

Michaela is particularly interested in supervising postgraduate work on any aspect of ageing in literature and culture or on any other aspect related to contemporary German, Anglophone or comparative literature, especially in a European context.

Research Interests

  • cultural and literary ageing studies
  • cultural dream studies
  • European cultural studies
  • German and comparative literature (especially, fiction, life writing and poetry)
  • women's writing from the eighteenth century to the present
  • language learning/virtual exchange
  • German-Irish cultural connections

Professional Activities

Committee

  • 2023 ENAS Academic Advisory Board,
  • 2022 GSAI committee,

Award

  • 2023 - Research Development Scheme
  • 2023 - Virtual Mobility Fund
  • 2021 - IRC New Foundations Award
  • 2021 - Short-term Guest Lectureship, Research Training Group "European Dream Cultures"
  • 2016 - Book Completion Award
  • 2015 - IRC New Foundations Award
  • 2004 - Doctoral Dissertation Award

Association

  • 2023 Co-chair, German Studies Association in Ireland
  • 2023 Advisory Board Member, European Network in Ageing Studies
  • 2016 Member, Network of Cultural Dream Studies
  • 2015 Co-Founder, Women and Ageing Research Network
  • 2012 Member, Business German in Ireland Working Group

Employment

  • 2023 University of Limerick - Associate Professor A in German Studies
  • 2017 University of Galway - Lecturer in German
  • 2012 University of Limerick - DAAD-Lecturer
  • 2001 University of Mainz - Lecturer in English Literature

Peer Reviewed Journals

2023

Using Autoethnography in e-Tandems for Fostering Glocal Cultural Awareness: An Irish-German Virtual Exchange

Schrage-Früh, Michaela; Wehrmann, Jürgen (2023) Using Autoethnography in e-Tandems for Fostering Glocal Cultural Awareness: An Irish-German Virtual Exchange. Journal of Virtual Exchange

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2022

Wedded to the Land? Representations of Rural Ageing Masculinities in Irish Culture and Society

Ní Léime, Áine; O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Früh, Michaela; Tracy, Tony (2022) Wedded to the Land? Representations of Rural Ageing Masculinities in Irish Culture and Society. Journal Of Aging Studies

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2018

Reimagining the Fourth Age: The Ageing Mother in the Poetry of Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2018) Reimagining the Fourth Age: The Ageing Mother in the Poetry of Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan. Nordic Irish Studies :77-93

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2013

Negotiating Historical Trauma: The Great Famine as Memory and Metaphor in Contemporary Irish Fiction

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2013) Negotiating Historical Trauma: The Great Famine as Memory and Metaphor in Contemporary Irish Fiction. Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory :59-74

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2009

'My Heart Beats as Though It Were / Hers': Medbh McGuckian's Intertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi's Cottage

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2009) 'My Heart Beats as Though It Were / Hers': Medbh McGuckian's Intertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi's Cottage. Nordic Irish Studies :43-56

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2009

'Transforming that Past': The Healing Power of Dreams in the Poetry of Paula Meehan

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2009) 'Transforming that Past': The Healing Power of Dreams in the Poetry of Paula Meehan. An Sionnach :114-126

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2005

An Interview with Medbh McGuckian

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2005) An Interview with Medbh McGuckian. Contemporary Literature :1-17

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Books

2016

Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2016) Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan

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2004

Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2004) Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian. Trier : WVT

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Book Chapters

2023

Time Travel, Age/ing and Ecology in the German Netflix Series Dark (2017-2020)

Pusse, Tina-Karen; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2023) Time Travel, Age/ing and Ecology in the German Netflix Series Dark (2017-2020). Washington D.C. : Lexington Aging Studies and Ecocriticism - Interdisciplinary Encounters

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2023

Novels of Ripening: The Maturation of the Bildungsromann

Schrage-Früh, Michaela; O'Neill, Margaret (2023) Novels of Ripening: The Maturation of the Bildungsromann . London : Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film :11-23

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2022

'Uncanny Reflections: Older Widowers in John Banville's 'The Sea', Sebastian Barry's 'The Secret Scripture' and Anne Griffin's 'When All is Said'

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2022) 'Uncanny Reflections: Older Widowers in John Banville's 'The Sea', Sebastian Barry's 'The Secret Scripture' and Anne Griffin's 'When All is Said'. London : Routledge Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

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2022

'Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger's 'Der alte König in seinem Exil' and Ian Maleney's 'Minor Monuments'

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2022) 'Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger's 'Der alte König in seinem Exil' and Ian Maleney's 'Minor Monuments'. London : Bloomsbury Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives

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2021

'Surplus to Requirements? The Ageing Body in Contemporary Irish Writing'

O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2021) 'Surplus to Requirements? The Ageing Body in Contemporary Irish Writing' . London : Routledge The Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies :435-447

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2020

'The Aging Contemporary: Aging Families and Generational Connections in Irish Writing

O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2020) 'The Aging Contemporary: Aging Families and Generational Connections in Irish Writing. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press The New Irish Studies :177-191

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2019

'Struck with Ireland Fever: Hugo Hamilton's Berlin Trilogy

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2019) 'Struck with Ireland Fever: Hugo Hamilton's Berlin Trilogy. Trier : WVT Perceptions and Perspectives: Exploring Connections between Ireland and the GDR

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2017

'Embarking, Not Dying: Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2017) 'Embarking, Not Dying: Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman. London : Palgrave Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings :55-71

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2016

Imagination und Traum-Autorschaft im viktorianischen Traumdiskurs

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2016) Imagination und Traum-Autorschaft im viktorianischen Traumdiskurs. Goettingen : Wallstein Verlag Das nächtliche Selbst: Traumwissen und Traumkunst im Jahrhundert der Psychologie. Band 1. 1850-1900. :150-169

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2015

Introduction

Schrage-Frueh, Michaela and Farago, Borbala (2015) Introduction. Winston-Salem : WFU Press The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems by Medbh McGuckian :xiii-xxxvii

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2015

Foreigners Within: Identity, Belonging and the Migrant Other in Barry McCrea's The First Verse and Sean O'Reilly's The Swing of Things

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2015) Foreigners Within: Identity, Belonging and the Migrant Other in Barry McCrea's The First Verse and Sean O'Reilly's The Swing of Things. New York : Peter Lang The Leaving of Ireland: Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film :121-142

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2014

'Like a Foreigner / in my Native Land': Transculturality and Otherness in Twenty-First Century Irish Poetry

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2014) 'Like a Foreigner / in my Native Land': Transculturality and Otherness in Twenty-First Century Irish Poetry. Manchester : MUP Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland :263-275

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2012

"Aren't We Citizens of the World?" Irish Diaspora and Its (Dis)Contents in Deirdre Madden's One by One in the Darkness, Anne Devlin's After Easter and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) "Aren't We Citizens of the World?" Irish Diaspora and Its (Dis)Contents in Deirdre Madden's One by One in the Darkness, Anne Devlin's After Easter and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You . Trier : WVT Ireland in / and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges :137-146

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2012

"The Roots of Art are in the Dream": Dreams, Literature and Evolution

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) "The Roots of Art are in the Dream": Dreams, Literature and Evolution. Berlin : De Gruyter Telling Stories : Literature and Evolution :156-171

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2012

'(Un-)Writing the Self': Authorial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Women's Religious Prophecy

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) '(Un-)Writing the Self': Authorial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Women's Religious Prophecy. Trier : WVT Proceedings: Anglistentag 2011 :167-182

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2011

'The Danger of Biscuit-Coloured Silk': Dress, Playfulness and Sensuality in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian and Paula Meehan

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2011) 'The Danger of Biscuit-Coloured Silk': Dress, Playfulness and Sensuality in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian and Paula Meehan. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture :95-114

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2010

Jackie Kay (1961- )

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2010) Jackie Kay (1961- ). Detroit, Mi : Gale, Cengage Learning Twenty-first-century 'Black' British Writers :166-176

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2010

"Land of the Luas": Dublin's 'Fast City' in Recent Irish Writing

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2010) "Land of the Luas": Dublin's 'Fast City' in Recent Irish Writing. Trier : WVT Proceedings: Anglistentag 2010 :351-360

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2010

Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2010) Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian. Cork : Cork UP The Interior of Words: The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian :22-40

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2009

'So much Psychic Land to Reclaim': Otherworldly Encounters in Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2009) 'So much Psychic Land to Reclaim': Otherworldly Encounters in Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry. Oxford et al. : Peter Lang Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture :151-171

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2006

'My Being Cries Out to Be Incarnate': The Virgin Mary and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2006) 'My Being Cries Out to Be Incarnate': The Virgin Mary and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry. Dublin : Irish Academic Press The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry :123-143

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Edited Books

2023

Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema

(2023) Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema . Routledge : London

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2022

Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

(2022) Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture. London : Routledge

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2020

Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives

(2020) Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives. London : Routledge

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2018

Special Issue of Life Writing: Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives

(2018) Special Issue of Life Writing: Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives. London : Taylor and Francis

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2018

Special Issue of Nordic Irish Studies: Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film

(2018) Special Issue of Nordic Irish Studies: Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film. Dalarna, Sweden : Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies

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2017

Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings

(2017) Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings. Cham : Palgrave

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2015

Medbh McGuckian: New Selected Poems

(2015) Medbh McGuckian: New Selected Poems. Winston-Salem : WFU Press :1-304

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Other Journals

2009

'The Multiplicity of What I am': Black Scottishness in the Poetry of Jackie Kay

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2009) 'The Multiplicity of What I am': Black Scottishness in the Poetry of Jackie Kay. Folia Litteraria Anglica :67-78

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Conference Publications

2013

Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English

Heinz, Sarah ; Kirchhofer, Anton; Rennhak, Katharina; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2013) Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English. :3-10

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Conference Contributions

2022

ReStorying Ageing: Older Women and Life Writing

Schrage-Früh, Michaela; O'Neill, Maggie; Hanrahan, Karen (2022) ReStorying Ageing: Older Women and Life Writing.

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2022

Clash of Cultures? Bildungsvermittlung zwischen den Generationen im Zeichen der digitalen Revolution

Byrnes, Deirdre; Pusse, Tina; Schmidt-Hannisa, Hans-Walter; Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2022) Clash of Cultures? Bildungsvermittlung zwischen den Generationen im Zeichen der digitalen Revolution.

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2021

Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinema

Schrage-Früh, Michaela; Tracy, Tony (2021) Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinema.

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2021

Der Deutsche Wald: Kulturgeschichte, Ökologie, Mythologie

Byrnes, Deirdre; Pusse, Tina; Schmidt-Hannisa, Hans-Walter; Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2021) Der Deutsche Wald: Kulturgeschichte, Ökologie, Mythologie.

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2018

Women, Ageing and Life Narrative

Schrage-Früh, Michaela; O'Neill, Margaret (2018) Women, Ageing and Life Narrative.

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2015

Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives

McGlynn, Cathy; O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2015) Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives.

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2014

Cognitive Futures in the Humanities

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2014) Cognitive Futures in the Humanities.

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2013

Gender and Migrant Writing

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2013) Gender and Migrant Writing.

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2013

IASIL conference 2013: Urban Cultures

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2013) IASIL conference 2013: Urban Cultures.

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2013

EFACIS conference 2013 (Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands)

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2013) EFACIS conference 2013 (Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands).

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2012

Colloquium on Ageing in Germany and Ireland

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) Colloquium on Ageing in Germany and Ireland.

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2012

Centre for German Irish Studiers (MA seminar)

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) Centre for German Irish Studiers (MA seminar).

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2012

Mainzer Lyriklabor "Traumspiele"

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) Mainzer Lyriklabor "Traumspiele".

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2012

Immersion and the Storyworld

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) Immersion and the Storyworld.

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2012

AEDEI conference

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) AEDEI conference.

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2011

Anglistentag 2011 (Freiburg)

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2011) Anglistentag 2011 (Freiburg).

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2010

Anglistentag 2010 (Saarbrücken)

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2010) Anglistentag 2010 (Saarbrücken).

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2010

IASIL conference 2010

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2010) IASIL conference 2010.

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2010

Contemporary British Fiction: Narrating Violence, Trauma and Loss

Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2010) Contemporary British Fiction: Narrating Violence, Trauma and Loss.

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Published Reports

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Book Reviews

2015

Review of: Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, 2012), Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian (Dublin: Irish Academi....

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2015) Review of: Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, 2012), Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian (Dublin: Irish Academi..... Irish University Review 45:2 : Edinburgh UP :385-391

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2012

Review of: Ruth Barton, Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) Review of: Ruth Barton, Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.. ZAA 1:1 :101-103

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Other Publications

2015

Review of: Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, 2012), Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian (Dublin: Irish Academi....

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2015) Review of: Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, 2012), Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian (Dublin: Irish Academi..... Irish University Review 45:2 : Edinburgh UP :385-391

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2012

Review of: Ruth Barton, Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) Review of: Ruth Barton, Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.. ZAA 1:1 :101-103

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