1. Introduction Christopher Cusack, Bridget English, and Matthew Reznicek The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature II. Reframing the Corpse 2. Colleen English Elegies in Irish Country Churchyards: James Orr, Thomas Dermody, and Sympathetic Corpses 3. Christina Morin 'Why do you bring your dead bodies littering here?': The Corpse and the Comic Gothic in Romantic-Era Irish Women's Writing 4. Matthew L. Reznicek Between Epidemic and Endemic Deaths: Death and the State in The Wild Irish Girl III. Revitalizing the Corpse 5.

Michael McAteer The Corpse in Irish Folklore and Drama: Douglas Hyde and John Millington Synge 6. Daniela Theinová The Ethics of Dust: The Speaking Cadaver in Modern and Contemporary Irish-Language Poetry 7. Margaret O'Neill 'She had never seen a dead person': Corpses and Spiritual Transformation in Kate O'Brien 8. Lloyd Meadhbh Houston James Joyce's 'The Sisters': Irish Modernism and the Sexually Pathological Corpse IV. Familial Corpses 9. Bridget English Collapsing Flesh and Wasted Bodies: Maternal Corpses and Septic Irish Modernism 10. Christopher Cusack Post-Celtic Tiger Fiction and the Remains of Irish History 11. Kathleen Costello-Sullivan 'Puppeting It Back to Life': Corpses, Motherhood, and Authorship in Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat V.

Unquiet Remains 12. José Lanters Corpses, Cadavers, and Unquiet Remains in Marina Carr's On Raftery's Hill and Ariel 13. Sinéad Kennedy Antigone's Daughters: Gender, Reproduction, and the Politics of the Dead 14. Mary M. Burke The 'Problem' of the Unbaptized Corpse: Mary Leland's The Killeen 15. Mindi McMann Haunting the Troubles: The Missing Body in David Park's The Truth Commissioner 16. Afterword Joe Cleary.