Titlebook: Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction; Silences that Speak M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera,José Carregal-Romero Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 20

monologue

Blasphemy

,Infinite Spaces: Kevin Barry’s Lives of Quiet Desperation,the real lives of Irish males. Ranging in age from adolescence to midlife, his characters are afflicted by a silence that functions both as a core indicator of that broad-spectrum malaise and as a cause of even deeper suffering.

BINGE

ALIEN

,Unspeakable Injuries and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Sally Rooney’s , and ,ough in both novels plot events foreground the lies, omissions and frustrations of dysfunctional silences, a silence of refusal progressively emerges whereby Rooney’s protagonists evade social expectations, abandon previous pretences and begin to establish a more honest and caring relationship with their significant others.

IRS

使迷醉

The Silencing of Speranza,omophobic discourse around her influence on her son. The chapter argues that contemporary Irish cultural discourse has remade her reputation and connects this moment with a tendency in contemporary Irish fiction which focuses on the re-examining of lost and hidden lives.

玉米

,“A Self-Interested Silence”: Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon’s , (1967),mentary . as a key text in identifying the “self-interested silence” that has prevailed with regard to clerical control in Ireland up to our contemporary moment, the structures that maintained that silence, and the film’s important role in providing one of the first forums for that silence to be broken.

廣大

,Silence in Donal Ryan’s Fiction,ting represents individual and community minor/major traumas, tensions, hidden secrets, shame, crises, violence and prejudice. Ultimately, the chapter argues that in Ryan’s work inconvenient truths, contained by silence, point to the effects and consequences of power structures and institutional and societal frameworks in contemporary Ireland.