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Author:   Isabelle Torrance (Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9781350430426

ISBN 10:   1350430420
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Migration, Irish Identity, and Classical Antiquity: Introduction (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark) Part One: Medieval Ireland: Historiographical Migrations and Transfers of Knowledge 1. ‘Late Antique historiography and the Irish migrations in Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions)’ (Paula Blanco Ríos, Cambridge University, UK) 2. ‘Medieval Irish identity, experiences of migration, and models from Graeco-Roman antiquity’ (Maxim Fomin, Ulster University, Northern Ireland) 3. ‘Calypso reimagined: Graeco-Roman mythology and Hiberno-Latin scholarship in the pre-Carolingian and Carolingian periods’ (Jason O’Rorke, Independent Scholar, Ireland) 4. ‘Druide the names of those people, and Druis the name of their city’: The Migration of Knowledge (Translatio Studii) in the Medieval Irish Version of Lucan’s Bellum Civile’ (Brigid Ehrmantraut, Cambridge University, UK) Part Two: Early Modern Ireland: Politics of Travel and Exile 5. “In Argo’s ship went the Greek heroes”: wanderings and homecomings in Early Modern Gaelic political verse’ (Gregory Darwin, Uppsala University, Sweden) 6. ‘The Ius Communicandi (Right to Travel) and the Irish Franciscans in the Seventeenth Century’ (Ian Campbell, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland) 7. ‘Treading on the Dust of the Ancients: Irish Latin Writers in Exile c.1580-1700’ (Jason Harris, University College Cork, Ireland) Part Three: Eighteenth-Century Voyages, Real and Imagined 8. ‘A Trip to the Moon by Mr. Murtagh McDermot (1728): Lucian, Swift, Migration Satire and Irish Politics’ (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark) 9. ‘Donncha Rua as Aeneas: Voyages real and imagined to the Underworld and the New World’ (Pádraig Ó Liatháin, Dublin City University, Ireland) Part Four: Irish Migrations and Material Culture 10. ‘Visualising the Classics: Migration, Media, and Irish Manuscripts’ (Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, University of Aberystwyth, Wales) 11. ‘they live on the Tiber and the Thames’: Irish Classically-Influenced Sculpture and Migration, c.1820-70’ (Ciarán Rua O’Neill, Aarhus University, Denmark) Part Five: Sexuality, Gender, and Migration 12. ‘Mixed Metaphors: Male Same-Sex Desire, Irish Migration, and Late-Victorian Hellenism’ Michael Lawrence (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland) 13. ‘Eavan Boland’s ‘Loneliness of the Mythical’: Orpheus, Eurydice, and Recognition’ (Rosie Lavan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Part Six: Twentieth-Century Irish Odysseys 14. ‘An Irish Odyssey: Autofiction and Tradition in Padraig de Brún’s An Odaisé’ (Richard Martin, Stanford University, USA) 15. ‘Missionary to Europe: Writing Migration in James Joyce’s Ulysses’ (Ronan Crowley, Aarhus University, Denmark) Part Seven: Irish Classicism and the World Stage 16. ‘The Global Afterlives of Joycean Classicism: Case Studies from Argentine, Indian, and Zimbabwean Writers’ (Kiron Ward, University of St. Andrew’s, UK) 17. ‘Migrancy and Poetic Redress in Seamus Heaney’s Virgilian Pastoral’ (Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland) 18. ‘Marina Carr and Colm Tóibín on Troy, Displacement, and Contemporary Warfare’ (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark) Envoi (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark) Notes Bibliography Index

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Isabelle Torrance is Associate Professor of Classics at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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