Sarah Nolan Balen is President of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) and a lecturer in Literature at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), Dublin. She completed a doctoral thesis at the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin which analysed interconnections between the works of several city poets including Charles Baudelaire, Fernando Pessoa, T.S. Eliot and Peter Sirr - and has published on these and other poets.

Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin - Tallaght Campus and general editor of the Reimagining Ireland and Studies in Franco-Irish Studies series with Peter Lang. His most recent book (with Eugene O'Brien) is Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century (2021) and he is currently working on a monograph on the Catholic Novel.

Contents: Engaging the Margins - Grace Neville: Ça mange comme les Irlandais des pommes de terre: The Great Irish Famine Comes in from the Margins in French Literature - Joseph Heininger: Representing the Marginalized in Micheal O'Siadhail's The Chosen Garden, Globe and The Five Quintets: Perspectives on Jean Vanier and Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Eamon Maher: Ministering on the Margins: Fictional Priests in the Work of Jean Sulivan and Colum McCann - Joan Dargan: Seeing and Surveillance: Periscope and Watchtower in Susan Howe and Paul Muldoon - Voicing the Margins - Sylvie Mikowski: Space, Place and the Non-human in Sara Baume's Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2016) - Marie Mianowski: Margins and Marginalities in Ireland: Being Jewish and Irish in Ruth Gilligan's Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan - Helen Penet: Hugo Hamilton's Hand in the Fire: Exploring Ireland's Marginalities through the Prism of Immigration - Eugene O'Brien: Paul Howard and the Celtic Tiger: A Voice from the «Morgins» - Pilar Villar-Argáiz: The Ethical Implications of Irish Transcultural Fiction: Representations of the Immigrant in Roisín O'Donnell's Wild Quiet and Donal Ryan's From a Low and Quiet Sea.