This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Eamon Maher. The essays all speak to issues which Eamon has worked on, so there are pieces focusing largely on the connections between Ireland and France across a range of political, cultural, historical, literary, theoretical, religious and linguistic influences. There are also essays on John McGahern, George Moore, regionalism and translation. The essays are all written by colleagues who are at the top of their fields and who are very widely published.

Contents: Grace Neville, Sarah Nolan and Eugene O'Brien: Introduction - Grace Neville: Une Femme Libre: Edna O'Brien, A Wild Irish Girl in the French Media 1965-2023 - Andrew Auge: Waking the Living and the Dead: The Revelatory Power of Funerary Rituals in John McGahern's Late Fiction - Bertrand Cardin: An Intertextual Reading of John McGahern's Short Story 'Korea' - Anne Goarzin: Friendship and Literature - Derek Hand: Elizabeth Bowen's 'The Good Earl': Escaping the Past - Pierre Joannon: Reflections on the Relationship between Ireland and France - Alexandra Maclennan: The Importance of Being Eamon - Catherine Maignant: French Theory and the Academic Study of Religion in Ireland - Patricia Medcalf: 1960-1989: The Making of a Guinness Drinker - Sylvie Mikowski: Children in Recent Irish Fiction - Marisol Morales-Ladrón: Nuala O'Connor's Nora and the Challenges of Biographical Fiction - Mary S. Pierse: Judging George Moore's 'Wild Goose': The Case of Ned Carmady - María Elena Jaime de Pablos: Trauma and Artistic Creation in Another Alice by Lia Mills - Eamonn Wall: He Lived among These Lanes: Bioregional John McGahern - Harry White: Fifth Business: George Moore and the Cultural History of Music in Ireland - Pilar Villar- Argáiz: Transparency and Secrecy in the Poetry of Colette Bryce - Brian J. Murphy and Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire: Generous Curiosity: Connections, Community and Commensality in Research - Eugene O'Brien: 'To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric [...]': Micheal O'Siadhail's The Gossamer Wall - Michael Cronin: Is There a Translator in the Text? Language, Identity and Haunting - Vic Merriman: At Someone's Expense: Nation, Fulfilment, and Betrayal in Irish Theatre - Anne Fogarty: Writing the Unspeakable in Irish Feminist Life- Writing: Emilie Pine's Notes to Self and Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat - Sarah Nolan: Re[p]laying Voices in Translation: Peter Sirr and the Troubadours of Twelfth- Century France - Barry Houlihan: 'The Fear of Speaking Plainly': Translating John McGahern and the Letters of Alain Delahaye - John Littleton: The Changed Reality of Being a Catholic Priest in Today's Ireland

Grace Neville is a professor emerita of French at University College Cork.

Sarah Nolan is the current President of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) and programme chair in the Department of Humanities and Arts Management in IADT (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire) where she lectures on Urban, American, and Contemporary Anglophone and Irish Literature.

Eugene O'Brien is Professor of English Literature and Theory, and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.