Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Going to Tara via Vienna: Joyce and the Freudian Bildungsroman
- 2 Growing pains: Sexuality, Irish moral politics and capitalist crisis,1920–40
- 3 Kate O’Brien and the erotics of liberal Catholic dissent
- 4 Married bliss: Sexuality, Catholicism and modernisation in Ireland, 1940–65
- 5 Sex and the country: The rural Bildungsromane of Maura Laverty and Patrick Kavanagh
- 6 Arrested development: Sexuality, trauma and history in Edna O’Brien and John McGahern
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Going to Tara via Vienna: Joyce and the Freudian Bildungsroman
- 2 Growing pains: Sexuality, Irish moral politics and capitalist crisis,1920–40
- 3 Kate O’Brien and the erotics of liberal Catholic dissent
- 4 Married bliss: Sexuality, Catholicism and modernisation in Ireland, 1940–65
- 5 Sex and the country: The rural Bildungsromane of Maura Laverty and Patrick Kavanagh
- 6 Arrested development: Sexuality, trauma and history in Edna O’Brien and John McGahern
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This conclusion discusses the legacy of Bildungsroman in contemporary Irish literature. It highlights Nuala O'Faolain's Are You Somebody (1996) which portrays the social changes that transformed Ireland in the late twentieth century. It also discusses the official inquiries into clerical sexual abuse of children by Irish Catholic priests: The Ferns Report (2005), The Report by the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin (2009), commonly known as the Murphy Report and The Report by the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne (2011).
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- Impure thoughtsSexuality, Catholicism and literature in twentieth-century Ireland, pp. 210 - 221Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2026
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