Out of History : Essays on the Writings of Sebastian Barry

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Introduction	p. 1
From rhetoric to narrative : the poems of Sebastian Barry	p. 9
Transcencding genre : Sebastian Barry's juvenile fiction	p. 25
'To have a father is always big news' : theme and structure in The engine of owl-light	p. 37
'Everyman's story is the whisper of God' : sacred and secular in Barry's dramaturgy	p. 61
Children of the light amid the 'risky dancers' : Barry's naifs and the poetry of humanism	p. 83
'All the long traditions' : loyalty and service in Barry and Ishiguro	p. 99
Colonial policing : The steward of Christendom and The whereabouts of Eneas McNulty	p. 121
Redressing the Irish theatrical landscape : Sebastian Barry's : The only true history of Lizzie Finn	p. 147
Out of history : from The steward of Christendom to Annie Dunne	p. 167
'Something of us will remain' : Sebastian Barry and Irish history	p. 183
Hinterland : the public becomes private	p. 199
'In the dank margins of things' : Whistling psyche and the illness of empire	p. 209
Bibliography of works of Sebastian Barry	p. 229
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