Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1 Introduction
2 Filming Global Ireland: Roddy Doyle's The Commitments
3 The Riddle of the Models of John Carney's Sing Street (2016)
4 The Women Incarnate of Words Upon the Window Pane
5 Mouth Not Eye: On Jordan's Adaptation of Beckett's Not I
6 "The Joyce of Filum: Cinematic Accounts of Ulysses"
7 "One Beetle Recognizes Another" Translation, Transformation, Transgression in Cartoon Saloon's Film The Secret of Kells
8 Bad Da's: Rewriting Fatherhood in Breakfast on Pluto
9 What Richard Did: Sort of Adapting Irish History
10 Plagues of Silence: Adaptation and Agency in Colm T ib n's and John Crowley's Brooklyns
11 The Program, Seven Deadly Sins, and Stephen Frears
12 The Immutable and Un-retrievable in the Diasporic Films of John Michael and Martin McDonagh
13 "How should we remember what happened?" Cultural Representations of Institutional Abuse in Jim Sheridan's The Secret Scripture