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A huge thanks to all our contributors for their dedication, patience and intellectual vigour. We are proud of this book because of their wonderful and dynamic essays. In addition, we are grateful to all at Cork University Press, particularly Maria O’Donovan and Mike Collins who have provided invaluable support and guidance throughout the publication process. Susan Cahill and Mary McGlynn generously took time to read drafts of the collection’s introduction and helped clarify and refine our focus and direction. We really appreciate their insights. Thanks to all our colleagues and students in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film, and the English Department, Union College. Particular mention also to Patricia Coughlan, Margaret Kelleher, Anne Mulhall, Diane Negra and Moynagh Sullivan, whose work consistently inspires our scholarship and who we are lucky to count as friends and mentors. And to Gerardine Meaney – for everything. Thanks to our wonderful families and friends, who have always been there, providing care and support throughout the editing of this book, not to mention some very welcome distraction when needed! Special thanks to Susan Cahill, for years of friendship, stimulating conversation, and great fun. And of course to our partners Eoin Foley and Glen Wrafter, for their understanding, good humour and love. The editors and publishers wish to thank the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge for permission to reproduce ‘The Bertillonage Method, Ireland’, Lough Derg for ‘Soul Survival’ and ‘Re-Kindle Your Spirit’, Joe Duggan for ‘Like ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xvii Father, Like Son (Kite)’, ‘Family Man No. 5’, Hannah Starkey and Maureen Paley, London for ‘Untitled – June 2007’ and ‘Untitled – May 1997’, and Grand Pictures for the images from Fergus’s Wedding and Paths to Freedom. xviii Acknowledgements ...

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