The Vibrant House

Irish writing and domestic space

Rhona Richman Kenneally & Lucy McDiarmid, editors

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Vona Groarke

‘I am off-white walls’: exploring and theorizing domestic space
Rhona Richman Kenneally

OUR HOUSE

A moving house
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Four paintings and a cloakroom
Mary Morrissy

Omphalos
Colette Bryce

Home is where you start from
Theo Dorgan

Liturgies of fire and water
Macdara Woods

VISUAL ESSAY: THE VIBRANT HOUSE

THEIR HOUSE

‘Flung open’: walking into the parlour in Victorian Irish literature
Howard Keeley

Inside the house: Synge’s stage spaces
Nicholas Grene

Hairpins among the rifles: the domestic site in women’s accounts of 1916
Lucy McDiarmid

The house that never blew up: Maeve Brennan’s Dublin home
Angela Bourke

The vibrancy of first houses in the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon
Adam Hanna

Melancholy ornaments in the house of Edna O’Brien’s fiction
Maureen O’Connor

A wandering to find home: Adam & Paul (2004)
Tony Tracy

'How to read a building'
Vona Groarke