Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Caribbean Irish connections: creolizing histories, historicizing imaginings / |r Alison Donnell, Maria McGarrity and Evelyn O'Callaghan. |g Part 1. Histories of encounter and exchange. |t A changing presence: the Irish in the Caribbean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / |r Nini Rodgers -- |t Father Antoine Biet's account revisited: Irish Catholics in mid-seventeenth century Barbados / |r Jerome S. Handler and Matthew C. Reilly -- |t The Irish in Barbados: labour, landscape and legacy / |r Matthew C. Reilly -- |t Liberty, freedom and the green Atlantic / |r Kevin Whelan -- |t Irish encounters with the Jamaican plantocracy, 1814-1838 / |r Karina Williamson. |g Part 2: Cultural performance and exchange. |t Entanglements of root and branch: the queer relations of the Caribbean Irish / |r Alison Donnell -- |t Historic and contemporary Irish identity on Montserrat: the "Emerald Isle of the Caribbean" / |r Krysta Rysewski and Laura McAtackney -- |t Cataloguing Ireland: exile and indigeneity in Derek Walcott's Omeros / |r Maria McGarrity -- |t Pamela Colman Smith's performative primitivism / |r Elizabeth O'Connor -- |t The final fortress: The Redlegs and Bajan-Irish abjection / |r Harvey O'Brien. |g Part 3: Comparative readings and critical encounters. |t Water songs: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and Jamaican poetry / |r Lee M. Jenkins -- |t The haunted ocean: mourning language with J.M. Synge and Derek Walcott / |r Leif Schenstead-Harris -- |t Que diga perejil / Abair broagh: a comparative study of shibboleths, security and violence / |r K. Brisley Brennan -- |t Medbh McGuckian's Shelmalier and Dionne Brand's Inventory: elegiac ecopoetics / |r Elaine Savory -- |t "Two Tunes": settler-colonist worlds in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark / |r Richard McGuire -- |t Mutual obsessions: Walcott, Beckett and Brathwaite / |r Jean Antoine-Dunne -- |t Rewriting Heathcliff: Irishness, creolization and constructions of race in Brontë and Condé / |r Emily Taylor -- |t Appendix: Timeline of events related to the Irish experience in the Caribbean in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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