Cultural Perspectives on the Irish in Latin America

Edited By: Estelle Epinoux, Frank Healy

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Explore the surprising links between Ireland and Latin America. This collection examines the political and cultural influence of the Irish diaspora through literature, film, and history, revealing two cultures linked by shared destinies and a forgotten aspect of Irish heritage.

This collective volume provides the reader with an exploration of Latin America from an Irish perspective. The contributors have explored the multiple, and sometimes surprising,…

This collective volume provides the reader with an exploration of Latin America from an Irish perspective. The contributors have explored the multiple, and sometimes surprising, links that exist between Ireland and Latin America, touching on specific features of these links such as the political and cultural influence of the Irish diaspora and their political relations. These topics are examined through different media, including literature, films, history, poetry and sociology, and offer an opportunity to discover an aspect of Irish culture and history that has not been widely studied.
The authors deal with these questions from different cultural perspectives within past and present contexts, exploring two cultures and histories which, at times, are linked through their shared destinies. They also provide the reader with different national perspectives. In presenting the long-lasting and multifaceted relationships between Ireland and Latin America, the contributors have helped to deepen our understanding of a part of Ireland’s historical heritage that deserves more focus.

Estelle Epinoux lectures at the English Department of the University of Limoges, France, where she teaches contemporary British and Irish history and Irish cinema. Her current research focusses on the images of Irish society and the Irish in Ireland and abroad in both Irish and foreign films. She is co-author of several collective volumes: Frontière(s) au cinema (2019), Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: Exploring New Cultural Spaces (2016), La famille au cinéma: Regards juridiques et esthétiques (2016), The Status of Rewriting in the 20th-21st Centuries: Aesthetic Choice or Political Act? (2015) and Cinemas of Ireland (2009).

Frank Healy is a lecturer of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at La Rochelle University, France. His research focusses on questions of identity in society, particularly regarding the Irish diaspora in Scotland. Recently, he has been working on the translations into French of the works of the contemporary Northern Irish playwright Owen McCafferty. He has co-translated two of McCafferty’s plays: Mojo Mickybo (1998), which was premièred at the University of Tours in 2012, and Quietly (2012), which was premiered in La Rochelle in 2022. He is currently co-trans¬lating McCafferty’s Fire Below.

Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Cathy Roche-LIGER, Cécile Bazin, Cheikh N’Guirane, Ivette Romero, María Luján Medina, Peter Kelly, Sarah O’Brien, Estelle Epinoux