Nordic Irish Studies Published by Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies (DUCIS) Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) General Editors: Literature: Carmen Zamorano Llena (cza@du.se) Politics, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies: Billy Gray (bgr@du.se) Assistant Editors: Literature: Åke Persson Politics, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies: John Braidwood Book Reviews: Heidi Hansson International Advisory Board: Charles Armstrong, Michael Böss, David Clark, Hedda Friberg-Harnesk, Derek Hand, Meg Harper, Werner Hüber, Anthony Johnson, Catherine Maignant, Gerard McCann, Constanza del Río, Hedwig Schwall Copyright © DUCIS, NISN, and the authors. Printed by Strålins ISSN 1602-124X The aim of Nordic Irish Studies is to publish quality research done by scholars from all disciplines included in the field of Irish Studies. Nordic Irish Studies supports both the publication of inter-disciplinary work, and studies rooted in the methodologies and theories of the individual scholars’ disciplines. We wish to acknowledge kind support from the Irish Embassy, Stockholm COVER DESIGN: Simon Ågren The image on the back cover is a wood-carved head of a dragon in the Hiberno- Scandinavian Ringerike style, excavated at Dublin’s Wood Quay site This journal is listed in MLA, JSTOR and EBSCO Host databases and included in the European Research Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ERIH PLUS. Subscriptions, Sales and Advertisements Carmen Zamorano Llena Department of English School of Humanities and Media Studies Dalarna University SE-791 88 Falun Sweden 3-year subscription rate: 40 EUR, delivery incl. Price per single volume: 14 EUR, delivery incl.; for overseas delivery, add 2 EUR per volume. Free to paid-up members of NISN, Nordic Irish Studies Network (membership fee 2014: 50 EUR). Membership of NISN includes membership of the European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS).