Rebellion has been a feature of French and Irish

literature since people first began to put ideas

on paper. This is not surprising in light of the

history of both countries, which is shot through

with bloody conflict, political agitation and revolt

against the status quo. This book, the first of two

volumes emanating from the highly successful

annual AFIS conference held in University College

Cork in May 2009, is the fifth publication of the

National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, based

in IT Tallaght. Figures dealt with include Dion

Boucicault, J.W. Whitbread, Hannah Lynch,

Fannie Gallaher, May Laffan, George Sand,

Liam O'Flaherty, Charles Baudelaire, James

Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Paul Verlaine, Ciaran

Carson, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Louis-Ferdinand

Céline, and Sebastian Barry.

Thanks to the following for their editorial

assistance: Yann Bévant, Scott Brewster, Anne

Fogarty, Anne Goarzin, Peter Guy, Sylvie

Mikowski, Paula Murphy, Grace Neville, Mary

Pierse and James Rogers.