Introduction: Traversing the dismal fields: death and dying in modern Ireland -- Death and narrative regeneration: James Joyce's Ulysses -- The eve of all souls and the death of desire: Kate O'Brien's The ante-room -- Deathbed confessions and unraveling narration: Samuel Beckett's Malone dies -- Ritual and denial in a world stripped of illusion: John McGahern's The barracks -- Death without resurrection and the modern wake: Anne Enright's The gathering -- Conclusion: As you were before you rested: Death and the afterlife of the Irish wake.
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