Introduction: Caribbean Irish connections: creolizing histories, historicizing imaginings / Alison Donnell, Maria McGarrity and Evelyn O'Callaghan -- A changing presence: the Irish in the Caribbean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Nini Rodgers -- Father Antoine Biet's account revisited: Irish Catholics in mid-seventeenth century Barbados / Jerome S. Handler and Matthew C. Reilly -- The Irish in Barbados: labour, landscape and legacy / Matthew C. Reilly -- Liberty, freedom and the green Atlantic / Kevin Whelan -- Irish encounters with the Jamaican plantocracy, 1814-1838 / Karina Williamson -- Entanglements of root and branch: the queer relations of the Caribbean Irish / Alison Donnell -- Historic and contemporary Irish identity on Montserrat: the "Emerald Isle of the Caribbean" / Krysta Rysewski and Laura McAtackney -- Cataloguing Ireland: exile and indigeneity in Derek Walcott's Omeros / Maria McGarrity -- Pamela Colman Smith's performative primitivism / Elizabeth O'Connor -- The final fortress: The Redlegs and Bajan-Irish abjection / Harvey O'Brien -- Water songs: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and Jamaican poetry / Lee M. Jenkins -- The haunted ocean: mourning language with J.M. Synge and Derek Walcott / Leif Schenstead-Harris -- Que diga perejil / Abair broagh: a comparative study of shibboleths, security and violence / K. Brisley Brennan -- Medbh McGuckian's Shelmalier and Dionne Brand's Inventory: elegiac ecopoetics / Elaine Savory -- "Two Tunes": settler-colonist worlds in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark / Richard McGuire -- Mutual obsessions: Walcott, Beckett and Brathwaite / Jean Antoine-Dunne -- Rewriting Heathcliff: Irishness, creolization and constructions of race in Brontë and Condé / Emily Taylor -- Appendix: Timeline of events related to the Irish experience in the Caribbean in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
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