This volume comprises articles by scholars from three disciplines ¿ literary studies, TEFL methodology, and history ¿ from three universities ¿ University College Cork (UCC), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (KU Leuven/LCIS), and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg/Irish Studies Würzburg (JMU/ISWÜ) ¿ in three European countries ¿ Ireland, Belgium, and Germany. The contributors explore Irish ¿history in stories¿ from the vantage point of their national and disciplinary contexts, emphasizing cultural knowledge and historical lessons to be drawn from ¿texts¿ from and about the Irish past.

Acknowledgements - Ina Bergmann & Maria Eisenmann - History in Stories: The Irish Past and the Challenges of the Present - Part I: History - Damian Bracken - Salvation Beyond the Empire: Patrick, Salvation History, and Ireland - Helmut Flachenecker - History in Stories: The Irish Benedictines in Ratisbon and Their - Attempts to Interest a New Audience About Ireland in the Twelfth Century - Beatrix Färber - Carl Gottlob Küttner: In Search of an Older Ireland - Part II: Literary and Cultural Studies - Jochen Achilles - Cautionary Tales: Deirdre Kinahan's Dramatic Reassessment of Irish History in Raging (2022) - Antonios Smyrnaios - Transatlantic Quest: The Fusion of Immram and Initiation in Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea (2003), Mary Pat Kelly's Galway Bay (2009), and Colum McCann's TransAtlantic (2013) - Anne- Sophie Hornung - An "American Idea": Irish American Musical Theatre in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - Hedwig Schwall - Resilient Women and the Belfast Blitz: Lucy Caldwell's These Days (2022) - Raphaël Ingelbien - Brexit and the Remaking of Irish Diasporic Writing: Recovering Irish and European Pasts in Patrick McGuinness's Throw Me to the Wolves - Miriam Wallraven - "Brexit, borders, barriers, identity": Connected Forms of Liminality in Kerri ní Dochartaigh's Irish Memoir Thin Places - Franca Leitner - Houses with Histories: Ruins as Lieux d'Oubli in Tana French's The Likeness (2008), Dervla McTiernan's The Ruin (2018), and Stuart - Neville's The House of Ashes (2021) - Maureen O'Connor - Moya Cannon's Anthropocene Poetics: Writing the Knot That Binds Past, Present, and Future - Ina Bergmann - Irish History, Personal Memory and Stupid Ideas: A Conversation with Patrick Freyne - Part III: TEFL - Aimée Waha - "Irish Stories": Ireland in German EFL Schoolbooks - Maria Eisenmann - Irish American History and Hybrid Identity: Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn (2009) in the EFL Classroom - Maria Eisenmann - The Troubles: Kenneth Branagh's Film Belfast (2021) in the EFL Classroom - Elke D'hoker - Teaching Language, Literature, and History Through Irish Short Stories: An Integrated and Dialogic EFL Approach - Manfred Schewe - Engaging with History Through Story: A Performative Perspective - List of Contributors

Ina Bergmann is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany and co-head of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ).
Maria Eisenmann is Professor of TEFL at the University of Würzburg, Germany and co-head of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ).