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"Counter-discourses express new and alternative views of the world, in contrast with more established discourses which embody mainstream values, norms, beliefs and attitudes. The essays in this volume assess the role of counter-discourses as non-violent forms of resistance to the status quo in core domains of Irish social, cultural and political life. These domains encompass the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process; law enforcement, policing and surveillance; parliamentary debate and obstructionism; identity formation, marriage, divorce and the family; and institutional abuse, authoritarianism and the Catholic Church. The discourses are drawn from a diverse range of media including political and parliamentary speeches, ethnographic accounts, social media, short stories, song lyrics, poetry and novels, including those written for young adults. The essays highlight the power and significance of counter-discourses as vehicles of independent thought, capable of both reflecting and driving social and political change"-- Introduction: Counter-discourses, counter arguments and new paradigms / Jennifer Bruen -- Police informers and spies versus Irish violent agrarian societies: a non-violent secret alternative to rebellion / Emilie Berthillot -- A calculated instrument of reprisal: Irish parliamentary obstructionism (1874-1887) / Pauline Collombier-Lakeman -- Mixed-up mess of a botched family: re-locating the family in Siobhan Parkinson's young adult novel Sisters No Way! / Åke Persson -- Counter-discourse as dialogue invitation: A reappraisal of Archbishop O'Fiaich's Slums of Calcutta speech / Jan Freytag -- Irreverent political discourse in a context of political reconciliation: the example of Ian Paisley and the DUP / Magali Dexpert -- How to assert but not confront? Transgenerational trauma and transcultural exchanges in Mary O'Donnell's Where They Lie / José Manuel Estévez-Saá -- Counter-discourse and political violence: Belfast in '71 and a Belfast story / Stéphanie Schwerter -- Irish dissenting priests and the renewal of the Church perhaps / Catherine Maignant -- Counter hegemonic discourses on institutional abuse in Ireland / Nathalie Sebbane -- Emerging, submerging lesbians in Ireland / Mel Duffy -- Resistance days: from dark interiors of resistance to the disobedient resistance of raw materials in Derek Mahon's poetry / Marion Naugrette-Fournier -- Christy Moore on stage: loss, echoes and movement / Jeanne-Marie Carton-Charon -- Dialogues des morts: a subversive representation of Hades in an eighteenth-century Irish manuscript / Padraig Liathain
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