This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary.
Michaela Schrage-Früh is lecturer in German at NUI Galway. She is the author of Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian (2004) and Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination (2016). She has authored numerous articles and co-edited several collections on representations of gender and ageing in literature and culture.
Tony Tracy is lecturer in Film and Media Studies at NUI Galway. His research centres on film history and Irish cinema with a particular interest in masculinities. He has authored numerous articles and co-edited a number of collections including Irish Masculinity and Popular Culture: Tiger Tales (2014) and John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director (2010).