The Editors: Irene Gilsenan Nordin is Associate Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She is Director of the Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies and the literary editor of Nordic Irish Studies. Elin Holmsten is Assistant Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She completed her thesis The Hermeneutics of Otherness in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry at Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2006.