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A literary criticism of the book "Murphy," by Samuel Beckett is presented. It outlines the historical sense of the combination of Irish migrant characters, close attention to economic questions, precise descriptions of medical settings, and sensitivity to biopolitical discourses in the novel which focuses on the connection between health and the economy. It also reflects the equivalence between sadistic night-time system, and enlightened, daylight system of biopolitically-motivated therapy.

An essay is presented about the historical analogies of famine and AIDS in Ireland in the novel "The Hunger." It explores the intersections of homosexuality, terminal illness and Irish culture and highlights the historical imagination and politics of HIV/AIDS in the country. The author examines the complex representation of HIV and the gay Irish subject in the novel in an explicitly biopolitical context.