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The article discusses highlights of Caliban's Mirror: The 2022 Wilde and Joyce Symposium, held at the Trinity Long Room in Dublin, Ireland on May 5-7, 2022. Topics included the literary works of authors Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, influence of non-human entities on conceptions and constructions of the human, modernism and the politics of punitive child removal, and modern Irish art.

The vision of heroic Irishness represented by Irish monuments has remained rather monolithic since the late-nineteenth-century Gaelic revival, and in recent years scholars working from feminist, queer and postcolonial perspectives have identified its many exclusions. Kathryn A. Conrad argues that Irishness, so rooted in Catholic values, repudiates homosexuality, while Diana Negra observes that Irishness is inextricable from whiteness and expels non-white racial identities. This article proposes that two examples of public statuary erected during the transformative 'Celtic Tiger' period of modern Ireland (1993-2007) provide evidence of changing perceptions of Irish identity in the wake of recent unprecedented immigration and ensuing racial tensions. The commemorative statues of Oscar Wilde (1997), an Anglo-Irish nationalist homosexual writer, and Philip Lynott (2006), a mixed-race nationalist rock star, provide a placatory version of contemporary Irishness that addresses the 'authenticity' requirement (both Irish by 'blood') of conservative nationalism, while presenting the possibility of greater inclusivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the untitled print involving woodcut and etching on the issue's cover, which was created by the Irish artist Morgan Doyle. Topics, including a brief biography of Doyle, information of the printmaking studio Cork Printmakers and the artistic style of the aforementioned art work, are discussed.