Introduction: ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture / Michaela Schrage-Früh and Tony Tracy -- Taking the "black stick" : ageing husbands and fathers in the plays of J.M. Synge and Teresa Deevy / Mária Kurdi -- "Are all the monks old men?" Ageing and the male monastic community in Brian Friel's The enemy within / Giovanna Tallone -- Father Ireland on stage : representations of social change and ageing masculinities in crisis / Ciara L. Murphy -- Poetics at the limit : embodiment, masculinities, and ageing in Samuel Beckett's early poetry collection Echo's Bones / Heike Hartung -- Masculinity, ageing, and midlife crisis in the poetry of Paul Muldoon and Paul Durcan / Anne Karhio -- Not sailing to Byzantium : aged masculinities and Latour's Matters of concern in the late works of Irish male poets / Katarzyna Ostalska -- "That the youth may throw us aside" : fatherhood, ageing masculinities, and the politics of insecurity in mid-twentieth-century Irish fiction / Loic Wright -- Stuck in the old times : a male-character analysis on three Irish novels through corpus stylistics / Cassandra S. Tully -- Uncanny reflections : older widowers in John Banville's The sea, Sebastian Barry's The secret scripture and Anne Griffin's When all is said / Michaela Schrage-Früh -- "Caught suddenly by the land shifting" : ageing masculinity and rural Ireland in recent Irish short fiction / Orlaith Darling -- "A bridge to nowhere" : arrested development, trauma, liminality, and the ageing Irish exile in Bernard MacLaverty's Midwinter break / Clare Brannigan -- "Shades of masculinities" : midlife and caring masculinity in Mike McCormack's Solar bones / Brenda O'Connell -- Colm Tóibín and Henry James : portrait of an ageing master / Heather Ingman -- Seán Keating's Ireland - the land of old men / Katarzyna Kocio?ek -- Ageing masculinities and Irish traditional music on screen / Verena Commins and Méabh Ní Fhuartháin -- Changing the picture : older men's responses to media representations of ageing in an Irish context / Margaret O'Neill and Áine Ní Léime.