RT Book, Section
T1 Nobody Kills a Priest: Irish Noir and Pathogenic Vulnerability in Benjamin Black's Holy Orders
A1 Pérez Vides, María Auxiliadora
K1 Crime fiction; Benjamin Black; vulnerability
AB This chapter addresses the systemic precarisation of individuals through the examination of Holy Orders (2013), the sixth title in Benjamin Black’s “Quirke series”. This crime novel describes the multi-layered precarity of Ireland’s travellers, that appear, I argue, as archives of the failing of infrastructural norms and paradigms of pathogenic vulnerability. Similarly, the story captures the corrupted network of control and influence sustained by the Catholic Church and its concomitant rule of silence, whose dysfunctionality generates a string of parallel justice. In my analysis, I first explore how the failure of Ireland’s network of infrastructural support has prevailed throughout time, decimating the lives of some of its most vulnerable individuals. Then, I trace the vigilantism that, as a convention in crime fiction, appears as a product of such deficiency and the troubling questions posed for the contemporary reader.
PB Palgrave Macmillan
SN 978-3-030-95507-6
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23010
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23010
LA eng
NO Pérez-Vides, A. (2022). ‘Nobody Kills a Priest’: Irish Noir and Pathogenic Vulnerability in Benjamin Black’s Holy Orders. In Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance (pp. 71–88). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95508-3_5
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 2 jun 2026