> [[chehabi]]; [[neville]] (eds). *Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters between the Irish and the Iranians*. [[series-ilex-chs]]:16. ## Abstract > In _Erin and Iran_, ten essays by North American and European scholars discuss parallel themes in and interactions between Irish and Iranian cultures. In the first section three essays explore common elements in pre-Christian Irish and pre-Islamic Iranian mythologies, common elements that have often been pointed out by scholars of Indo-European mythology but rarely examined in detail. In the following section four essays address literary subjects, ranging from medieval romances such as _Tristan and Isolde_ and _Vis and Ramin_ to twentieth-century novels such as James Joyce’s _Ulysses_ and Simin Daneshvar’s _Savushun_. In the last section three nineteenth-century travelogues are presented, two written by Irish travelers to Iran and one written by an Indo-Persian traveler to Ireland. Together, these studies constitute the first-ever collection of articles dealing with cultural encounters between the Irish and the Iranians.