County Cork, Mississippi: Elizabeth Bowen, Settler-Colonialism, and Welty's "The Bride of the Innisfallen".

The article examines Eudora Welty's 1955 collection *The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories*, focusing on its title story's engagement with Irish and American settler-colonial histories. Inspired by Welty's visit to the Anglo-Irish Bowen family's ancestral mansion in County Cork, the story draws parallels between Ireland's "Big House" tradition and the American South's plantation culture, both rooted in colonial conquest and displacement. The narrative's setting aboard a train to Ireland evokes the lingering trauma of colonization, including references to Oliver Cromwell's brutal campaign and the Norman invasion, highlighting shared histories of violence and cultural domination. The article situates Welty's work within a broader postcolonial and Gothic literary context that explores the unfinished and haunting legacies of settler colonialism in both Ireland and the American South.