Tara Stubbs. American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910-55: The Politics of Enchantment. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017, xvii + 236 pp.

Lisa McInerney. The Glorious Heresies. London: John Murray, 2015, 389 pp.

Eavan Boland: Inside History. Edited by Siobhán Campbell and Nessa O’Mahony. Dublin: Arlen House, 2017, 368 pp.

Vincent Morley. The Popular Mind in Eighteenth-century Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2017, ix + 362 pp.   

Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland. Edited by Jennifer Redmond, Sonja Tiernan, Sandra McAvoy, and Mary McAuliffe. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2015, 190 pp.

The Weight of a World of Feeling: Reviews and Essays by Elizabeth Bowen. Edited by Allan Hepburn. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2017. 418 pp.

Aidan Beatty. Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 233 pp.

Standish O’Grady’s Cuculain: A Critical Edition. Edited by Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby. Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016, 298 pp.

Luke Gibbons. Joyce’s Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, xx + 286 pp.

Movement for Marriage Equality in Ireland, An Oral History. Dublin: The History Press Ireland, 2014, 286 pp.

Gráinne Healy, Brian Sheehan, and Noel Whelan. Ireland Says Yes: The Inside Story of How the Vote for Marriage Equality Was Won. Sallins, Co. Kildare: Merrion Press, 2016, 194 pp.

Charlie Bird. A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories. Edited by Kevin Rafter. Sallins, Co. Kildare: Merrion Press, 2016, 253 pp.

Jo Baker. A Country Road, A Tree. London: Doubleday, 2016, 336 pp.

Margot Norris. The Value of James Joyce. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 146 pp.

This issue of Breac, "Ireland in Psychoanalysis," was guest edited by Joseph Valente (University of Buffalo), Macy Todd (University of Buffalo), and Seán Kennedy (Saint Mary's University). Its contents include:

1. Joseph…

Introduction

It would be useful in my view to inaugurate the consideration of “Ireland in Psychoanalysis” by taking a…

Psychoanalysis is often hailed as the advent of the notion of foundational trauma: an originary burl in the texture of subjectivity that produces symptoms in the present. In this context, were one to produce a psychoanalysis…

Dr. Noreen Giffney works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. She also provides supervision to clinical practitioners conducting research in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She is…

As Joseph Valente remarks in the opening essay of this volume, it makes little sense to talk of “Ireland in Psychoanalysis,” there being no collective Irish subject that might plausibly enter into such a process. As…

Introduction

The School of Psychotherapy was set…

 “Pouvait-on s’attendre à autre chose d’emmoi: je nomme.”
[“Could one expect anything else from me/being emotional: I give names.”][1]

…

 “Lovely walk this morning with Father,” Beckett wrote to Thomas McGreevy on April 23, 1933. “I’ll never have anyone like him.”[1] There was grim clairvoyance in that prospect,…

How has the discourse of psychoanalysis shaped or contributed to your exploration of Irish literature and culture more generally?

 …

It has long been the desire of Yeats readers and critics to establish the real thread of meaning that might link all of Yeats’s work into a comprehensible whole, a desire that John Unterecker observes in Yeats himself: “His…

He was living in the open,

In a secret camp

On…

Leafing through some book or other in the early 2000s, I first encountered the Freudian claim that we are all polymorphously perverse.[1] That we might all be perverse, and…

 “He was a polymorph, unintegrated, could-become-a-person creature.”[1]

“For my perception […] is as much a fact as the sun.”[2]…

Oedipus always ruins the barbecue. Or that’s what he claims in the final scenes of Pan Pan Theatre’s 2006 version of Freud and Sophocles’s omphalic drama, blindly poking some disruptively “moist” sausages as his family gathers around him at the grill.…

How has the discourse of psychoanalysis shaped or contributed to your exploration of Irish literature and culture more generally?…

Gerald Dawe. Of War and War’s Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing. Cork: Cork University Press, 2015, x + 194 pp.

This issue of Breac has been in the works for a while now, and as we think back over the events that have happened during this time period, we’re struck by how salient gender has been in a number of the big stories.…