In 2013, my standing in Irish Studies as a specialist on the Anglo-Irish gothic and James Joyce paradoxically qualified and compelled me to deliver a plenary address on Edna O’Brien, whose writing I had only started…
Just four years after the end of the Second World War, in his 1949 essay “Here is New York,” E.B. White begins his celebration of the city with the promise that “On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will…
It is no secret that the number of plays by women staged in Ireland is few and far between. Factor into the mix the number of plays in Irish by women and the figure plummets. There are many reasons why this is the case:…
Introduction
In 1971, Frank McGuinness went to see his first professional play at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. That play was Brian Friel’s The Gentle Island and it was…
The physical organization of modern society relies upon the delineation and mediation of spaces into distinct places. We recognize the spatial boundaries between places by the ways in which they permit or deny access…
When asked in a 2013 interview how he first became interested in the character and the story of Mary, mother of Jesus Christ and the subject of his short novella, The Testament of Mary, Colm Tóibín declared, “I…
For the past couple of years, Emma Donoghue has been in the spotlight, with her adaption of her best-selling novel Room receiving a number of accolades. Donoghue was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFA, and a Golden…
Introduction
This essay investigates contemporary gender, racial, sexual, and diasporic relations in Northern…
Twenty-five years after the infamous X Case, which challenged traditional, conservative views on the issue of abortion in Ireland, the topic remains a source of endless contention for Irish society. Ireland continues…
“I was always amazed by how much light that green window let in.”
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Stanley van der Ziel. John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition. Cork: Cork University Press, 2016, 305 pp.
Raphaël Ingelbien. Irish Cultures of Travel: Writing on the Continent, 1829-1914. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, viii + 252 pp.
Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Edited by Trish McTighe and David Tucker. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016, xxx + 256 pp.
Where Motley is Worn: Transnational Irish Literature. Edited by Amanda Tucker and Moira Casey. Cork: Cork University Press, 2016, 250 pp.
John McCourt. Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, xii + 313 pp.
Beyond Realism: Experimental and Unconventional Irish Drama Since the Revival. Edited by Joan FitzPatrick Dean and José Lanters. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2015, 234 pp.
Geraldine Mills. Hellkite. Dublin: Arlen House, 2014, 160pp.
Cóilín Parsons. The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 247 pp.
Caitriona Lally. Eggshells. Dublin: Liberties, 2015, 252 pg. Print.
Cian T. McMahon. The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015, xiii + 256 pp.
Jody Allen Randolph. Eavan Boland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2014, 249 pp.
Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Cré na Cille/The Dirty Dust. Translated by Alan Titley. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015, 308 pp.
Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Graveyard Clay/Cré na Cille. Translated by Liam Mac Com Iomaire and Tim Robinson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016, 324 pp.
Elmer Kennedy-Andrews. Northern Irish Poetry: The American Connection. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, vii + 296 pp.
Iain Bailey. Samuel Beckett and the Bible. London: Bloomsbury, 2014, 208 pp.
Caitríona O'Reilly. Geis. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest UP, 2015, 67 pp.
Robert Lynch. Revolutionary Ireland, 1912–25. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, xvi + 182 pp.
Daniel O’Neill. Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2016, xii + 251 pp.
Town Stitched by River: Irish Writers at the International Writing Program. Edited by Alan Hayes and Christopher Merrill. Dublin, Ireland: Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, and Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature and the International Writing Program, 2015, 96 pp.
