Anne Jamison. E.Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross: Female Authorship and Literary Collaboration. Cork: Cork University Press, 2016, x + 220 pp.  

Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry. Edited by Jefferson Holdridge and Brian Ó Conchubhair. Winston Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 2017, 416 pp.

David Lloyd. Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016, xiii + 253 pp.

Ray Cashman. Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border. University of Wisconsin Press, 2016, 336 pp.

Gail McConnell. Northern Irish Poetry and Theology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xii + 262 pp.

L. Perry Curtis Jr. Notice to Quit: The Great Famine Evictions. Camden CT and Cork: Quinnipiac University Press and Cork University Press, 2015, 44 pp.  

Michael Foley. Death in Every Paragraph: Journalism and the Great Irish Famine. Camden CT and Cork: Quinnipiac University Press and Cork University Press, 2015, 48 pp.  

Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh. “I Mbéal an Bháis”: The Great Famine and the Language Shift in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Camden CT and Cork: Quinnipiac University Press  and Cork University Press, 2015, 52 pp.

Robert Smart. Black Roads: The Famine in Irish Literature Camden CT and Cork: Quinnipiac University Press and Cork University Press, 2015, 44 pp.

Peter O’Neill. Famine Irish and the American Racial State. New York: Routledge, 2017, xiii + 280 pp.

Harry Clifton. Portobello Sonnets. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2016, 48 pp.

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma. Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, xi + 287 pp.

Thomas McGonigle. St. Patrick’s Day: another day in Dublin. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016, 244 pp.

Stewart Parker, Hopdance. Edited by Marilynn Richtarik. Foreword by Lynne Parker. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2017. 154 pp.

Paul Townend. The Road to Home Rule: Anti-Imperialism and the Irish National Movement. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2017, xxii + 312 pp.

Diarmuid Ó Gráda. Georgian Dublin: The Forces That Shaped the City. Cork: Cork University Press, 2015, xii + 390 pp.

This special issue of Breac examines “The Great Irish Famine: Global Contexts.” It brings together leading experts in the field with support from the International Network of Irish Famine Studies. The network was…

The[1] series of events that played out near Queenston, Niagara, in the spring and summer of 1848 read like a Stephen King novel. On May 18, while playing along the banks of…

They are crying out at Natal, at the Cape, and at Port Philip for the labour which is useless, redundant and lethargic at Ballina and Glenties. It would be a long delayed mercy to Ireland and the colonies to let them have…

Between 1788 and 1868, one hundred and sixty-one thousand men and women were transported to the Australian colonies; thirty-five percent of them were Irish and more…

“There is a lingering spark of the old feudalism yet left in the people. Try and kindle it up once more into the old healthful glow of love to the landlord.”[1] These lines,…

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Dear old Killynoogan, thee,
Once so full of life and glee,
Lifeless, desolate, I see!

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But, beloved and sacred…

This article examines theatrical representations of the Great Hunger and Irish Famine migration that were performed during the era of the Celtic Tiger and its collapse. More specifically, I will argue that the rise and fall…

Perhaps[1] it is an emigrant lament, but in the accumulation of years since I left Ireland, I’ve felt a growing obligation to better understand what it is to be Irish, given…

Medbh McGuckian. Blaris Moor. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2016, 112 pp.

Emma Donoghue. The Wonder. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016, 291 pp.