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Hidden Ireland Is Still There

Author: Samuel Clark (University of Western Ontario)

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Popular Mind In Eighteenth Century Ireland

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

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Gender and Sexual Politics in Ireland

Author: Tina O’Toole (University of Limerick)

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Sexual Politics In Modern Ireland

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

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Elegant Erudition

Author: Elke D’hoker (University of Leuven)

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The Weight Of A World Of Feeling Reviews And Essays By Elizabeth Bowen

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.

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Cuculain Redivivus

Author: Michael McAteer (Pázmány Péter University, Budapest)

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Cuculain A Critical Edition

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

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This Spectered Isle

Author: Paul K. Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania)

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Joyce S Ghosts

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

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Changed Utterly: Reading about the 2015 Marriage Referendum

Author: Ed Madden (University of South Carolina)

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In The Name Of Love The Movement For Marriage Equality In Ireland An Oral History

Ireland Says Yes

A Day In May Real Lives True Stories

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.

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Irish Writers in Wartime

Author: Jim Haughey (Anderson University, SC)

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Of War And Wars Alarms

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

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Ex Libris

Author: David Malcolm (University of Gdańsk)

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John Mcgahern And The Imagination Of Tradition

Stanley van der Ziel. John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition. Cork: Cork University Press, 2016, 305 pp.

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Traces and Transgressions

Author: Cathal Pratt (Fordham University)

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Staging Beckett

Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Edited by Trish McTighe and David Tucker. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016, xxx + 256 pp.

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Home and Away

Author: Beth A. Wightman (California State University, Northridge)

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Where Motley Is Worn

Where Motley is Worn: Transnational Irish Literature. Edited by Amanda Tucker and Moira Casey. Cork: Cork University Press, 2016, 250 pp.

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The Tragedy of Dispossession

Author: Frederik Van Dam (Radboud University)

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Writing The Frontier

John McCourt. Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, xii + 313 pp.

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Irish Theater’s Ghost Canon

Author: Elaine Sisson (Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Dun Laoghaire)

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Beyond Realism Use This

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.

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Scaling Modernity

Author: Malcolm Sen (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

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The Ordnance

Cóilín Parsons. The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 247 pp.

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Ireland’s Global Nationalism

Author: James Quinn (Royal Irish Academy)

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Global Dimensions

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.

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Living With History

Author: Siobhan Campbell (The Open University, UK)

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Eavan Boland 3

Jody Allen Randolph. Eavan Boland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2014, 249 pp.

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From Clay to Dust: Cré na Cille in English

Author: Margaret Kelleher (University College Dublin)

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The Dirty Dust Cover

Graveyard Clay Cover

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.

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A Widening Semicircle

Author: Gail McConnell (Queen’s University Belfast)

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Northern Irish Poetry 3

Elmer Kennedy-Andrews. Northern Irish Poetry: The American Connection. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, vii + 296 pp.

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The Eternal Easter Rising

Author: Seán Farrell Moran (Oakland University)

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1916 The Irish Rebellion

1916: The Irish Rebellion. Directors. Ruán Magan & Pat Collins. Narrator. Liam Neeson. Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, 2016. Film.   

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Distance Made Small

Author: Annie Galvin (University of Virginia)

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A Kind Of Compass

A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance. Edited by Belinda McKeon. Dublin: Tramp Press, 2016, 246 pp.

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