Articles » Review

A Terrible Beauty

Author: James Moran (University of Nottingham)

Comments

vivid_faces

R. F. Foster. Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923. New York: Norton, 2014, xxiii + 464 pp.

Read More

A Sacred Narrative

Author: Mairéad Carew (Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland)

Comments

waddell_celtic_myth

John Waddell. Archaeology and Celtic Myth: An Exploration. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014, v + 203 pp.

Read More

Heads, Swords, Tongues, and Words

Author: Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Comments

the_severed_head_and_the_grafted_tongue

Patricia Palmer. The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Literature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 185 pp.

Read More

Wily Familiarity

Author: Anne Karhio (University of Bergen / National University of Ireland, Galway)

Comments

icon_five_fables

Seamus Heaney: Five Fables. Touchpress Limited, 2014, iPad app.

Read More

Irish Periodicals: The Cultural Republic

Author: Martin Conboy (University of Sheffield)

Comments

periodicals_and_newspapers_in_twentieth_century_ireland

Periodicals and Newspapers in Twentieth Century Ireland: Writing Against the Grain. Edited by Felix Larkin and Mark O’Brien. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014, 240 pp.

Read More

The "Prince of Dinmurk"

Author: Scott W. Klein (Wake Forest University)

Comments

joyce_shakespeare

Joyce/Shakespeare. Edited by Laura Pelaschiar. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015, xii + 210 pp.

Read More

Tainted Love

Author: Sylvie Mikowski (Université de Reims)

Comments

staying_thin_for_daddy

Deirdre Brennan. Staying Thin for Daddy. Dublin: Arlen House, 2014, 191 pp.

Read More

Soft Drinks

Author: Medbh McGuckian (Queen's University Belfast)

Comments

the_boys_of_bluehill

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. The Boys of Bluehill. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2015, 68 pp.

Read More

Friend to the Poor

Author: Christine Kinealy (Quinnipiac University)

Comments

 

compassionate_stranger

Maureen O’Rourke Murphy. Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015, 366 pp.

Read More

Dislocated Light

Author: Seán Hewitt (University of Liverpool)

Comments

goats_milk

Frank Ormsby. Goat’s Milk: New and Selected Poems. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 2015, 192 pp.

Read More

Spot the Differences

Author: Marion R. Casey (New York University)

Comments

between_raid_and_rebellion

William Jenkins. Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013, xix + 511 pp.

Read More

Allowing Nature Back

Author: Bill Adams (University of Cambridge)

Comments

our_once_and_future_planet

Paddy Woodworth. Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013, 515 pp.

Read More

Taking in Friel

Author: Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin)

Comments

the_theatre_of_brian_friel

Christopher Murray. The Theatre of Brian Friel: Tradition and Modernity. London: Bloomsbury, 2014, xi + 299 pp.

Read More

“An unrigged vision”

Author: Patricia Coughlan (University College Cork)

Comments

the_miraculous_parish

Máire Mhac an tSaoi. An paróiste míorúilteach / The miraculous parish. Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems. Edited by Louis de Paor. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2014, 202 pp.

Read More

Random Selection

Author: Ciaran O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin)

Comments

educating_ireland

Educating Ireland: Schooling and Social Change. Edited by Deirdre Raftery and Karin Fischer. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2014, 250 pp.

Read More

A People with Too Many Names?

Author: Kerby A. Miller (University of Missouri)

Comments

ulster_presbyterians_and_the_scots_irish_diaspora_1750_1764

Benjamin Bankhurst. Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora, 1750-1764. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, xii-202 pp.

Read More