New Publications in Irish Literature Studies 2008

Anáil and Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture by John Eastlake, Seán Crosson and Nessa Cronin

Anáil an Bhéil Bheo brings together a stimulating range of interdisciplinary essays considering the connections between orality and modern Irish culture. From literature to song, folklore to the visual arts, contributors examine not only the connections between oral and textual traditions in Ireland, but also the theoretical concept of “orality” itself and the corresponding significance of oral texts in Irish society. Featuring work by emerging scholars in the fields of history, literature, folklore, music, women’s studies, film and theatre studies and disciplines contributing to Irish Studies, this multifaceted volume also includes contributions from scholars long engaged with issues of orality such as Gearóid Ó Crualaoich and Henry Glassie.

Nessa Cronin is Lecturer in Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway; Seán Crosson is a Lecturer with the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at National University of Ireland, Galway; John Eastlake completed his PhD in Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway in 2008, and is currently teaching Irish Studies in Galway .

Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) is chiefly remembered as a political activist, executed for his leading role in the Easter Rising of 1916, but he was also a qualified barrister, teacher, and versatile writer. As well as stories, he published articles on a variety of cultural topics, plays, poetry, and political pamphlets right up until the time of his death. Joseph Campbell (1879-1944) published a number of well-received volumes of poetry, before increasing involvement in republican activities led to his internment after the War of Independence. Following his release, he moved to America but returned to Ireland for the final years of his life.

Translated from Irish by Joseph Campbell, Patrick Pearse's ten stories were first published between 1905 and 1916. Groundbreaking in Pearse's recourse to modern narrative techniques and his use of vernacular Irish, these stories provide a sympathetic portrayal of life in Connemara. Joseph Campbell translated them into English in the aftermath of the 1916 "Rising". His translations capture the spirit and tone of the original stories, largely because they are written in a distinctive form of Hiberno-Irish that reflects Pearse's use of colloquial speech.

Anne Markey is Long Room Hub Postdoctoral Fellow on the Early Irish Fiction project at Trinity College Dublin.

Kathleen Heininge, Buffoonery in Irish Drama: Staging Twentieth-Century Post-Colonial Stereotypes

Generations of Irish playwrights have tried to assert the reputation of the stage Irish figure as other than comic, but each effort was in its turn assailed as buffoonery. Using post-colonial and performative theory, Buffoonery in Irish Drama demonstrates the ways the Irish struggled to create a sense of identity in a colonial structure, and it explores the distortion and appropriation of that new identity that elicit further calls to eradicate negative stereotypes. Demonstrating the pervasiveness of the reclamation efforts, Buffoonery in Irish Drama covers a wide range of well-known and obscure plays to show the trajectory of twentieth-century drama that brings us into a globalized twenty-first-century Ireland.

Kathleen Heininge received her doctorate from University of California Davis and is now Assistant Professor of Writing/Literature at George Fox University in Oregon, where she teaches British and world literature and women’s studies. She publishes primarily on Irish literature, especially drama.

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan and the Politics of Style is a significant contribution to growing scholarly interest in an important Irish literary figure of the nineteenth century. In this work, Dr. Julie Donovan contextualizes Owenson's emblematic Irishness that was too often dismissed as merely excessive showmanship. The study includes an extensive discussion of Owenson's often-overlooked personal papers and artifacts housed in the National Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. No previous study has fully considered this crucial archival material and its implications. In addition, Owenson's unpublished and hitherto unconsulted letters from various university collections including Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Trinity College, Princeton, and Penn State are analyzed as part of this original research monograph.

The table of contents includes: Introduction; Chap 1: Text and Textile in The Wild Irish Girl; Chap 2: Sydney Owenson's Personae; Chap 3: How Sydney Owenson Played the Harp; Chap 4: Ireland in Europe and the World; Chap 5: The Wild Irish Girl in the Victorian Period.

This collection of thirteen essays, penned by an array of leading scholars in the field, is the first full-length critical study of the Belfast poet and prose writer, and makes a timely appearance in this, the writer's sixtieth year. Additionally, the book includes an interview given by Carson to the editor. Ciaran Carson has played a major role in the internationalization of contemporary Irish poetry from the late 1960s, through the Troubles of the 80s and 90s, to the present time. Taken together, these essays chart the development of his diverse and prolific career, scrutinizing his experiments in a new urban poetics, including his obsessive concern with maps and labyrinths; they examine his interest in narrative, and explore the continuities between his poetry and his prose; and they consider his relation to various poetic traditions: English Romantic, European Symbolist, Modernist and Postmodernist, Irish language, and contemporary American.

The contributors to this volume include: Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Peter Denman, David Wheatley, John Goodby, Eamonn Hughes, Stan Smith, Michael McAteer, Tim Hancock, Patricia Horton, Frank Sewell, Ciaran O'Neill, Jerzy Jarniewic and Alan Gillis.

This book is published in hardback and paperback and is available in all good bookshops and via: www.fourcourtspress.ie

Pub. Date: November 1, 2008
Price: €25 / $36
ISBN 978-0-946755-40-0
240 pages
Irish History; Irish Literature; Cultural Studies

* presents a radical re-reading of Irish cultural history—particularly notions of temporality and modernity—in the wake of the Celtic Tiger; * includes new and original discussions of the Great Famine, James Connolly, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett; * is vibrantly written, cogently argued; it continues and expands upon Declan Kiberd’s Inventing Ireland.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Taking the ruins that dot the Irish landscape as its starting point, internationally renowned cultural critic David Lloyd presents a radical reading of Ireland’s cultural history. Covering a period of over one hundred and fifty years, he presents provocative new analyses of the Great Famine, James Connolly, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett.

DAVID LLOYD is the author of several landmark studies of Irish political and literary culture, notably 'Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism' (1987), 'Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Postcolonial Moment' (1993), and 'Ireland After History' (2000). He is Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Author: David Dwan
December 12, 2008
Price: €25 / $36
ISBN: 978-0-946755-41-7
200 pages
Category: Irish History; Irish Literature; Cultural Studies

ABOUT THE BOOK: 'The Great Community' is a comprehensive reappraisal of cultural nationalism in Ireland. It traces its origins to the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s, and moves on to examine W. B. Yeats’s initial endorsement and subsequent rejection of the group’s ideals. Cultural nationalism, David Dwan argues, was not a romantic retreat from politics, or simply an aesthetic expression of a desire for national independence: it was an ambitious attempt to recover an ancient ideal of citizenship for a modern democratic age. Drawing on political thought from Aristotle to Edmund Burke, 'The Great Community' examines the attractions and difficulties of this enterprise. From the start, the project relied on institutions such as the press. Dwan concludes with an analysis of the vexed relationship between newspapers and Irish nationalism. The rift between classical theories of ‘public opinion’ and its actual development in the press; the consequent disparagement and continued use of newspapers by nationalists; and the symbolic significance of famous media victims (such as Parnell and Synge) in Irish culture are the concluding motifs of this ground-breaking study. 'The Great Community' recovers the logic behind a largely lost form of politics; in doing so, it reveals the limitations of our own political imagination.

DAVID DWAN is a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. He writes on modern literature and intellectual history.

Dr Charlie Dillon, Queen’s University Belfast & Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil, St Patrick’s College (eds.) The book is a collection of essays on the subject of literary translation, focussing on various aspects of translation to and from Irish from the eighteenth century onwards. Texts discussed include An tOileánach, Cúirt an Mheonoíche, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, Reliques of Irish Poetry and Ulysses. This book is the first collection of essays in the Irish language to address the importance for Irish-language studies of translation theory and the development of suitable critical approaches to translation issues. Scholars from nine different institutions contributed to the volume. The Forward is by Michael Cronin, Director of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, DCU.

Available to purchase at http://www.word-power.co.uk and http://www.booksupstairs.com

Commencing with an analysis of the rhetoric of "crisis," Armand poses questions of central concern to the future of criticism and the institutions of knowledge. Focusing upon the role of technology in re-shaping the structures of human experience, language and cultural practice, this collection of essays offers a broad critique of the legacies of modernity and beyond.

Louis Armand is director of the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other (2006); Literate Technologies (2006) and Event-States (2007). http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/armand.html

Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles

This collection gathers together the expertise of scholars in several disciplines in order to examine the manner in which financial and economic arguments were expressed in pamphlets, broadsides, and longer works of literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to assess to what extent the political realities of the day were informed by these debates or, alternatively, shaped the rhetoric. The contributors to the volume draw upon an extensive variety of contemporary sources and modern analyses of the formative years of the financial revolution to reexamine many of the existing conventional ideas about the relationship between money, power, and print, and to suggest that the subject is far more complex and interrelated than most studies up to now have indicated. Particular attention is paid to the fact that the financial revolution did not occur in London in isolation from the various regions of the British Isles. Charles Ivar McGrath is lecturer in History at U! niversity College Dublin. Chris Fauske is interim dean in the School of Arts and Sciences at Salem State College. http://www2.lib.udel.edu/udpress/money.htm

Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing by Stephen Watt (forthcoming summer 2009)

Samuel Beckett is one of the most important figures in the history of Irish literature, and he continues to influence successive generations of writers. In Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing, Stephen Watt searches for the ‘Beckettian’ impulse in Irish literature by tracing the Nobel Prize winner’s legacy through a rich selection of contemporary novelists, poets and dramatists. Watt examines leading figures such as Paul Muldoon, Brian Friel, Marina Carr and Bernard MacLaverty, and shows how Beckett’s presence, whether openly acknowledged or unstated, is always thoroughly pervasive. Moving on to an exploration of Beckett’s role in the twenty-first century, the study discusses ways in which this legacy can be reshaped to deal with current concerns that extend beyond literature. Encouraging us to think about Beckett’s work and status in new ways, this landmark study will be required reading for scholars and students of Beckett and Irish studies.

Introduction: Beckett, our contemporary; 1. Beckett and the ‘Beckettian’; 2. The Northern Ireland ‘troubles’ play and Brian Friel’s Beckettian turn; 3. Bernard MacLaverty: the ‘troubles’, late modernism, and the Beckettian; 4. ‘Getting round’ Beckett: Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon; 5. Specters of Beckett: Marina Carr and the ‘other Sam’; Coda: On retrofitting: Samuel Beckett, tourist attraction.

The Making of Irish Traditional Music
Helen O’Shea December 2008
ISBN 978-185918-436-3, €39, £30, Hbk, 234 x 156mm, 300pp

The Making of Irish Traditional Music provides a valuable, theoretically informed cultural history of the retrieval and codification of Irish music in the context of an emergent Irish nationalism. It offers a valuable critique of notions of identity and authenticity at the very inner sanctum of an essential mode of Irish self-expression, but does so with considerable sensitivity to the pressures that draw people to adhere to notions of ethnic or national identity. The historical dimension of this work, from Bunting in the late eighteenth century and O'Neill in the late nineteenth to the emergence of independent state cultural institutions and their effect on the formation of ‘traditional’ and official versions of Irish music, is one of the very best continuous accounts available.”

The first critical study of Irish traditional music, The Making of Irish Traditional Music draws on the author’s observations and participation as a musician. It analyses the experiences of foreigners playing Irish music at summer schools, where they encounter the tourism industry’s ‘ Ireland of the Welcomes’, and in the heart of Ireland’s traditional music empire, County Clare. The book concludes that a view of Irish traditional music as expressive of an ethnically pure, geographically bound, masculine, national culture is an inadequate basis for a multi-ethnic Irish society.

Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007
Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan (editors)
Part of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series
ISBN 9781904505365/ Cost €25.00

For over fifty years, the Dublin Theatre Festival has been one of Ireland's most important cultural events, bringing countless new Irish plays to the world stage, while introducing Irish audiences to the most important international theatre companies and artists. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the Festival's achievements since 1957 featuring essays on major Irish writers, directors and theatre companies, as well as the impact of visiting directors and companies from abroad. This book includes specially commissioned memoirs from past organisers and observers of the Festival, offering a unique perspective on the controversies and successes that have marked the event's history. An especially valuable feature of the volume, also, is a complete listing of the shows that have appeared at the Festival from 1957 to 2008.

CONTENTS
Preface Loughlin Deegan
Introduction: the Festival at Fifty Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan

2 Theatre, Sexuality, and the State: Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957 Lionel Pilkington

5 Subjects of ‘the machinery of citizenship’: The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche and The Gentle Island at the Dublin Theatre Festival Shaun Richards

6 West Meets East: Russian Productions at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957-2006 Ros Dixon

7 Tom Murphy’s The Sanctuary Lamp at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1975 and 2001 Alexandra Poulain

10 Festivals National and International: The Beckett Festival John P. Harrington

11 | From Ex Libris to Ex Machina – Two Shakespearean Case Studies at the Dublin Theatre Festival Carmen Szabó

13 ‘ Bogland Parodies’: The Midlands Setting in Marina Carr and Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre Lisa Fitzpatrick

1 An Tóstal and the First Dublin Theatre Festival: a Personal Memoir Christopher Fitz-Simon

3 ‘ Present Tense’ or ‘It shouldn’t happen to a festival programmer!’ David Grant

No Country for Old Men: Fresh Perspectives on Irish Literature, edited by Paddy Lyons and Alison O’Malley-Younger

The first book in Reimagining Ireland, a major new Irish Studies series published by Peter Lang ( Oxford), was launched on Friday 14 November 2008. Some 16 new books by leading Irish and international scholars have already been commissioned for the peer-reviewed series. The series explores what is meant by ‘Irishness’ through re-examining Ireland’s literature, culture and history. This is achieved by publishing volumes by writers who are foremost in their fields, as well as those with emerging reputations. The first book to appear in the series No Country for Old Men: Fresh Perspectives on Irish Literature, edited by Paddy Lyons and Alison O’Malley-Younger, was launched at the Sixth Annual Irish Studies Conference at the University of Sunderland. The series is actively seeking proposals for single author books or conference proceedings. For more information, contact the editor, Dr Eamon Maher, Institute of Technology, Tallaght ( eamon.maher@it-tallaght ) or the Commissioning Editor for Ireland, Mr Joe Armstrong ( joearmstrong@eircom.net ).

Vol. 11 Raita Merivirta: ‘Trying to take the Gun out of Irish Politics’:

The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival , 2008, Carole Zucker. London: Wallflower Press. 204 pp. ISBN 978-10905674-41-1.

The most internationally renowned of Irish film directors, Neil Jordan's diverse work has spanned gothic horror ("The Company of Wolves", 1984, and "Interview With the Vampire", 1994), "Irish history" (Michael Collins, 1996), literary adaptation ("The End of the Affair", 1999) and sexual identity ("The Crying Game", 1992, and "Breakfast on Pluto", 2005), while retaining a distinctive stylistic flair for fantasy and the carnivalesque. "The Cinema of Neil Jordan" discusses his entire output as part of the first comprehensive study of Jordan's career, looking beyond ideological and national concerns to view his films through the prism of Celtic folklore, fairy tales, the gothic, romanticism and postmodernism. Incorporating discussion of Jordan's award-winning literary work and benefiting from extensive access to Jordan's personal archives, this book explains the mythic and poetic impulses that suffuse the director's work.

Tuned Out: Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland.
Fintan Vallely November 2008
ISBN 978-185918-443-1, €39, £30, €49 Hbk, 234 x 156mm, 300pp, www.corkuniversitypress.com

This book looks at the attitudes of Protestant performers to Traditional music in Northern Ireland. It reflects on broader Protestant community views of the music through their eyes, and considers too the impact of historical literature, political statements and other interventions which have affected and shaped Traditional music today.

Traditional music is taken to mean the dance music, forms of dance and style of songs which were the onetime entertainment of rural people prior to urbanisation and the development of mass forms of entertainment.

This is a thought provoking, considered and original contribution to a wide range of academic fields including Irish music studies, ethnomusicology, anthropology, history, political science, popular culture studies, conflict studies and folklore studies.

Tuned Out explores its territory largely through musicians. Most of these are conversant with the traditional and continued practice of Traditional music by people of Protestant-religion backgrounds and by Protestant people in predominantly Protestant areas. The observations which are made contradict some popularly held beliefs about Traditional music, proffering instead that the common ownership and identification myths are, in addition to political pragmatism, underpinned also by absence of information. The selected comments show that while the ascription ‘Traditional music is Catholic music’ may be popular political pragmatism, the notion is substantially superficial and uninformed.

Fintan Vallely is course co-ordinator and lecturer in Traditional Music in Dundalk Institute of Technology and is the author of The Companion to Traditional Irish Music

Paul Murphy, Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

Now that Irish drama studies has a sound platform in terms of historicization, particularly regarding the relationship between drama, state formation and national identity, the time is ripe to engage in research which questions that relationship, specifically in terms of the disjunction between nation, class and gender in the Irish cultural context. In this sense Hegemony and Fantasy is a deliberate intervention rather than a general historicization, in terms of an engagement with Irish drama primarily from the perspectives of class and gender, rather than that of nation or national identity, which has formed the superstructure of many debates in Irish drama studies for many years. In parallel with the aim of shifting the methodological paradigm of Irish drama studies, Hegemony and Fantasy attempts to reaccentuate the focus on the Irish dramatic canon by providing a new engagement with canonical drama, as well as engaging with non-canonical drama especially in the under-researched period 1926–1949.

Edited and Introduced by Patrick Lonergan. Brendan Behan, Christina Reid, Sebastian Barry, Tom Murphy, Martin McDonagh. 978-1408106785

Introduced by Patrick Lonergan, The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays brings together five major works from the Irish dramatic canon of the last sixty years in one outstanding collection. Behan's The Hostage, depicting the capture and death of a British soldier by the IRA, was first produced by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in 1958 and was declared 'a masterpiece' by The Times. Murphy's Bailegangaire (1985) portrays a senile old woman's recitation of an epic tale to her two granddaughters who struggle to free themselves from her and exorcise the past. Reid's The Belle of the Belfast City, winner of the George Devine Award in 1986, examines the tensions present in three generations of women in a Belfast-Protestant family during the week of an anti-Anglo-Irish rally. Sebastian Barry's The Steward of Christendom won the London Critics' Circle Award for Best Play 1995 and was heralded by the Guardian as 'an authentic masterpiece'. McDonagh's 1996 play The Cripple of Inishmaan is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. McDonagh was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright.

This innovative series meets the urgent need for comprehensive new accounts of Irish writing across the centuries which combine readability with critical authority and information with insight. Each volume addresses the whole range of a writer’s work in the various genres, setting its vision of the world in biographical context and situating it within the intellectual, cultural and political currents of the age, in Ireland and the wider world. This series will prove indispensable for students and specialists alike.

This edited collection, provides a complete academic account of the fictions of Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) the most important Anglo-Irish novelist of the 20th century. It covers Bowen's life, her family background and her writing career between London and North Cork. Of particular interest is her position as an Anglo-Irish writer and her centrality as a major novelist within the traditions of 20th century writing, within modernist literature and, in particular, within modern Irish writing. This book provides an overall cultural context for her novels and short stories. Each chapter explores Bowen's links with other 20 th century novelists and her modernist deployment of the novel form, her representation of Ireland, of the Anglo-Irish and of the Irish War of Independence. Also considered are the wide range of Bowen's short stories from 1929 up to 1967 and her experience of living in London during the

Second World War. Other chapters discuss the changes in narrative form used in Bowen's last novels, novels of experimentation and increasing darkness. This book locates her writings within contemporary notions of the construction of gender in relation to fictive representations of sexuality and sexual identity. Bowen has been read as a modernist, a structuralist and also within feminist and postcolonial theories of fiction writing. Since her death in 1973, Bowen's novels have been constantly in print and many critics and biographers, like Victoria Glendinning, Patricia Craig, Neil Corcoran, Hermione Lee, Maud Ellmann, Roy Foster and many others have written on her. This book provides a comprehensive scholarly account of her creative life and that critical afterlife.

EibhearWalshe is Lecturer in English, University College, Cork. He has edited six books, including Kate O’Brien: A Writing Life (Irish Academic Press 2006) and Ordinary People Dancing: Essays on Kate O'Brien (Cork University Press).

This volume offers a comprehensive account by a range of established scholars of the richness and variety of Patrick Kavanagh's work both in prose and verse, and situates his writings in the social and cultural contexts of the workaday Ireland which emerged from the heroics of nationalist insurrection and civil war. The distinguished scholars who contribute to this account bring a diverse range of approaches and perspectives to offer a fuller understanding of his work. Patrick Kavanagh has for long represented an alternative vision of Irish poetry to the high melodrama and attitudinising of W. B. Yeats. Low key and apparently equable in tone, though often revealing a sly acerbic wit, Kavanagh's verse has represented a domestic, though not domesticated, alternative to the highfalutin' rhetoric of the Yeatsian mode, pitching itself to the quotidian world of de Valera's 'Catholic Republic', famously extolling the virtues of the 'parochial' in contrast to the siren call of the cosmopolitan and metropolitan, like Joyce finding its inspiration in the streets and alleys of a middle and lower class Dublin and the stony acres, literal and metaphoric, of a sparse rural economy, and, like Flann O'Brien, preferring the bicycle as a mode of poetic transport to the high horse of the 'last Romantics'.

John Banville is an accessible yet detailed study that brings to the surface many of the hidden depths of one of the major writers of contemporary Irish and world fiction. It mediates between two existing kinds of critical work on Banville: novel-by-novel introductions, and specialised academic analyses. While it approaches some of Banville's works individually, its discussions are arranged thematically, thus demonstrating the overall patterns in his oeuvre and in his literary thinking. With a close eye on chronology, the book begins by establishing the intellectual and cultural contexts of the oeuvre and its reception, then provides readings of Banville's Irish themes, his crucial theories of the Imagination, his thematic preoccupation with morality and immorality, his idiosyncratic devotion to a self-reflexive art. Work of all Banville's periods is covered, from his first book, Long Lankin (1970) to his Man-Booker winning novel, The Sea (2005), and his recent popular fiction written under a pseudonym. Rather than incorporating the frameworks of the existing Banville criticism, one of this book's major benefits is that it allows the author to speak for himself at all stages by referring to all his principal statements on his art and worldview. The discussions here are all attentive to those who may be in the early stages of familiarity with Banville, so that the general application of ideas and arguments can be understood without firsthand or detailed knowledge of the works under discussion. Those who are well acquainted with the Banville oeuvre will also find new aspects of emphasis and suggestion. A number of important items from Banville's career as a literary essayist and reviewer are used in the chapters, and the book is thus a good starting point for readers wishing to further develop their interest.

In honour of the twentieth anniversary of Stewart Parker's death, Litteraria Pragensia Books is proud to announce the publication of a two volume set of Parker's TV plays and journalistic writings with critical introductions. Both volumes provide unique and long overdue perspectives on Parker's work in an accessible format aimed to extend critical acknowledgement of Parker's status as one of the most versatile and engaging writers to emerge in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s.

STEWART PARKER: TELEVISION PLAYS
ed. Clare Wallace
ISBN 80-7308-124-5 (paperback). 580pp.
Publication date: October 2008

Price: EUR 18.00 (not including postage)

Contents:
I'm A Dreamer Montreal (1979)
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain (1981)
Joyce in June (1982)
Blue Money (1984)
Radio Pictures (1985)
Lost Belongings (1987)

http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/parker.html

STEWART PARKER: DRAMATIS PERSONAE & OTHER WRITINGS
eds. Gerald Dawe, Maria Johnston & Clare Wallace
ISBN 80-7308-241-3 (paperback). 120pp.
Publication date: October 2008

Price: EUR 12.00 (not including postage)

Contents:
Dramatis Personae
Buntus Belfast
Chickens on Parade in Belfast, USA
An Ulster Volunteer
School for Revolution
It's a Bad Scene, Mrs. Worthington
The Tribe and Thompson
Introduction to Sam Thompson's Over the Bridge
The Green Light
Exiles by James Joyce
The Dream and After
Belfast Women: A Superior Brand of Dynamite
State of Play
Me and Jim
Signposts
Introduction to Lost Belongings
Foreword to Plays: 2

http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/parker.html

Stewart Parker ranks among Ireland's most innovative dramatists and yet as the twentieth anniversary of his death approaches, critical engagement with his work has still much ground to cover. With the exception of The Actress and the Bishop (1976) and Kingdom Come (1977), Stewart Parker's theatre plays have remained in print with Methuen. This is the only material that is currently widely available to scholars, students and readers. However, Parkers work extends well beyond this known core including numerous journalistic writings, literary criticism, radio and television plays.


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