IASIL Members' Publication News - July - December 2003

New Voices 4

The fourth volume of proceedings from the NEW VOICES conferences has been published by Four Courts Press. Edited by Ronan Kelly and Fionnuala Dillane, the book presents work from emerging scholars of Irish literature and culture.  Essays featured focus on a diverse range of topics – including Medbh McGuckian, Oscar Wilde, Brian Friel, John Mitchel, Paul Durcan and Eva Gore-Booth.  More at Four Courts Press.

Four Courts has long supported the New Voices project, publishing volumes after each of the conferences to date.

The sixth New Voices conference takes place in Derry this year - details on the conferences newspage.

Irish Theatre Magzine Online Newsletter

Irish Theatre Magazine recently launched a new online newsletter. The online newsletter will be delivered six times a year, featuring an opening night review of a major new production, a round up of Irish and international theatre news, and much more. The first three issues have included opening night reviews of new work by Sebastian Barry, Marie Jones and Tom Murphy.

Subscription to the online newsletter is free and email addresses will not be passed on to any third parties.

If you would like to subscribe simply visit the website: http://www.irishtheatremagazine.com/newsletter/indexform.htm

irish theatre magazine is devoted to the timely and topical coverage of theatre in Ireland and Irish theatre around the world. Each issue contains features, reviews, commentary, columns, and news about productions, companies, individuals, and festivals. More at www.irishtheatremagazine.com

Marina Carr

Carysfort Press continues to issue first-class books on contemporary Irish drama with Anna McMullan and Cathy Leeney’s The Theatre of Marina Carr: Before Rules Was Made. The book includes essays on the literary and performative aspects of Carr’s work, and includes contributions from Frank McGuinness, Tom McIntyre, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Fintan O’Toole – as well as many current IASIL members. More at Carysfort Press.

Bruce Stewart's review of by the bog of cats... originally published on the IASIL website in 1998, remains one of our most visited pages. Read the review HERE

The Representation of Ireland/s. Images from Outside and from Within

The Representation of Ireland/s. Images from Outside and from Within is a multi-authored and interdisciplinary project that explores some of the discursive formations underlying the imagined communities of Ireland and their representation through cultural and literary texts.

Rosa GONZÁLEZ (Ed.) (2003)

Barcelona: PPU

17 X 24 cm. 382 pages ISBN: 84-477-0841-1

Paperback € 16

Download an order form and table of contents HERE

Joyce Hypermedia Studies

Welcomes essays and commentary on all aspects of Joyce's work and provides extensive bibliographies in all media.   See www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce and www.louis-armand.com

More Joyce links are viewable here.

Volume 2 of Roy Foster's Yeats Biography

WB Yeats - A Life Volume II, The Arch Poet - 1915-1939 is released by Oxford University Press on 2 October 2003.

Professor Foster will give a number of lectures in Ireland and the UK during the coming months, visiting the Critical Conditions Conference in Dublin and the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in October, and the Belfast Festival in November.

Oxford University Press have made the second chapter of the book - which discusses Yeats's experiences during 1916-17 - available for downloading from their website. You can visit the OUP page here, and can download the chapter in pdf format by clicking on this link.

Former IASIL Secretary Bruce Stewart has written about the biography on the PGIL-Eirdata website. Read the review HERE. The PGIL-Eirdata website also includes datasets and bibliography for Yeats, which are an invaluable and indispensible resource for anyone researching the subject - access the Yeats material HERE, or browse the site.

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry

IASIL Member Matthew Campbell (University of Sheffield) has edited the recently released Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (ISBN: 0521012457)

This book provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon, and others.

The list of contributors includes Alex Davis, Dillon Johnston, Terence Brown, Frank Sewell, David Wheatley, and others.

More on http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521012457

Friel and Kilroy - New Plays Published by Gallery Press

The two major Irish premieres of the 2003 Dublin Theatre Festival have been published by Gallery Press.

Friel's Performances is a short work, focussing on Leos Janacek's Intimate Letters. This isn't the first time an Irish writer has looked at the Czech composer - Seamus Heaney wrote a libretto for The Diary of One Who Vanished in 1999. But the play is very much in keeping with Friel's usual preoccupations about the relationships between the public role of art and the private life of the artist.

Kilroy's The Shape of Metal charts similar territory. Centred on an aging sculptor called Nell Jeffrey and her two daughters, the play considers a huge range of issues within a very tight framework. It's a very sombre play, and it intentionally refuses to answer many of the questions it poses.

The texts of both plays, presented in the always superb Gallery Press style, make for very interesting reading. They have been published in both paperback and hardback editions, and are available from the publisher - Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co Meath.

Everything Irish: The History, Literature, Art, Music, People, and Places of Ireland from A-Z

New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN 0-345-46110-X. 464 pages.

Edited by Lelia Ruckenstein and James A. O'Malley

General Editorial Advisor: Lawrence J. McCaffrey

Editorial Consultant for Literature: José Lanters

Everything Irish: The History, Literature, Art, Music, People, and Places of Ireland from A-Z is a complete volume representing the breadth and depth of Ireland and its people in an easily browsed, friendly format. Every aspect of Irish culture, geography, and history is collected and annotated in more than 900 entries, written by some of the world's leading authorities on Ireland.

Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology by Louis Arman

Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and Literature at the
Turn of the Century
edited by Michael Boss and Eamon Maher
20.00 Euro / 24.00 USD / 14.00 UK; 234 pages

Engaging Modernity presents some of the proceedings of the 2001 EFACIS Conference in Aarhus, and is edited by Michael Boss (Aarhus) and Eamonn Maher (IT Tallaght). Contributors include Lucy Collins, Derek Hand, Tom Inglis, Eugene O'Brien and Clare Wallace, and the volume includes essays on a variety of Irish writers, including Martin McDonagh, Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Also included is a fascinating section on Religion in Modern Ireland.

A full table of contents is avaiable here.