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Noteworthy Publications, January 2004

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Louis Armand, two volumes of poetry:
Strange Attractors
Cambridge: Salt, 2003
and
Malice in Underland.
Melbourne: Textbase, 2003

HJS (Hypermedia Joyce Studies)
volume 4, issue 2 (december 2003-january 2004)
Includes the following:
Transformations of the Book in Joyce's Dream Vision of Digiculture by Donald F. Theall
Problems of Annotation in a Digital Ulysses by Michael Groden
From Hypertext to Vortext / Notes on Materiality & Language by Louis Armand
The Protean Text of Ulysses and Why All Editions Are Equally >Definitive< by George Micajah Phillips
Time, Space, and Consciousness in James Joyce's Ulysses by Alexandra Anyfanti
Calligraphic Joyce II by Robert Amos

Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan
Edited by Jacques Chuto, Rudolf Patrick Holzapfel, Peter van de Kamp, and Ellen Shannon-Mangan
Irish Academic Press

Ireland's Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture.
Field Day Critical Conditions series
By Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
Co-published by Cork (2001) and Notre Dame (2002

'On the Side of Light': Critical Essays on the Poetry of Cathal O Searcaigh
Edited by James Doan and Frank Sewell
Arlen House

William Trevor: Re-Imagining Ireland
By Mary Fitzgerald
Liffey Press

Irish Studies: The Essential Glossary
Edited by John Goodby
Contributors include: Eve Patten, Alex Davis and Andrew Hadfield

Eavan Boland and the History of the Ordinary
By Patricia L. Hagen and Thomas W. Zelman
Maunsel
Irelands in the Asia-Pacific: Being Papers Delivered at the Second IASIL Asia-Pacific Symposium, UNSW
Edited by Peter Kuch and Julie-Ann Robson
Colin Smythe, 2003
489 pages
ISBN 0-86140-414-9.

"Ireland's Modernities" issue of the postcolonial studies journal,
Interventions,
Ed. David Lloyd
Includes essay on the Blasket autobiographies by Mark Quigley

Eugene O’Brien, a very busy editor as well as IASIL treasurer, has edited the following books (as well as the Trevor book by Mary Fitzgeral cited above):
Seamus Heaney’s Searches for Answers
Pluto Press: London.

Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing
Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
(Deemed an “outstanding academic
title” by CHOICE, the journal of the American Library Association for 2003.)

Roddy Doyle: Raining on the Parade
Contemporary Irish Writers Series
Dermot McCarthy, Huron University College, Canada. Liffey Press, Dublin.

Conor McPherson: Creating Mischief.
Contemporary Irish Writers Series
Jerry Wood, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee, USA. Liffey Press, Dublin.

John McGahern: From the Local to the Universal
Contemporary Irish Writers Series. Eamon Maher, Tallaght Institute of
Technology. Liffey Press, Dublin

Fools of Fiction: Reading William Trevor's Short Stories
By Hugh Ormsby-Lennon.
Irish Research Series, No.16. Maunsel & Co

Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story
By Stanley Weintraub
Simon and Schuster
Published 2003; paperback due in 2004
Notes Lionel de Rothschild's major role in raising funds to assist famine relief in Ireland in the mid-1840s.

General Washington’s Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming
By Stanley Weintraub
Simon and Schuster
Published 2003; paperback due in 2004

Forthcoming:

Wild Colonial Girl: Critical Essays on Edna O'Brien
Edited by Lisa Colletta and Maureen O’Connor
University of Wisconsin