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Richard Lawrence Jordan Edition: Cloth $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8156-3313-6 The first book to examine the relationship between the Reverend Ian Paisley and leaders of the militant wing of evangelical fundamentalism in the United States. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Jordan establishes a framework for understanding the extraordinary force with which Reverend Paisley used a religious culture imported from the United States

Sinead Moynihan Edition: $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8156-3310-5 Moynihan takes as her central question a formulation by sociologist Steve Garner: “What happens when other people’s diasporas converge on the homeland of diasporic people?” Approaching the question from a cultural rather than a sociological vantage point, Moynihan delves into fiction, drama, comedy, and cinema since 1998 to examine the various representations of and

Sally Barr Ebest Edition: Cloth $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8156-3330-3 The Banshees examines Irish-American writers’ roles in protecting women’s sovereignty, rights, and reputations. Each chapter in the book details the progress and setbacks of Irish American women during different decades by examining key themes in their novels and memoirs contextualized within a discussion of contemporary feminism, Catholicism, Irish American history, American politics,

Jessica Scarlata Edition: Cloth $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8156-3332-7 The films included in Rethinking Occupied Ireland, ranging from 1980 to 2010, explore Irish history from the perspective of those marginalized within or ejected from Irish and British national narratives, providing an ideal occasion to interrogate the legacy of colonialism and post/anti-colonial nationalism. http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2013/rethinking-occupied-ireland.html

Andrew J. Auge Edition: Cloth $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8156-5239-7 A Chastened Communion traces a new path through the well traversed field of modern Irish poetry by revealing how critical engagement with Catholicism shapes the trajectory of poetic careers. Auge provides compelling new readings of major Irish poets and establishes a basis for distinguishing modern Irish poetry from its Anglophone counterparts. http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2013/chastened-communion.html

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu  Kate Costello-Sullivan Edition: Paper $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-8156-3311-2 This edition includes a student-oriented introduction, tracing the major critical responses to Carmilla, and four interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars who analyze the story from a variety of theoretical perspectives. With a glossary, biography, bibliography, and explanatory notes on the text, this edition is ideal for students of Irish

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the Book series “Historicizing Modernism”  Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, uses a focus on genre and allusion to engage with a broad range of W. B. Yeats’s writings, examining instances of his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama. Identifying a schism in recent Yeatsian criticism between biographical and formalist methodologies, Armstrong’s

Hispanic scholar, musician and writer, Walter Starkie is perhaps best remembered for his travel books Raggle Taggle – subtitled ‘Adventures with a fiddle in Hungary and Roumania’ – and its sequels, Spanish Raggle Taggle and Don Gypsy. This compelling new biography seeks to prove that there was more, much more, to his life and career. Son of the last resident