The Second Coming of Paisley Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics

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

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“Other People’s Diasporas” Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture

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

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The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers

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,

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Rethinking Occupied Ireland Gender and Incarceration in Contemporary Irish Film

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

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A Chastened Communion Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism

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

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Carmilla: A Critical Edition

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

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Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History By Charles I. Armstrong

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

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Silence . . . and Irish Writing June 25-27, 2014

Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest, Mikszáth tér 1. H-1088 Hungary  This conference seeks to open up discussion and reflection on silence in Irish writing from a range of perspectives. Irish writers have attempted to conjure silence to signify intimacy, desire, fulfilment, grief, terror, trauma, boredom, linguistic and cultural loss, being and nothingness. From W. B. Yeats to Samuel Beckett and

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Irish Studies and Digital Humanities [Deadline: January 15th, 2014]

In 2012, Stanley Fish posed the question: does the digital humanities offer new and better ways to realize traditional humanities goals? Or does the digital humanities completely change our understanding of what a humanities goal (and work in the humanities) might be? Practitioners within both the digital humanites and the humanities community more generally have offered many responses to Fish’s

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