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New Publications by IASIL Members Welcome to the IASIL Members' New Publications Page. This page lists new publications that deal with Irish Literature, Theatre, and Film. Publications with broader themes that pay substantial attention to Irish writing will also be listed from time to time. If you wish to include a listing, email webmaster@iasil.org These pages are provided for information only - you should confirm prices, release dates, and contents with publishers. December 2005 Gerold Sedlmayr, Brendan Kennelly’s Literary Works: The Developing Art of an Irish Writer, 1959-2000 The Collected Short Stories of George Moore Alexander G Gonzales, Irish Women Writer's - An A-Z Guide Anne MacCarthy, Identities in Irish Literature
October 2005 Historicising Beckett / Issues of Performance Third Text: Special Ireland Issue
September 2005 The Field Day Review - Now Available Online A Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, by Meg Tyler. July 2005 New from Carysfort Press: Irish Theatre on Tour and Synge - A Celebration June 2005 Representing Ireland: Past, Present and Future New Voices in Irish Criticism: Volume 5 Now Available Aspects of the Irish Book from the 17th century to the present day April 2005 Lucy McDiarmid, The Irish Art of Controversy Modern Drama Special Issue on Irish Drama David Burleigh, Helen Waddel's Writings from Japan
March 2005 Angela Bourke, Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker Elke D'hoker, Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville Patricia L. Hagen and Thomas W. Zelman, Eavan Boland and the History of the Ordinary Harmon, Maurice. The Doll with Two Backs and other poems. Ellen Carol Jones and Morris Beja, Editors, Twenty-First Joyce, The Florida James Joyce Series R. Brandon Kershner, Editor. Cultural Studies of James Joyce, European Joyce Studies 15 Frank Molloy, Victor J. Daley: A Life Mary Massoud, Editor, Between Two Cultures Mary Massoud, Editor, New Readings of Old Masters John Mc Donagh, Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts. Damian McNicholl, A Son Called Gabriel Kieran Quinlan, Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South Thomas Dillon Redshaw, Editor, Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague Neil Sammells, Editor, Beyond Borders: IASIL Essays in Modern Irish Writing Stanley Weintraub, Iron Tears: America's Struggle for Freedom; Britain's Quagmire, 1775-1783 Other Noteworthy Publications by IASIL Members January 2005 Mari Kurdi: Searching for Home on the Stage: Talks with Irish Playwrights. Proceedings of IASIL 2003 - Now Available Christopher Murray, Sean O'Casey - Writer at Work: A Biography Linda Connolly and Tina O'Toole, Documenting Irish Feminisms Joan FitzPatrick Dean, Riot and Great Anger - Stage Censorship in Twentieth Century Ireland View publications by IASIL Members in 2003/2004 by following this link
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| Gerold Sedlmayr, Brendan Kennelly’s Literary Works: The Developing Art of an Irish Writer, 1959-2000 (Studies in Irish Literature 15), Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, ISBN: 0-7734-5978-2. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the work of one of Ireland’s most prominent yet also critically neglected writers, Brendan Kennelly. While covering his output from 1959 onwards, the chosen approach is systematic rather than chronological. Shedding light on Kennelly’s poems, novels, and plays from different angles – ‘History and Politics’, ‘Spaces/Places: Country, City, Nature’, ‘Religion and Ethics’ as well as ‘Gender and Sexuality’ – Kennelly’s development is traced from his neo-Romanticist beginnings to a critical and highly provocative postmodern stance, above all in the later long poems: Cromwell, The Book of Judas, and Poetry My Arse. While this study is certainly valuable as an introduction for the general reader, combining in-depth analyses of the most important works with general contextual information, the embedding of these analyses within a larger theoretical framework (including deconstruction, postcolonial theory, or gender studies) will also challenge the more experienced Kennellyan. For reviews and order information, go to: http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=6379&pc=9 The Collected Short Stories of George Moore: Gender and Genre General Editors: Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn This five-volume, reset critical edition addresses current scholarly interest in Moore, making available his generally neglected short story collections. Each original collection of stories contains: an introduction, including detailed contextualisations and in-depth textual analyses; a bibliographic note on the text; plus editorial notes; textual variants; an appendix of Moore’s revisions to the texts; and reviews to illustrate contemporary reactions to Moore’s writings.
It will be invaluable to scholars of English literature, Victorian and turn-of-the-century studies, Irish Studies and Gender Studies. Full editorial apparatus including preface, general introduction, volume introductions, bibliography, annotation to the texts, and consolidated index Includes textual variants between all lifetime editions and contemporary reviews A Story-Teller’s Holiday includes extracts from letters between Moore and his friends View full details on the publisher's website: http://www.pickeringchatto.com/georgemoore.htm Alexander G Gonzales, Irish Women Writers - An A - Z Guide
Anne MacCarthy, Identities in Irish Literature
The book provides a new perspective on the establishment of Irish literature in English. This emerged in the early nineteenth century in an effort to create an independent writing in Ireland. the author explores the activities of these early years to later investigate canon formation in the twentieth century as well as contemporary definitions of Irish writing in English. She finally proposes the existence of another literature in the early twentieth century in Ireland and proffers an explanation for its exclusion from the new canon. Publisher - netbiblo. ISBN - 0972983218
The proceedings of the Historicising Beckett panels held at IASIL 2004 in Galway are available for purchase now in hardback. A softcover version is forthcoming. Historicising Beckett / Issues of Performance – Beckett dans l'histoire / En jouant Beckett (Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 15) by Marius Buning, et al (Hardcover) Full details of the papers and speakers is available from the Rodopi website (www.rodopi.nl). Third Text: Special Ireland Issue The journal Third Text has recently published a special Ireland issue (Volume 19, Issue 5), featuring contributions on a range of issues, with many contributions from IASIL Members. A full table of contents is below: Introduction
- Lucy Cotter Special Issue price: £12/US$20 For ordering information visit http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/rtte-si.asp The
Field Day Review Update September 2005 - the journal can now be purchased at www.fielddaybooks.com The website also offers a discounted individual subscription to the journal; for institutional subscriptions, email fieldday@nd.edu Contents: Republicanism
American, French and Irish Republics
of Difference - Yeats, MacGreevey, Beckett Spaces
of time through times of space Settling
In Dublin’s Jewish Immigrants of a Century Ago Fenians
in the Frame Photographing Irish Political Prisoners, 1866–69 Amy Martin Mapping
the Narrow Ground Geography, History and Partition Ireland
in the 1940s and 1950s The Photographs of Bert Hardy Letter
from Rome A State of Embarrassment Globalization
and its Discontents Edward
Said (1935–2003) A Late Style of Humanism Early
Modern Irish History Mission
Accomplished? Looking Back at the IRA Reviews by Angela Bourke, Máirín Nic Eoin, Brian Ó Conchubhair, Anne Fogarty, Jennifer Todd, Patrick Lonergan, Peter Gray, Timothy W. Guinnane, Conor McCarthy, Michael Griffin, Peter Linebaugh, Sean T. O’Brien, Jane H. Ohlmeyer, Catherine Marshall, Rob Savage, and Joep Leerssen. A. Norman Jeffares and Peter Van de Kamp (eds), Irish Literature: The Eighteenth Century - An Annotated Anthology and Irish Literature: The Nineteenth Century - An Annotated Anthology Peter van de Kamp and IASIL's founding member and honorary life president A Norman Jeffares (1920-2005) have produced two new anthologies of Irish literature of the eigteenth and nineteenth centuries, published in October 2005 by Irish Academic Press. Authors included in the volume on eighteenth century literature include Jonathan Swift, William Congreve, Sir Richard Steele, George Farquhar, Bishop Berkeley, Sussanna Centilivre, Charles Macklin, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Sheridan, Frances Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Henry Flood, Charlotte Brooke, Henry Grattan, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Drennan, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Edward Bunting, Robert Emmet and Maria Edgeworth. Download a full description of the anthology here. The anthology of nineteenth century literature comes in two volumes, the first of which is being published later in 2005. Featured authors in the first volume include Mary Leadbeater, Maria Edgeworth, Daniel O'Connell, Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, Patrick Bronte, Robert Emmet, Thomas Moore, Charles Robert Maturin, George Petrie, William Carleton, Samuel Lover, John Banim, and many others. Download a full description of the anthology here. Professor A. Norman Jeffares passed away earlier in 2005. Read about his life and work here. A
Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney,
by Meg Tyler. A formal
analysis, A SINGING CONTEST comprises close readings of Seamus Heaney’s
poetry. Tyler argues that in an era of fractured poetry and politics,
Seamus Heaney stands out: his impulse is towards unity and regeneration.
Her book considers the interplay between different kinds of literary
tradition and community in his poetry. For Heaney, poetry represents
a structure allowing New
from Carysfort Press - Irish Theatre on Tour, and Synge: A Celebration.
Carysfort Press, the Dublin-based publisher of books on Irish theatre, announced two major new publications.
Contents PART
ONE: THE ABBEY ON TOUR PART
TWO: TOURING IN AND OUT OF IRELAND
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Ways to Kill Your Mother Colm Tóibín Representing
Ireland: Past, Present and Future This collection of essays tackles one of the most fascinating phenomena in Irish culture: the representation of the ‘concept’ of Ireland. The individual essays, which examine texts from the North and South of the country, together comprise a broad chronological, generic and theoretical scope that ranges from the sixteenth century to the present day. The volume is a wide-ranging and important contribution to current debates on identity and representation in an Irish context; it tackles relevant issues from the perspectives of New Historicism, comparative analysis, post-structuralism, post-colonialism and gender, and from a variety of generic viewpoints: poetry, prose, drama and journalism. Writers discussed here include Edmund Spenser, Oscar Wilde, Robert Lynd, Patrick Kavanagh, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Neil Jordan, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Also included is some previously unpublished work by the poet Bernard O’Donoghue. Overall, this book is a new instalment in discussions of the vigour and originality of literary representations of Ireland in the past, in the present, and in the future. Contributors
include: Chris
Arthur, Irish Haiku. This new collection of essays features the literate and thoughtful prose of one of Ireland’s critically aclaimed writers, the award winning poet and essayist, Chris Arthur. Arthur’s writing blends the intensely personal with the abstractly philosophical in his explorations of the meaning of what happens, what has happened, and what may happen. His writing has been favorably compared with figures as diverse as Hubert Butler, Joseph Campbell, Seamus Heaney, C.S. Lewis and V.S. Naipaul. As he has done in previous collections, Irish Nocturnes (1999)and Irish Willow (2002), in Irish Haiku Chris Arthur explores the world as it unfolds to his senses. As Arthur listens, touches, watches, tastes, and thinks about his world we are invited to join him in his historical, cultural, natural, philosophical, scientific, sometimes humorous, and always intellectual ruminations. Download the publisher's flyer by clicking on this link. NEW
VOICES IN IRISH CRITICISM VOLUME 5 New voices in Irish criticism 5 RUTH CONNOLLY & ANN COUGHLAN, editor This volume is the latest addition to the New voices in Irish Criticism series. Neal
Alexander (QUB) "Somewhere in the Briny Say": an imaginative
geography of Belfast Other
volumes in the series: Irish Critical Editions - Castle Rackrent/The Wild Irish Girl & Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings Two IASIL members have published recent Irish critical editions within Hougton Mifflin's "New Riverside Editions". Jim Smith's edition pairs Castle Rackrent and the Wild Irish Girl for the first time, and Clem Hawes provides a new edition of Swift texts. Both editions include contemporary material that foregrounds the Irish social and cultural contexts from which these texts emerged as well as a series of current critical essays again focusing on Ireland's literary and theoretical placement. Two Irish National Tales: Maria Edgeworth Castle Rackrent and Sydney Owneson (Lady Morgan) The Wild Irish Girl Edited by James M. Smith, English Department and Irish Studies Program, Boston College. Introduction by Vera Kreilkamp, English Department, Pine Manor College New Riverside Editions, Series Editor, Alan Richardson (Boston College) Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005. ISBN 0618084878, 449 Pages, Net Price $10.17 Gulliver's
Travels and Other Writings To Request an Examination Copy go to www.college.hmco.com/instructors/ Aspects
of the Irish Book from the 17th century to the present day THE
IRISH ART OF CONTROVERSY In her new book, Lucy McDiarmid offers a witty and illuminating account of these and other controversies, antagonistic exchanges with no single or no obvious high ground. They merit attention, in her view, not because the Irish are more combative than other peoples, but because controversies functioned centrally in the debate over Irish national identity. They offered to everyone direct or vicarious involvement in public life: the question they articulated was not “Irish Ireland or English Ireland” but “whose Irish Ireland” would dominate when independence was finally achieved. The Irish Art of Controversy recovers the histories of “the man who died for the language,” Father O’Hickey, who defied the bishops in his fight for Irish Gaelic; Lady Gregory and Bernard Shaw’s defense of the Abbey Theatre against Dublin Castle; and the 1913 “Save the Dublin Kiddies" campaign, in which priests attacked socialists over custody of Catholic children. The notorious Roger Casement—British consul, Irish rebel, humanitarian, poet—forms the subject of the last chapter, which offers the definitive commentary on the long-lasting controversy over his diaries. McDiarmid’s use of archival sources, especially little-known private letters, indicates the way intimate exchanges, as well as cartoons, ballads, and editorials, may exist within a public narrative. In its original treatment of the rich material Yeats called “intemperate speech,” The Irish Art of Controversy suggests new ways of thinking about modern Ireland and about controversy’s bluff, bravado, and improvisational flair. ISBN: 0-8014-4353-9 $29.95s Modern
Drama - Special Issue on Irish Drama "Irish
Theatre: Conditions of Criticism" Karen Fricker and Brian Singleton This special issue of Modern Drama will be launched at the 2005 IASIL Conference in Prague HELEN
WADDELL'S WRITINGS FROM JAPAN Edited and Introduced by David Burleigh Cloth
is 42.50 euros/ 35.00 pounds/ $47.50; paper is 25.00 euros/ 17.50
pounds/ $25.00. Helen Waddell's Literary Writings from Japan (blurb taken from the publisher's website) 'The richest thing in my life has been Japan' wrote the Irish scholar Helen Waddell (1889-1965) when she was in her twenties. At the time she was still living in Belfast, and had not yet embarked on the medieval Latin scholarship which later made her famous. As a child of missionary parents, Waddell had not only been born in Japan, but had spent the important years of her childhood there. It was on this experience that she drew in her first attempts at writing in the 1910s. Waddell's writings on Japan comprise autobiographical short stories, a play that was performed at the Belfast Opera House in 1915, and some allusive literary essays which anticipate the style of her mature writing on medieval subjects. These ostensibly miscellaneous pieces are, the detailed introduction argues, all connected by a single theme - the author's preoccupation with her favourite brother Billy, who died while they were being written. Besides offering new insights into the interpretation of Waddell's work as a whole, the present volume also attempts to reconstruct a 'book' that Helen Waddell herself once hoped to assemble, according to her letters. Angela
Bourke, Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker, Pimlico: London
and Counterpoint: New York, 2004. Conrad, Kathryn. Locked in the Family Cell: Gender, Sexuality, and Political Agency in Irish National Discourse. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2004.Irish Studies in Literature and Culture, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Series Editor Description:
By actively situating theoretical readings and concerns in practice, Conrad follows the lead of scholars such as Lauren Berlant, Gloria Anzaldua, Ailbhe Smyth, and others who have encouraged dialogue not only among scholars in different academic disciplines but between scholars and activists. In doing so she provides not only a critique of interest to scholars in a variety of fields but also a productive political intervention. reviews: "This is cultural studies in the best sense--in effect, a 'history of the present moment.'"--Margot Backus, University of Houston (back cover) "Conrad's text is smart, thorough, readable and very well researched....Conrad's willingness to engage issues across national boundaries is another strength of this text; it is an international, multi-generic analysis that not only illuminates the gender and sexuality issues at the center of contemporary Irish politics, but also illuminates the function of gender and sexuality in politics in general. Locked in the Family Cell should, therefore, appeal to a wide audience." --Moira Casey, Miami University (review in ILS 24.2, Spring 2005) Jacques
Chuto, Peter van de Kamp, and Ellen Shannon-Mangan, Editors, Selected
Prose of James Clarence Mangan, Dublin and Portland, Oregon: Irish
Academic Press, 2004. Elke
D'hoker, Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John
Banville, Costerus New Series (151), Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York, 2004.
Barbara Freitag, Sheela-na-gigs. Unravelling an Enigma. London and New York : Routledge, 2004. 205 pages: illus. 20 b+w photos. GBP 60.00 (hardback); GBP 22.50 (paperback). Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and John Montague are among a host of poets, painters, musicians, writers and sculptors whose imagination was inspired by Sheela-na-gigs. Archaeologists, art historians and clergymen on the other hand had enormous problems trying to make sense of these crude carvings of naked women exposing their genitals. For centuries they had led a quiet existence on country churches all over the British Isles, but when they were brought to scientific attention in Ireland , some 160 years ago, their discovery, understandably, was not greeted with an unqualified welcome. High-minded churchgoers destroyed the offensive figures, museums kept them locked away from public scrutiny, and archaeologists either ignored them or labelled them as lewd. Only in the less puritanical atmosphere of the last few decades did academics and artists turn their interest to these carvings. Divergent views emerged: some see Sheelas as ancient Celtic goddesses, others as an apotropaic device, and the most favoured critical opinion claims that they are warnings against lust. The author examines all the literature on the subject, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering them in their medieval social context, she argues that Sheela-na-gigs were folk deities with particular responsibility for assistance in childbirth. The book contains a complete catalogue of all known carvings, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures. It is the most comprehensive study of the Sheela-na-gigs yet published. Patricia
L. Hagen and Thomas W. Zelman, Eavan Boland and the History of the
Ordinary, Maunsel, 2004. Harmon,
Maurice. The Doll with Two Backs and other poems. Cliffs of Moher:
Salmon Press, 2004. In a many-layered work echoing with literary and historical allusions the ‘Prelude’ sounds the motifs of myths of origin, religious beliefs and oral narrative, while the main movement, ‘Broken Lights, Broken Lances,’ explores these issues in more detail within a contemporary setting. A poem about the conjunction of dissimilar forces is a metaphor for the task of the imagination: to make sense of disorder, to bring harmony to the “broken lights” of tradition. Well-crafted
lyrics in Part Two deal with persistence and failure, the cruelties
and fears of childhood, the joys and disappointments of love, the
strength of memory. Rosalie Rahal Haddad, Bernard Shaw's Novels: His Drama of Ideas in Embryo , Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004. From his early days as a novelist, Shaw contested the Victorian status quo. The novels, though rejected by critics and publishers, are important not only because they give us glimpses of Shaw the dramatist but also because they offer a fascinating portrait of a young artist with an open mind. In the young Shaw one can see a rebel against the accepted traditions and mores of his time, an individualist determined to think for himself, who has yet to find his philosophy. His novels provided training, discipline and a social, political and cultural background for his future drama. The purpose of this study is to contribute to a reevaluation of these important early works in the career of one of the twentieth century's most significant playwrights and to show that the novels can be considered his later drama of ideas in embryo. Peter James Harris, Sean O'Casey's Letters and Autobiographies: Reflections of a Radical Ambivalence . Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier , 2004. 194 p. ISBN 3-88476-687-2 (25 Euros) Harris' study focuses upon O'Casey's non-dramatic writing in order to trace the development of his opinions concerning playwrights and theatrical tendencies that influenced his own work for the stage. Based upon the premise that the Letters serve as a correlative to the subjective hindsight of the Autobiographies , the study demonstrates the ambivalence of O'Casey's attitudes towards many of his contemporaries, a dynamic largely determined by the traumatic watershed of the rejection of The Silver Tassie . The first section of the book analyses O'Casey's comments concerning influences prior to his own late start as a playwright. The second section surveys his relationship with writers with whom he came into contact as result of his career at the Abbey Theatre from 1922 to 1926. Finally, the controversy surrounding the rejection of The Silver Tassie in 1928 is examined.
Ellen
Carol Jones and Morris Beja, Editors, Twenty-First Joyce, The Florida
James Joyce Series, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. R.
Brandon Kershner, Editor. Cultural Studies of James Joyce, European
Joyce Studies 15, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. Frank
Molloy, Victor J. Daley: A Life, Sydney: Crossing Press, 2004.
Mary Massoud, Editor, Between Two Cultures, Cairo: Macmillan,
2003. John
Mc Donagh, Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts, Dublin: Liffey Press,
2004. pps. 170. ISBN 1-904148-44-1. Damian
McNicholl, A Son Called Gabriel, New York: CDS Books, 2004. Seamus Deane (Reading in the Dark) called it "Comic, courageous and often painful, this is a beautifully paced and balanced novel that will have an assured place in contemporary Irish writing...." and Brendan O'Carroll stated "What a joy to be introduced to Damian McNicholl's world of 'family.' Irish Connections magazine wrote, "Well written and lined with a host of unraveling secrets, A Son Called Gabriel is a touching and dark, yet periodically hilarious work on a subject matter often overlooked in Irish literature." Kieran
Quinlan, Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South, Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2005. “Kieran Quinlan’s Strange Kin is a very thoughtful, humane, and learned study of the oft-tortuous relationships between Ireland and the American South. Quinlan ranges widely and masterfully through the fields of history, literature, anthropology, religion, and folklore. Students of either Ireland or the Old (and New) South will both enjoy and learn much from Quinlan’s stimulating and gracefully written book.”—Kerby Miller, author of Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America Thomas
Dillon Redshaw, Editor, Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague. Omaha:
NE: Creighton University Press, 2004. 444 pp. Neil
Sammells, Editor, Beyond Borders: IASIL Essays in Modern Irish Writing,
Sulis Press, 2004. Stanley
Weintraub, Iron Tears: America's Struggle for Freedom; Britain's Quagmire,
1775-1783, New York: Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2005. Other Noteworthy Publications by IASIL Members: Louis Armand, Editor, joyceMedia: James Joyce, Hypermedia + Textual Genetics, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2004. 164pp. ISBN 80-239-2266-1. Joan Dean. Dancing at Lughnasa. Cork: Cork University Press, 2003. James S. Donnelly, Jr., senior editor; James Doan, Karl Bottigheimer, Mary Daly and David Miller, associate editors, Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture, two-volumes, Macmillan Reference, 2004 . Dawn Duncan, Postcolonial Theory in Irish Drama from 1800-2000, Lampter/New York: Edwin Mellen, 2004. Jacqueline
A. Hurtley, "War and peace - Pater's part: Translations of Walter Maria
Kurdi, Otthonkereses a szinpadon: Beszelgetesek ir dramairokkal (Searching
Sylvie Mikowski, Le roman irlandais contemporain. Universitaires de Caen Press. Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, Fools of Fiction: Reading William Trevor's Stories, Maunsel & Co. (Dublin, December 2004). ISBN: 1930901216. Hardcover, $74.95 Michael L. Storey, Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction, The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. Linda Connolly and Tina O'Toole, Documenting Irish Feminisms This book is launched on Thursday, 3 February 2005. This book maps the development of second wave feminism in Ireland using textual and visual images. A number of neglected themes in the analysis and documentation of Irish feminist politics are advanced in this unique and comprehensive volume. The book focused on the emergence of Irish feminist organisations and services, reproductive rights, lesbian activism, violence, cultural politics, Northern Ireland, social policy, class, education and community. The book is published by The Woodfield Press. For related information, see the UCC Women and Irish Society/Irish Women's Movement Project - http://www.ucc.ie/wisp/iwm Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (published January 2005) This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish culture. Readers will be introduced to Irish culture in its widest sense and helped to find their way through the cultural and theoretical debates that inform our understanding of modern Ireland. The volume combines cultural breadth and historical depth, supported by a chronology of Irish history and arts. A wide selection of essays on a rich variety of Irish cultural forms and practices are complemented by a series of in-depth analyses of key themes in Irish cultural politics. The range of topics covered will enable a comprehensive understanding of Irish culture, while the authors gathered here - all acknowledged experts in their fields - provide stimulating new essays that together amount to an invaluable guide to the shaping of modern Ireland. Contributors Alvin Jackson, Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, Tom Inglis, Liam O¹Dowd, Siobhán Kilfeather, Mary J. Hickman, Kevin Whelan, Emer Nolan, Bernard O¹Donoghue, Alan Bairner, Luke Gibbons, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Pádraigín Riggs and Norman Vance, Lillis Ó Laoire, Hugh Campbell, Fintan Cullen, Christopher Morash For
a full table of contents and an excerpt from the introduction, please
follow this link: http://uk.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052182009X Mari
Kurdi: Searching for Home on the Stage: Talks
with Irish Playwrights. (in Hungarian) Maria Kurdi's new book has recently been published in Hungarian. IASIL Members will be familiar with many of her interviews with Irish playwrights, such as her 2004 interview with Tom Murphy, published in Irish Studies Review in 2004.
"A Selective, Classified International Bibliography of Publications About John Millington Synge: Works from 1940 to Date, with Appendix of Earlier Works." This electronic edition of the Synge bibliography is available for purchase direct from the author, Professor Charles A Carpenter (Binghamton University), in WordPerfect or Microsoft Word format, for $15 American or $20 Canadian. Professor Carpenter will email the preferred file on receipt of the fee. All purchasers are guaranteed a free updated replacement once or twice a year, a feature that publication of course rules out. A similar (though much larger) bibliography is available on Shaw: A Selective, Classified International Bibliography of Publications About Bernard Shaw. 230 pages for $20, with the same free periodic updates. Interested readers should email Professor Carpenter on ccarpen@binghamton.edu, or may write to 908 Lehigh Ave., Binghamton NY 13850. Proceedings
of IASIL 2003 More information on the IASIL conferences pages. Christopher Murray, Sean O'Casey - Writer At Work - A Biography Former IASIL President, Christopher Murray's work on Sean O'Casey is a critical biography. In addition to the normal biographical elements, Professor Murray provides a strong interpretative context for the life, looking afresh at the Dublin of the 1880s and 1890s in order to provide an updated background on O'Casey's childhood. He pays a great deal of attention to the political situation from 1880 to 1922, setting it against O'Casey's own treatment in his six volumes of autobiography. In general, he attempts to establish O'Casey's Ireland. Murray establishes O'Casey as a self-made man of letters, an irrepressible fighter, a man who combined political courage with innocence, an individual torn between a humanistic vision of life rooted in his Dublin childhood and a utopian but blinkered loyalty to the Soviet Union. Murray acknowledges that while much of O'Casey's work was uneven, flawed and over-ambitious, at its best it was infused with a passion and generosity that places it among the best bodies of drama in the twentieth century. Christopher Murray's Sean O'Casey is published in November 2004, and may be pre-ordered online at the Gill and Macmillan website - http://www.gillmacmillan.ie Joan FitzPatrick Dean, Riot and Great Anger - Stage Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland. IASIL Representative Joan FitzPatrick Dean recently launched her new study of stage censorship in Ireland. Under the strict rule of twentieth-century Irish censorship, creators of novels, films and most periodicals had no option but to conform to standards. Stage productions, however, escaped official censorship. The theatre became a "public space" - a place to air cultural confrontations between Church and State, individual and community, and "freedom of the theatre" versus the audience's right to disagree. Dean examines the plays that provoked these controversies and the degree to which they were "censored". Dean's original research meticulously analyses Ireland's great theatrical tradition, both on the stage and off, concluding that the public responses to these controversial productions reveal a country that, at century's end as as its beginning, was pluralistic, heterogeneous, and complex. Available in Europe from Eurospan - http://www.eurospanonline.com And in North America from the Univeristy of Wisconsin Press. Filologiai Kozlemenyek (Philological Journal, published in Hungarian) The latest issue of this journal has published its delayed 2002/3-4 special issue under the title "Joyce and Modernism". Guest editor: Maria Kurdi. It contains articles by Tekla Mecsnober, Antal Bokay, Marta Godlmann and Andras Kappanyos, and writings on Joyce by Bonnie Kime Scott and Jacques Derida in the Hungarian translation, as well as the translation of Maria Kurdi's interview with Frank McGuinnes, in which he touches upon Joyce's influence on his work.
'A
New and Complex Sensation: Essays on Joyce's Dubliners' This eclectic and probing collection of essays celebrates the centenary of the first publication of stories from James Joyce's Dubliners in 1904. Since its publication in book form in 1914, Dubliners has become one of the truly definitive short-story collections in world literature. A New & Complex Sensation presents twenty fresh perspectives that explore the multiple layers and enduring power of Joyce's short fiction. Table
of Contents: Recontextualizing
Dubliners Reconsiderations
of Individual Stories Thematic
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George Moore (1852–1933) was one of the most influential and versatile writers and journalists of the turn of the century. Bridging movements as disparate as high realism/naturalism and mysticism, his narrative work is also significant for its concern with emerging psychoanalytical approaches. Much of his writing crossed boundaries: generically, thematically, psychologically and conceptually – between autobiography, fiction and folklore, hysteria, sex and gender. Despite his significant impact on fin-de-siècle culture and literature, Moore’s works have not been readily available.
Greenwood Press has now published _Irish Women Writers: An A-Z Guide_. It covers 75 writers, providing for each a brief biography, summary of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume is introduced by Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt of Siena College. It also has a very large general bibliography of secondary sources.
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