Paul Delaney | Routledge This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland. More specifically, it discusses the cultural, material, and ideological usages of the short form in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, engaging with the forces that have helped to shape the production, dissemination, and reception of short stories over the last few
» Read moreYou are invited to the online launch of the ‘Irish Studies Review’ special issue on “Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture”, published in association with the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature (ISSCL). The launch will take place at 3pm Friday 6th June on Zoom where we will have a roundtable discussion
» Read moreEdited by Anna Teekell, Ellen Scheible | Syracuse University Press Bringing John McGahern’s 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critical edition includes an introduction aimed at first-time readers, explanatory footnotes, McGahern’s own glossary, and four scholarly essays aimed at guiding readers through the novel’s famously controversial history. While the text
» Read moreEllen Scheible | Bloomsbury Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book provides readings of the power and authority of the feminized body in Ireland. Scheible dissects the ways that ‘the woman-as-symbol’ remains consistent in Irish literary representations of national experience in Irish fiction and shows how
» Read moreEdited By Angelos Bollas | Routledge The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, offering valuable insights into her writing and its socio-cultural significance. This comprehensive collection brings together contributions from international scholars who explore Rooney’s novels through a range of interdisciplinary lenses, including literary studies, gender theory,
» Read moreEdited by Seán Kennedy, Joseph Valente | Edinburgh University Press The first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame Shame has haunted Ireland since the inception of Irishness itself. As such, it has come to seem an ineluctable modality of Irish life. In fact, the contours of Irish shame have evolved over time, shifting with alterations in
» Read moreBy Moonyoung Hong | Routledge Studies in Irish Literature By the time of his death in 2018, Tom Murphy was widely recognised as one of Ireland’s most important modern playwrights. Ireland’s experience of rapid modernisation, emigration, and globalisation is vividly captured in his plays, challenging generic notions of space, place, and the nation. In particular, his drama reconfigures Irish theatre’s
» Read moreNiall Ó Cuileagáin | Edinburgh University Press The first book-length study to consider Joyce’s portrayal of rural Ireland across his oeuvre James Joyce, Rural Ireland, and Modernity: Beyond the Pale offers a fundamental reappraisal of the dominant Dublin-centric readings of James Joyce by delving into his depiction of rural Ireland. The title takes its name from ‘the Pale’, the area around
» Read moreIrishwomen United and a Network of Change Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan editors UCD Press The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train. This phenomenal collection of twenty essays offers first-hand, historical accounts of on the ground activities during this period,
» Read moreApplied Theatre, Social Change, and Political Advocacy By Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill University of Exeter Press Theatre has played an important role in post-conflict northern Ireland, where it has been used by artists, communities, and organisations as a tool for political advocacy. This book provides an up-to-date assessment of the state of theatre in northern Ireland since the end of the conflict,
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