Issue 4: What is a Home? Call for contributors Deadline: February 10th 2025 5pm Irish Standard Time About the magazine Racism, nationalism, ethnicity, intersectional identities, and belonging are at the forefront of current Irish political discourse and artistic practice. Unapologetic is a multidisciplinary, literary, cultural, and artistic response to the social issues and creative opportunities of contemporary Ireland, offering a
» Read moreEdited by Edited by Gregory Castle, Matthew L. Reznicek, Sarah L. Townsend Syracuse University Press To order: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/7134/irish-bildungsroman-the/ The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development—the harmonization of individual desires with societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded, liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society
» Read moreVicki Mahaffey Published by: Bucknell University Press Part of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they durst not move more for enchantment.”
» Read moreVol. 19, 2021/2022, Special issue: Justice on the Island Nordic Irish Studies Published by: Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies Is now available on Jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/e27332357 Contents Legalistic Perspectives: Ruben Moi and Anthony JohnsonIntroduction: ‘Justice on the Island’ 1 Adam HannaContemporary Encounters with the Law: Kimberly Campanello’s MOTHERBABYHOME (2019) and Julie Morrissy’s Positions Gendered Male in Bunreacht na hÉireann / 1937
» Read moreBy Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa | Routledge This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and “autoexoticist” literature of the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the way in which reciprocal processes of transcultural acquisition – by Japan and from Japan – were portrayed in the medium of literature, the book illustrates how literary Japonisme and the wider processes whereby Japan, with its alien
» Read moreNEI/UFSC is delighted to announce two new volumes of the series on Irish theatre and disability, with Editora Iluminuras and the support of Ireland’s DFA Emigrant Support Programme: Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan/O aleijado de Inishmaan, translated by Domingos Nunez, and Stacey Gregg’s Override/Comando manual, translated by Alinne Fernandes. 2023 saw the publication of J.M. Synge’s The Well of the
» Read moreBy Chris Arthur | Eastover Press In this collection, Arthur looks into life’s mirror and offers an account of what can be seen in ordinary things. Each of the book’s fourteen essays is an exercise in seeing beyond the obvious, and finding hidden depth in the places and things we might otherwise take for granted. Arthur ranges over subjects as various as
» Read morePeter Lang is delighted to announce the 2024 Reimagining Ireland Book Prize. We invite scholars in any area of Irish Studies to submit proposals for single-author books to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. Please submit your proposal to a.mason@peterlang.com or series editor Eamon Maher at Eamon.Maher@TUDublin.ie by 30 September 2024. Your proposal should consist of an abstract (including chapter synopses), a sample chapter (5,000 to 10,000 words in
» Read moreEdited By María Amor Barros-del Río (2024, Routledge). OPEN ACCESS Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have been enriching Irish literature since the twentieth century and engages with the ongoing dialogue between contemporary Irish literature and society. Driven by the growing interest in transcultural studies in the humanities, this volume provides an insightful
» Read moreThis open access book is a new survey of theatre practices in Ireland from 1957 to the present. Part I: Histories, situates the theatrical activity of twentieth and twenty-first century Ireland within its social and political contexts, identifies key practitioners, landmark productions, institutions, festivals, and seminal revivals. Part II: Theories, offers five key theoretical frameworks – nation, language, body, space
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