Category: New Publications

[private] Dear IASIL colleagues, Please find below details of three recent publications by the Irish Manuscripts Commission. A full list of our available stock can be found in our Catalogue 2012–2013 available online at www.irishmanuscripts.ie. Forthcoming titles (autumn–winter 2013) include Elizabethanne Boran (ed.), The Correspondence of James Ussher, 1600–1656, 3 vols; James Kelly with Mary Ann Lyons (ed.), The Proclamations

[private] LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA. Studies in Literature and Culture Vol. 22, No. 44 (2012) Published March 2013. NEGLECTED IRISH FICTION Edited by Neil Murphy, Keith Hopper and Ondřej Pilný   Available through the Charles University e-shop at https://e-shop.ff.cuni.cz/casopisy/cas/litteraria_pragensia_44_neglected_irish_fiction_-779 , or to order at eshop@ff.cuni.cz . EUR 12 + postage, or CZK 135 + postage. ISSN 0862-8424 CONTENTS Neil Murphy, Keith Hopper

[private] Maley, Willy / O’Malley-Younger, Alison (eds) Celtic Connections: Irish-Scottish Relations and the Politics of Culture Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013. 237 pp., 3 b/w ill. Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 38 Edited by Eamon Maher Softcover: ISBN 978-3-0343-0214-2 CHF 61.00 / €(D) 53.70 / €(A) 55.20 / € 50.15 / £ 40.00 / US-$ 65.95

[private] Duncan, Dawn Irish Myth, Lore and Legend on Film  Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013. X, 171 pp. Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 27 Edited by Eamon Maher Softcover: ISBN 978-3-0343-0140-4 CHF 53.00 / €(D) 47.00 / €(A) 48.30 / € 43.90 / £ 35.00 / US-$ 57.95 eBook: ISBN 978-3-0353-0412-1 CHF 55.85 / €(D) 52.24

[private] Dawe, Gerald / Jones, Darryl / Pelizzari, Nora (eds)  Beautiful Strangers: Ireland and the World of the 1950s  Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013. X, 197 pp., 3 coloured ill., 6 b/w ill. Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 46 Edited by Eamon Maher Softcover: ISBN 978-3-0343-0801-4 CHF 68.00 / €(D) 60.20 / €(A) 61.90 / €

[private]   Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (ISBN 978-1-906-10818-2) Shane Alcobia-Murphy This is the first monograph wholly devoted to the poetry of Medbh McGuckian and it presents pathways into her work that have thus far remained largely unexplored. The chapters examine the ways in which McGuckian uses literary exemplars to explore the psychodramas of female literary authorship and ways

[private] Knowing One’s Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry: Zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig. Continuum, 2012.   This book compares contemporary poetry from Ireland and Poland, two post-colonies within Europe, with a particular focus on the theme of spatio-cultural belonging. It brings together Northern Irish and Polish poets who rebel against strict, conventional, and politically binding forms of identity, who

[private] In Gratitude for All the Gifts: Seamus Heaney and Eastern Europe. University of Toronto Press, 2012.   This book explores the literary and cultural links between the bestselling, Nobel Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney and the preeminent Eastern European poets of the twentieth century, including fellow Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert. Magdalena Kay opens new ground