[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
» Read more[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
» Read more[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
» Read more[private] Cork University Press has today published The Female Figure in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry by Patricia Boyle Haberstroh. This is a comprehensive study of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, one of the most important contemporary Irish poets and the subject of growing international acclaim. Covering her volumes up to the most recent, The Sun-fish, it examines the role of the female
» Read more[private] Colleagues and students in Diaspora Studies, Irish Studies, and Women’s Studies will be interested in a new book by Irish writer Margaret Mulvihill, The Leaving Coat. This is an historical novel about an Irish immigrant nurse on a complex quest for her sister and, finally, for her own identity. The novel is set in 1890s New York City and also in
» Read more[private] Billy Colfer’s Wexford Castles expands the IRISH LANDSCAPES series by taking a thematic approach, while still staying loyal to the central landscape focus. Rather than adapting a narrowly architectural approach, he situates these buildings in a superbly reconstructed historical, social, and cultural setting -March 2013 ISBN 978-185918-493-6, €49, £39, Hardback, 299 x 237mm, 272pp County Wexford has three strikingly
» Read more[private] Great deeds in Ireland: Richard Stanihursts De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis is the first full translation of the controversial Latin history of Ireland by the famous Dublin intellectual, Richard Stanihurst – ISBN 978-190900-572-3 €49, £39, Hardback, 234 x 156mm, 544pp, in Latin & English. He wrote it after fleeing Elizabethan London for the Netherlands.De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis was
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