By Stephen Watt | Anthem Press | September 2024 Delves into the past to illuminate the present, using literature and historical insights to understand the complex relationship between Ireland and the United States and its implications for modern politics. In Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964), Polish critic Jan Kott defines one purpose of scholarship in the humanities that summarises the chief
» Read moreMary M. Burke’s Oxford University Press book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History, was published in the UK in December 2022 and the US in March 2023. The US release will be launched by Myles Dungan at the national ACIS conference at San José State University, California, which will run from June 7-10, 2023. Race, Politics, and Irish America uses the
» Read moreBy Mary M Burke Published by Oxford University Press Race, Politics, and Irish America examines the words and lives of Black and white American and Irish-American writers, performers, and politicians – from Andrew Jackson and Frank Yerby, to Grace Kelly and Rihanna – to illuminate centuries of Irish presence in the Americas, from transportees to the seventeenth-century Caribbean, to eighteenth-century Ulster
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