Irish literature – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Call for Contributions: Science, Technology, and 20th-century Irish Literature (edited volume)

August 11, 2016 Cliona O'Gallchoir Call for Papers, New Publications

Science, Technology, and 20th-century Irish Literature (edited volume) The editors are seeking contributors for a volume focused on science, technology, and Irish literature of the revival and modernist period. Since W. B. Yeats infamously wrote in 1890 that “the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula,” the anti-scientific and Luddite

New Publication from Cork UP: E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross. Female Authorship and Literary Collaboration.

August 2, 2016 Cliona O'Gallchoir General News, New Publications

Anne Jamison’s new book on female authorship and literary collaboration explores the remarkable literary partnership of one of the most prominent and successful female writing duos at work in the late nineteenth century; Irish authors, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross. Based on extensive and original archival research, this book attempts to reorient traditional thinking about Somerville and Ross’s partnership as