Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2010

Original Literary Works
Poetry Collections
Fiction (Short stories & Novels)
Drama (Plays & Collections)
Autobiography & Memoir		 Biography (Literary & Historical)
Miscellaneous Writings
Scholarly Editions & Reprints
Anthologies, Interviews & Almanacs
Criticism & Commentary
Literary & Cultural Commentary
Commentary: Individual Authors
Commentary: Theatre Studies
Language & Folklore Studies		 Media & Entertainment
Arts & Architecture
History, Politics, & Society
Historical Studies: General
Historical Studies: 20th Century
Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
Historical Studies: Military		 Natural History & Topography
Politics, Economics & Society
Religion & Philosophy
Northern Ireland/Ulster
 Women’s Studies
Reference Works & Digital Publications
Reference & Bibliography
Digital Publications		 Journals & Special Issues
    Poetry Collections
  • Sara Berkeley, The View From Here (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2010), 70pp.
  • Louise C. Callaghan, In the Ninth House (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2010), 93pp.
  • Ciaran Carson, Until Before Dark (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2010), 119pp.
  • Anthony Cronin, The Fall (Dublin: New Island Press 2010), 54pp. [incls. “Christmas Letter to God the Father” [a holocaust poem], and “8 Poems About Women”).
  • Louis de Paor, Agus rud éile de / And Another Thing (Cló Iar-Chonnacht 2010), 104pp.
  • Katie Donovan, Rootling: New and Selected Poems (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 2010), 192pp.
  • Pat Galvin, Where the Music Comes From (Doghouse 2010), 65pp.
  • Alan Gillis, Here Comes the Night (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2010), 98pp.
  • Mary Guckian, Walking on Snow (Swan Press 2010), 60pp.
  • Maurice Harmon, When Love Is Not Enough: New and Selected Poems (Moher: Salmon Press 2010), q.pp.
  • Dermot Healy, A Fool’s Errand (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2010), 104pp.
  • Kevin Higgins, Frightening New Furniture (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2010), 95pp.
  • Rita Ann Higgins, Hurting God: Part Essay Part Rhyme (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2010), 88pp.
  • Jerome Kiely, The Moon Canoe (Doghouse 2010), 66pp.
  • Dave Lordan, Invitation to a Sacrifice (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2010), 124pp.
  • Seán Lysaght, Selected Poems of Sean Lysaght (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2010), 86pp. [107pp.].
  • Tom Mac Intyre, Encountering Zoe: New and Selected Poems (Dublin: New Island Press 2010), 214pp.
  • Aubrey Malone, Idle Time (Lapwing Publ. 2010), 71pp.
  • Derek Mahon, An Autumn Wind (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2010), 79pp.
  • Paul Muldoon, Maggot (London: Faber & Faber 2010), 120pp.
  • Gerry Murphy, My Flirtation with International Socialism (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2010), 86pp.
  • Iggy McGovern, Safe House (Dublin: Daedalus Press 2010), 86pp.
  • Ciaran O’Driscoll, Life Monitor (Three Spires Press 2010), 61pp.
  • Micheal O’Siadhail, Tongues  (Tarset: Bloodaxe 2010), 208pp.
  • Paul Perry, The Last Falcon and Small Ordinance (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2010), 90pp.
  • Rosemary Rowley, The Sea of Affliction (Rowan Tree Press 2010), 64pp.
  • Damian Smyth, Lamentations (Belfast: Lagan Press 2010), 89pp.
  • Gerard Smyth, The Fullness of Time: New and Selected Poems, intro. by Thomas McCarthy (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2010), xix, 198pp.
  • Robert Welch, Constanza (Belfast: Lagan Press 2010), 85pp.
  • David Wheatley, A Nest on the Waves (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2011), 87pp.

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    Fiction (Short stories & Novels)
  • Cecilia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow (London: HarperCollins 2010), 432pp.
  • Benjamin Black [pseud. of John Banville], Elegy for April (London; Mantle 2010), 313pp.
  • John Banville, The Infinities (NY: Alfred A. Knopf 2010), 273pp.
  • John Connolly, The Whisperers (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2010), 415pp.
  • Declan Hughes, City of Lost Girls (London: John Murray 2010), 313pp.
  • Dermot Bolger, New Town Soul (Dublin: Little Island 2010), 257pp.
  • Dermot Bolger, Second Life (Dublin: New Island Press 2010), 250pp. [rev. version of 1994 novel].
  • John Boyne, Noah Barleywater Runs Away (David Fickling 2010), 240pp.
  • John F. Deane, Where No Storms Come (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2010), q.pp.
  • Brian Friel, A Man’s World (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2010), 56pp.
  • Jack Higgins, The Judas Gate (London: HarperCollins 2010), 366pp.
  • Declan Hughes, City of Lost Girls (London: John Murray 2010), 309pp.
  • Neil Jordan, Mistaken (London: John Murray 2010), 320pp.
  • Nuala Ní Chonchúir, You: A Novel (New Island Press 2010), xi, 186pp.
  • Alan Monaghan, The Soldier’s Song (London: Macmillan 2010).
  • Sinéad Moriarty, Pieces of My Heart (Dublin: Penguin Ireland 2010), 439pp.
  • Joseph O’Connor, Ghost Light (London: Harvill 2010), 256pp.
  • Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family (London: Viking; NY: Scribners 2010), 275pp.
  • Elizabeth Wassell, Dangerous Pity (Dublin: Liberties Press 2010), 237pp.

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    Drama (Plays & Collections)
  • Dermot Bolger, The Ballymun Trilogy (Dublin: New Island Press 2010), 322pp.
  • Tom Paulin, Euripides’ Medea, in a new version by Tom Paulin (London: Nick Hern Books 2010), 65pp. port.
  • Fintan Walsh, ed., Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland, with a foreword by Frank McGuinness (Cork UP 2010), 276pp. [collection of works since decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993].

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    Autobiography & Memoir
  • John Sarsfield Casey, A Mingling of Swans: A Cork Fenian and Friends Visit Australia (UCD Press 2010), 320pp.
  • Liam Carson, Call Mother a Lonely Field ([Belfast:] Hag’s Head Press 2010), 128pp.
  • Noel Dorr, Ireland at the United Nations: Memories of the Early Years (Dublin: IPA 2010), 246pp.
  • Frank Gray, The Crazy Life of Brendan Behan: The Rise and Fall of Dublin’s Laughing Boy (MiltonKeynes: AuthorHouse 2011), xx, 259pp.
  • Dave Fanning, The Thing Is ... (Cork: Collins Press 2010), 302pp.
  • Gordon Ledbetter, Privilege and Purgatory: A Life of Alexander Williams, RHA, 1846-1930 (Cork: Collins Press 2010), 220pp.
  • Lara Marlowe, The Things I’ve Seen: Nine Lives of a Foreign Correspondent (Dublin: Liberties Press 2010), 350pp.
  • Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, ed., For the Liberty of Ireland, at Home and Abroad the Autobiography of J. F. X. O’Brien (UCD Press 2010), q.pp.

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    Biography (Literary & Historical)
  • Joost Augusteijn, Patrick Pearse: The Making of a Revolutionary (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), 416pp.
  • Joseph P. Cunningham & Ruth Fleischmann, Aloys Fleischmann (1880-1964): Immigrant and Musician in Ireland (Cork UP 2010), 416pp.
  • J. N. Duggan, John Toland: Ireland’s Forgotten Philosopher, Scholar and Heretic (TAF Publishing 2010), 51pp.
  • Dave Hannigan, Terence MacSwiney: The Hunger Strike that Rocked an Empire (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2010), [q.pp.]
  • Dermot James, John Hamilton of Donegal, 1800-1884: This Recklessly Generous Landlord (Dublin: Woodfield Press 2010), 269pp.
  • Patrick M. Geoghegan, King Dan: The Rise of Daniel O’Connell 1775-1829 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2010), 291pp.
  • Anthony J. Jordan, Eamon de Valera 1882-1975 - Irish, Catholic, Visionary (Westport Books 2010), 328pp.
  • Ann Keogh & Dermot Keogh, Bertram Windle: The Honan Bequest and the Modernisation of University College, Cork, 1904-1919 (Cork UP 2010), 368pp. ill. [+24pp. photos].
  • Kevin Kenna, The Lives and Times of the Presidents of Ireland (Dublin: Liffey Press 2010), 287pp.
  • Leeann Lane, Rosamond Jacob: Third Person Singular (UCD Press 2010), 324pp.
  • David McCullagh, The Reluctant Taoiseach: A Biograpy of John A. Costello (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2010), 530pp.
  • P. J. McLoughlin, John Hume and the Revision of Irish Nationalism (Manchester UP 2010), 304pp.
  • Robert O’Byrne, Desmond Leslie, 1921-2001: The Biography of an Irish Gentleman (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2010), l216pp.
  • Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh, Edward Hay: Historian of 1798 (History Press 2010), 144pp.
  • Robert Portsmouth, John Wilson Croker: Irish Ideas and the Invention of Modern Conservatism 1800-1835 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2010), 271pp.

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    Miscellaneous Writings
  • John Banville, intro., Dublin’s Palm House, by Amelia Stein (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2010), 1600 [photos].
  • Eileen Battersby, Second Readings 52: From Beckett to Black Beauty, with a foreword by Richard Ford (Liberties Press 2010), 301pp.
  • Terence Brown, Literature in Ireland (Cambridge UP 2010), x, 281pp.
  • Emma Donoghue, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature (NY: Alfred A. Knopf 2010), 271pp.
  • Theo Dorgan, Time on the Ocean: A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town (Dublin: New Island Press 2010), 306pp.
  • Fintan O’Toole, Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic (London: Faber & Faber 2010), 272pp.
  • Peig Sayers, Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak To You All: Peig Sayers, ed. Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Héalaí (Dublin: New Island Press 2010), 312pp.
  • Victoria White, Mother Ireland: Why Ireland Hates Motherhood (Londubh Books 2010), 192pp.

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    Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
  • Jonathan Allison, ed., Letters of Louis MacNeice (London: Faber & Faber 2010) , xlvii, 768, ill. [8pp. pls.].
  • [Anon] Vertue Rewarded; or, the Irish Princess [1693], ed. Ian Campbell Ross & Anne Markey (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), q.pp.
  • John Sarsfield Casey, A Mingling of Swans, ed. Mairead Maume & Patrick Maume (UCD Press 2010), 336pp. [Fenian papers].
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  • Sarah Butler, Irish Tales [1716], ed. Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas & Anne Markey (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), q.pp.
  • Menna Gallie You’re Welcome to Ulster [1971], ed. Claire Connolly, Angela V. John (Wales: Honno Press), [q.pp.]
  • Aidan Higgins, Balcony of Europe [rev. edn.], ed. Neil Murphy (Dalkey Archive Press 2010), 425pp.
  • Aidan Higgins, Darkling Plain: Texts for the Air, ed. by Daniel Jernigan (Dalkey Archive Press 2010), 400pp.
  • William Dunkin, The Parson’s Revels / A Poem in Three Cantos / to Robert Nugent Esq. / Written in the Year 1748, notes by Catherine Skeen (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 147pp.
  • W. B. Yeats, The First Yeats: Poems by W. B. Yeats, 1889-1899: unrevised texts, ed. & intro., Edward Larrissy (Manchester: FyfieldBooks 2010), xxi, 194pp. [i.e., The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1899), The Countess of Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892), and The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)].
    State Papers & Historical Archives
  • Bernadette Cunningham, ed., Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, Tudor Period, 1568-1571 (Irish Manuscript Commission 2010), 383pp.
  • A P. W. Malcolmson, ed., The Clements Archive (Irish Manuscript Commission 2010), 937pp.
  • P. Walsh & A.. P. Malcolmson, ed., The Conolly Archive (Irish Manuscript Commission 2010), 399pp.

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    Anthologies, Interviews & Almanacs
  • Eva Bourke & Borbála Faragó, eds., Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2010), 240pp.
  • Paddy Bushe, ed., Voices at the World’s Edge: Irish Poets on Skellig Michael (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2010), 191pp.
  • Patrick Crotty, ed., The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, with a foreword by Seamus Heaney (Penguin Classics 2010), 1032pp.[40pp. intro.].
  • Wes Davis, An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry (Harvard UP 2010), 1,004pp. [favours American-published poets].
  • Ann Enright, ed. & intro., The Granta Book of Irish Short Stories (2010). [incls. Frank O’Connor, Mary Lavin, Samuel Beckett, Colm Toibin, Maeve Brennan, Bernard MacLaverty, Aidan Mathews, Claire Keegan, et al.].
  • Ronan Sheehan, The Irish Catullus: or One Gentleman of Verona (Dublin: Farmar 2010), 157pp. [trans. with num. contribs. incl. Michael Longley, Frank McGuinness, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Gabriel Rosenstock, et al.].
  • Jonathan Bolton, “Blighted Beginnings”: Coming of Age in Independent Ireland (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP 2010), 266pp. [see contents].

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    Literary & Cultural Commentary
  • Brian Arkins, Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy (Carysfort Press 2010), 157pp.
  • John Brannigan, Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture (Edinburgh UP 2009), 256pp.[see contents].
  • Terence Brown, The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism (Cambridge UP 2010), x, 281pp.
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  • Patrick Burke, ed., Mirror up to Nature: The Fourth Seamus Heaney Lectures (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2010), 109pp.[see contents].
  • Janet Clare & Stephen O’Neill, Shakespeare and the Irish (UCD Press 2010), 213pp.
  • Helen Conrad-O’Briain & Julie Anne Stevens, A Ghostly Genre: The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 288pp.
  • Charlotte Cusick, Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Literature (Cork UP 2010), 269pp.
  • Lisa Fitzpatrick, ed., Performing Violence in Contemporary Ireland (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2010), 268pp. [incls. essays on Martin McDonagh, Martin Lynch, Conor McPherson, Gary Mitchell,  Republican Commemorations and the anniversary ceremonies for Somme and Easter Rising].
  • Irene Gilensen & Elin Holmsten, eds., Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Irish Literature and Culture (Bern: Peter Lang 2010), 207pp.
  • Pierre Joannon, Un Poète dans la tourmente: W. B. Yeats et La Révolution Irlandaise (Rennes: Terre de Brume 2010), 136pp.
  • Eamonn Jordan, Dissident Dramaturgies: Contemporary Irish Theatre (Dublin: IAP 2010), ix, 277pp. ill. [8pp.
    • pls.]
  • Cathy Leeney, Irish Women Playwrights - 1900-1939 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2010), [treats of Lady Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Dorothy Macardle, Mary Manning, Teresa Deevy], 245pp.
  • Sarah E. McKibben, Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry 1540-1780 (UCD Press 2010), xii, 196pp.[see contents].
  • Caroline Magennis, Sons of Ulster: Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel [Reimagining Ireland, Vol. 26] (Bern: Peter Lang 2010), x, 180pp. [QUB PhD thesis, 2008].
  • Irina Ruppo Malone, Ibsen and the Irish Revival (Basingtoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), 240pp. [treats W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Lennox Robinson, James Joyce, George Moore, and Sean O’Casey].
  • Christopher Murray, ed., Alive in Time: The Enduring Drama of Tom Murphy: New Essays, with a preface by Fintan O’Toole (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2010), xvii, 307pp.
  • Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin & John Flood, Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 240pp.
  • Níall Ó Ciosáin, Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750-1850 [1st pub. 1997] (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2010), 271pp.
  • Eugene O’Brien, Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse: Negotiating Texts and Contexts in Contemporary Irish Studies (Bern: Peter Lang 2010), 218pp.
  • Collete O’Connor, Women Playwrights at the Abbey 1904-2004 (London: Hecuba 2010), 71pp.
  • Ciaran Ross, ed., Sub-Versions: Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press 2010), xii, 299pp.[see contents].
  • Stephanie Rains, Commodity Culture and Social Class in Dublin 1850-1916 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2010), xiv, 226pp. ill. [8pp. of pls., incl. ports.; see contents].
  • Brian Singleton, Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre [Performance Interventions ser.] (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), viii, 227pp. [Chaps.: Introduction; Contesting Canons; Performing Patriarchy; Monologies and Masculinities; Quare Fellas; Male Races; Protestant Boys; After Words Bibliography; Index.

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    Critical Studies: Individual Authors
  • Lynn Brunet, A Course of Severe and Arduous Trials: Bacon, Beckett and Spurious Freemasonry in Early Twentieth-century Ireland (Berne: Peter Lang 2010), 218pp.
  • Robert Garrett, Trauma and History in the Irish Novel: The Return of the Dead (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), 184pp. [treats of J. G. Farrell, Julia O’Faolain, William Trevor, Jennifer Johnston, John McGahern, Patrick McCabe and Sebastian Barry].
  • Marie Kelly & Bernadette Sweeney, The Theatre of Tom MacIntyre: “Strays from the Ether” (Dubin: Carysfort Press 2010), 361pp.
  • Shane Alcobia-Murphy & Richard Kirkland, eds., The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian (Cork UP 2010), 272pp.[see contents].
  • W. J. McCormack, “We Irish” in Europe: Yeats, Berkeley and Joseph Hone (UCD Press), 221pp.
  • Jarlath Killeen, ed. Oscar Wilde [Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in Their Time] (Dublin: IAP 2010), xii, 210pp.
  • Neil Murphy, ed., Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (Dalkey Archive Press 2010), 300pp. [Festschrift].
  • Oona Frawley, et al., eds., Memory Ireland, Vol. 1: History and Modernity [Syracuse Irish Studies ser.] (Syracuse UP 2010), 264pp. [contribs. Guy Beiner, ‘Remembering and Forgetting the Irish Rebellion of 1798’; Anne Dolan, ‘Embodying the Memory of War and Civil War’; Alan Titley, ‘The Great Forgetting’., et al.].
  • W. J. McCormack, “We Irish” in Europe: Yeats, Berkeley and Joseph Hone (UCD Press) [q.pp.].
  • Richard Rankin Russell, Poetry & Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland (Notre Dame UP 2010), xiv, 389pp.
  • Rhona Trench, Bloody Living: The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays of Marina Carr (Bern: Peter Lang 2010), 307pp.

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    James Joyce
  • Tim Conloy, Joyce’s Disciples Disciplined: A Re-exagmination of the Exagmination of Work in Progress (UCD Press 2010), 224pp. [contribs. Pamela Brown, Stephen John Dilks, Finn Fordham, Moshe Gold, Laura Heffeman, John Nash, Patrick A. McCarthy, Vicki Mahaffey, Andrew J. Mitchell, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Sam Slote, Fritz Senn, Dirk van Hulle].
  • John McCourt, Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and Cinema (Cork UP 2010), 262pp.

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    Irish Language & Folklore Studies
  • Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, From the Viking Word Hoard: A Dictionary of Scandanavian Words in the Languages of Britain and Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 331pp.
  • Karen P. Corrigan, Irish-English, Vol. 1: Northern Ireland (Edinburgh UP 2010), 207pp.
  • Maura Cronin, ed., Treasures of the National Folklore Collection / Soeda as Chnuasach Bhealoideas Eireann (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 320pp. col. ill.
  • Gearoid Denvir, ed. Sé an Saol an Máistir: Filíocht Learaí Phadraix Learaí Uí Fhinneadha (Cló Iar-Chonnacht 2010), 455pp.
  • Margo Griffin-Wilson, ed., The Wedding Poems of Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (DIAS 2010), 513pp.
  • Niall Mac Coitir, Ireland’s Animals: Myths, Legends and Folklore (Cork: Collins 2010), 380pp.
  • Mairín Nic Eoin, Gaolta Gairide: Rogha Dánta Comhairseartha are Théamai Óige again Caidrimh Teaghlaigh (BAC: Cois Life 2010), 222pp.
  • Susan McKenna Lawlor & Damien Ó Muirí, An English-Irish Lexicon of Scientific and Technological Space-related Terminology (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 140pp.
  • John Walsh, Contests and Contexts: The Irish Language and Ireland’s Socio-Economic Development ([Internat.] Peter Lang 2010), 492pp.

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    Theatre Studies
  • Irina Ruppo Malone, Ibsen and the Irish Revival (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), xi, 223pp.
  • Bernadette Sweeney & Marie Kelly, eds., The Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre: Strays from the Ether (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2010) [q.pp.
    • q. contribs];
  • Emilie Pine, The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), ix, 201pp.
  • Fintan Walsh, Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), viii, 234pp. [IRSHCC post-doc. at TCD; prev. as “Male trouble: the masochistic construction of masculinity in recent Euro-American representation” [Ph.D. thesis] (TCD 2007).
  • Brian Singleton, Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre [Performance Interventions] (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), viii, 227pp.

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    Media & Entertainment
  • Marc Caball & Andrew Carpenter, Oral and Print Culture in Ireland, 1600-1900 [UCD Humanities Inst.] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 144pp.
  • Van Doonican, My Story, My Life: The Complete Autobiography (JR Books 2010), 271pp. ill. [16pp. of photos].
  • Adrian Frazier, Hollywood Irish: John Ford, Abbey Actors and the Irish Revival in Hollywood (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2010), 288pp.
  • Aubrey Malone, Sacred Profanity: Spirituality at the Movies (Praeger 2010), 350pp.
  • Christopher Morash, A History of the Media in Ireland (Cambridge UP 2010), 262pp.

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    Arts & Architecture
  • Christine Casey, ed., The Eighteenth-century Dublin Town House (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 320pp. ill. [100+ col.].
  • [Desmond Fitzgerald] the Knight of Glin & James Peill, The Irish Country House (London: Thames & Hudson 20100, ill. [photos. by James Fennell].
  • Catherine Giltrap, ed., George Dawson: An Unbiased Eye - Modern and Contemporary Art at Trinity College Dublin Since 1959, intro. Arnoldo Pomodoro (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2010), 128pp.
  • Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement Architecture in Ireland (Kinsale: Gandon Press 2010), 112pp.
  • Gordon T. Ledbetter, Privilege and Poverty: The Life and Times of Irish Painter and Naturalist Alexander William RHA, 1846-1930 (Cork: Collins Press 2010), 376pp.
  • Eimear O’Connor, Irish Women Artists 1800-2009: Familiar but Unknown (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 224pp.
  • John Walsh, Collen: 200 Years of Building and Civil Engineering in Ireland (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2010), 224pp.

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    Historical Studies: General
  • Colin Barr, The European Culture Wars in Ireland: The Callan Schools Affair, 1868-81 (UCD Press 2010), 320pp.
  • Thomas Bartlett, Ireland: A History (Cambridge UP 2010), 625pp.
  • Michael de Nie & Sean Farrell, eds., Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honour of James S. Donnelly, Jr. (Dublin: IAP 2010), 249pp.
  • Terence Dooley, ed., Ireland’s Polemical Past: Views of Irish History in Honour of R. V. Comerford (UCD Press), xi, 223pp.[see contents].
  • Tom Dunne, Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2010), 394pp.
  • Jonathan Gantt, Irish Terrorism in the Atlantic Community, 1865-1922 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), 256pp.
  • David Griffiths, Viking of the Irish Sea: Conflict and Assimiliation AD 790-1050 (Dublin: History Press 2010), 191pp.
  • Padhraig Higgins, Gender, Patriotism, and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland [History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Ser.] (Wisconsin UP 2010), 335pp. [Bibl. 299pp.]
  • Catherine Cox & Maria Luddy, ed., Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1970 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), 272pp.
    • Donald M. MacRaild, The Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750-1939 [Social History in Perspective] (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), 288pp.
  • Henry Jeffries, A New History of Cork ([London:] History Press 2010), 256pp.
  • James Kelly & Martyn J. Powell, eds., Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 496pp.
  • Tony McCarthy, The Shaws of Terenure: A 19th c. Merchant Family (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 64pp.
  • Jim MacLoughlin, Troubled Waters: Cultural and Social History of Ireland’s Sea Fisheries (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 320pp. ill.
  • Margaret Murphy & Michael Potterton, The Dublin Region in the Middle Ages: Settlement, Land-use and Economy (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 640pp.
  • Helen O’Brien, The Famine Clearance in Toomevara, County Tipperary (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 64pp.
  • Maura O’Connor, The Development of Infant Education in Ireland, 1838-1948 - Epochs and Eras (Peter Lang 2010), 328pp.
  • Thomas O’Connor & Mary Ann Lyons, The Ulster Earls and Baroque Europe: Refashioning Identities 1600-1800 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 420pp.

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    Historical Studies: 20th Century
  • Maurice Curtis, A Challenge to Democracy: Militant Catholicism in Modern Ireland ([Dublin:] The History Press 2010), 256pp.
  • Maura Cronin, The Death of Fr. John Walsh at Kilgraney: Community Tensions in pre-Famine Carlow (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 62pp.
  • T. Ryle Dwyer, Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s Phoney Neutality During World War II (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2010), 424pp.
  • Tom Garvin, News from a New Republic: Ireland in the 1950s (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2010), 234pp.
  • Ciara Meehan, The Cosgrave Party: A History of Cumann na nGaedheal (RIA Dublin: RIA 2010), q.pp.
  • Michael Laubscher, Who is Roger Casement? (Dublin: History Press 2010), 253pp.
  • Gerald Morgan & Gavin Hughes, Southern Ireland and the Liberation of France: New Perspectives ([Internat.] Peter Lang 2010), 250pp.
  • Kate O’Malley, Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections 1919-64 (Manchester UP 2010), 222pp. ill.
  • Matthew Potter, The Municipal Revolution in Ireland: A Handbook of Urban Government in Ireland since 1800 (Dublin: IAP 2010), 508pp.
  • Peter Rigney, Trains, Coal and Turf: Transport in Emergency Ireland (Dublin: IAP 2010), xii, 244pp. ill.
  • Ryan Tubridy, J. F. K. in Ireland: Four Days that Changed the President (London: HarperCollins 2010), 321pp.

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    Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
  • Thomas J. Morrissey, SJ, Edward J. Byrne 1872-1941: The Forgotten Archbishop of Dublin (Dublin: Columbia Press 2010), 309pp.
  • Steven C. Smyrl, Dictionary of Dublin Dissent: Dublin’s Protestant Dissenting Meeting Houses 1600-1920 (A. & A. Farmar 2010), 374pp.
  • Fergus Whelan, Dissent into Treason: Unitarians, King-killers, and the Society of the United Irishmen (Dingle: Brandon Press 2010), 282pp.

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    Historical Studies: Military
  • Ken Douglas, The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2010), 272pp.
  • Florence O’Donoghue, IRA Jailbreaks 1919-1921 (Cork: Mercier Press 2010), 320pp.
  • Ralph Riegel & John O’Mahony, Missing in Action (Cork: Mercier Press 2010), 256pp.

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  • Natural History & Topography
  • John Rocque’s Dublin: A Guide to the Georgian City (Dublin: RIA [in assoc. with Dublin City Council] 2010) [40 extracts from Exact Surey of the City and Suburbs of Dublin (1756), accomp. by commentaries].
  • Tom Ferris, The Trains Long Departed: Ireland’s Lost Railways (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2010), 256pp.
  • Rachel Hewitt, Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey (London: Granta 2010), 436pp.
    • [British and Irish].
  • Richard Kirwan, If Maps Could Speak, with a foreword by Mark Patrick Hederman, OSB (Dublin: Londubh Books 2010), 192pp. ill. [8pp. of pls., maps.].
  • Agnes O’Farrelly, Smaointe ar Arainn / Thoughts of Aran (Dublin: Arlen House 2010), 112pp.
  • Bill Wilsdon, Plantation Castles on the Erne (History Press 2010), 256pp.

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    Politics, Economics & Society
  • Vicky Conway, The Blue Wall of Silence: the Morris Tribunal and Police Acountability in Ireland, foreword by Dermot Walsh (Dublin: IAP 2010), xii, 217pp.
  • Heather Crawford, Outside the Glow: Protestants and Irishness in Independent Ireland (UCD Press 2010), 252pp.
  • Tony Farmar, Privileged Lives: A Social History of Middle-Class Ireland 1882-1989 (A & A Farmar 2010), 368pp.
  • Ken Foxe, Snouts in the Trough: Politicians and Their Expenses (Dublin: Gil & Macmillan 2010), 227pp.
  • Dearbhail McDonald, How the Courts Have Exposed the Rotten Heart of the Irish Economy (Penguin Ireland 2010), 259pp.
  • Dónall Ó Lunaigh, Friends of the National Library: Forty Yeats of the National Library of Ireland Society (Associated Edns.), 64pp.
  • Stephen Rains, Commodity Culture and social Class in Dublin 1850-1916 (Dublin: IAP 2010), q.pp.
  • Brenda Redmond, The Noughties: From Glitz to Gloom (Cork: Collins Press 2010), 255pp.
  • Shane Ross & Nick Webb, Wasters (Penguin Ireland 2010), 288pp.
  • Perry Share & Mary P. Corcoran, ed., Ireland of the Illusions: A Sociological Chronicle 2007-2008 (Dublin: IPA 2010), 311pp.
  • Eamon Sweeney, Down, Down Deeper & Down: Ireland in the 70s & 80s (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2010), 442pp.
  • Danielle Westerhof, The Alchemy of Medicine and Print: The Edward Worth Library, Dublin [Dr Steeven’s Hospital] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 224pp.

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    Religion & Philosophy
  • John Littleton & Eamon Maher, eds., The Dublin/Murphy Report: A Watershed for Irish Catholicism? (Dublin: Columba Press 2010), 174pp. [contribs. Timothy Radcliffe OP, Andrew Madden, Colum Kenny, Richard Clarke, Marie Collins, Patrick McCafferty, Sean O’Conaill, Breda O’Brien, Eugene O’Brien, Sean Ruth, Enda McDonagh, Eamonn Conway, Eddie Shaw, Donald Cozzens, Garry O’Sullivan and Louise Fuller].
  • D. Vincent Twomey & Dirk Krausmuller, eds., Salvation in the Fathers of the Church (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 240pp.
  • John Waters, Beyond Consolation, or How We Became Too Clever for God - and for our own good (London: Continuum Press 2010), 235pp.

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  • Northern Ireland/Ulster
  • Brendan Clifford, Whither Northern Ireland? [Belfast Magazine, 36] (Belfast: Athol Press 2010), 16pp.
    • Anthony Craig, Crisis of Confidence: Anglo-Irish Relations in the Early Troubles 1866-1974 (Dublin: IAP 2010), 236pp.
  • John Doyle, ed., Policing the Narrow Ground: Lessons from the Transformation of Policing in Northern Ireland (Dublin: RIA 2010), 363pp. [contribs. incl. Mary O’Rawe, Chris Patten, Gerald W. Lynch, et al.]
  • Sean Farren, The SDLP: The Struggle for Agreement in Northern Ireland, 1970-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 408pp.
    • [by a former chairman].
  • Martyn Frampton, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism (Dublin: IAP 2010), 362pp.
  • Gordon Gillespie, A Short History of the Troubles (Gill & Macmillan 2010), 192pp.
  • James W. McAuley, Ulster’s Last Stand? Reconstructing Unionism After the Peace Process (Dublin: IAP 2010), 256pp.
  • Ed Moloney, Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland (London: Faber & Faber 2010), 521pp. [memoirs of Brendan Hughes and David Ervine].
  • Alan F. Parkinson, 1972 and the Ulster Troubles: “A Very Bad Year” (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 400pp. ill. [16pp. of pls.; see note on author, infra].
  • Alan F. Parkinson & Eamon Phoenix, Conflicts in the North of Ireland: The Role of Flashpoints and Fracture Zones (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), x, 277pp.
  • Richard O’Rawe, Afterlives: The Secret Offer and the Fate of the Hunger Strikers (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2010), 224pp.
  • Alan F. Parkinson, 1972 and the Ulster Troubles: “A Very Bad Year” (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2010), 400pp. ill. (+16 of photos).
  • Ronald Wells, Hope and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: The Role of faith-based Organisations (Dublin: Liffey Press 2010), 256pp.

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    Women’s Studies
  • Gillian McIntosh & Diane Urqhart, Irish Women at War: The Twentieth Century (Dublin: IAP 2010), q.pp.
  • Maureen O’Connor, The Female and the Species: The Animal in Irish Women’s Writing [Reimagining Ireland 19; ser. ed. Eamon Maher] (Bern: Peter Lang 2010), x, 196pp.

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    Reference, Guides & Bibliography
  • Julia M. Wright, ed., A Companion to Irish Literature (Blackwell Companions to literature and culture, 72], 2 vols. (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2010), 1000pp.[see contents].

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    Digital Publications
  • Jerome McGann, ed. & intro., Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come (Rice UP 2010) [incls. paper by Susan Schreibman, DHO/RIA Director].

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  • Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad 2010, ed. Pádraig Ó Fiannachta (Dingle: An Sagart), 250pp.

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Bibliographical details
Jonathan Bolton, “Blighted Beginnings”: Coming of Age in Independent Ireland (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP 2010), 266pp. CONTENTS: Coming of age in the Irish free state: individual and national development; “Big house bildung”: Anglo-Irish coming-of-age narratives; “Omnibus omnium”: education, vocation, and surrogacy in Irish coming-of-age narratives; “The smear of decency”: courtship and sexual initiation in coming-of-age narratives; “A land transformed by wonder” coming out in Ireland; Unhappy families: domestic discord, the divorce debate, and Irish coming-of-age narratives; Conclusion: toward a postmodern Irish Bildungsroman: Roddy Doyle’s A Star called Henry.
 
John Brannigan, Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture (Edinburgh UP 2009), 256pp. CONTENTS: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 1922, Ulysses, and the Irish Race Congress; 2. Face Value: Racial Typology and Irish Modernism; 3. ‘Aliens in Ireland’: Nation-Building and the Ethics of Hospitality; 4. ‘Ireland, and Black!’: The Cultural Politics of Racial Figuration; Conclusion: Imagining the ‘New Hibernia’; Bibliography; Index.
 
Patrick Burke, ed., Mirror up to Nature: The Fourth Seamus Heaney Lectures [Fourth Ser.] (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2010), 109pp. CONTENTS: Patrick Mason, ‘CONTENTS: Keeping faith: It is required; you do awake your faith ... The winter's tale /’; Thomas Kilroy, ‘The Irish connection’; Cecily O'Neill, ‘The mythic and the mundane: the transforming power of theatre and process’; Jonathan Neelands, ‘Mirror, dynamo or lens?: drama, children and social change’; Brenna Katz Clarke, ‘ From Boucicault to Beckett: from real to reel (1894-1920)’; John Buckley, ‘Like a bell with many echoes: drama and opera’. Bibliographical references & notes.
 
Sarah E. McKibben, Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry 1540-1780 (UCD Press 2010), xii, 196pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements;Introduction. Chap. 1: The Emergence of Endangered Masculinity in Bardic Poetry, c.1540-c.1590: Chap. 2: The Gender and Genre of Defeat: Male Humiliation and Female National Allegory, c.1602-1641; Chap. 3: Gendered Modes of Protest and Accommodation: The Poetics of Sexual and Linguistic Violation, 1698-c.1740; Chap. 4. ‘Rise up again now, Art’: The Incendiary Politics of Lamented Manhood; Coda: Illegitimate, abased ... and triumphant: Merriman’s embrace of Bastard Culture.
 
Ciaran Ross, ed., Sub-Versions: Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press 2010), xii, 299pp. CONTENTS; Declan Kiberd, ‘Foreword’; Ciaran Ross, ‘Introduction’. Pt. I - The Irish Novel: Subversive Fictions of Irishness (History, Self and Language): Terry Phillips, ‘The Wisdom of Experience: Patrick MacGill’s Irishness Reassessed’; Christelle Seree-Chaussinand, ‘Irish Man, No Man, Everyman: Subversive Redemption in Sebastian Barry’s The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty’; Flore Coulouma, ‘Transgressive and Subversive: Flann O’Brien’s Tales of the In-Between’; Marie Mianowski, ‘Down-and-outs, ‘Subways and Suburbs: Sub-Versions in Robert McLiam Wilson’s Ripley Bogle and Colum McCann’s This Side of Brightness’; Sylvie Mikowski, ‘Gender Trouble in Contemporary Irish Fiction’. Pt II - “To Punish the Form”: Poetry’s Margins of Subversion: Carle Bonafous-Murat, ‘Refutation, Reversal, or Subversion? Forms of Negativity in the Work of W. B. Yeats’; Stipe Grgas, ‘Contemporary Irish Poetry at a Tangent’; Anne Goarzin, ‘Paul Durcan’s Unsettled Poetry’; Florence Schneider, ‘Acutely Discomforting: Subversive Representation in Paul Muldoon’s Poetry’. Pt. III - Modern Irish Drama: Subversive Scenes of Otherness: Ciaran Ross, ‘“On the Black Road Home”: Re-radicalizing Beckett’s Irish Protestant Legacy (A Re-reading of All That Fall )’; Eamonn Jordan, ‘The Native Quarter: The Hyphenated-Real – The Drama of Martin McDonagh’; Andrea P. Balogh, ‘Postcolonial Sub-versions of Europe: Brian Friel’s Fathers and Sons’; Mária Kurdi, ‘Contesting and Reversing Gender Stereotypes in Three Plays by Contemporary Irish Women Writers’. Index.
 
Stephanie Rains, Commodity Culture and Social Class in Dublin 1850-1916 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2010), xiv, 226pp. ill. [8pp. of pls., incl. ports.] CONTENTS: 1. Commodity culture in the 1850s: origins and opposition; 2. Commodity culture in the 1860s and 1870s: consolidation and expansion; 3. Commodity culture in the 1880s: the politicisation of consumption; 4. Commodity culture in the 1890s: spectacle, entertainment and orientalism; 4. Commodity culture after 1900: empire and Labour politics. Epilogue: Easter Week 1916.
 
Shane Alcobia-Murphy & Richard Kirkland, eds., The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian (Cork UP 2010), 272pp. CONTENTS: Alcobia-Murphy, Introduction; Michaela Schrage-Früh, Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian; Catriona Clutterbuck, A Gibbous Voice: The Poetics of Subjectivity in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian; Helen Blakeman, “Poetry Must Almost Dismantle the Letters”: McGuckian, Mallarmé and Polysemantic Play; Elin Holmsten, Signs of Encounters in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry; Scott Brewster, The Space that Cleaves: The House and Hospitality in Medbh McGuckian’s Work; Conor Carville, Warding Off an Epitaph: Had I a Thousand Lives; Alcobia-Murphy: “That Now Historical Ground”: Memory and Atrocity in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian; Kirkland, Medbh McGuckian and the Politics of Minority Discourse; Borbola Farrago, “They Come Into It”: The Muses of Medbh McGuckian; Leontia Flynn, Re-assembling the Atom: Reading Medbh McGuckian’s Intertextual Materials; Alcobia-Murphy & Kirkland, Interview with Medbh McGuckian; Clair Wills, Coda.
 
Terence Dooley, ed., Ireland’s Polemical Past: Views of Irish History in Honour of R. V. Comerford (Dublin: UCD Press 2010), xi, 223pp. CONTENTS: Jacqueline Hill, ‘The Church of Ireland and perceptions of Irish church history, c. 1790-1869’; Maura Cronin, ‘By memory inspired: the past in popular song, 1798-1900’; Jennifer Kelly, ‘Local memories and manipulation of the past in pre-famine County Leitrim’; John Coolahan, ‘Perceptions of Ireland and its past in nineteenth-century national school textbooks’; Margaret Kelleher, ‘An illustrious past: Victorian prosopography and Irish women writers’; Enda Delaney, ‘Narratives of exile and displacement: Irish Catholic emigrants and the national past, 1850-1914’; D. George Boyce, ‘Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell: the history of politics and the politics of history’; R. F. Foster, ‘Forward to Methuselah: the progress of nationalism’; Irene Furlong, ‘Excavating the Emerald Isle: the use of the past in Irish tourism’; Tom Nelson, ‘Kildare County Council and perceptions of the past’; Terence Dooley, ‘National patrimony and political perceptions of the Irish country house in post-independence Ireland’.
 
Julia M. Wright, ed., A Blackwell Companion to Irish Literature [Blackwell Companion to Literature and culture, 72], 2 vols. (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2010), 1000pp.
VOLUME I
    Acknowledgments;
    Notes on Contributors.
    Introduction (Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie U.).
    Part I: The Middle Ages.
  • 1. Ann Dooley, ‘Táin Bó Cúailnge’.
  • 2. Joseph Falaky Nagy, ‘Finn and the Fenian Tradition’.
  • 3. Barbara Lisa Hillers, ‘The Reception and Assimilation of Continental Literature’.
    Part II: The Early Modern Era.
  • 4. Sarah E. McKibben, ‘Bardic Poetry, Masculinity, and the Politics of Male Homosociality’.
  • 5. Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Annalists and Historians in Early Modern Ireland, 1450-1700’.
  • 6. Patricia Palmer, ‘“Hungry Eyes” and the Rhetoric of Dispossession: English Writing from Early Modern Ireland’.
  • 7. Deana Rankin, ‘Kinds of Irishness: Henry Burnell and Richard Head’.
    Part III: The Eighteenth Century.
  • 8. Helen M. Burke, ‘Crossing Acts: Irish Drama from George Farquhar to Thomas Sheridan’.
  • 9. Andrew Carpenter, ‘Parnell and Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Poetry’ [UCD].
  • 10. Clement Hawes, ‘Jonathan Swift and Eighteenth-Century Ireland’.
  • 11. Liam P. Ó Murchú, ‘Merriman’s Cúirt An Mheonoíche and Eighteenth-Century Irish Verse’.
  • 12. Kathleen M. Oliver, ‘Frances Sheridan and Ireland’.
  • 13. James Watt, ‘“The Indigent Philosopher”: Oliver Goldsmith’.
  • 14. Luke Gibbons, ‘Edmund Burke’.
  • 15. Robert W. Jones, ‘The Drama of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’.
    Part IV: The Romantic Period.
  • 16. Mary Helen Thuente, ‘United Irish Poetry and Songs’.
  • 17. Susan Manly, ‘Maria Edgeworth and’ (Inter)national Intelligence’.
  • 18. Harriet Kramer Linkin, ‘Mary Tighe: A Portrait of the Artist for the Twenty-First Century’.
  • 19. Jeffery Vail, ‘Thomas Moore: After the Battle’.
  • 20. Susan B. Egenolf, ‘The Role of the Political Woman in the Writings of Lady Morgan, Sydney Owenson’.
    Part V: The Rise of Gothic.
  • 21. Robert Miles, ‘Charles Robert Maturin: Ireland’s Eccentric Genius’.
  • 22. Alison Milbank, U. of Nottingham, ‘Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Gothic Grotesque and the Huguenot Inheritance’.
  • 23. Lisa Hopkins, ‘A Philosophical Home Ruler: The Imaginary Geographies of Bram Stoker’.
 
    Part VI: The Victorian Era.
  • 24. Stiofán O’Cadhla, ‘Scribes and Storytellers: The Ethnographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’.
  • 25. Helen O’Connell, ‘Reconciliation and Emancipation: The Banims and Carleton’.
  • 26. Matthew Campbell, U. of Sheffield, ‘Davis, Mangan, Ferguson: Irish Poetry, 1831-1849’.
  • 27. Melissa Fegan, ‘Davis, Mangan, Ferguson: Irish Poetry, 1831-1849’.
  • 28. Scott Boltwood, ‘Dion Boucicault: From Stage Irishman to Staging Nationalism’.
  • 29. Dennis Denisoff, ‘Oscar Wilde’s Convictions, Speciesism, and the Pain of Individualism’.
VOLUME TWO
   Introduction (Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie U.).
    Part VII: Transitions: Victorian, Revival, Modern.
  • 30. Michael Mays, ‘Cultural Nationalism and Irish Modernism’.
  • 31. Christopher Innes, ‘Defining Irishness: Bernard Shaw and the Irish Connection on the English Stage’.
  • 32. Vera Kreilkamp‘The Novels of Somerville and Ross’.
  • 33. Gregory Castle, ‘W.B. Yeats and the Dialectics of Misrecognition’.
  • 34. Ann Saddlemyer, ‘John Millington Synge - Playwright and Poet’.
  • 35. Michael Patrick Gillespie, ‘James Joyce and the Creation of Modern Irish Literature’.
    Part VIII: Developments in Genre and Representation after 1930.
  • 36. Sandra Wynands, ‘The Word of Politics/Politics of the Word: Immanence and Transdescendence in Sean O’Casey and Samuel Beckett’.
  • 37. Eluned Summers-Bremner, ‘Elizabeth Bowen: A Home in Writing’.
  • 38. Paul Delaney, ‘Changing Times: Frank O’Connor and Seán O’Faoláin’.
  • 39. Alan Gillis, ‘“Ireland is small enough”: Louis MacNeice and Patrick Kavanagh’.
  • 40. Joseph Brooker, ‘Irish Mimes: Flann O’Brien’.
    Part IX: Debating Social Change after 1960.
  • 41. Gregory A. Schirmer, ‘Reading William Trevor and Finding Protestant Ireland’.
  • 42. Maureen O’Connor, ‘The Mythopoeic Ireland of Edna O’Brien’s Fiction’.
  • 43. Silvia Diez Fabre, ‘Anglo-Irish Conflict in Jennifer Johnston’s Fiction’.
  • 44. Christine St Peter, ‘Living History: The Importance of Julia O’Faolain’s Fiction’.
  • 45. Eamon Maher, ‘Holding a Mirror Up to a Society in Evolution: John McGahern’.
    Part X: Contemporary Literature: Print, Stage, and Screen.
  • 46. F. C. McGrath, ‘Brian Friel: From Nationalism to Post-Nationalism’.
  • 47. Eugene O’Brien, ‘Telling the Truth Slant: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney’.
  • 48. Richard Rankin Russell, ‘Belfast Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Medbh McGuckian’.
  • 49. Guinn Batten, ‘Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Work of Witness’.
  • 50. Heather Clark, ‘Eavan Boland’s Muse Mothers.
  • 51. Elke D’hoker, ‘John Banville’s Dualistic Universe’.
  • 52. Brian McIlroy, ‘Between History and Fantasy: The Irish Films of Neil Jordan’.
  • 53. David Wheatley, ‘“Keeping That Wound Green”: The Poetry of Paul Muldoon’.
  • 54. Frank Sewell, ‘Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and the “Continuously Contemporary”’.
  • 55. Danine Farquharson, ‘The Anxiety of Influence and the Fiction of Roddy Doyle’.
  • 56. Jennifer M. Jeffers, ‘The Reclamation of “Injurious Terms” in Emma Donoghue’s Fiction’.
  • 57. Patrick Lonergan, ‘Martin McDonagh and the Ethics of Irish Storytelling’.

    Index.
[ Available at Wiley online; accessed 24.08.2017. ]
—See also Julia M. Wright, Anthology of Irish Literature, 1750-1900, 2 vols., 2008 - as supra.

Alan F[rancis] Parkinson, author “Loyal rebels without a cause? The presentation and reception of the Loyalist case in Great britain 1969-96.” [PhD thesis] (Swansea 1997).

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