Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2011

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		 Religion & Philosophy
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
Northern Ireland/Ulster
 Gender Studies
Reference Works & Digital Publications
Reference & Bibliography
Digital Publications		 Journals & Special Issues
    Poetry Collections
  • Kevin Barry, The City of Bohane (London: Jonathan Cape 2011), 277pp.
  • Eva Bourke, Piano  (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2011), 120pp.
  • Maurice Craig, Poems (Dublin: Liberties Press 2011), 112pp.
  • John F. Deane, Eye of the Hare (Carcanet Press 2011), 98pp.
  • Katherine Duffy, Sorrow’s Egg (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2011), 82pp.
  • Gerard Fanning, Hombre: New and Selected Poems (Dublin: Dedlaus Press 2011), 100pp.
  • Leontia Flynn, Profit and Loss [Cape Poetry] (London: Jonathan Cape 2011), 58pp.
  • Michael Foley, New and Selected Poems (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2011), 224pp.
  • Kerry Hardie, Selected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2011), 102pp.
  • Rita Ann Higgins, Ireland is Changing Mother (Tarset: Bloodaxe 2011), 64pp.
  • Michael D. Higgins, New and Selected Poems (Dublin: Liberties Press 2011), 180pp.
  • Michael Longley, A Hundred Doors (London: Jonathan Cape 2011), 48pp.
  • Brendan Kennelly, The Essential Brendan Kennelly, ed. Terence Brown & Michael Longley (Bloodaxe Books 2011), 154pp. [with CD of poems read by the author].
  • John MacAuliffe, Of All Places (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2011), 70pp.
  • Derek Mahon, New Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2011), 391pp.
  • John Montague, Speech Lessons (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2011), 68pp.
  • Michael O’Loughlin, In This Life (Dublin: New Island Press 2011), 250pp.
  • Justin Quinn, Close Quarters (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2011), 78pp.
  • Macdara Woods, The Cotard Dimension (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2011), 90pp.

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    Fiction (Short stories & novels)
  • Declan Burke, Absolute Zero Cool (Dublin: Liberties Press 2011), 244pp.
  • Brian Dillon, Sanctuary (Sternberg Press 2011), 99pp.
  • Carlo Gébler, The Dead Eight (Dublin: New Island Books 2011), 404pp.
  • Sarah Harte, The Better Half (Penguin Ireland 2011), 352pp.
  • Sinéad Moriarty, Me and My Sisters (Penguin Ireland 2011), 457pp.
  • Edna O’Brien, Saints and Sinners (London: Faber & Faber 2011), 208pp.
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  • Elizabeth Wassell, Sustenance (Liberties Press 2011), 241pp.

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    Drama (Plays & Collections
  • Marina Carr, 16 Possible Glimpses (Oldcastle: Gallery Books 2011), 61pp.

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    Autobiography & Memoir
  • Nicholas Grene, Nothing Quite Like It: An American-Irish Childhood (Somerville Press 2011), 173pp.

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    Biography (Literary & Historical)
  • Paul Bew, Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2011), 272pp.
  • Gordon Bowker, James Joyce: A Biography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2011), 608pp.
  • Elizabeth Boyle & Paul Russell, The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes, 1830-1909(Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 266pp.
  • Anne Clare, Unlikely Rebels: The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom (Cork: Mercier 2011), 319pp. ill. [8pp. of pls.].
  • Brian Cliff & Nicholas Grene, eds., Synge and Edwardian Ireland (OUP 2011), 288pp.[see contents].
  • Diane Allwood Egerton, Artist and Aristocrat: The Life and Work of Lady Mabel Annesley 1881-1959 (Ulster Historical Foundation 2011), 144pp.
  • Judith Hill, Lady Gregory: An Irish life (Cork: Collins Press 2011), 600pp.
  • Dáire Keogh & Albert McDonnell, eds., Cardinal Paul Cullen and His World (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 480pp.
  • Ian Kenneally, From the Earth, A Cry: The Story of John Boyle O’Reilly (Cork: Collins Press 2011), 380pp. ill. [+16pp. photos].
  • Harry McGee, Seán Lemass: Democratic Dictator (Cork: Collins Press 2011), 328pp.
  • Ken McGilloway, George Sigerson: Poet, Patriot, Scientist and Scholar (Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation 2011), q.pp.
  • Thomas J. Morrissey, William Martin Murphy (UCD Press 2011), 123pp.
  • Roger Chatterton Newman, Brian Boru, King of Ireland (Cork: Mercier Press 2011), 288pp.
  • Jacinta Prunty, Margaret Aylward, 1810-1889: Lady of Charity, Sister of Faith (Dublin: Four Courts 2011), 192pp.
  • Barbara Sweetman Fitzgerald, The Widest Circle: Remembering Michael Sweetman (Dublin: A & A Farmar 2011), 227pp.

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    Miscellaneous Writings
  • Greg Delanty & Michael Matto, eds., The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, foreword by Seamus Heaney (Norton 2011), [q.pp., 70 poets contrib.].
  • Denis Donoghue, Irish Essays (Cambridge UP 2011), viii, 261pp.
  • Mary McAleese, Building Bridges, with a foreword by Seamus Heaney (Dublin: History Press 2011), 288pp. [speeches from 14-year presidency].
  • Cormac K. H. O’Malley and Nicholas Allen, eds., Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters of Ernie O’Malley, 1924-1957 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2011), 528pp.

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    Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
  • Valerie McGowan-Doyle, ed., The Book of Howth: Elizabethan Conquest and the Old English (Cork UP 2011), xiv, 206pp. [Sir Christopher St. Lawrence (1510-89), 7th Baron of Howth].
  • Moyra Haslett, ed., The Life of John Buncle, Esq. by Thomas Amory (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 400pp.
  • Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck, Dan Gunn & George Craig, eds., The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol. II: 1941-1956 (Cambridge UP 2011), 886pp. ill. [20 b&w.].
  • Pádraig Ó Duibhir, Rory Mc Daid & Andrew O’Shea, eds., All Changed?: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Ireland: The Fifth Seamus Heaney Lectures Series ([Dublin]: Duras 2011), 208pp. ill; 4pp. of plates].
  • Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Whitley Stokes (1830-1909): The Lost Celtic Notebooks Rediscovered (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 176pp. ills.
  • Danis Rose & John O’Hanlon, ed., Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce (Dublin: Houyhnhnm Press 2011), 493pp.
  • Eibhear Walshe, Elizabeth Bowen’s Selected Writings (Cork UP 2011), 271pp.

 

    Anthologies, Interviews & Almanacs
  • Pat Boran, ed., Bee-loud Glade: a Living Anthology of Irish Poetry (Dedalus Press 2011), 64pp. [+ audio disc].

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    Literary & Cultural Commentary
  • Declan Burke, Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (Dublin: Liberties Press 2011), 368pp. [interviews with John Banville, Alex Barclay, Colin Bateman, Ingrid Black, Gerard Brennan, Ken Bruen, Paul Charles, John Connolly, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Tana French, Alan Glynn, Cora Harrison, Declan Hughes, Arlene Hunt, Gene Kerrigan, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, K. T. McCaffrey, Eoin McNamee, Cormac Millar, Andrew Nugent, Niamh O’Connor, Ian Ross, and Neville Thompson].
  • Claire Connolly, A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 [Cambridge Studies in Romanticism] (Cambridge UP 2011), 288pp.
  • Valerie Coghlan & Keith O’Sullivan, eds., Irish Children’s Literature and Culture: New Perspective on Contemporary Writing [Children Literature and Culture Ser., ser. ed. Jack Zipes] (London: Routledge 2011), 213pp.[see contents].
  • Susan Cahill, Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008: Gender, Bodies, Memory (London: Continuum Press 2011), q.pp.
  • Mairéad Conneely, Between Two Shores / Idir Dá Chladach: Writing the Aran Islands, 1890-1980 [Reimagining Ireland Ser.] (Internat.: Peter Lang 2011), 310pp.
  • Jon Curley, Poets and Partitions: Confronting Communal Identities in Northern Ireland (Brighton: Sussex Academic 2011), viii, 215pp.
  • Derek Hand, A History of the Irish Novel (Cambridge UP 2011), 341pp.
  • Clare Hutton & Patrick Walsh, eds., The Oxford History of the Irish Book, ‘The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000’ (OUP 2011), 776pp. ill. [48 b&w halftones].
  • Jim Kelly, ed., Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), x, 229pp.[see contents].
  • Peter Mackay, Edna Longley & Fran Brearton, eds., Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry (Cambridge UP 2011), x, 336pp. [see contents].
  • Brendan Lynch, Prodigals of Genius: The Writers and Artists of Dublin’s Baggotonia (Dublin: Liffey Press 2011), 308pp.
  • Caroline Magennis & Raymond Mullen, eds., Irish Masculinities: Reflections on Literature and Culture (Irish Academic Press, 2011) , x, 194pp.[see contents].
  • Marie Mianowski, ed., Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011), 320pp.
  • James H. Murphy, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. IV: “The Irish Book in English 1800-1891” [gen. eds. Robert Welch & Brian Walker] (OUP 2011), 742pp. ill. [25 b&w.halftones].
  • Jennika Pierie, ‘Is It a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-first Century, with a foreword by Ciaran Ó Nuallain (Dublin: Four Courts 2011), 182pp.
  • Emilie Pine, The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Memory in Contemporary Irish Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011), 212pp. [see contents].
  • Deaglán Ó Donghaile, Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism (Edinburgh UP 2011), [q.pp.]
  • Mary Shine Thompson, ed., Young Irelands: Studies in Children’s Literature (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 197pp.[see contents].

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    Critical Studies: Individual Authors
  • Jennika Baines, ed., “Is It About a Bicycle?”: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-first Century, with a foreword by Micheál ÓNualláin (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 175pp.
  • Scarlett Baron, “Strandentwining Cable”: Joyce, Flaubert, and Intertextuality (Oxford: OUP 2011), 336pp.
  • Susan Cahill & Claire Bracken, eds., Anne Enright (Dublin: IAP 2011) [q.pp.].
  • Susan Cahill & Eóin Flannery, eds., This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann (Oxford: [OUP] 2011) [q.pp.]
  • Gary William Crawford, Jim Rochill & Brian J. Showers, ed., Reflections in an Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu (NY: Hippocampus Pres 2011), 472pp.[see contents under Le Fanu, supra].
  • Eoin Flannery, Colum McCann: The Aesthetics of Redemption (Dublin: IAP 2011), 256pp.
  • Motoko Fujita, The Shadow of James Joyce: Chapelizod and Environs (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2011), 128pp.
  • Philip Coleman & Maria Johnston, Reading Pearse Hutchinson: from Findrum to Fisterra (Dublin: IAP 2011), 272pp.
  • R. F. Foster, Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances [Clark Lectures, Cambridge 2009] (Oxford: OUP 2011), 226pp.
  • Michael O'Neill & Madeleine Callaghan, eds., Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon (Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell 2011), x, 301pp.[see contents].
  • Florins Tufescu, Oscar Wilde’s Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art over Ego (Dublin: IAP 2011), 200pp.
  • Eibhear Walshe, Oscar’s Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland (Cork UP 2011), 232pp.

 

    Theatre Studies
  • Christopher Fitz-Simon, Buffoonery and East Sentiment: Popular Irish Plays in the Decade prior to the Opening of the Abbey Theatre (Carysfort Press, 2011), xi, 287pp.[see contents].
  • Rhona Trench, Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice (Bern: Peter Lang 2012).
  • Helen Heusner Lojek, The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011), 192pp. [treats of Friel, McPherson, Carr, and McGuinness].
  • Maria Kurdi, Representations of Gender and Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Drama by Women (Edwin Mellen 2010).
  • Patrick Lonergan, ed., Synge and His Influences: Centenary Essays from the Synge Summer School (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2011), 327pp.
  • Victor Merriman, Because We Are Poor: Irish Theatre in the 1990s (Carysfort Press, 2011) [see contents].
  • Peter James Harris, From Stage to Page: Critical Reception of Irish Plays in the London Theatre, 1925-1996 (Bern: Peter Lang 2011), xii, 299pp.[see contents].
  • Aidan O’Malley, Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing Contradictions (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011), viii, 249pp. [see contents].
  • Anthony Roche, Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011), ix, 235pp [see contents].

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    Language & Folklore Studies
  • Philip O’Leary, Writing Beyond the Revival: Facing the Future in Gaelic Prose, 1940-1951 (UCD Press 2011), 608pp.

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    Religion & Philosophy
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    Media & Entertainment
  • Peter James Harris, From Stage to Page: Critical Reception of Irish Plays in the London Theatre, 1925-1996 (Berne: Peter Lang 2011), 311pp.
  • Adrian Frazier, Hollywood Irish: John Ford, Abbey Actors and The Irish Revival in Hollywood (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2011), 296pp.

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    Arts & Architecture
  • Marie Bourke, The Story of Irish Museums 1790-2000: Culture, Identiy and Education (Cork UP 2011), 500pp.
  • Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgeway, ed., he Irish Country House: Its Past, Present and Future (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 256pp.
  • Tom Hodson, Chiefs of Staff: Portrait Collection of the Irish Defence Forces (History Press 2011), 88pp. [McKee Barracks, Dublin].
  • Enrique Juncosa & Christine Kennedy,. ed., The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from 1990s to the 1970 (Irish Mus. of Mod. Art 2011), 647 ills. [508 col.].
  • Eric Klingelhofer, Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland (Manchester UP 2011), 190pp.

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    Historical Studies: General
  • Juliana Adelman & Eadaoin Agnew, eds., Science and Technology in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts 2011), 180pp.
  • Jonathan Bardon, The Plantation of Ulster: The British Colonisation of the North of Ireland in the 17th Century (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2012), xxiv, 400pp. [Notes, p.346; Bibl., p.362; Index, p.371.]
  • George Bornstein, The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 (Harvard UP 2011), 272pp.
  • Virginia Crossman & Peter Gray, Poverty and Welfare in Ireland 1838-1948 (Dublin: IAP 2011), pp.
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  • Kevin Costello, The Court of Admiralty of Ireland, 1575-1893 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 336pp.
  • L. Perry Curtis, Jnr., The Depiction of Eviction in Ireland 1845-1910 (UCD Press 2011), 386pp.
  • Mary E. Daly & K. Theodore Hoppen, eds., Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (Dublin: Four Courts Press [2011), 208pp. ill.
  • L[ewis] Perry Curtis Jr., The Depiction of Eviction in Ireland 1845-1910 (UCD Press 2011), 400pp. ill [+32 of pls.].
  • Brian Mac Cuarta, Reshaping Ireland, 1500-1700: Colonization of and Its Consequences (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 320pp.[see contents].
  • T. W. Moody & F. X. Martin, The Course of Irish History (Cork: Mercier Press 2011), 542pp. [reiss. with add. chaps. by Patrick Kiely and Dermot Keogh].
  • Jack Morgan, New World Irish Notes on One Hundred Years of Lives and Letters in American Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011), 296pp.
  • Padraig Ó Concubhair, “The Fenians were Dreadful Men”: the 1867 Rising (Cork: Mercier Press 2011), 256pp.
  • Donnchadh Ó Corrain & Tomás O’Riordan, eds., Ireoand 1815-1870: Emancipation, Famine and Religion (Dublin: Four Courts 2011), 320pp.
  • William Sheeran & Maura Cronin, Riotous Assemblies: Riots, Rebels and Revolts in Ireland (Dublin: Mercier 2011), 320pp.

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    Historical Studies: 20th Century
  • Francis Costello, Irish Revolution and its Aftermath 1916-1923 (Dublin: IAP 2011), 450pp.
  • Mike Cronin, Doesn’t Time Fly? Aer Lingus - Its History (Cork: Collins Press 2011), 222pp.
  • Liz Gillis, The Fall of Dublin: Military History of the Irish Civil War (Cork: Mercier Press 2011), 160pp.
  • Peter Hart, Gallipoli (London: Profile 2011), 534pp.
  • Fearghal McGarry, Rebels: Voices from the EAster Rising (Penguin Ireland 2011), 366pp.
  • Valeries McGowan-Doyle, The Book of Howth: Elizabethan conquestion and the Old English (Cork UP 2011), 300pp.
  • Perry McIntyre, Free Passage: The Reunion of Irish Convicts and Their Familes in Australia 1788-1852 (Dublin: IAP 2011), 368pp.
  • Paul Murray, The Irish Boundary Commission and its Origins 1886-1925 (UCD Press 2011), 320pp.
  • William Sheehan, A Hard Local War: The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919-1921 (History Press 2011), 256pp. ill. [16pp. photos].
  • Donnchadh Ó Corráin & Tomás O’Riordan, ed., Ireland 1870-1914: Coercion and Conciliation (dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 328pp.

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    Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
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    Historical Studies: Military
  • Padraig Yeates, A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-18 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2011), x, 381pp.

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    Natural History & Topography
  • Aiveen Cooper, The River Shannon: Journey Down Ireland’s Longest River (Collins Press 2011), 256pp.
  • Valerie Hall, The Making of Ireland’s Landscape: Since the Ice Age (Cork: Collins Press 2011), 256pp.
  • Kieran Hickey, Wolves in Ireland: A Natural and Cultural History [Open Air] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 155pp.

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    Politics, Economics & Society
  • Roslyn Dee, Who We Are: A Collection of Essays on Life on Contemporary Ireland (Dublin: New Island 2011), 390pp. [contribs. incl. Joseph O’Connor, Colm McCann, Nell McCafferty, et al.] The
  • John Drennan, Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors: Traits and Characteristics of Irish Politicians (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2011), 277pp.
  • Caitriona Foley, Last Irish Plague: The Great Flu Epidemic in Ireland (Dublin: IAP 2011), 272pp.
    • Steven Loyal, Understanding Immigration in Ireland: Ireland in the Global Age (Manchester UP 2011), 320pp.
  • Fiona Dukelow & Orla O’Donovan, Mobilising Classics: Reading Radical Writing in Ireland (Manchester UP 2011), 265pp.
  • Kevin Rafter, Democratic Left: The Life and Death of an Irish Policital Party (Dublin: IAP 2011), 272pp.
  • Ray Rivlin, Jewish Ireland: A Social History of Irish-Jewish Life (Dublin: History Press 2011), 288pp.

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    Northern Ireland/Ulster
  • Stephen Douds, The Belfast Blitz: The People’s Story (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2011), 192pp.
  • Gerald Hall, Ulster Liberalism, 1778-1876: The Middle Path (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 272pp.
  • Michael Kerr, The Destructors: The Story of Northern Ireland’s Lost Peace Process (Dublin: IAP 2002), 272pp.
  • Tommy McKearney, The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament (London: Pluto Press 2011), 248pp.
  • Sean MacManus, My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland (Cork: Collins Press 2011), 210pp.
  • James McAuley & Jon Tonge, Loyal to the Core?: Orangeism and Britishness in Northern Ireland (Dublin: IAP 2011), 272pp.

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    Gender studies
  • Elke d’Hoker, et al., Irish Women Writers: New Critical Perspectives [Reimagining Ireland, No. 40] ([Intern.] Peter Lang 2011), 318pp. [see contents].
  • Joseph Valente, The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922 (Illinois UP 2011), x, 289pp. [Parnell, Yeats, Pearse, et al.].

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    Reference, Guides & Bibliography
  • Colin McKeown, ed.,Treasures from the Cardinal Tomas Ó Fiaich Memorial Library and Archive, (Armagh 2011), 171pp.

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    Digital Publications
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    Journals & Special Issues
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Bibliographical details
Brian Cliff & Nicholas Grene, eds., Synge and Edwardian Ireland (OUP 2011), 288pp. CONTENTS: Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction. PART I - EDWARDIAN IRELAND: 1. The Edwardian Condition of Ireland; 2. Synge’s Typewriter: the Technological Sublime in Edwardian Ireland; 3. Stalking Yeats: the Celebrity System of Revivalist Dublin; 4. Synge and Edwardian Theatre; 5. Preserving the Relics of Heroic Time: Visualizing the Celtic Revival in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland]; 6. Synge, Music and Edwardian Dublin; 7. Political Animals: Somerville and Ross and Percy French on Edwardian Ireland. PART II - SYNGE: CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS: 8. Synge and Modernity in The Aran Islands; 9. Synge, Reading, and Archipelago; 10. Travelling Home: J.M. Synge and the Politics of Place; 11. With his ‘Mind-guided Camera’: J. M. Synge, J. J. Clarke and the Visual Politics of Edwardian Street Photography; 12. The price of kelp in Connemara: Synge, Pearse, and the idealisation of folk culture; 13. Ghostly Intertexts: James Joyce and the Legacy of Synge. Bibliography . [Online edition 2012.]
 
Valerie Coghlan & Keith O’Sullivan, ed., Irish Children’s Literature and Culture: New Perspective on Contemporary Writing [Children Literature and Culture Ser., ser. ed. Jack Zipes] (London: Routledge 2011), 213pp. CONTENTS: Introduction [1]; Ciara Ni Bhroin, ‘Mythologizing Ireland’ [7]; Eilis Ní Dhuibhne, ‘Borderlands, Dead Bog and Living Landscapes’ [29]; Susan Cahill, ‘Cleaning up the Mess: The Child and Nation in Historical Fiction Set between 1890 and 1922 [41]; Valerie Coghlan, ‘“What Foot does he Dig With?”: Inscripitions and Religious Cultural Identity’ [55]; Pa/draic White, ‘Young Adult Fiction and Youth Culture’ [71]; Amanda Piesse, ‘Fictionalizing Families’ [85]; Keith O’Sullican, ‘Binding with Briars”: Romanticizing the Child’ [99]; Jarlath Killeen, ‘Evil Innocence: the Child and Adult’ [115]; Anne Markey, ‘“Walking ... into the Night” Growing up with the Gothic’ [129]; Patricia Kennon, ‘Contemplating Otherness Imagining The Future in Speculative Fiction [145]; Mary Shine Thompson, ‘Meaning and Means Children’s Poetry Now’ [157]; Sandra Beckett, ‘Picturebooks that Transcend Boundaries’ [169]; Emer O’Sullivan, ‘Insularity and Internationalism: Between Local Production and the Global Marketplace’ [183]; Biographical notes [197]; index [201]
Jim Kelly, ed., Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), x, 229pp. CONTENTS: Jim Kelly, Introduction. Part I - Scenes: The Country and the City: P. O’Drisceoil, T. Webb, Jemmy O’Brien: Informer to Gothic Villain. Part II: Influences from Abroad: A MacCarthy, Spanish Literature and Irish Romanticism, 1800-1850; S. Dornan, Robert Burns and Hibernia. Part III: The Irish Writer Abroad: J. Moore, “Transatlantic Tom”: Thomas Moore in North America; P. Vincent, A United Irishman in the Alps: William MacNevin’s A Ramble Through Swisserland (1803); S. Egenolf, Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) and the Politics of Romanticism. Part IV: Irish Poetry in the Romantic Period: A. Paterson, Drawing Breath: The Origin of Moore’s Irish Melodies; L.Davis, Malvina’s Daughters: Irish Women Poets and the Sign of the Bard. Part V: Fictions of the Romantic Period: C. Benson, The Irish Booktrade in the Romantic Period; C. Morin, “Gothic” and “National”? Challenging the Formal Distinctions of Irish Romantic Fiction; J. Shanahan, Escaping from Barrett’s Moon: Recreating the Irish Literary Landscape in the Romantic Period. S. Behrendt, Afterword: Placing “Irish” and “Romanticism” in the Same Frame: Prospects. Index.
Peter Mackay, Edna Longley & Fran Brearton, eds., Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry (Cambridge UP 2011), x, 336pp.CONTENTS: Edna Longley, Introduction; 1. Patrick Crotty, ‘Swordsmen: W. B. Yeats and Hugh MacDiarmid’; 2. Cairns Craig, ‘Tradition and the Individual Editor: Professor Grierson, Modernism and National Poetics ‘; 3. John Kerrigan, ‘Louis MacNeice among the Islands’; 4. Peter Mackay, ‘Townland, Desert, Cave: Irish and Scottish Second World War Poetry’; 5. Máire Ní Annracháin, ‘Affinities in Time and Space: Reading the Gaelic Poetry of Ireland and Scotland’; 6. Douglas Dunn, ‘Contemporary Affinities’; 7. Robert Crawford, ‘The Classics in Modern Scottish and Irish Poetry’; 8. Hugh Magennis, ‘Translating Beowulf: Edwin Morgan and Seamus Heaney’; 9. Eric Falci, ‘Reading in the Gutters’; 10. Christopher Whyte, ‘“What matters is the Yeast”: “Foreignising” Gaelic Poetry’; 11. Justin Quinn, ‘Outside English: Irish and Scottish poets in the East’; 12. Alan Gillis, ‘Names for Nameless Things: The Poetics of Place Names’; 13. Aaron Kelly, ‘Desire Lines: Mapping the City in Contemporary Belfast and Glasgow Poetry’; 14. Eleanor Bell, ‘“The ugly burds without wings”?: Reactions to Tradition Since the 1960s’; 15. David Wheatley, ‘“And cannot say/and cannot say”: Richard Price, Randolph Healy and the Dialogue of the Deaf’; 16. Fran Brearton, ‘On “The Friendship of Young Poets”: Douglas Dunn, Michael Longley, and Derek Mahon’; 17. Leontia Flynn, ‘“No misprints in this work”: The Poetic “Translations” of Medbh McGuckian and Frank Kuppner’; 18. Edna Longley, ‘Phoenix or Dead Crow? Irish and Scottish Poetry Magazines 1945-2000’; 19. Michael Brown, ‘Out with the Pale: Irish-Scottish Studies as an Act of Translation’.
 
Caroline Magennis & Raymond Mullen, eds., Irish Masculinities: Reflections on Literature and Culture (Irish Academic Press, 2011), x, 194pp. CONTENTS: 1. John Wilson Foster, ‘Corrigibly Plural? Masculinity in Life and Literature’; 2. Maeve Davey, ‘“You’re dying for me”: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Northern Irish Popular Women’s Fiction’; 3. Niall Rea, ‘Belfast Drag: The Performance of Gender Disidentification in Northern Ireland’; 4. Stefanie Lehner, ‘Post-Conflict Masculinities: Filiative Reconciliation in Five Minutes of Heaven and David Park’s The Truth Commissioner’; 5. Ed Madden, ‘Exploring Masculinity: Proximity, Intimacy and Chicken’; 6. Deirdre Duffy, ‘The Negotiation and Consumption of Mediated Masculinities in the Artistry of the Male Self’; 7. Kate Antosik Parsons, ‘Masculinity in Crisis: The Construction of Irish Masculinities in Willie Doherty’s Non Specific Threat’; 8. Dale Montgomery, ‘“They were the men who licked the IRA until they squealed’: Blueshirt Masculine Identity 1932-36’; 9. Louise Sheridan, ‘“You’ve been a fake Irishman over here long enough’: Masculinity, Belonging and the Father-Son Relationship in John Walsh’s The Falling Angels: An Irish Romance’; 10. Kathryn White, ‘“Who May Tell The Tale Of The Old Man?’: Beckett, Men and Memory’; 11. Cormac O’Brien, ‘The Afterlife of the Anti-Hero: Postmodern Fantasies of Manhood and the Hierarchy of Masculine Agency in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer (2006)’.
 
Emilie Pine, The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Memory in Contemporary Irish Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011), 212pp. CONTENTS: Introduction. Past Traumas: Representing Institutional Abuse. The Remembered Self: Irish Memoir, Past and Present Selves. The Exiled Past: The Return of the Irish Emigrant. Embodied Memory: Performing the 1980-1 Hunger Strikes. In Memoriam: Remembering the Great War. Haunted Pasts: Exorcising the Ghosts of Irish Culture Bibliography. Index. [Treats of Nuala O’Faolain, Neil Jordan, Frank McGuinness, Marina Carr et mult. al.]
 
Michael O’Neilll & Madeleine Callaghan, eds., Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon (Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell 2011), x, 301pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma (Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen). Thomas Hardy - extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism (Peter Howarth). Edward Thomas - extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas (Andrew Motion). Wilfred Owen - extract from Poetry of Mourning (Jahan Ramazani). 2. Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart (W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence). W. B. Yeats - extract from Our Secret Discipline (Helen Vendler). T. S. Eliot - extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices (Calvin Bedient). D. H. Lawrence - extract from “Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers” (Tom Paulin). 3. Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender). W. H. Auden - extract from “The 1930s Poetry of W. H. Auden” (Michael O’Neill). Louis MacNeice - extract from Louis MacNeice (Peter McDonald). Stephen Spender - extracts from The Ironic Harvest (Geoffrey Thurley). 4. Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric (Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas). Keith Douglas - extract from “I in Another Place” (Geoffrey Hill). Dylan Thomas - extract from The Romantic Survival (John Bayley). 5. Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night (Philip Larkin and the Movement). Philip Larkin - extract from Out of Reach (Andrew Swarbrick). The Movement - extract from The Movement (Blake Morrison). 6. Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth (Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill). Ted Hughes - extract from “Ted Hughes: The Double Voice” (Margaret Dickie). Sylvia Plath - extract from Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (Christina Britzolakis). Geoffrey Hill - extract from “History to the Defeated” (Alan Robinson). 7. Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices (Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony Harrison). Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, and Basil Bunting - extracts from The Modern Poetic Sequence (M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall). Stevie Smith - extract from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women”s Poetry (Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle). Tony Harrison - extract from The Poetry of Tony Harrison (Luke Spencer). 8. Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition (Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon). Seamus Heaney - extracts from The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Neil Corcoran). Derek Mahon - extract from Poetry in the Wars (Edna Longley).  
 
Mary Shine Thompson, ed., Young Irelands: Studies in Children’s Literature [Studies in Children’s Literature, 4] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 197pp. CONTENTS: Mary Shine Thompson, Introduction: ‘Childhood and the Nation’; 1. Sharon Murphy, ‘“The fate of empires depends on the education of youth”: Maria Edgeworth’s writing for children’; 2. Joy Alexander, ‘Arthur Mee, the “happy wonderer”: instructing children and constructing knowledge in the children’s encyclopedia’; 3. Marnie Hay, ‘The Propaganda of Na Fianna Éireann, 1909-26’; 4. Michael Flanagan, ‘“Tales told in the turflight”: The Christian Brothers, Our Boys and the Representation of Gaelic Authenticity in the Popular Culture of the Irish Free State’; 5. Ciara Ní Bhroin, ‘Recovering a heroic past: the Táin retold’; 6. Anne Marie Herron, ‘Kate Thompson, James Stephens and the Irish Literary Landscape’; 7. Anne Markey, ‘Irish and European echoes in Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales’; 8. Jane O’Hanlon, ‘Narnia: the last battle of the imaginative man’; 9. Valerie Coghlan, ‘Bellsybabble for the childers’; 10. Coralline Dupuy, ‘A French perspective on the Irishness of Morgan Llywelyn’s Cold places’; 11. Emer O’Sullivan, ‘A sense of place? The Irishness of Irish children’s literature in translation’; 12. Aedin Clements, ‘Padraic Colum, The Horn Book, the Irish in American children’s literature in the early twentieth century’; 13. Mary Shine Thompson, ‘Gulliver travels in the lands of childhood".
 
Christopher Fitz-Simon, Buffoonery and East Sentiment: Popular Irish Plays in the Decade prior to the Opening of the Abbey Theatre (Carysfort Press, 2011), xi, 287pp. CONTENTS: Table of professional productions of Irish plays in Dublin, Belfast and Cork, 1895-1904; The background to performance; The playwriting tradition; A patriotic (or subversive) theatre; Hubert O’Grady: reformer disguised as a gommoch; J. W. Whitbread: entrepreneur in John Bull’s other island; True green: Whitbread’s Irish heroes; Truly Irish: a cornucopia of plays and playwrights; Quasi Irish: a gallery of plays by English and American authors; Envoi; Information on first productions.
 
Victor Merriman, “Because We are Poor” : Irish theatre in the 1990s (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2011), xi, 250pp. CONTENTS: 1. Introduction: “Because We Are Poor”; 2. Independent Ireland: A Successor State; 3. Theatre, subjectivity, and change; 4. Intranational Problematics: staging the anti-colonial moment; 5. Hope deferred: Neo-colonial relations on Ireland's stages; 6. Them and Us: dramas of a rising tide; 7. Countering Hegemonies: Wet Paint Arts and Calypso Productions; 8. Contested Spaces, Competing Voices: Irish theatre 1990-1998; 9. Conclusion. Re-presenting the nation: theatre, utopia and decolonization. [Bibl refs., pp.[229]-241); filmography (pp.232-233); Index.
 
Peter James Harris, From Stage to Page: Critical Reception of Irish Plays in the London Theatre, 1925-1996 [Reimagining Ireland Ser., 41 ] (Bern: Peter Lang 2011), xii, 299pp. CONTENTS: Richard Allen Cave, Preface; Introduction; Juno and the Paycock (Royalty Theatre, 16 November 1925); The Big House (Playhouse Theatre, 21 February 1934); Red Roses for Me (Embassy Theatre, 26 February 1946); The Hostage (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, 14 October 1958); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Lyric Theatre, 20 September 1967); The Freedom of the City (Royal Court Theatre, 27 February 1973); Translations (Hampstead Theatre, 12 May 1981); Portia Coughlan (Royal Court Theatre, 14 May 1996); Afterword. Bibliography & index.
 
Aidan O’Malley, Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing Contradictions (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011), vii, 249pp. . Chapters: Translating the Irish past; Translation, home and hospitality; Loyal translations: the spirit and the letter; Reciprocation and resolution; Masks: men and history; Epilogue. Topics as listed by the author: Brian Friel, Translations (pp. 26-41), The Communication Cord (pp. 57-67), Three Sisters (pp. 67-76), Making History (pp. 41-53); Thomas Kilroy, Double Cross (pp.143-56), The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre (pp.163-72); Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy (pp.120-31); Stewart Parker, Pentecost (pp.107-18); Tom Paulin, The Riot Act (pp. 95-106); Derek Mahon, High Time (pp.131-41); Terry Eagleton, Saint Oscar (pp.156-63); The Field Day Anthology, Vols. 1-5 (pp.175-81).
 
Anthony Roche, Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011), ix, 235pp. CHAPTERS: Introduction; Escaping Containment: the Early Plays; Friel and the Director: Tyrone Guthrie and Hilton Edwards; The Operation of Fantasy; Changing the Direction of Theatre: Friel, John Osborne and David Storey; The Politics of Space: Reconfiguring Relationships; Translations: An Enquiry into the Disappearance of Lt. Yolland; History and Memory; Negotiating the Present; Bibliography; Index.
 
Brian Mac Cuarta, Reshaping Ireland, 1500-1700: Colonization of and Its Consequences (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011), 320pp. CONTENTS: Ciaran Brady, ‘From policy to power: the evolution of Tudor reform strategies in sixteenth-century Ireland’; John McGurk, ‘A soldier’s prescription for the governance of Ireland, 1599-1601: Captain Thomas Lee and his tracts’; Annaleigh Margey, ‘Representing colonial landscapes: early English maps of Ulster and Virginia, 1580-1612’; Rolf Loeber & Terence Reeves-Smyth, ‘Lord Audley’s grandiose building schemes in the Ulster plantation’; Brian Mac Cuarta, ‘“Sword” and “word” in the 1610s: Matthew De Renzy and Irish reform’; Jane Ohlmeyer, ‘“Making Ireland English”: the early seventeenth-century Irish peerage’; Brendan Kane, ‘Scandal, Wentworth’s deputyship and the breakdown of Stuart honour politics’; Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Loss and gain: attitudes towards the English language in early modern Ireland’; David Finnegan, ‘Old English views of Gaelic Irish history and the emergence of an Irish Catholic nation, c.1569-1640’; Jason McHugh, ‘For our owne defence”: Catholic insurrection in Wexford, 1641-42’; Aidan Clarke, ‘The commission for the despoiled subject, 1641-47’; Kevin Forkan, ‘“The fatal ingredient of the covenant”: the place of the Ulster Scottish colonial community during the 1640s’; Alan Ford, ‘Past but still present: Edmund Borlase, Richard Parr and the reshaping of Irish history for English audiences in the 1680s’; Pádraig Lenihan, ‘The impact of the battle of Aughrim (1691) on the Irish Catholic elite’; Toby Barnard, ‘Sir Richard Bellings, a Catholic courtier and diplomat from seventeenth-century Ireland’; J. H. Elliott, ‘Atlantic horizons’. Marie Boran., ‘Select bibliography of the writings of Nicolas Canny to 2009’.
Elke d’Hoker, Raphaël Ingelbien & Hedwig Schwall, eds., Irish Women Writers: New Critical Perspectives [Reimagining Ireland, No. 40] ([Intern.] Peter Lang 2011), 318pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Anne Fogarty, ‘“I was a Voice”: Orality and Silence in the Poetry of Eavan Boland’; Margaret Mills Harper, “The Real Thing”: Body Parts and the Zero Institution in Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry’; Lucy Collins, ‘Joyful Mysteries: Language and Spirituality in Medbh McGuckian’s Recent Poetry’; Niamh Hehir, ‘“I have grown inside words/Into a state of unbornness”: Evocations of a Pre-linguistic Space of Meaning in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry’; Mária Kurdi, ‘Narrating Across Borders: From Gendered Experience of Trauma to Subject Transformation in Monologues by Irish Women Playwrights’; Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin, ‘“The seeds beneath the snow”: Resignation and Resistance in Teresa Deevy’s Wife to James Whelan’; Faith Binckes & Kathryn Laing, ‘A Vagabond’s Scrutiny: Hannah Lynch in Europe’; Maureen O’Connor: “I’m meat for no butcher!”: The Female and the Species in Irish Women’s Writing’; Eve Eisenberg, ‘“And then the sausages were ordered”: Jewishness, Irishness and Othering in Castle Rackrent’; Christina Morin, ‘Undermining Morality? National Destabilisation in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne ou L’Italie’; Catherine Smith, ‘“Words! Words! Words!”: Interrogations of Language and History in Emily Lawless’s With Essex in Ireland’; Kathryn Johnson, ‘“Phantasmagoric Hinterlands”: Adolescence and Anglo-Ireland in Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris and The Death of the Heart’; Tina O’Toole, ‘Unregenerate Spirits: The Counter-Cultural Experiments of George Egerton and Elizabeth Bowen’; Sylvie Mikowski, ‘Deirdre Madden’s Novels: Searching for Authentic Woman’; Adriana Bebiano, ‘“Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know”: The Stories of Chicago May and Eliza Lynch’; Giovanna Tallone, ‘“Once Upon a Time”: Fabulists and Storytellers in Clare Boylan’s Fiction’; Ann Owens Weekes, ‘Towards Her Own History: A Century of Irish Women’s Fiction’.

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