Select Annual on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2013

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
Critical Studies: Individual Authors
Language & Folklore Studies
Religion & Philosophy
Media & Entertainment
Arts & Architecture
History, Politics, & Society
Historical Studies: General
Historical Studies: 20th Century
Historical Studies: Centenary
Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
Natural History & Topography
Politics, Economics & Society
Northern Ireland/Ulster
Gender Studies
Reference Works & Digital Publications
Reference & Bibliography
Digital Publications
Journals & Special Issues
    Poetry Collections
  • Paul Muldoon, The Word in the Street (London: Faber & Faber 2013), qpp.
  • Micheal O’Siadhail, Collected Poems (Tarset: Bloodaxe 2013), 824pp.
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    Fiction (Short stories & Novels)
  • Eamon Carr, Deirdre Unforgiven: A Journal of Sorrows ([Derry:] Doire Press 2113).
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, Downturn Abbey (Penguin Ireland 2013), 406pp.

 

    Drama (Plays & Collections
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    Autobiography & Memoir
  • Tom Inglis, Making Love: A Memoir (Dublin: New Island 2013), 232pp.
  • Dervla Murphy, A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza (London: Eland 2013), 224pp.
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    Biography (Literary & Historical)
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    Miscellaneous Writings
  • Mary Raftery, Do They Think We’re Eejits?: A Selection of the Irish Times Columns 2003-2009 (The Irish Times 2013), 165pp.
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    Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
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    Anthologies, Interviews & Almanacs
  • Declan Kiberd & P. J. Mathews, eds., Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Irish Cultural and Political Writings 1891-1922 (ND, Indiana: Notre Dame UP 2016), 506pp.[see contents].
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    Literary & Cultural Commentary
  • Douglas Atkins, Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home: Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013), 74pp. [6 chaps.].
  • Susan Cahill, Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008 : Gender, Bodies, Memory [Continuum literary studies] (London: T & T Clark 2013), qpp.[see contents].
  • Liam Harte, Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell 2013), 276pp.[see contents].
  • Ellen McWilliams, Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013), 256pp. [cites Julia O’Faolain, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright, John McGahern, William Trevor and Colm Tóibín].
  • Adam Putz, The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare’s Wake: Appropriation and Cultural Politics in Ireland, 1867-1922 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013), 232pp. [covers Matthew Arnold, Edward Dowden, W. B. Yeats and Joyce].
  • Julieann Veronica Ulin, Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 20130, 216pp. [covers Giraldus Cambrensis, W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O’Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O’Neill].
  • Eibhear Walshe, Anne Fogarty, & Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, eds., Imagination in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning Creative Writing in Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press [2013]), 150pp.[see contents]
  • Paddy Lyons, John Miller & Willy Maley, eds., Romantic Ireland: from Tone to Gonne - Fresh Perspectives on Nineteenth-century Ireland ( Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars 2013), x, 424pp. [see contents].

 

    Critical Studies: Individual Authors
  • Richard Rankin Russell, Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama [Irish Studies] (Syracuse UP 2013), xi, 317pp.
  • Trish McTighe, The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013), 208pp.
  • Stephanie Schwerter, Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn: Intertextuality in the Work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013), x, 251pp.
  • Sam Slote, Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013), 220pp.
  • Matthew Yde, Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism Longing for Utopia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013), 264pp.

 

    Language & Folklore Studies
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    Religion & Philosophy
  • Brian D’Arcy, Brian D’Arcy’s Food for the Soul (Dublin: Columba Press 2013), 270pp.
  • Tom Flannery, A Question of Conscience (Londubh Books 2013), 192pp.
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    Media & Entertainment
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    Arts & Architecture
  • Harry White & Barra Boydell, ed., The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (UCD Press 2013), 114pp.
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    Historical Studies: General
  • Benjamin Bankhurst, Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora, 1750-1764 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013), 216pp.
  • Brian Casey, ed., Defying the law of the land : agrarian radicals in Irish history, with a foreword by Carla King (Dublin: The History Press 2013), 320pp. [see contents]
  • Ronan Fanning, Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922 (London: Faber & Faber 2013), 464pp.
  • Laura Kelly, Irish Women in Medicine c.1880s-1920s: Origins, Education and Careers (Manchester uP 2013), 255pp.
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    Historical Studies: 20th Century
  • Ronan Fanning, Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution, 1910-1922 (London: Faber & Faber 2013), xxi, 423pp.

 

    Historical Studies: Centenary Topic
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    Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
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    Natural History & Topography
  • Sean Beattie & Jim Mac Loughlin, eds., An Historical Environmental and Cultural Atlas of Country Donegal (Cork UP 2013), 638pp.
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    Politics, Economics & Society
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    Northern Ireland/Ulster
  • Olwen Purdue, Belfast: The Emerging City 1850-1914 (Dublin: IAP 2013), 322pp.
  • Jonathan jeffrey Wright, The ‘Natural Leaders’and Their World: Politics, Culture and Society in Belfast, 1801-1832 (Liverpool UP 2013), 284pp.
    Gender Studies
  • Tina O’Toole, The Irish New Woman [Studies in Nineteenth-century Writing and Culture] (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013), 216pp.

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    Reference, Guides & Bibliography
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    Digital Publications
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    Journals & Special Issues
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Bibliographical details
Susan Cahill, Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008: Gender, Bodies, Memory [Continuum literary studies] (London: T & T Clark 2013). CONTENTS: Introduction / 1. Submerged Histories: Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s The Bray House and The Dancers Dancing / 2. Corporeal Genealogies: Colum McCann’s Songdogs and This Side of Brightness / 3. Bodily Doubles and Dislocations: Anne Enright’s The Wig My Father Wore and What Are You Like? / 4. Embodied Histories: Colum McCann’s Dancer and Anne Enright’s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch / 5. Celtic Tiger Bodies: Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow and Anne Enright’s The Gathering / Conclusion: Bodies and Futures / Bibliography / Index.]
Declan Kiberd & P. J. Mathews, eds., Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Irish Cultural and Political Writings 1891-1922 (ND, Indiana: Notre Dame UP 2016), 506pp. CONTENTS: Note on the Editors; Contents; Chronology; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Publisher’s Introduction; Introduction; Section One: A Country in Paralysis?; J. M. Synge, ‘A Landlord’s Garden in County Wicklow’; Emily Lawless, from ‘Famine Roads and Famine Memories’; Peig Sayers, A Battle That Never Happened; Douglas Hyde, from ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland’; D. .P. Moran, from ‘The Future of the Irish Nation’; James Joyce, from ‘Ivy Day in the Committee Room’; Augusta Gregory, from ‘Ireland Real, and Ideal’; Michael Davitt, from The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland. Section Two: A Thought Revival: Standish O’Grady, from ‘A Wet Day’; Standish O’Grady, from ‘The Great Enchantment’; W.B. Yeats, O’Grady as Elegist for Anglo-Ireland; Alice Milligan, ‘When I Was a Little Girl’; J. M. Synge, ‘The Irish Intellectual Movement’; John Eglinton, from A Thought Revival; George Russell (AE), from ‘Village Libraries’; Constance Markiewicz, from ‘Women, Ideals and the Nation’; Mary Colum, from Life and the Dream. Section Three: Movements and Manifestos; Michael Cusack, ‘A Word about Irish Athletics’; Objects of the Irish National Literary Society, from The Gaelic League Annual Report; Horace Plunkett, The Aims of the Co-operative Movement; Opening Statement of the Irish Literary Theatre; Objects of Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland); Manifesto of the Ulster Literary Theatre; from Report on the Inaugural Feis na nGleann; Sinn Féin Resolutions; from Pearse’s letter to Eoin MacNeill on the founding of St. Enda’s School; Ellice Pilkington, from ‘The United Irishwomen: Their Work’; ‘Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant’; The Constitution of the Irish Citizen Army; Constitution of The Irish Volunteers; Cumann na mBan (Irish Women’s Council); Poblacht Na hÉireann (Proclamation of the Irish Republic); The Democratic Programme of the First Dáil Éireann; from The Anglo-Irish Treaty. Section Four: Language Revival: Preface to Simple Lessons in Irish; Contemporary Ireland; Dr. Atkinson’s Evidence to the Royal Commission; ‘The Academic Class and the Agrarian Revolution’; ‘Literature and the Irish Language’; My Own Story; ‘IS the Gaelic League A [...] ; ‘in Praise of the Gaelic League’; Our Mother’s Womb?’ A Gaelic Modernism? Section Five: an Irish Literature in English? ‘The Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature into the English Tongue’ - Anglicising Ireland’; Love Songs of Connacht; Life and The Dream; To the Editor, An Claidheamh Soluis; ‘The Battle of Two Civilisations’; ‘The Literary Movement in Ireland’; Hiberno-English; ‘Is There an Anglo-Irish Literature?’; ‘Mo Bhuachaill cael-Dubh \ My Black Slender Boy’; Literature in Ireland; Section Six: Theatre Matters; Our Irish Theatre; ‘Irish National Clubs 1900-1907’; ‘Staging and Costume in Irish Drama’; ‘What Should be the Subjects of a National Drama?’; ‘the Day of the Rabblement’; ‘The Irish Literary Theatre’.
Liam Harte, Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel [Reading the Novel Ser., gen. ed. Danel R. Schwartz] (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell 2013), 276pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements, ix Introduction: Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007, 1; 1. In the Family Way: Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy (1987-1991) [23]; 2. House Arrest: John McGahern’s Amongst Women (1990), [51]; 3. Malignant Shame: Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy (1992) [75]; 4. Uncertain Terms, Unstable Sands: Colm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing (1992) [105]; 5. Unbearable Proximities: William Trevor’s Felicia’s Journey (1994) [127]; 6. History’s Hostages: Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation (1994) [151]; 7. Shadows in the Air: Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark (1996) [173]; 8. The Politics of Pity: Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way (2005) [197]; 9. Mourning Remains Unresolved: Anne Enright’s The Gathering (2007) [217]. Bibliography [243]; Index [259]. Available at Google Books - online.
Paddy Lyons, John Miller & Willy Maley, eds., Romantic Ireland: from Tone to Gonne - Fresh Perspectives on Nineteenth-century Ireland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars 2013), x, 424pp. CONTENTS: Part 1 - History; Introduction; I: Class, Colonialism, and Republicanism; II. Faith, Fatherland, and Fartherlands. III: Fenianism and Football; 4; Reinventing the past. V. Backward Looks. Part 2: Literature; Introduction; I. Gendering the Field; II: Romancing the Nation. III: Revisiting the Irish Question; IV: “What ish my nation?”: Race and Representation. [All sects. 3 chaps except 2:II, which has four.]
Brian Casey, ed., Defying the Law of the Land: Agrarian Radicals in Irish History; foreword by Carla King (Dublin: The History Press 2013), 320pp. CONTENTS: L. Perry Curtis, Jr., ‘Demonising the Irish landlords since the famine’; Timothy Keane, ‘Narrating the Irish famine: Chartism, the land and fiction’; Pauline Scott, ‘Rural radicals or mercenary men? Resistance to evictions on the Glinsk/Creggs Estate of Allan Pollok’; Brian Casey, ‘Matt Harris and the Ballinasloe Tenant Defence Association, 1876-79’; Oisín Moran, ‘Thomas Stanislaus Cleary (1851-98): Land League leader and campaigning newspaper editor. Shane Faherty, ‘“A few good canons?”: Canon Ulick Bourke and clerical reactions to the outbreak of the Land War’; Frank Rynne, ‘Redressing historical imbalance: the role of grassroots leaders Richard Hodnett and Henry O’Mahony in the Land League revolution in the West Cork, ‘1879-82’; Felix M. Larkin, ‘Canon Yeller of Youghal’; Ian d’Alton, ‘A “First Voice”: Henry Villiers Stuart (1827-95) and the cause of the Irish agricultural labourers’; Fintan Lane, ‘Benjamin Pelin, the Knights of the Plough and social radicalism, 1852-1934’; John Bligh, ‘John Fitzgibbon of Castlerea: “A Most Mischievous and Dangerous Agitator”’; John O’Donovan, ‘Daniel Desmond (D.D.) Sheehan (1873-1948) and the rural question in Cork, ‘1894-1910’; Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh, Pádraic Ó Máille: Irish agrarian radical? The case considered.
Eibhear Walshe, Anne Fogarty, & Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, eds., Imagination in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning Creative Writing in Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press [2013]), 150pp. Gerald Dawe, ‘The history and practice of the teaching of creative writing in Ireland’; Roddy Doyle, ‘Write first, worry later: fostering creativity in the classroom’; Sinéad Morrissey, ‘On theft: teaching poetry composition to undergraduates’; Leanne O’Sullivan, ‘Beginnings: becoming a teacher of creative writing’; Paul Perry, ‘Imaginative constellations: the creative writing workshop as laboratory’; Carlo Gebler, ‘"The helmet that never was": reflections on fiction and life writing’; Nessa O’Mahony, ‘Virtual worlds: teaching creative writing in an online environment’ ; Eibhear Walshe, ‘“The man in the moon’s autobiography”: memoir and the creative writing workshop’; Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, ‘Ars longa, vita brevis: the novel, the workshop and time’; Mary O’Donnell, ‘Writing as process: truth and sincerity in the poetry workshop’; James Ryan, ‘What we talk about when we talk about talking: writing dialogue in the novel and short story’; Mary Morrissy, ‘Grading creativity’.

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