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Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2014
Poetry Collections
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Fiction (Short stories &
Novels)
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Drama (Plays & Collections
- xxx.
Autobiography & Memoir
- xxx.
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Biography (Literary &
Historical)
- Fergus Mulligan, William Dargan: An Honourable Life 1799-1867 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2014), 300pp.
Miscellaneous Writings
- xxx.
Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
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Anthologies, Interviews &
Almanacs
- Philip Coleman, ed., Berryman’s Fate A Centenary Celebration in Verse (Dublin: Arlen House 2014), q.pp.
Literary & Cultural Commentary
- John Countryman & Kelly Matthews, eds., The Country of the Young: Interpretations of Youth and Childhood in Irish Culture (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2013), 176pp.
- Jack Fennell, Irish Science Fiction (Liverpool UP 2014), 224pp.
- Matthew Campbell, Irish Poetry under the Union, 1801-1924 (Cambridge UP 2014), 251pp. [on Moore, Mahony, Ferguson, Yeats, et al.].
- Claire Lynch, Cyber Ireland: Text, Image, Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 192pp.
- Gail McConnell, Northern Irish Poetry and Theology (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 280pp. [chiefly on Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, and Derek Mahon]
- Christina Morin, Niall Gillespie, eds., Irish Gothics: Genres, Forms, Modes, and Traditions, 1760-1890 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 232pp.
- Aidan O’Malley and Eve Patten,eds., Ireland, West to East: Irish Cultural Interactions with Central and Eastern Europe (Oxford, Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2014) [incls. essays on Essays on Hubert Butler, oyce, Beckett, Chris Binchy, Glenn Patterson, Mark Collins, Hugo Hamilton, Charles Lever, Colum McCann and John Hewitt].
- Pilar Villar-Argáiz, ed., Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature (Manchester UP 2013), 298pp. [see contents].
Critical Studies: Individual
Authors
- Paul Delaney, Sean O’Faolain: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s (Dublin: IAP 2014), 272pp.
- Liam Lanigan, James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism: Dublins of the Future (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 256pp.
- Julian Murphet, Rónán McDonald & Sascha Morrell, eds., ‘Modernist Wheelman’, in Flann O’Brien & Modernism (London: Bloomsbury 2014) see contents].
- Sinéad Sturgeon, ed., Essays on James Clarence Mangan: The Man in the Cloak (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 264pp. [contribs. incl. Ciaran Carson, Jacques Chuto, David Lloyd, Paul Muldoon, et al.].
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Language & Folklore Studies
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Religion & Philosophy
- John Wolffe, Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective: Catholics, Protestants and Muslims (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 296pp.
Media & Entertainment
- Sara Brady & Fintan Walsh, eds., Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 272pp.
- Karen Steele & Michael de Nie, eds., Ireland and the New Journalism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 248pp.
Arts & Architecture
- Janet McLean, ed., Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art [National Gallery of Ireland] (London: Thames & Hudson 2014) [see contribs].
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Historical Studies: General
- Allan Blackstock & Frank O’Gorman, eds., Loyalism and the Formation of the British World, 1775-1914 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press 2014), 298pp.
- Bryan Fanning & Tom Garvin, Books That Define Ireland (Sallins: Merrion 2014), 281pp.[see contents].
- Gisela Holfter, ed., The Irish Context of ‘Kristallnacht’: Refugees and Helpers [Irish-German Studies 8] ( Trier: WVT 2014), qpp.
Historical Studies: 20th Century
- Donal P. Corcoran, Freedom to Achieve Freedom: The Irish Free State 1922-1932 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2014), 296pp.
- Bryce Evans, Ireland During the Second World War (Manchester UP 2014), q.pp.
- Brian Murphy, Mary O’Rourke & Noel Whelan, eds., Brian Lenihan: In Calm and Crisis (Dublin: IAP 2014), 295pp. ill. [16 col. photos].
- Steven O’Connor, Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922-45 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 272pp.
Historical Studies: Centenary Topic
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Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
- xxx.
Natural History & Topography
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Politics, Economics & Society
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Northern Ireland/Ulster
- xxx.
Gender Studies
- Conn Holohan & Tony Tracy, Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger’s Tales (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), 272pp.
Reference, Guides & Bibliography
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Digital Publications
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Journals & Special Issues
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Bibliographical details
| Janet McLean, ed., Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art [National Gallery of Ireland] (London: Thames & Hudson 2014) [contribs. Chris Agee; John Banville; Alex Barclay; Kevin Barry; Sebastian Barry; Dermot Bolger; Eva Bourke; John Boyne; Moya Cannon; Evelyn Conlon; Philip Davison; Gerald Dawe; John F. Deane; Gerard Donovan; Theo Dorgan; Roddy Doyle; Bernard Farrell; Carlo Gébler; Alan Glynn; Vona Groarke; Kerry Hardie; Noëlle Harrison; Seamus Heaney; Christine Dwyer Hickey; Declan Hughes; Jennifer Johnston; Thomas Kilroy; Michael Longley; Martin Malone; Aoife Mannix; Colum McCann; Thomas McCarthy; Medbh McGuckian; Frank McGuinness; Eoin McNamee; Paula Meehan; John Montague; Paul Muldoon; Nuala Ní Chonchúir; Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; Eilís Ní Dhuibhne; Julie O’Callaghan; Dennis O’Driscoll; Micheal O’Siadhail; Leanne O’Sullivan; Justin Quinn; Billy Roche; Gabriel Rosenstock; Donal Ryan; Patricia Scanlan; Peter Sirr; Colm Tóibín; William Wall; Macdara Woods; Vincent Woods; Enda Wyley. |
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| Julian Murphet, Rónán McDonald & Sascha Morrell, eds., ‘Modernist Wheelman’, in Flann O’Brien & Modernism (London: Bloomsbury 2014),249pp. CONTENTS: Rónán McDonald & Julian Murphet, ‘Introduction: Flann O’Brien and the Modern’; 1. Sean Pryor, ‘Four More Sins, Potentially Deadly’, by Flann O’Brien’; 2. Stephen Ablitt, ‘“"Poor Jimmy Joyce” and the Ironic Modernism of The Dalkey Archive; 3. John Attridge, ‘Lying, bullshit and fiction in Flann O’Brien’; 4. Rónán McDonald, ‘Flann O’Brien and the Irish Bull’; 5. Maebh Long, ‘“Yer nam is Jams O’Donnell”: An Bé;al Bocht, Translation and the Proper Name’; 6. Dirk Van Hulle, ‘Flann O’Brien’s Ulysses: Marginalia and the Modernist Mind’; 7. Stefan Solomon, ‘"The outward accidents of illusion": O’Brien and the Theatrical’; 8. Julian Murphet, ‘O’Brien and Modernist Character’; 9. Mark Byron, ‘Modern Velocipedes’; 10. Joseph Booker, ‘O’Brien and Patrick Kavanagh’; 11. Mark Steven, ‘Technologies of the Modern Self: Solitude and Masturbation in Flann O’Brien’; 12. Baylee Brits, ‘The Calm-Sorcery of Chess: Flann O’Brien’s Modernist Numeracy’; 13. Sam Dickson. ‘No unauthorised boozing: Flann O’Brien and the thirsting youth’; 14. Sascha Morrell. ‘“Froth at the gob”: Soft drink, hard drink, and poetic (re)production in Flann O’Brien and Frank Moorhouse’; 15. David Kelly, ‘Flann O’Brien and the risibility of modern life’. |
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| Bryan Fanning & Tom Garvin, Books That Define Ireland (Sallins: Merrion 2014), 281pp. CONTENTS; Chap. 1: Irish Arguments; Chap. 2: Geoffrey Keating, The History of Ireland/Foras Feasa ar Eirinn (1634); Chap. 3: William Molyneux, The Case of Ireland’s being bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (1698); Chap. 4: Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729); Chap. 5: Andrew Dunleavy, The Catechism of Christian Doctrine (1742); Chap. 6: William Theobald Wolfe Tone (ed.), The Autobiography of Wolfe Tone (1826); Chap. 7: John Mitchel, The Jail Journal (1861); Chap. 8: Horace Plunkett, Ireland in the New Century 1904 and Michael O’Riordan, Catholicity and Progress in Ireland (1905); Chap. 9: James Connolly, Labour in Irish History (1910); Chap. 10: Canon Patrick A. Sheehan, The Graves at Kilmorna (1913); Chap. 11: Desmond Ryan (ed.), Collected Works of Padraic H. Pearse: Political Writings and Speeches (1917); Chap. 12: Daniel Corkery, The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century (1924); Chap. 13: P.S. O’Hegarty, The Victory of Sinn Féin: How it Won It and How it Used It (1924); Chap. 14: Tomas O Criomhthain, An tOileanach (1929); Chap. 15: Frank O’Connor, Guests of the Nation (1931); Chap. 16: Sean O’Faolain, King of the Beggars (1938); Chap. 17: Flann O’Brien, At Swim-to-Birds (1939); Chap. 18: James Kavanagh, Manual of Social Ethics (1954); Chap. 19: Paul Blanshard, The Irish and Catholic Power: An American Interpretation (1954); Chap. 20: Michael Sheehy, Divided We Stand (1955); Chap. 21: Edna O’Brien, The County Girls (1960) and John McGahern, The Dark (1965); Chap. 22: Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger (1962); Chap. 23: Conor Cruise O’Brien, States of Ireland (1972); Chap. 24: A.T.Q. Stewart, The Narrow Ground (1977); Chap. 25: C.S. Andrews, Dublin Made Me (1979); Chap. 26: Nell McCafferty, A Woman To Blame: The Kerry Babies Case (1985); Chap. 27: Noel Browne, Against the Tide (1986); Chap. 28: Fintan O’Toole, Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: The Politics of Irish Beef (1995); Chap. 29: Mary Raftery and Eoin O’Sullivan, Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools (1999); Chap. 30: Elaine Byrne, Political Corruption in Ireland: A Crooked Harp? (2012): Publishing References: Index. |
| Pilar Villar-Argáiz, ed., Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature (Manchester UP 2014), 298pp. CONTENTS: Declan Kiberd, Foreword: the worlding of Irish writing [xii-xvii]. Acknowledgements; List of contributors. Pilar Villar-Argáiz, Introduction: the immigrant in contemporary Irish literature [1]. PART I: Irish multiculturalisms: obstacles and challenges. 2. Charlotte McIvor, ‘White Irish-born male playwrights and the immigrant experience onstage’ [37]; 3. Amanda Tucker, ‘Strangers in a strange land?: the new Irish multicultural fiction’ [50]; 4. Villar-Argáiz, ‘A nation of Others’: the immigrant in contemporary Irish poetry [64]; 5. Margarita Estevez-Saá. ‘Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger novels [79]. PART II: Rethinking Ireland’ as a postnationalist community. 6. Eva Roa White, ‘Who is Irish?’: Roddy Doyle’s hyphenated identities’ [95]; Carmen Zamorano Elena, ‘Our identities is our own instability’: intercultural exchanges and the redefinition of identity in Hugo Hamiltons Disguise and Hand in the Fire [108]; Anne Fogarty, ‘Many and terrible are the roads to home’: representations of the immigrant in the contemporary Irish short story’, [120]; 9. Katarzyna Poloczek, ‘Writing the “new Irish into Ireland’s old narratives: the poetry of Sinead Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Mary O’Malley, and Michael Hayes’ [133]. PART III: “The return of the repressed”: “performing” Irishness through intercultural encounters. 10. Paula Murphy, ‘Marooned men in foreign cities’: encounters with the Other in Dermot Bolger’s The Ballymun Trilogy [151]; 11. Michaela Schrage-Früh, ‘Like a foreigner / in my native land’: transculturality and Otherness in twenty-first-century Irish poetry’ [163]; 12. Jason King, ‘Irish multicultural epiphanies: modernity and the recuperation of migrant memory in the writing of Hugo Hamilton’ [176]; 13. Katherine O’Donnell, ‘The Parts: whiskey, tea, and sympathy’ [188]; 14. Charles I. Armstrong, ‘Hospitality and hauteur: tourism, cross-cultural space, and ethics in Irish poetry [201]. PART IV: Gender and the City. 15. 'Maureen T. Reddy. ‘Gender and the city. ‘Towards a multiracial Ireland: Black Baby’s revision of Irish motherhood’ [217]; 16. Wanda Balzano, ‘Beginning history again: gendering the foreigner in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero [230]; 17. Loredana Salis, ‘Goodnight and joy be with you all’: tales of contemporary Dublin city life’ [243]; 18. David Clark, ‘Mean streets, new lives: the representations of non-Irish immigrants in recent Irish crime fiction [255]. Index [269-72]. (Available online; last accessed 11.08.2019.) |
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