Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2106

Poetry Collections
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Fiction (Short stories & Novels)
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Drama (Plays & Collections
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Autobiography & Memoir
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Biography (Literary & Historical)
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Miscellaneous Writings
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Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
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Anthologies, Interviews & Almanacs
• Sigrid Rausing, ed., Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, [Iss. 135: New Irish Writing], (Spring 2016), 256pp. ill. CONTENTS: Kevin Barry, “The raingod's green, dark as passion”; Lucy Caldwell, “Here we are”; Leontia Flynn. “Out”; Sally Rooney, “Mr Salary”; Tara Bergin, “Drama lessons for young girls”; Doug DuBois, “My last day at seventeen”; Colin Barratt, “The visitor”; Sara Baume, “Green, mud, gold”; John Connell, “The birds of June”; Donal Ryan, “All we shall know”; Birte Kaufmann, “The travellers”; Colm Tóibín, “A visit to the zoo”; Emma Donaghue, “The wonder”; William Wall, “The mountain road”; Siobhán Mannion, “Through the night”; Stephen Dock, “Our day will come”. Mary O'Donaghue, “Kiddio at the wedding”; Belinda McKeon, “Party, Party”; Stephen Sexton, “The butcher”; Roddy Doyle, “Smile”.

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Literary & Cultural Commentary
• Elke d’Hoker, Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (London: Palgrave 2016). CONTENTS: Chap. 1: Introduction [1]; Chap. 2: Mothers of the Irish Short Story: George Egerton and Somerville and Ross [21]; Chap. 3: Houses and Homes in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen and Maeve Brennan [51]; Chap. 4: Mary Lavin’s Relational Selves [83]; Chap. 5: Staging the Community in Irish Short Fiction: Choruses, Cycles and Crimes [111]; Chap. 6: The Rebellious Daughters of Edna O’Brien and Claire Keegan [141]; Chap. 7: Double Visions - The Metafictional Stories of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Anne Enright and Emma Donoghue [177]; Chap. 8: Conclusion [211-223].
• Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey, Emilie Pine, eds., The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture [New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature] (Palgrave 2016) – CONTENTS: Dillane, et al’., Introduction: The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture’ [1-19]; Patricia Palmer, Where Does It Hurt? How Pain Makes History in Early Modern Ireland’ [21-38]; Dianne Hall, ‘ “Most barbarously and inhumaine maner butchered”: Masculinity, Trauma, and Memory in Early Modern Ireland’ [39-55]; Sarah Covington, ‘“Those Savage Days of Memory”: John Temple and His Narrative of the 1641 Uprising’ [57-75]; Guy Beiner, ‘Severed Heads and Floggings: The Undermining of Oblivion in Ulster in the Aftermath of 1798’ [77-97]; Margaret Kelleher, ‘“Tá mé ag imeacht”: The Execution of Myles Joyce and Its Afterlives’ [99-115]; Ian Miller, Pain, ‘Trauma, and Memory in the Irish War of Independence: Remembering and Contextualising Irish Suffering’ [117-134]; Michael G. Cronin, ‘Pain, Pleasure, and Revolution: The Body in Roger Casement’s Writings’ [135-148]; Sinéad Wall, ‘“Targets of Shame”: Negotiating the Irish Female Migrant Experience in Kathleen Nevin’s You’ll Never Go Back (1946) and Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936)’ [149-166]; Alison Garden, ‘Intertextual Quotation’: Troubled Irish Bodies and Jewish Intertextual Memory in Colum McCann’s ‘Cathal’s Lake’ and ‘Hunger Strike’ [167-182]; Lisa Fitzpatrick, The Vulnerable Body on Stage: Reading Interpersonal Violence in Rape as Metaphor’ [183-198]; Shane Alcobia-Murphy, ‘Recovery and Forgetting: Haunting Remains in Northern Irish Culture’ [199-215]; Catriona Clutterbuck, ‘“That’s not so comfortable for you, is it?”: The Spectre of Misogyny in The Fall’ [217-234]; Caroline Magennis, ‘The Art of Grief’: Irish Women’s Poetry of Loss and Healing’ [235-252].
• Pilar Villar-Argaiz, ed., Literary visions of multicultural Ireland: the immigrant in contemporary Irish literature (Manchester UP 2016), xx, 273pp. CONTENTS: 1. Introduction. The immigrant in contemporary Irish literature - Pilar Villar-Argáiz. PART I: IRISH MULTICULTURALISMS: OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES. 2. White Irish male playwrights and the immigrant experience onstage - Charlotte McIvor. 3. Strangers in a strange land?: The new Irish multicultural literature - Amanda Tucker. 4. ‘A nation of Others’: The immigrant in contemporary Irish poetry - Pilar Villar-Argáiz. 5. Immigration in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger novels - Margarita Estévez-Saá. PART II: RETHINKING IRELAND AS A POSTNATIONALIST COMMUNITY. 6. ‘Who is Irish?’: Roddy Doyle’s hyphenated identities - Eva Roa White. 7. ‘Our identity is our own instability’: Intercultural exchanges and the redefinition of identity in Hugo Hamilton’s Disguise and Hand in Fire - Carmen Zamorano Llena. 8. ‘Many and terrible are the roads to home’: Representations of the immigrant in the contemporary Irish short story - Anne Fogarty. 9. Writing the ‘new Irish’ into Ireland’s old narratives: The poetry of Sinéad Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Mary O’Malley, and Michael Hayes - Katarzyna Poloczec. PART III: THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: PERFORMING’ IRISHNESS THROUGH INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS. 10. ‘Marooned men in foreign cities’: Encounters with the Other in Dermot Bolger’s The Ballymun Trilogy - Paula Murphy. 11. ‘Like a foreigner / in my native land’: Transculturality and Otherness in twenty-first-century Irish poetry - Michaela Schrage-FruÌh. 12. Irish multicultural epiphanies: Modernity and the recuperation of migrant memory in the writing of Hugo Hamilton - Jason King. 13. The Parts: Whiskey, tea, and sympathy - Katherine O’Donnell. 14. Hospitality and hauteur: Tourism, cross-cultural space, and ethics in Irish poetry - Charles I. Armstrong. PART IV: GENDER AND THE CITY. 15. Towards a multiracial Ireland: Black Baby’s revision of Irish motherhood - Maureen T. Reddy. 16. Beginning history again: Gendering the foreigner in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero - Wanda Balzano. 17. ‘Goodnight and joy be with you all’: Tales of contemporary Dublin city life - Loredana Salis. 18. Mean streets, new lives: The representations of non-Irish immigrants in recent Irish crime fiction - David Clark. Index

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Critical Studies: Individual Authors
• Lucy Collins, Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (Liverpool UP 2016): Contents - Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; I Concepts: Chap. 1 - Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland; Chap. 2 - Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet; Chap. 3 - Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry. II Achievements: Chap. 4 - Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory; Chap. 5 - Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities; Chap. 6 - Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux; Chap. 7 - Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality; Conclusion: Memories of the Future; Bibliography.

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Language & Folklore Studies
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Religion & Philosophy
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Media & Entertainment
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Arts & Architecture
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Historical Studies: General
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Historical Studies: 20th Century
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Historical Studies: Centenary Topic
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Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
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Natural History & Topography
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Politics, Economics & Society
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Northern Ireland/Ulster
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Women’s Studies
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Reference, Guides & Bibliography
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Digital Publications
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Journals & Special Issues
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