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Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2017 & Later
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
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Literary & Cultural
Commentary
- Maria Beville & Deirdre Flynn, eds., Irish Urban Fictions (London: Palgrave 2018), xii, 245pp.[see contents].
- Gregory Castle & Patrick Bixby, eds., A History of Irish Modernism (Cambridge UP 2019), [Xvi], 442pp.[see contents].
- Joe Cleary, Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (Yale UP 2017), 320pp.
- Gerald Dawe, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets (Cambridge UP 2017) [essays by Florence Impens, Lucy Collins, Maria Johnston and Fran Brearton, Sean Lysaght, James Ward, Aodan MacPoilin, Michael Griffin, Jeffrey Vail, John McAuliffe, Nicholas Grene, David Wheatley, Tom Walker, Chris Morash, Guy Woodward, Louis de Paor, Benjamin Keatinge, Andrew Fitzsimons, Maurice Riordan, Richard Pine, Terence Brown, Peter Sirr, Matt Campbell, Hugh Haughton, Justin Quinn, Alan Gillis, Nicholas Allen, Peter McDonald and John Dillon].
- Philip O’Leary, An Underground Theatre: Major Playwrights in the Irish Language, 1930–80 (UCD Press 2017) [Chaps. on Séamus Ó Néill (1910–81); Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (1919–82); Seán Ó Tuama (1926–2006); and Críostóir Ó Floinn (b. 1927)].
- Michael Pierse, ed., A History of Irish Working-Class Writing Cambridge UP 2017), xx, 462pp. [see contents]
- Luz Mar González-Arias, ed., National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature : Unbecoming Irishness (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017), xxi, 248pp. [see contents].
Critical Studies: Individual
Authors
- Claire Culleton & Ellen Shleibe, eds., Rethinking Joyce’s Dubliners: (Palgrave Macmillan 2017), 213pp.[see contents].
- Tom French, ed. A Bittern Cry: In Honour of Francis Ledwidge; intro by Gerald Dawe (Francis Ledwidge Museum/Poetry Ireland & Meath County Council 2017), 183pp. [see under Ledwidge, as supra].
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Language & Folklore Studies
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Religion & Philosophy
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Media & Entertainment
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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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Natural History & Topography
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Politics, Economics & Society
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Northern Ireland/Ulster
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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
| Maria Beville & Deirdre Flynn, eds., Irish Urban Fictions (London: Palgrave 2018), xii, 245pp. CONTENTS: 1. Introduction: Beville & Flynn, ‘Irish Urban Fictions’; 2. Eva Roa White, ‘Whose Dublin Is It Anyway? Joyce, Doyle, and the City’; 3. Maggie O’Neill, ‘That Limerick Lady: Exploring the relationship between Kate O’Brien and her city’; 4. Molly Ferguson, Migrants in the City: Dublin through the Stranger’s Eyes in Hugo Hamilton’s Hand in the Fire; 5. Tim Keane, ‘Chapter Four. Phantasmal Belfast, Ancient Languages, Modern Aura in Ciaran Carson’s The Star Factory’; 6. Quyen Nguyen, ‘“Neither this nor that”: The De-centred Textual City in Ulysses’; 7. Laura Lovejoy, ‘Urban Degeneracy and the Free State in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds’; 8. Martyn Colebrook, ‘Putting the “Urban” into ‘Disturbance’: Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane and the Irish Urban Gothic’; 9. Neil Murphy, ‘John Banville: The City as Illuminated Image’; 10. Nikhil Gupta, ‘The Haunted Dublin of Ulysses: Two Modes of Time in the Second City of the Empire’; 11. Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado, ‘‘It’s only history’: Belfast in Rosemary Jenkinson’s Short Fiction’; 12. Terry Phillips, ‘The City of the Farset: Portrayals of Belfast in three novels by Glenn Patterson’. |
| Gregory Castle & Patrick Bixby [both Arizona State U.], eds., A History of Irish Modernism (Cambridge UP 2019), [Xvi], 442pp. CONTENTS: Part I – Revival. Castle & Bixby, ‘Introduction: Irish Modernism From Emergence To Emergency’, pp.1-24; Chap. 1: John Paul Riquelme’, Gothic Revivals: The Fin De Siècle Irish Modernism and the Heritage of Wilde and Stoker’, pp.27-43; Chap. 2: Gregory Castle & Patrick Bixby, ‘Standish O’Grady and the Historical Imagination of Irish Modernism’, pp.44-63; Chap. 3: Christopher Morash, ‘Yeats’, the Abbey’, and Theatrical Modernism’, pp.64-77; Chap. 4: Nicholas Grene, ‘J. M. Synge Late Romantic or Protomodernist’, pp.78-90; Chap. 5: Ronan McDonald, ‘Internal Others: Cultural Debate and Counter Revival’, pp.91-108. Part II — Revolutions. Chap. 6: Simon Joyce, ‘Naturalism and the Literary Politics of Irish Modernist Fiction’, pp.111-27; Chap. 7: Clare Hutton, ‘Toward a Modernism of the Book from Dun Emer to Shakespeare and Company’, pp.128-14; Chap. 8: Michael G. Cronin, ‘Rebellious Devotion: Catholicism and The Limits Of Modernism’, pp.142-59; Chap. 9: Enda Duffy, ‘Irish Modernism: The European Influence’, pp.160-75; Chap. 10: Michael Wood, ‘Yeats and the Revolutionary Poetics of Age’, pp.176-90; Chap. 11: Nicholas Allen, ‘Material Modernism: An Irish Case Circa 1921’, pp.191-206. Part III - New States. Chap. 12: Joseph Valente, ‘From Whiteboys to White Nationalism: Joyce and Modern Irish Populism’, pp.209-26; Chap. 13: Paige Reynolds, ‘Sean O’Casey’s Late Modernism: Gender Race and Disabled Bodies on the Irish Expressionist Stage’, pp.227-42; Chap. 14: Derek Hand, ‘Feeling Disaffection: Forms of Estrangement in Irish Fiction’, pp.243-58; Chap. 15: John Brannigan, ‘Atlantic Archipelagos: The Irish-American Ecologies of Late Modernism’, pp.259-75; Chap. 16: Gerardine Meaney, ‘A Disruptive Modernist: Kate O’Brien and Irish Women’s Writing’, pp.276-91; Chap. 17: Adrienne Leavy, ‘Irish Modernist Poetry after Yeats: Local Regional and Transatlantic’, pp.292-310. Part IV - Emergenc(i)es. Chap. 18: Barry McCrea, ‘ Irish Writing and Minor Language Modernism’, pp.313-29; Chap. 19: Damien Keane, ‘Time made audible: Irish stations and radio modernism’ [330]; Chap. 20: Luke Gibbons, ‘“No Irishness intended”: the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Thomas MacGreevy, and Samuel Beckett’ [346]; Chap. 21: Frank Shovlin, ‘Was The Bell modernist?[364]; Chap. 22: Emilie Morin, ‘Samuel Beckett, late modernism, and the paradox of distance’ [379]; Chap. 23. Ellen Rowley, ‘1966: the binary conditions of Irish architectural modernism’ [394-418].Index [418-28] (Available at Cambridge UP - online; last accessed 11.08.2019.) |
| Michael Pierse, ed., A History of Irish Working-Class Writing (Cambridge UP 2017), xx, 462pp. [Prelims.] Contents (pp.vii-x); Contributors (pp.xi-xii); Foreword by Declan Kiberd (pp.xiii-xviii); Acknowledgements (pp.xix-xx) . Michael Pierse, Introduction (pp.1-36). Chapters: 1: David Convery, ‘Writing and Theorising the Irish Working Class’ (pp.37-56). 2: Christopher J. V. Loughlin, ‘Representing Labour: Notes towards a Political and Cultural Economy of Irish Working-Class Experience’ (pp.57-71). 3: Andrew Carpenter, ‘Working-Class Writing in Ireland before 1800: “Some must be poor – we cannot all be great”’ (pp.72-88). 4: Frank Ferguson, ‘“We wove our ain wab”: The Ulster Weaver Poets’ Working Lives, Myths and Afterlives’ (pp.89-101). 5: John Moulden, ‘Sub-literatures?: Folk Song, Memory and Ireland’s Working Poor’ (pp.102-121). 6: Heather Laird, ‘Writing Working-Class Irish Women’ (pp.122-139). 7: Elizabeth Mannion, ‘“Unwriting” the City: Narrating Class in Early Twentieth-Century Belfast and Dublin (1900–1929)’ (pp.140-152). 8: James Moran, ‘Class during the Irish Revolution: British Soldiers, 1916 and the Abject Body’ (pp.153-167). 9: Michael Pierse, ‘ “An sinne a bhí sa chónra?”: Writing Death on the Margins in Twentieth-Century Irish Working-Class Writing’ (pp.168-194). 10: Tony Murray, ‘Writing Irish Nurses in Britain’ (pp.195-208). 11: Margaret Hallissy, John Lutz, ‘The View from Below Solidarity and Struggle in Irish-American Working-Class Literature’ (pp.209-225). 12: Peter Kuch, ‘Irish Working-Class Writing in Australasia, 1860–1960: Contrasts and Comparisons’ (pp.226-242). 13: Niall Carson, ‘Irish Working-Class Poetry 1900–1960’ (pp.243-256). 14: Paul Delaney, ‘“A system that inflicts suffering upon the many”: Early twentieth-century working-class fiction’ (pp.257-270). 15: Paul Murphy, ‘Drama, 1900–1950’ (pp.271-288). 16: John Brannigan, ‘Seán O’Casey and Brendan Behan: Aesthetics, Democracy and the Voice of Labour’ (pp.289-302). 17: Mary M. McGlynn, ‘Reshaping Well-Worn Genres: Novels of Progress and Precarity 1960–1998’ (pp.303-317). 18: Victor Merriman, ‘Locked Out: Working-Class Lives in Irish Drama 1958–1998’ (pp.318-331). 19: Adam Hanna, ‘Poetry and the Working Class in Northern Ireland during the Troubles’ (pp.332-347). 20: Mark Phelan, ‘Class Politics and Performance in Troubles Drama: “History isn’t over yet”’ (pp.348-363). 21: Claire Lynch, ‘Twentieth-Century Workers’ Biography’ (pp.364-377). 22: Eamonn Jordan, ‘Multiple Class Consciousnesses in Writings for Theatre during the Celtic Tiger Era’ (pp.378-396). Afterword: H. Gustav Klaus, ‘Overdue: The Recovery and Study of Irish Working-Class Writing: An International Perspective’ (pp.397-406). Bibliography (pp.407-442); Index (pp.443-462). |
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| Claire Culleton & Ellen Shleibe, eds., Rethinking Joyce’s Dubliners: (Palgrave Macmillan 2017), 213pp. [CONTENTS - 1. Culleton and Ellen Scheible, Introduction: Rethinking Dubliners - A Case for What Happens in Joyce’s Stories; 2. Culleton, “The thin end of the wedge”: How Things Start in Dubliners; 3. Margot Norris, “No There There”: Place, Absence, and Negativity in “A Painful Case’”; 4. Jim LeBlanc, A “Sensation of Freedom” and the Rejection of Possibility in Dubliners; 5. Jasmine Mulliken, “Scudding in towards Dublin”: Joyce Studies and the Online Mapping Dubliners Project; 6. Ellen Scheible, Joyce’s Mirror Stages and “The Dead”; 7. Joseph P. Kelly, Joyce’s Blinders: an Urban Ecocritical Study of Dubliners and More; 8. Miriam O’Kane Mara, Counterpart’s Clashing Cultures: Navigating Among Print, Printing, and Oral Narratives in Turn of the Century Dublin; 9. Martin Brick, Intermental Epiphanies: Rethinking Dubliners with Cognitive Psychology; 10. Jack Dudley, From “spiritual paralysis” to “spiritual liberation”: Joyce’s Samaritan “Grace”; 11. Enda Duffy, Men in Slow Motion: Male Gesture in “Two Gallants”. |
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| Luz Mar González-Arias, ed., National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature : Unbecoming Irishness (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017), xxi, 248pp. CONTENTS: Luz Mar González-Arias, Introduction: The Imperfect as a Site of Contestation in Contemporary Ireland. Pt. I: THE TIGER AND BEYOND: POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND LITERARY FISSURES. 1. Ciarán Benson, What Plenty Laid Bare! Ireland’s Harsh Confrontation with Itself: 1999-2014; 2. Juan F. Elices, Satiric Insights into Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: The Case of Peter Cunningham’s Capital Sins; 3. Anita Morgan, Understanding the Imperfect in John McGahern’s First and Last Novels. Pt. II: DISRUPTIONS RELIGION, FAMILY AND MARRIAGE. 4. Patricia Coughlan, Hard Times and Sibling Songs: Sibling Relations in Contemporary Irish Literature; 5. Marisol Morales Ladrón, Psychological Resilience in Emma Donoghue’s Room; 6. Auxiliadora Pérez Vides, The Fallen Sex Revisited: Imperfect Celibacy in Mary Rose Callaghan’s A Bit of a Scandal. Pt. III: EX-CENTRIC BODIES AND DISQUIETING SPACES. 7. Rui Carvalho Homem, Form, Deformity: On Pathology and Poetics in Paul Muldoon; 8. Hedwig Schwall, Imperfection as a Chance: Matrixial Borderspaces in Anne Enright; 9. Aida Rosende Pérez, Monstrous Mothers and Mutant Others: Bodies Out of Place in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero; 10. Lucy Collins, Changing Places: The Imperfect City in Contemporary Irish Poetry. PART IV: STEREOTYPES AND THE DISTORTION OF IRISHNESS. 11. Rosa González-Casademont, Irish Drinking Culture on the Screen; 12. Shane Walshe, Treading the Boards? Be Sure to Put on the Right Brogues! The Actor’s Search for the Perfect Irish Accent. Pt. V: UNBECOMING IRISH LITERATURE: THE INSIDE GAZE. 13. Luz Mar González-Arias, ‘Absolutely Imperfect’: In Conversation with Lia Mills; Index. |
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