Anne Fogarty & Eugene O'Brien, eds., The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing (NY: Routledge 2025), xvii, 465pp., ill. CONTENTS: Introduction: Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing - The New and the Now.

Part I. Narrative Imaginings: Between Ideology and Resistance: Chap. 1: Counterfactual Geographies - Creating Urban Space in Post-Crash Irish Fiction - Chap. 2: Representations of Catholicism in Contemporary Irish Fiction - Chap. 3: Four Recent Irish-Language Novels - A Century after Pearse - Chap. 4: Conversational Ethics and Aesthetics in the Contemporary Family Novel - Anne Enright's The Green Road (2015) and Donal Ryan's The Queen of Dirt Island (2022) - Chap. 5: Liquid Modernity and Twenty-First-Century Irish Young Adult Fiction - Chap. 6: The Biopolitics of Emotions and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary Irish Writing by Non-White Authors - Chap. 7: Embodied Pasts and Precarious Futures: Somatic Storytelling in Trespasses (2022) and Close to Home (2023) - Chap. 8: The Ethics of Care in Sally Rooney's Novels: Between Self and Other - Chap. 9: “Feeling Catty”: Reading Animals in Short Stories by Contemporary Irish Women Writers - Chap. 10: Remapping Ireland in Poems by Paula Cunningham, Eiléan Ní - Chuilleanáin and Nithy Kasa.

Part II. A Poetics of the Unfinished and the Transformative - Chap. 11: Twenty-First-Century Migrant Irish Poets in the UK: Martina Evans and Fran Lock - Chap. 12: ‘The Art of “Yielding”’: Contemporary Irish Ecopoetics - Chap. 13: Wilful Renewing: Tradition and Innovation in the Work of Aifric Mac Aodha and Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin - Chap. 14: Micheal O’Siadhail - Intersecting, Resonant and Polyglot Voices - Chap. 15: Queer Poetry - Chap. 16: ‘The Art of Losing’: Ailbhe Darcy’s Ekphrastic Touch - Chap. 17: ‘Echo Is Dumb’: Modes of Address and Generational Dialogue in Irish Poetry - Chap. 18: ‘Memory Followed You / On the Water’: Oceanic Perspectives in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry - Chap. 19: Ecodramaturgy and the Covid-19: Pandemic: The Abbey Theatre’s Adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger (2020).

Part III. Theatrical Engagements and Critiques. Chap. 20. THISISPOPBABY - Glorious Energy, Grief and the Twenty-First-Century Craic Tax - Chap. 21: Class Matters: Working-Class Theatre in the Wake of the Economic Crash - Chap. 22: Talking about Sex in Twenty-First-Century Irish Prose and Performance - Chap. 23 Ethnotheatre in Northern Ireland: Research-Led Work by Kabosh Theatre Company - Chap. 24 Visceral Injustices in The Blue Boy (2011), Woman Undone (2018) and The Examination (2019) by Brokentalkers - Chap. 25: Agonistic Spaces: Dissensus and Ethical Conflicts in Recent Irish Theatre - Chap. 26: The Rise of Ireland’s Campus Novel. Part IV. New Voices, New Forms, New Modes of Material Production - Chap. 27: Irish Fantasy Fiction in the Twenty-First Century - Chap. 28: The Personal Essay - Chap. 29: Global Irish Crime Fiction in the Twenty-First Century: Expanding the Scope - Chap. 30: Contemporary Irish Poetry off the Page - Chap. 31: Still Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Epochal Change in Twenty-First-Century Irish Poetry - Chap. 32: Changing Irish Identity: The Presence of Black Writing in Contemporary Ireland - Chap. 33: The Stinging Fly and Contemporary Irish Short Fiction - Chap. 34: The Journal Era: Style and Twenty-First-Century Irish Literary Magazines - Chap. 35: Languages and Publishing in Contemporary Irish Writing; Index.

Lauren Arrington & Matthew Campbell, eds., The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats (Oxford UP 2023), 753pp. CONTENTS: David Dwan, ‘Revolution and Counter-Revolution’; Geraldine Parsons, ‘Ancient Ireland’; Seán Hewitt, ‘Fairy and Folk Tales of Bedford Park’; Peter McDonald, ‘“Never to leave that valley”: Sligo’; Akiko Manabe, ‘A Country Over Wave: Japan, Noh, kyogen’; Lauren Arrington, ‘Yeats in Fascist Italy’; Jahan Ramazani, ‘Asias’; Nathan Suhr-Sytsma, ‘Africa’; Cóilín Parsons, ‘Planets’; Hugh Haughton, ‘Tradition and Phantasmagoria: Dante and Shakespeare’; Francis O’Gorman, ‘Among the Victorians’; R. F. Foster, ‘The Ghost of Parnell’; Nicholas Grene, ‘Lady Gregory: Patronage, Collaboration, Mythopoeia’; Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, ‘Family Business at Dun Emer and Cuala: Collaboration, Contention, and Creativity’;  Nicholas Allen, ‘The Writings of Jack Yeats’; Joseph Hassett, ‘W. B. Yeats, John Quinn, and the Literary Marketplace’; Susan Jones, ‘Dance’; Lucy McDiarmid, ‘Yeatsian Masculinities’; Justin Quinn, ‘Tagore, Pound, and World English’; Margaret Mills Harper, ‘George Yeats’; Claire Nally, ‘Rites and Rhymes’; Tom Walker, ‘Modernist Accommodations’; Charles Armstrong, ‘Romanticism and Aestheticism’; Susan Cannon Harris, ‘Early Plays: Gender, Genre, and Queer Collaboration’; Neil Mann, ‘Yeats’s Visionary Poetics’;  Matthew Campbell, ‘Yeats’s Visionary Comedy’; Wayne K. Chapman, ‘Late Style’;  Stephanie Burt, ‘Imperfect Forms’; Claire Lynch, ‘Self-Making’; Jack Quin, ‘Illustrating Yeats’; Warwick Gould, ‘Editing Yeats’; Geraldine Higgins, ‘Talking Back to History: From “September 1913” to “Easter, 1916”’;  Patrick Lonergan, ‘Playing Yeats’; Emilie Morin, ‘Yeats in the Media’; Vona Groarke, ‘Yeats and Contemporary Poetry: Twelve Speculative Takes’; Edna Longley, ‘Yeats and Renaissance Italy: “Courtly images”’;  Zsuzsanna Balázs, ‘Reading the Late Plays: Sexual Unorthodoxies’;  Fran Brearton, ‘“Knights of the Air”: Yeats, Flight and Modernity’; Adam Piette, ‘“Cast a cold eye”: Death in Wartime’; Katherine Ebury, ‘The Scientific Revolution’; Adam Hanna, ‘W. B. Yeats: The Senate and the Stage’; Alan Gillis, ‘The 1930s: ‘That Day Brings Round the Night’”.