Publications

This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the Crumlin Road…

The “Bold Girls Project”, which kicked off in March 2018 as a multi-disciplinary initiative to study the role of women in children and young adult literature. The link to this project is the following:https://childrensbooksireland.ie/projects/boldgirls/

It is a great pleasure to announce the publication of an article on Eavan Boland’s recent passing, written by our dearest Pilar Villar and published in Nexus some days ago. We are delighted to congratulate Pilar on this new achievement,…

It is a real pleasure to announce the latest publication of our dear José Francisco Fernández. We are really proud of sharing this space with such qualified and talented colleagues as José Francisco and we are delighted to congratulate him…

Celebrating 50 years in 2020! The Irish University Review is the premier and leading journal in Irish literary criticism. It covers, on a global scale, all aspects of Irish literature in the English language. Click here for more information.

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre – from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the carceral dynamics that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in Confinement explores these recurring concepts of closed space…