Recent publications

Cóilín Parsons Advances an original argument about the importance of the Ordnance Survey to the development of modern Irish literature Offers an expanded temporality of Irish modernism, beginning at a moment of profound cultural change in the 1830s Presents a…

BOOK PUBLICATION: Samuel Beckett: La mostración de lo inefable. Javier Corona Fernández y Gergana Petrova, eds. Guanajuato: Universidad de Guanajuato, 2015. Website: http://editorialitaca.com.mx/portfolio-item/samuel-beckett-la-mostracion-de-lo-inefable/  

Queridos miembros de AEDEI, Nos es de gran satisfacción anunciar que nuestro colega José Francisco Fernández Sánchez ha recibido el Premio de Traducción 2016 por parte de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN) por la traducción de los Relatos y Textos para…

Book Summary Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms, and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture closely examines…

  Silence in Modern Irish Literature is the first book to focus exclusively on the treatment of silence in modern Irish literature. It reveals the wide spectrum of meanings that silence carries in modern Irish literature: a mark of historical loss,…

David Clark and Rubén Jarazo Álvarez, eds. IN THE WAKE OF THE TIGER IRISH STUDIES IN THE TWENTIETH-FIRST CENTURY Coruña, 2010 210 Pages ISBN: 978-84-9745-547-3

Book presentation: The book brings together a fascinating collection of writings on the links between Spain and northern Europe in the early modern period, ranging from Ireland in the west to Poland and the Hanseatic states in the east. 29…

Anne Jamison’s new book on female authorship and literary collaboration explores the remarkable literary partnership of one of the most prominent and successful female writing duos at work in the late nineteenth century; Irish authors, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross.…

Recently published – The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel (Palgrave Macmillan), Ed. Elizabeth Mannion Hardback 9781137539397 http://www.palgrave.com/uk/book/9781137539397  Irish detective fiction has enjoyed an international readership for over a decade, appearing on best-seller lists across the globe. But its breadth of hard-boiled and amateur detectives, historical…

http://www.iasil.org/2016/08/new-publication-from-cork-up-e-oe-somerville-and-martin-ross-female-authorship-and-literary-collaboration/ Anne Jamison’s new book on female authorship and literary collaboration explores the remarkable literary partnership of one of the most prominent and successful female writing duos at work in the late nineteenth century; Irish authors, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross.

Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period: New Perspectives on Artistic Practice, 1620–1820 (Irish Academic Press) Eds. Jane Fenlon, Ruth Kenny, Caroline Pegum, Brendan Rooney This richly illustrated book presents the latest research into Irish fine art from the…

Elke D’hoker, Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross,…

Cork University Press today publishes Colum McCann’s Intertexts: Books Talk to one Another  by Bertrand Cardin. The intertext is the effective presence of a text in another one. This relation of co-presence between texts is the subject of the present…

Creating History: Stories of Ireland in Art Ed. Brendan Rooney The National Gallery of Ireland announces its principal contribution to the Decade of Centenaries, Creating History: Stories of Ireland in Art, an exhibition that opens to the public on Saturday…

Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity: The Irish and the Middle East Conflict Marie-Violaine Louvet Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity originates from Louvet’s observation of the strong commitment of a layer of Irish civil society – from the man…

Forthcoming from Syracuse University Press: Political Acts: Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921–2012 Fiona Coffey Hardcover $65.00L    |    978-0-8156-3490-4    |    2016 Paper $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3475-1    |    2016 “The definitive account of women in the Irish theatre of the North from…

Volume 4. 1966-1989 The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 4. 1966-1989. Edited by George Craig, University of Sussex Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Emory University, Atlanta Dan Gunn, The American University of Paris Lois More Overbeck, Emory University, Atlanta ISBN: 9780521867962 Hardback:…

Special Offer on Ireland and Quebec: Four Courts Press are delighted to announce A special offer on copies of Ireland and Quebec: Multidisciplinary perspectives on history, culture and society to all members of the International Association for the Study of…

Ireland’s Allies America and the 1916 Easter Rising Edited by Miriam Nyhan Grey Foreword by J. J. Lee KEY SELLING POINTS: A unique study of America’s role in Ireland’s 1916 revolutionary period. Contributors are historians from both sides of the…

[easy-tweet tweet=”New publication: Aidan Beatty. Masculinities and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938″ via=”no” hashtags=”#irishstudies”]This book is a comparative study of masculinity and white racial identity in Irish nationalism and Zionism. It analyses how both national movements sought to refute widespread…

Patrick Pearse and the Theatre / Mac Piarais agus an téatar. Eugene McNulty & Róisín Ní Ghairbhí, editors This book focuses on Patrick Pearse the theatre man. Pearse, like many among the revolutionary generation, was deeply interested in the theatre…

  This collective volume provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. The different cultural fields of interest studied in this book include theatre, photography, poetry, painting,…

  Edwin John Ellis’s and William Butler Yeats’s The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical. A Manuscript Edition, with Critical Analysis presents, for the first time, the manuscript – in facsimile and transcription – of the so-called Quaritch…

  Essay collection tracking 100 years of classical music, Ireland‘s most neglected artform. For more information click here.

Alexandra Poulain Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play (Palgrave) This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day.…

Series: Reimagining Ireland Anne Karhio This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal and stylistic aspects of his poems, the book explores the question of…

An exploration of the Famine in Irish fiction across time and in diaspora. “After reading Relocated Memories, it is no longer possible to think about the Irish Famine purely in an Irish context. With this book, Marguérite Corporaal has expanded the…

  Introduces Norah Hoult’s (1898–1984) short story collection ‘Poor Women!’ to a new generation of readers Imprint: Anthem Press Hardback ISBN 9781783085880 December 2016 | 250 Pages | 229 x 152mm / 9 x 6 | 2 figures + images given as…

Recent publication by AEDEI member Carlos Menéndez Otero, “Irlanda y los irlandeses en el cine popular (1910-1970)”. Detailed information on the book can be found here: https://editorialamarante.es/libros/ensayo/irlanda-y-los-irlandeses-en-el-cine-popular-1910-1970

Publication in Palgrave Macmillan of the volume National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature: Unbecoming Irishness, edited by our colleague Luz Mar González Arias. You will find at the end of this email the table of contents. For more…

It is a great pleasure to inform you that issue number 12 of Estudios Irlandeses is out and can be found in its website (www.estudiosirlandeses.org). Our deepest gratitude and congratulations to its Editor, Dr. José Francisco Fernández, for his impeccable…

Publication of the special issue in the journal Nordic Irish Studies: Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland (volume 15, number 1, 2016). Please find below and also in attachment the table of contents. To…

Is there a woman writer you’d like to champion? An out-of-print text you’d love to see back in print, and assign for a class you teach? Dan Bolger, commissioning editor at New Island Books wants to hear from you. Dan…

Morales Ladrón, Marisol and Juan Francisco Elices Agudo, eds. Glocal Ireland: Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4438-2979-3. In the context of present-day Ireland, the editors of this collection of papers argue…

Catálogo de varias publicaciones en estudios irlandeses del verano de 2016, entre las que se incluye, con orgullo, el libro editado por nuestras compañeras María Losada-Friend, Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides y Pilar Ron-Vaz. Catalogue of various books published this summer on the field of Irish Studies;…

This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only…

Birte Heidemann, Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature: Lost in a Liminal Space? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) This book uncovers a new genre of ‘post-Agreement literature’, consisting of a body of texts – fiction, poetry and drama – by Northern Irish writers who…

“Dalkey Archive Press has republished Dermot Healy’s first novel, Fighting with Shadows, and issued his Collected Short Stories. These books provide an insight into the most extraordinary Irish literary consciousness of the last fifty years. […] What lies before you…

Dalkey Archive Press has just published two books by and about the late Dermot Healy: Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy, edited, with an Introduction, by Neil Murphy & Keith Hopper, and with a Foreword by Neil…

IRISH PAGES is a biannual journal, edited in Belfast and publishing, in equal measure, writing from Ire-land and overseas. Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, memoir, essay reviews, nature-writing, translated work, literary journalism, and other…

While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national…

Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of Ireland’s Famine Exodus brings to-gether leading scholars in the field who examine the experiences and recollections of Irish emigrants who fled from their famine-stricken homeland in the mid-nineteenth century. The book breaks…

Irish Studies in Europe is the title of a series of publications in Irish Studies whose thematic and methodological range goes well beyond literary studies to include aspects of cultural studies in the broadest sense. The main emphasis is, of…

Raphaël Ingelbien, Irish Cultures of Travel. Writing on the Continent, 1829-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) Irish Cultures of Travel analyses travel texts aimed at the emergent Irish middle classes in the long nineteenth century. Unlike travel writing about Ireland, Irish travel writing about foreign…

Soldiers of the Short Grass: A History of the Curragh Camp by Dan Harvey is the first complete history of this national landmark from 1855 to the present day, taking into account every facet of its development. The Curragh Camp had enormous implications…

Morales-Ladrón, Marisol (ed.) Family and Dysfunction in Contemporary Irish Narrative and Film. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2016. 352 pp. ISBN 978-3-0343-2219-5. Book sinopsis: Institutionalized through religious, moral and political discourses, the family has become an icon of Irish culture. Historically, the influence of
the Church…

Irish Studies UCD PRESS CATALOGUE 2015-16 (pdf)

Book publication: Garvin, Tom. The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual (2016), Dublin: Irish Academic Press.

Ruán O’Donnell and Mícheál Ó’ hAodha (Eds).Voices from the Easter Rising (2016), Merrion Press. http://www.iasil.org/2016/04/just-published-voices-from-the-easter-rising/ This is an anthology of extraordinary testimonies and first-hand accounts of how the Easter Rising of 1916 was experienced by people from all backgrounds, drawing…

REVISTA CANARIA DE ESTUDIOS INGLESES VOLUMEN: 68 (2014) CONTENTS SPECIAL ISSUE Juan Ignacio Oliva, guest-editor Introduction ARTICLES Leif Søndergaard Enrique Galván Álvarez Ute Anna Mittermaier Margaret Brehony Marta Ramón García Alfred Markey Juan F. Elices Jochen Achilles Rosa González Casademont…

Brewster; Scott and Werner Huber (eds.) Recently published: Ireland: Arrivals and Departures. Irish Studies in Europe, 5. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015. For further information, visit: http://www.iasil.org/2015/09/recently-published-ireland-arrivals-and-departures/

O’Carroll, Ide B. 2014. Models for Movers: Irish Women’s Emigration to America. Amherst, Massachusetts. ISBN: 9781782051565. This is a unique collection of Irish women’s oral histories spanning three waves of twentieth-century emigration to America in the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s.

Fernández, José Francisco, ed. and trad. Mercier y Camier, by Samuel Beckett. Almería: Confluencias, 2013. 168 pages. ISBN: 978-84-941691-8-2. This is not the first time that Beckett’s first novel in French has been translated into Spanish, but it is the…

Iglesias Díaz, E. Guillermo. Cine, espacio urbano e identidades (trans)nacionales: The Commitments and Trainspotting. Sevilla: Arcibel, 2014. ISBN: 978-84-15335-50-4. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz’s research focuses on the interaction between postmodernism and postcolonialism in film adaptations of two relevant contemporary novels, The…

Jaime de Pablos, María Elena and Mary Pierse, eds. George Moore and the Quirks of Human Nature.   Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. ISBN 978-3-0343-1752-8 The engaging figure of Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) comes to life in this collection of essays…

Walshe, Eibhear. A Different Story. The Writings of Colm Tóibín . Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2013. ISBN-13:978-0716531326 Colm Tóibín is one of the most widely-read and critically respected of Irish contemporary novelists, both in Europe and in North America, and…

Kiberd, Declan and P.J. Matthews (eds.). Handbook of the Irish Revival, 2015. Abbey Theatre Press. ISBN: 9780993180002. The Irish Revival was a time of intense cultural and political debate in Ireland. Yet much of the formative writings of the day…

Carpenter, Andrew (ed.) Art and Architecture of Ireland. 2015. Royal Irish Academy  in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.  This five-volume authoritative and monumental work provides new insight into every facet of the strength, depth and variety of…

Engendering Ireland: New Reflections on Modern History and Literature, 2015. Editor(s): Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, Laura Kelly. This is a collection of ten essays showcasing the importance of gender in a variety of disciplines. These essays interrogate gender as a concept which…

Moore, Cormac, 2015, The Irish Soccer Split, Cork: Cork University Press. The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland international soccer teams are reaching the conclusion of their campaigns to reach Euro 2016 in France over the coming weeks. Had not fate intervened,…

Crosson, Seán and Huber, Werner (eds.) 2015: Towards 2016 – 1916 and Irish Literature, Culture & Society, Irish Studies in Europe. Further  copies can be ordered at: http://www.wvttrier.de/top/Beschreibungen/ID1475.html This book is cognisant of the multiple perspectives and events that are associated with…

Villar-Argáiz, Pilar, ed. Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8928-2 . The present collection of essays by 18 leading academics deals with the topic of how Irish literature responds to…

Losada Friend, María, José Mª Tejedor Cabrera, José Manuel Estévez Saá and Werner Huber, eds. Dreaming the Future: New Horizons/Old Barriers in 21st Century Ireland. Irish Studies in Europe, 3. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2011. 122 pages. ISBN: 978-3-86821-327-0. This volume…