Recent publications

This book provides a new interpretation of the Northern Irish Troubles. From internment to urban planning, the hunger strikes to post-conflict tourism, it asserts that concepts of capitalism have been consistently deployed to alleviate and exacerbate violence in the North.…

This is the new Irish Studies catalogue of the new titles published by Edward Everett Root, Publishers (with a 20% discount). As you can see, the new series of monographs in Irish Literary/Cultural Studies will be launched in the autumn/winter of 2019 with the…

It´s a pleasure to announce publication of the book ‘The Great Irish Famine: Visual and Material Culture’, co-edited by Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Marguérite Corporaal and Oona Frawley, published by Liverpool University Press. The book features new research by Niamh O’Sullivan, Peter Gray, Ciaran Reilly, Jason…

THE OTHER IRISH TRADITION With Rob Doyle, John Holten and June Caldwell In Association with Dalkey Archive Press   The Other Irish Tradition – edited by Rob Doyle and published by Dalkey Archive Press this month – is a colourful anthology that…

Yeats and Mass Communications, ed. David Dwan and Emilie Morin, spec. issue of International Yeats Studies 3, no. 1: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/iys/vol3/iss1/   W. B. Yeats’s pursuit of an audience led him into the world of mass media—a landscape populated first by newspapers…

The Dublin Book Festival is one of Ireland’s most successful and vibrant book festivals, running since June 2006.  The annual public festival showcases, supports and develops Irish publishing by programming, publicising and selling Irish published books, their authors, editors and…

Please join Angela Griffith, Róisín Kennedy, and Marguerite Helmes at 6pm on November 15 at The Hugh Lane, Dublin for the launch of Harry Clarke and Artistic Visions of the New Irish State. This book had its start in Dublin at ACIS 2014.…

The Gate Theatre, Dublin: Inspiration and Craft Edited by David Clare, Des Lally, and Patrick Lonergan Co-published by Carysfort Press (Dublin) /Peter Lang (Oxford) Edited By David Clare, Des Lally and Patrick Lonergan The Gate Theatre is one of Ireland’s major theatres.…

Revolutionary Ireland, 1916-2016 Historical Facts & Social Transformations Re-assessed Constanza del Río (ed.) About this book The commemoration of the Easter Rising centenary in 2016 posed the key question of whether – leaving aside the revolutionary decade (1913-1923) – it was…

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…

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…

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…

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…

New Publication The Influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats: “An Echo of Someone Else’s Music” Noreen Doody (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)   This book examines the relationship between Wilde and Yeats for the first time across a book-length study. The book asserts…

New Publication: Irish Expatriatism, Language and Literature Michael O’Sullivan This book examines how Irishness as national narrative is consistently understood ‘from a distance’. Irish Presidents, critics, and media initiatives focus on how Irishness is a global resource chiefly informed by…

It’s a pleasure to inform you that AEDEI member Keith Payne has just published his translation of Martín Veiga’s Diary of Crosses Green, about a Galician exile’s experience of Cork. They will be launching this book all accross Galicia in the coming weeks…

It is with pleasure that we announce the latest publication by AEDEI member José Francisco Fernández, as co-editor of a special issue in the journal “Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui”. Warm congratulations, José Francisco, on this important academic achievement. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui A Bilingual Review.…

We inform you that Vukašin Nedeljković is launching his book, Asylum Archive on 12th October in Temple Bar Gallery and Studious in Dublin; it is a vital work which documents the  system of Direct Provision in Ireland.  

Edited by Aidan Beatty and Dan O’Brien A collection of essays exploring the comparative history of Irish and Jewish identity. “Beatty’s and O’Brien’s comprehensive collection corrects and amplifies our understanding of the historically significant relationship between the Irish and Jews,…

Launch of Giving Shape to the Moment: the Art of Mary O’Donnell, Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist (Peter Lang, Reimagining Ireland series) Editor, Dr. Maria Elena Jaime de Pablos. Where? Irish Writers Centre, Parnell Sq. Dublin Time: 18.30-20.30 Date: 13th…

Portrait of a Revolutionary: General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State Author: Maryann Gialanella Valiulis Richard Mulcahy was architect of the guerrilla war that forced the British to grant Dominion status to Ireland and the guiding spirit…

Huir Del Laberinto. Crecer en Irlanda del Norte Una mirada literaria Autora: Esther Aliaga Rodrigo   Huir del Laberinto ofrece una mirada alternativa al conflicto de Irlanda del Norte a través del reflejo que del mismo hacen cuatro novelas contemporáneas.…

Richard Pine’s Durrell Library website offers a chance to view a 1970 documentary on John Gawsworth which includes footage of Kate O’Brien. In a Fitzrovia pub, Lawrence Durrell and Alan Thomas discuss their mutual friend John Gawsworth (1912-1970), about whom Durrell is…

Something happened during a thirty-five year period from 1980-2015 to unsettle what had previously been a predominantly one-way story of emigration from Ireland to America. The Irish who arrived in the US in the 1980s could return home in the…

In any sustained period of food hunger and famine, children are one of the most vulnerable groups in terms of disease and mortality. The Great Hunger that occurred in Ireland between 1845 and 1852 is no exception. This publication explores…

The 8 th issue of “Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies” is now online and can be downloaded from the website. It includes a monographic section titled “Daredevils of History? Resilience in Armenia and Ireland”, edited by Suzan Meryem…

  Remembering the Troubles Contesting the Recent Past in Northern Ireland Edited by Jim Smyth The historian A. T. Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all history is applied history—that is, the study of the past prosecutes political conflict…

The latest issue of The Irish Review Vol. 54, ‘Embodied Geographies of the Nation’ edited by Dr Nessa Cronin (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway) and Professor Karen E. Till (Geography, Maynooth University), is now available;https://theirishreview.com/2018/06/14/the-irish-review-54/. Discursive panel sessions have been dedicated to the…

It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of Migrant  Shores (Salmon Poetry, 2017), a new anthology of contemporary poetry  edited by Manuela Palacios, in which Irish poets translate Moroccan and  Galician poems about emigration and write new…

Find below information on a new book of essays on Joyce; our colleague, from AEDEI, Teresa Caneda is one of the contributors. Congratulations on this important publication.   In this landmark book, leading international scholars from North America, Europe and the…

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…

It is a pleasure to inform you of the launch of Edward Everett Root Publishers’ new series entitled “Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and Culture”, of which Pilar Villar Argaiz, AEDEI member, is the General Editor. EER is a prestigious publisher and it…

It is a pleasure to inform you of the recent publication in Palgrave Macmillan of the volume “Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context”, edited by our colleagues Diana Villanueva Romero, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno y Manuel Sánchez García, from the…

LA OBRA Un escritor frustrado toma las riendas de su destino de una manera inesperada tras ser rechazado para una importante beca literaria; dos hermanas gemelas se encuentran de escapada en Lanzarote, donde una de ellas rememora las claves que…

 “Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre gathers together scholars and practitioners to give us a comprehensive picture of the state of Irish theatre. Providing fresh perspectives on playwrights like McDonagh, Walsh, and Marina Carr, and on the work of companies like…

Praise for the book:   “Stylish and probing, Bruna’s study is finely alert to Synge’s travel writings and to the popular and literary cultural contexts out of which they came. Itself highly original, it shows how Synge, in implicit dialogue…

This new book by the eminent critic provides an informative and timely survey of contemporary approaches to Joyce and modern Irish writing over almost 40 years. In a fresh opening survey Pierce explores the new departure for fiction heralded by…

Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel by Bridget English. The author holds a PhD in English from Maynooth University in Ireland. The book explores the ways in which death shapes the structure, form, and…

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…

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;…

Relocated Memories. The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870 Marguérite Corporaal Syracuse University Press Hardcover $65.00; 978-0-8156-3498-0 Ebook 978-0-8156-5398-1 Paper $34.95; 978-0-8156-3513-0 6 x 9, 320 pages, 8 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index Series: Irish Studies APRIL 2017…

We are proud to inform you of the recent publication by AEDEI member José Francisco Fernández, Cómo es, a new translation of Beckett’s work  How It Is, preceded by a critical introduction (Valencia: JPM Ediciones, 2017). This book has been published…

‘This book is a revolution in Beckett studies: one will speak of before and after Emilie Morin. Thanks to her skills at unearthing forgotten archives, a new Beckett emerges, not just a political Beckett, but also a writer whose art,…

 The Irish artist and writer Edith Somerville said that she ‘was taught in Paris that it was the first impression that mattered – paint rapidly so as to keep it fresh’. TWO IRISH GIRLS IN BOHEMIA captures those initial impressions in its…

“This important study reveals Spain as a significant locus of creative disinhibition and resistance for Kate O’Brien. Her lifelong fascination with Spanish literary culture granted an oblique way of subverting the conservative Catholic social and cultural imperatives of the Irish…

  50th Anniversary Book Sale To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the appearance our first publication (on 21 July 1966) we have set up a new website listing all the publications presently available from the company (together with a section on…

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/  

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.…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…