Books by Gerry Smyth

This book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland.

Argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent throughout Irish society since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century.

On the construction of Irish national identity, drawing on Irish history from the late nineteenth century to the present.

An introduction to the issues surrounding the emergence of the Irish Novel since the eighteenth century