Books by Mark Connelly

This illustrated history analyses celluloid depictions of the IRA from the 1916 Easter Rising to the peace process of the 1990s. Topics include America's role in creating both the IRA and its cinematic image, the organisation's brief association with the Nazis, and critical reception of IRA films in Ireland, Britain and the United States.

A three-time National Book Award for Fiction winner, Saul Bellow is one of the most highly regarded American authors to emerge since World War II. His career produced 14 novels and novellas, two volumes of nonfiction, short story collections, plays and a book of collected letters. This companion provides more than 200 entries about his works, literary characters, events and persons in his life.

British Instructional Films was at the centre of a number of issues important to Britain and the Empire in the 1920s: the memory and history of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes and identities, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature of popular culture as an international contest in its own right.

This work examines the life and fiction of Charles Jackson, a pioneer gay writer who addressed taboo issues with insight and sensitivity. His stories about "outing", gay-bashing, molestation, and thrill killers are now more relevant in the 21st century than when they first appeared in the 1950s.

This detailed case study of a part of London shows how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.

Explores how the memory of the Second World War continues to affect British contemporary life. This book explores the way in which the British memory of the Second World War was created during the war, and maintained after it through cultural artifacts such as films, comics, art, literature and toys.