Books in the Irish Studies series

Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of scholars addressing some of the most essential Irish detective writing, Guilt Rules All confirms that this genre has arrived.

Since the publication of their first controversial novels in the 1950s and 1960s, Philip Roth and Edna O'Brien have always argued against the isolation of mind from body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self from nation. In this book Dan O'Brien investigates these shared concerns of the two authors.

Since W.B. Yeats wrote that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula", the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has been taken as a given. This book brings together scholars to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change.

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars from the fields of Irish studies and Jewish studies, this volume captures the most recent scholarship on their comparative history with nuance and remarkable insight.

Sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature. The author examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse. She argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of making sense of mortality and provides insight into Ireland's cultural and historical experience of death.

Genesis of the Rising 1912-1916

Suitable for courses in Irish theatre, women in theatre, gender and performance, dramaturgy, and Irish drama in the twentieth century, this book examines the plays of five women, placing their work for theatre in co-relation to suggest a parallel tradition that reframes the development of Irish theatre into the present day.

Frank McGuinness's Dramaturgy of Difference and the Irish Theatre

On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely a political. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. This title includes essays that bring Joyce within the ambit of postcolonial studies.

Offering a fresh perspective, this volume traces the rich history of the Irish American diaspora press, uncovering the ways in which a lively print culture forged significant cultural, political, and even economic bonds between the Irish living in America and the Irish living in Ireland.

Offering a fresh perspective, this volume traces the rich history of the Irish American diaspora press, uncovering the ways in which a lively print culture forged significant cultural, political, and even economic bonds between the Irish living in America and the Irish living in Ireland.

Drawing on archive material, DeGiacomo assesses T.C. Murray's contribution to the Irish dramatic movement. Largely a work of theatre history, this text spans Murray's life and career from 1878 to 1959, and highlights Murray's plays on Abbey tours of America from 1911 to 1935.

The first book of its kind, Literary Drowning explores depictions of the drowned body in twentieth-century Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, uncovering a complex transatlantic conversation that reconsiders memory, forgetfulness, and the role that each plays in the making of the postcolonial subject and nation.

Brings together scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. By focusing on writers' often-ignored interest in science and technology, this book uncovers shared concerns that challenge us to rethink how we categorize and periodize Irish literature.

Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years. This is the first comprehensive study of Synge's travel writing about Ireland, compiled during the zeitgeist of the preindependence Revival movement.

One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) was also a pioneer of women's writing. In this highly original approach to O'Brien's work, Davison traces the influence of three leading Spanish writers - Jacinto Benavente, Miguel de Cervantes, and Teresa of Avila - on O'Brien's work.

A story of a woman finding her way in the disorienting 1960s after a girlhood tutored by nuns and inspired by the Holy Ghost, but on a deeper level, this is a story of a woman who has suffered unimaginable loss and attempts to make sense of that loss by re-imagining her past and her own heritage.

Addresses questions of Irish memory and cultural remembrance through theoretical, historical, literary, and cultural explorations by top scholars in the field of Irish studies. In a series that will ultimately include four volumes, the sixteen essays in this first volume explore remembrance and forgetting throughout history, from early modern Ireland to contemporary multicultural Ireland.

Explores the history of Irish theater in America, from Harrigan and Hart to the productions of senior Irish playwrights such as Brian Friel and younger writers such as Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson. This volume includes examinations of company dynamics, tours of companies and actors, and the production history of individual works.

Tracing the history of the Catholic-authored novel in nineteenth-century Ireland, this work offers a tour of Ireland's literary landscape from its early origins during the Catholic political resurgence of the 1820s to the transformative zenith brought on by James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922.