Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies (1970- )

Tables of Contents
1995-2001

See also Special Issue on Favourite Poems (Sept. 2009) - as attached.

Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Autumn/Winter 1995), CONTENTS: Christina Hunt Mahony, ‘London Meets Laredo: A Nightmare: Louis MacNeice’s Irish War’, pp.204-14; James E Robinson, ‘Writing Towards Zero:Beckett at the Ending’, pp.215-31; Tim Kendall, ‘Parallel to the Parallel Realm: Paul Muldoon’s Madoc - A Mystery’, pp.232-41; Margaret Kelleher, ‘Anthony Trollope’s Castle Richmond: Famine Narrative and Horrid Novel?’, pp.242-62; Mary O’Donnell, ‘"Rough Hands and a Sick Culture": The Irish Writer and Cultural Tourism, pp.263-74; James Liddy, ‘Voices in the Irish Cities of the Dead: Melodrama and Dissent in Frank McGuinness’s Cathaginians’, pp.278-83; Mária Kurdi, ‘Rewriting the Reread: Brian Friel’s Version of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country’, pp.284-97; Albert DeGiacomo, ‘Remembering T. C. Murray: The Man and his Plays’, pp.298-307; Concetta Mazullo, ‘Flann O’Brien’s Hellish Other World’, frim Buile Shuibhne to The Third Policeman’, 318-28.

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Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, ‘Literature, Criticism, & Theory’ [Special Issue] .Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1997). CONTENTS: Christopher Murray, ‘Introduction: Stirring the Pot Withershins’ [1]; Luke Gibbons, ‘"Some Hysterical Hatred": History, Hysteria and the Literary Revival’ [7]; Eibhear Walshe, ‘"Angels of Death": Wilde’s Salome and Shaw’s Saint Joan’ [24]; Patricia Lynch, ‘A Stylistic Approach to Irish Writing’ [33]; Shaun Richards, ‘Placed Identities for Placeless Times: Brian Friel and Post-Colonial Criticism’ [55]; Ciaran Benson, ‘The Artist and Society: Krino, 1986-1996, [69]; Anne McCartney, ‘"Transported into the Company of Women": A Feminist Critique of Francis Stuart’ [74]; S. J. Caterson Joyce, ‘The Kunstlerroman and Minor Literature: Francis Stuart’s Black List, Section H’ [87]; Conor MacCarthy, ‘Ideology and Geography in Dermot Bolger’s The Journey Home’ [98]; Jefferson Holdridge, ‘Heart’s Victim and its Torturer: Yeats and the Poetry of Violence 111]; Poetry Eamon Grennan, ‘On Ward’s Island’, ‘Toronto’ [130]; ‘Simile’ [131]; Steam [131]; Denis Cotter, ‘The Breast of Blessing’ [132]; Sean Lysaght, ‘Extracts from a Version of "Diarmuid and Grania"’ [133]; Brian John, ‘The Achievement of Michael Longley’s The Ghost Orchid’ [139]; Lionel Pilkington, ‘"Every Crossing Sweeper Thinks Himself a Moralist": The Critical Role of Audiences in Irish Theatrical History’ [152]; Vic Merriman, ‘Centring the Wanderer: Europe as Active Imaginary in Contemporary Irish Theatre’ [166]; Wolfgang R. Sanger, ‘The "favourite Russian novelist" in William Trevor’s Novella Reading Turgenev: A Postmodern Tribute to Realism’ [182] Book Reviews by Christopher Murray, Giovanna Tallone, Anthony Roche, John Loftus, Ben Barnes, Raphael F. McElligott [199] List of Books Reviewed[ 214] Books Received [215]

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Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Autumn/Winter 1997), CONTENTS: Christopher Murray, ‘Slan’ [vii]; Adolphe Haberer, Yeats and MacNeice: From Context to Intertext [219]; David Krause, Review Article: The Reinvention of Ireland [236]; Kevin McNeilly, Cultural Morphologies: Yeats, Spengler and Adorno [245]; Natalie Crohn Schmitt, The Landscape Play: W. B. Yeats’s Purgatory [262]; John Adames, The Sonnet Mirror: Reflections and Revaluations in Seamus Heaney’s "Clearances" [276]; Maurice Harmon, From Conversations with Mary Lavin [287] NEW POETRY: James Liddy, Being a Jacobite [293]; Susan Schreibmann, Journey to Houncecourt Wood [295] Lis Christensen, A Reading of Elizabeth Bowen’s "A Day in the Dark" [299]; John O’Meara, On the Fringe of Letters [310]; Annual IASIL Bibliography; Bulletin 1996 [325]; Book Reviews by: T. P. Dolan, G.A. Lester, Robert Hogan,]; Anthony Roche, John Kenny, Hermann Rasche, Christopher Murray, Giovanna Tallone [360]; List of Books Reviewed [377]; Books Received [378] .

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Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies,Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1998), CONTENTS: Anthony Roche [Ed.] , ‘Incipit’ [vii]; Robert Tracy, ‘Who Fears to Speak of ‘98, ‘63, ‘64, ‘65, ‘66, ‘67, ‘68, ‘69, ‘70?: The Year of the French and the Nineteen Sixties [1]; Chris Corr, ‘Matthew Arnold and the Younger: Yeats: The Manoeuvrings of Cultural Aesthetics’ [11]; Matthew Gibson, ‘Satori in Yeats’s "Stream and Sun at Glendalough"’ [28]; Taura Napier, ‘The Mosaic "I": Mary Colum and Modern Irish Autobiography’ [37]; Scott Brewster, ‘A Residual Poetry: Heaney, Mahon and Hedgehog History’ [56]; Richard Wall, ‘A Dialect Glossary for Seamus Heaney’s Works’ [68]; NEW POETRY: R.T. Smith, ‘Illumination’ [87]; Linen List’ [87]; Augustus Young, ‘The Calling’ [90]; Kerry Hardy, ‘Vitality’ [91]; George Stanley, ‘Beyond the Sublime: Reading: James Liddy’ [92]; Shane Murphy, ‘"You Took Away My Biography": The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian’ [110 Sarah Broom, ‘McGuckian’s Conversations with Rilke in Marconi’s Cottage’ [133 WRITERS ON STAGE: David Edgar, ‘About Now: Contemporary British Drama’ [151]; Seamus Deane, ‘Irish Theatre: A Secular Space?’ [163]; Patrick McCabe, An Interview with Christopher FitzSimon’ [175]; Marina Carr, ‘Dealing with the Dead’ [190]; Book Reviews by: T.P. Dolan, Alan Roughley, Hedwig Schwall, John Kenny, John Fanagan, John Loftus, Anne Fogarty’ [197]; List of Books Reviewed [211]; Books Received [212]

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Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies [‘Brial Friel Special Issue’] , ed. Anthony Roche, Vol. 29, No. 1( Spring/Summer 1999). Contents: Anthony Roche, Introduction: The Worlds of Brian Friel [vii]; Seamus Heaney, The Real Names [1]; ; Harry White, Brian Friel and the Condition of Music [6]; Christopher Murray Friel and O’Casey Juxtaposed 16]; George O’Brien ‘Meet Brian Friel’: The Irish Press Columns [30]; Patrick Burke, ‘Them Class of People’s a Very Poor Judge of Character’: Friel and the South [42]; Helen Lojek, Brian Friel’s Gentle Island of Lamentation [48]; Frank McGuinness, Faith Healer: All the Dead Voices [60]; Robert Tracy The Russian Connection: Friel and Chekhov [64]; Brian Friel, From Uncle Vanya: A Version of the Play by Anton Chekhov [78]; Thomas Kilroy, Friendship [111]; Anna McMullan, ‘In Touch with Some Otherness’: Gender, Authority and the Body in Dancing at Lughnasa [90]; Catriona Clutterbuck Lughnasa after Easter: Treatments of Narrative Imperialism in Friel and Devlin [101]; Csilla Bertha, Six Characters in Search of a Faith: The Mythic and the Mundane in Wonderful Tennessee [119]; Nicholas Grene, Friel and Transparency [136]; Anthony Roche, Frield and Synge:Towards a Theatrical Language [145]; Jose Lanters, Brian Friel’s Uncertainy Principle [162]; Richard Pine, Love: Brian Friel’s give Me Your Answer, Do! Books reviewed: Harry White, The Keeper’s Recital: Musical and Cultural history in Ireland, 1770-1970 (Cork UP 1998), 227pp. [Anthony Roche]; Jerusha McCormack, ed., Wilde the Irishman (New Haven &London: Yale UP 1998), xvi 205pp. [Jonathan Raby]; John Harrinton, the Irish Play on the New York Stage, 1874-1966 (Kentucky UP 1997), 192pp. [Christopher Murray]; Clive Hart, C. George Sandalescu, Bonnie Scott Kime, and Fritz Senn, Images of Joyce, 2 vols. [Princess Grace irish Library] , Series ed., Bruce Stewart (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe: 1998). [Brian Arkins]; Kathleen Devine and Alan J. Peacock, eds., Louis Macneice an His Infulence (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1998), xvi, 184pp. [Sabrina D’Allessandro]; Leland Bardwell, the White Beach: New and Selected Poems 1960-1998 (Knockeven: Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry [1988] ), 113pp.; Clair Wills, Reading Paul Muldoon (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1999), 222pp. [Jefferson Holderidge]; T. Ryle, Dwyer, Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins and de Valera (Dublin: Gill & Macmillian, 1998).

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Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, ed. Anthony Roche, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring/Winter 1999), 215pp. CONTENTS: Notes and Comments’ [vi]; Fidelma Farley, ‘Interrogating Myths of Maternity in Irish Cinema: Margo Harkin’s Hush-a-Bye Baby’ [219]; Bruce Stewart, ‘"Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Possessed by the Spirit of the Nation’ [238]; Phyllis Gaffney, ‘Dante, ‘Manzoni, ‘De Valera, ‘Beckett? Circumlocutions of a Storekeeper: Beckett and Saint-Lô’ [256]; Moonyung Chung, ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Beckett: Footfalls and Rockaby’ [281]; Awam Amkpa, ‘Drama and the Language of Postcolonial Desire: Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion’ [294]; Vic Merriman, ‘Decolonisation Postponed: The Theatre of Tiger Trash’ [305]

NEW POETRY [318-20] Howard Wright, ‘"Above the Clouds"’ [318] ."Feast"’ [318]; Knute Skinner, "A Hush" [319]; Thomas McCarthy, "At the Ordination of Father Layton, 1800" [320]; John Goodby, ‘"The Prouder Counsel of her Throat": Towards a Feminist Reading of Austin Clarke’ [321]; Patrick Walsh, ‘"Too Much Alone": John Hewitt, ‘Regionalism, ‘Socialism and Partition’ [341]; Tim Hancock, ‘Seamus Heaney: Poet of Tension or Poet of Conviction?’ [358] IASIL Bibliography 1998’ [376-405] Catriona Clutterbuck, review-article, ‘Eavan Boland and the Trustworthiness of Treachery’ [The Lost Land, 1998]

Book reviews: Philip Tilling [Terence Patrick Dolan, A Dictionary of Hiberno-English]; Christopher Murray [Maurice Harmon, ed., No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider’]; Wanda Balzano [Nick Havely, ed., Dante’s Modern Afterlife: Reception and Response from Blake to Heaney]; Douglas Archibald [Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996]; Derek Hand [Vera Kreilkamp, The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House]; Richard Pine [W. J. McCormack, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture]; Moynagh Sullivan [Medbh McGuckian, Shelmalier]; Brian Arkins [William H. O’Donnell & Douglas N. Archibald, eds., The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume III: Autobiographies]; Shaun Richards [Richard Pine, The Diviner: The Art of Brian Friel]; Derek Hand [Robert Tracy, The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identity]; Douglas Archibald [Helen Vendler, Seamus Heaney]; Mary E. Daly [Margaret Ward, Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington] .

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Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, ‘Contemporary Irish fiction’ [Special Issue] , ed. Anthony Roche, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2000) 208pp. Contents: Anthony Roche, Introduction [vii]; Roberta Gefter Wondrich, Exilic Returns: Self and History Outside Ireland in Recent Irish Fiction [1]; Brian Donnelly, Roddy Doyle: From Barrytown to the GPO [17]; Elke d’Hoker, Books of Revelation: Epiphany in John Banville’s Science Tetralogy and Birchwood [32]; John Scaggs, Who is Francie Pig? Self-Identity and Narrative Reliability in The Butcher Boy, [51]; Anne Fogarty, Uncanny Families: Neo-Gothic Motifs and the Theme of Social Change in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction [59]; Michael Parker, Shadows on a Glass: Self-Reflexivity in the Fiction of Deirdre Madden [82] .; Derek Hand, Being Ordinary - Ireland from Elsewhere: A Reading of Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s The Bray House [103]; Laura Pelaschiar, Transforming Belfast: The Evolving Role of the City in Northern Irish Fiction [117]; Dermot McCarthy, Belfast Babel: Postmodern Lingo in Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man [132]; Liam Harte, History Lessons: Postcolonialism and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark [149]; Gerry Smyth Shite and Sheep: An Ecocritical Perspective on Two Recent Irish Novels [163]

Book reviews: Hugo Hamilton, Sad Bastard, reviewed by Gerry Smyth [179-81]; Dora Murphy, Sotto gli Occhi di uno Shirro, trans. into Italian and ed. by Rosangela Barone, reviewed by Giovanna Tallone [181-83]; Katharine Worth, Samuel Beckett’s Theatre: Life Journeys, reviewed by Nicholas Grene [184-86]; Richard Allen Cave, ed., Selected Plays of T.C. Murray, and Robert O’Driscoll, ed., Selected Plays of M. J. Molloy, reviewed by Christopher Murray [186-89]; Richard Pine, and Charles Acton, eds., To Talent Alone: The Royal Irish Academy of Music 1848-1998, reviewed by Harry White [189-91]; Colin Graham, Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry, reviewed by Peter Denman [192-94]; Terence Brown, The Life of W.B. Yeats, reviewed by Jefferson Holdridge [195-97]; Maighread Medbh, Tenant, Angela Patten, Still Listening, and Joan McBreen, ed., The White Page/An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets, reviewed by Catriona Clutterbuck [197-200]; Kevin Brophy, In the Company of Wolves, reviewed by Brian Donnelly [200-202] .

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Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, ed. Anthony Roche, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Autumn/Winter 2000), 398pp. CONTENTS: Michael Holroyd, ‘Bernard Shaw the Immature Novelist’ [209]; Susan Bazargan, ‘Postmodernist Yeats: Figura and Simulacrum in The Player Queen’ [220]; Bernice Shrank, ‘Sean O’Casey’s Time to Go and the Theory of a Just Price’ [232]; Michael Lloyd, ‘Brian Friel’s Greek Tragedy: Narrative, ‘Drama, ‘and Fate in Living Quarters’ [244]; Shaun Richards, ‘Brian Friel: Seizing the Moment of Flux’ [254]; Michael Boss, ‘Country of Light: The Personal Nation of Patrick Pearse’ [272]; Anthony Bradley, ‘"Fumbling in a Greasy Till": Nation and Class in Yeats’s Responsibilities’ [289]; Patrick Hicks, ‘An Interview with Brian Moore’ [315]; IASIL Bibliography 1999 [321] Robert Tracy [Review Article] , ‘The Man in the Cloak’ [350]

Book reviews [361-93] : Eilis Ni Dhuibhne [Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary] , Chris Morash [Alan J. Fletcher, Drama, Perfortmance, and Polity in pre-Cromwellian Ireland] , Andrew Carpenter [W. J. McCormack, Fool of the Family: A Life of J. M. Synge] , Christopher Murray [Robert Welch, The Abbey Theatre 1899-1999: Form and Pressure] , ‘Donald E. Morse [Bruce Stewart, ed., Beckett and Beyond], Richard Pine [F. C. McGrath, Brian Friel’s (Post)colonial Drama: Language, Illusion and Politics; Paul Delaney, ed., Brian Friel in Conversation]; Brian Arkins [Jefferson Holderidge, Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime] , Lucy Collins[ Donal Moriarty, The Art of Brian Coffey; Alex Davis, A Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism] , Peter Denman [Conor O’Callaghan, Seatown; Vona Groarke, Other People’s Houses] , Peter Costello [Phyllis Gaffney, Healing Among the Ruins: the Irish Hospital at Saint-Lö] , Patrick Hicks [Denis Sampson, Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist] , Derek Hand [Liam Harte & Michael Parker, eds., Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories; Conor McCarthy, Modernisation: Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969-1990]; Anne Fogarty [P. J. Mathews, ed., New Voices in Irish Criticism]; List of Books Reviewed [394] Books Received [395]

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Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, ed Anthony Roche [guest ed. Catríona Clutterbuck] , Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2001), 213pp. CONTENTS: Catríona Clutterbuck, Introduction [vii ]; Dennis O’Driscoll, ‘His Wit: Humour and Satire in Thomas Kinsella’s Poetry’ [1]; Donatella Abbate Badin, ‘"Rhyme and Rhythm and Beauty": The Abandoned Formalism of Kinsella’s Early Poetry 1956-1968’ [19]; Alex Davis, ‘Thomas Kinsella and the Pound Legacy: His Jacket on the Cantos’ [38]; Ian Flanagan, ‘"Tissues of Order": Kinsella and the Enlightenment Ethos’ [54]; Maurice Harmon, ‘From Basin Lane to Old Vienna: Place:’ Transcendence and Counterpoint in Thomas Kinsella’ [78]; Peter Denman, ‘Significant Elements: Songs of the Psyche and Her Vertical Smile’ [95]; Thomas Kinsella, ‘"The Affair"’ [110]; "As an nGéibheann"’ [111]; Donatella Abbate Badin, ‘From "An Interview with Thomas Kinsella"’ [113]; Jefferson Holdridge, ‘Homeward, Abandoned: The Aesthetics of Home and Family in Thomas Kinsella’ [116]; Lucy Collins, ‘A Little of What We Have Found: Kinsella, Women, and the Problem of Meaning’ [135]; Ruth Ling, ‘Re-familiarizing The Familiar: From Effigy to Elegy in the Recent Marriage Poems of Thomas Kinsella’ [153]; Derval Tubridy, ‘Difficult Migrations: The Dinnseachnas of thomas Kinsella’s Later Poetry’ [172]

Book reviews [187-209] : Maurice Harmon [Derval Tubridy, Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercannister Poems] , Anthony Roche [Nicholas Grene, The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel]; Declan Kiberd [Adrian Fraxier, George Moore 1852-1932] , Jefferson Holderidge [Johb McCourt, The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920] , Wando Balzano [Gesa E. Thiessen, Theology and Modern Art; Dennis Carroll, ed., Religion in Ireland: Past, Present and Future, Alasdair D. F. Macrae [John Goodby, Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness into History] , Toshi Furumoto [Ken’ ichi Matsumura, ed., A Companion to Irish Literature] , Margaret Kelleher [David Lloyd, After History] List of Books Reviewed [210]; Books Received [211] .

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Articles from Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies [Special Issue on Favourite Irish Poems, guest ed. Peter Denman] Sept. 22 2009) - see Contents - as attached.

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