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Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2015
Poetry Collections
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Fiction (Short stories &
Novels)
- xxx.
Drama (Plays & Collections
- xxx.
Autobiography & Memoir
- xxx.
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Biography (Literary &
Historical)
- xxx.
Miscellaneous Writings
- xxx.
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Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
- xxx.
Anthologies, Interviews &
Almanacs
- xxx.
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Literary & Cultural
Commentary
- Catherine Cox & Susannah Riordan, Adolescence in Modern Irish History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 248pp.
- Adam Hanna, Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
2015), 216pp.
- Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, The Literature of Northern Ireland: Spectral Borderlands [New Directions in Irish and Irish-American Literature] (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan2015), 232pp.
- Kathryn Kirkpatrick & Borbála Faragó, eds., Animals in Irish Literature and Culture [Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature] (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 288pp.
- Jennifer Orr, Literary Networks and Dissenting Print Culture in Romantic-Period Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 298pp.
- Ruth Fleischmann, Catholic Nationalism and the Irish Revival (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015) [forthcoming] Donald E. Morse, ed., Irish Theatre in Transition rom the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 288pp. [intro. essay by Christopher Murray; sects. on ‘Engaging with a Changing Reality’ (Celtic Tiger, sexual revolution, dementia), ‘Enhanced Theatricality’, ‘Reframing Transition’, and ‘Inventiveness and Expanding the Stage’ and Irish plays in London, &c.].
- Niall Ó Ciosain & John Cunningham, eds., Culture and Society in Ireland since 1750: Essays in Honour of Gearóid ÓTuathaigh, ed. (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2015), 384pp. [see contents].
- Maureen Ruprecht Fadem, The Literature of Northern Ireland: Spectral Borderlands (London & NY: Macmillan Palgrave 2015), x, 218. [on Anne Devlin, Medbh McGuckian and Anna Burns]
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Critical Studies: Individual Authors
- Tudor Balinisteanu, Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 226pp.
- Martha C. Carpentier, ed., Joycean Legacies, with a preface by Derek Attridge (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 290pp. [incls. Brendan Behan, Anthony Burgess, Raymond Carver, J.G. Farrell, Sedaq Hedayat, Patrick McCabe, Frank McCourt, Kate O’Brien, George Orwell, Iain Sinclair, and Derek Walcott].
- Anne Fogarty & Fran O’Rourke, eds., Voices on Joyce [Lecture series] (UCD Press 2015), 34pp. [Notes, 297ff.; ill. 30 pls. of Dublin by Lee Miller, 1946; 6 ills. from Joseph Brady, Dublin: A City of Contrasts].
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Language & Folklore Studies
- xxx.
Religion & Philosophy
- xxx.
Media & Entertainment
- Susanne Colleary, Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy: The Comic “I” (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 224pp.
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Historical Studies: General
- Bryan Fanning, Histories of the Irish Future (London: Bloomsbury 2015), 310pp.[see infra] available at Google Books - online].
Historical Studies: 20th Century
- Diarmaid Ferriter, A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–23(Profile Books 2015), 528pp.
- Gavin M. Foster, The Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class, and Conflict (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 336pp.
Historical Studies: Centenary Topic
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Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
- xxx.
Natural History & Topography
- xxx.
Politics, Economics & Society
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Northern Ireland/Ulster
- xxx.
Gender Studies
- Brian Singleton, Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 248pp.
Reference, Guides & Bibliography
- xxx.
Digital Publications
- xxx.
Journals & Special Issues
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Bibliographical details
| Niall Ó Ciosain & John Cunningham, eds., Culture and Society in Ireland since 1750: Essays in Honour of Gearóid ÓTuathaigh (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2015), 384pp. CONTENTS. Pt. I - Language and Literature: Joep Leerssen, ‘Public Opinion, Common Knowledge’; Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘Tadhg Ó Neachtain agus Muiris Ó Conaill ag Trácht ar Bhlianta an Áir, 1739-42’; Tom Dunne, ‘“On the Boundaries of Two Languages”: Representing Irish in Novels in English, 1800-50’; Owen Dudley Edwards, ‘William Carleton and Caesar Otway: A Problem in Irish Identity’; Niall Ó Ciosáin, ‘Beart Pobail agus Délitearthacht san Athrú Teangan in Éirinn’; Micheál Ó Conghaile, ‘“[Sc]andal is Good”: Ag aistriú Martin McDonagh’. Pt. II: Identities - Social and Political: Matthew Potter, ‘In the Shadow of Castle and Abbey: Aspects of the History of Donegal Town since 1600’; Andrew Shields, ‘Irish Conservatives, the “Patriot” Tradition and the Act of Union, c.1829-69’; Gerard Moran, ‘“Disorderly Conduct”: Riots and Insubordination in the Workhouses during the Great Famine’; Laurence Marley, ‘The Georgeite Social Gospel and Radical Intersections in Late Nineteenth-century Belfast’; John Cunningham, ‘“A Great Believer in ‘The Internationale’”: A British Trade Union in Galway, 1911-36’; Tony Varley, ‘“The Class that Goes to the Wall”: Colonel George O’Callaghan-Westropp, Class Politics and Identity in Cumann na nGaedheal Ireland’; Caitriona Clear, ‘“No Good Days but the Present Ones?: Readers’ Letters to Woman’s Way, 1963-9’. Pt.III: Identities - Cultural and Religious: Úna Ní Bhroiméil, ‘Anglo-American Rapprochement and Irish America: John Bull in the Irish World, 1909-14’; Mary N. Harris, ‘Patrick Pearse, The Irish Review and the Rebirth of Ireland’; Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, ‘’Irish Music in Irish Life’: Articulating a Vision of Revival’; James S. Donnelly, Jr., ‘Knock Shrine and the Marian Year of 1954. Pt. IV: Institutions - State and Society: Thomas Bartlett, ‘The Irish at War’; Thomas A. Boylan & Clara Boylan, ‘Civilizing a Nation: Reflections on Elementary Education in Nineteenth-century Ireland’; Gabriel Doherty, ‘Issues in Irish Prison Administration, 1914-18’; Maura Cronin, ‘“You’d be Cured While You’re Waiting”: Remembering the Limerick City Dispensary, 1930-72. Select Bibliography of Gearóid ÓTuathaigh. |
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| Bryan Fanning, Histories of the Irish Future (London: Bloomsbury 2015), 310pp. CONTENTS: 1. Modest proposals and Irish futures [1]; 2. William Pettys final solution [11]; 3. William Molyneux and the case for Ireland [27]; 4. Edmund Burke and the case for Union [41]; 5. Thomas Malthus and Catholic emancipation [55]; 6. Richard Whately and the end of ascendancy [75]; 7 Friedrich Engels and the crisis of Irish character [95]; 8. John Mitchel and the last conquest of Ireland [113]; 9. James Connolly and Catholic nationalism [131]; 10. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington versus the Free State; [151]; 1. Jeremiah Newman and Catholic decline [169]; 12. The lonely passion of Conor Cruise OBrien [187]; 13. Fintan OTooles second republic [213]; 14. Ghosts of futures past [231]. Notes [243]; Select Bibliography [277]; Index [288]. (Aavailable at Google Books - online.) |
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