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Select Annual Listing of Books
on Irish Literature and Its Contexts: 2021
Poetry Collections
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Fiction (Short stories &
Novels)
- xxx.
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Drama (Plays & Collections
- xxx.
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Autobiography & Memoir
- xxx.
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Biography (Literary &
Historical)
- xxx.
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Miscellaneous Writings
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Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
- xxx.
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Anthologies, Interviews &
Almanacs
- xxx.
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Literary & Cultural
Commentary
- Nicholas Allen & Fiona Stafford, Archipelago: A Reader (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2021), 578pp.
- Katrina Goldstone, Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War (Oxford & NY: Routledge 2021), 234pp. [see contents].
- Michelle O Riordan, Poetics and Polemics: Reading seventeenth-century Irish political verse (Cork UP 2021), 732pp.
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Critical Studies: Individual
Authors
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Language & Folklore Studies
- xxx.
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Religion & Philosophy
- xxx.
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Media & Entertainment
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Arts & Architecture
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Historical Studies: General
- Christine Kinealy, Jason King & Gerard Moran, edss., Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger (Cork UP; Hamden, CT : Quinnipiac UP 2021), xxix, 293pp., ills. [see contents].
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Historical Studies: 20th Century
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Historical Studies: Centenary Topic
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Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
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Natural History & Topography
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Politics, Economics & Society
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Northern Ireland/Ulster
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Women’s Studies
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Reference, Guides & Bibliography
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Digital Publications
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Journals & Special Issues
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Katrina Goldstone, Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War (Oxford & NY: Routledge 2021), 234pp. Part 1: Art and Exile, 1936-1939. 1. ‘Dublin to Euston our via dolorosa...’; 2. ‘Life was one long continuum of agitprop’; 3. ‘Equality has ceased to be accorded to us, save on paper’; 4. ‘Visit Leningrad and take off your hat’; Part II: Art and War, 1936-1945. 5. ‘I too have heard companion voices die’; 6. ‘Now when all the buildings of Europe don their sackcloth ...’; 7. Epilogue: Aftermath of the thirties epitaphs and legacies. 8. ‘...And on my grave, I see no flowers from any people’. [Treats of Leslie Daiken (1912-164), Charles Patrick Donnelly (1914-37); Ewart Milne (1903-87); Michael Sayers (1911-2010).
Publisher’s notice: This original study focusing on four Irish writers - Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers - retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through their writings, their witness texts and their political activism. The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist cultural history. The book also explores how Irish literary women on the Left defied marginalization. The impetus of the book is not merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to find new ways of re-imagining what might be said to constitute Irish literature mid-twentieth century; and to illustrate how Irish writers played a role in a transforming political moment of the twentieth century. It will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural history and literature, Irish diaspora studies, Jewish studies, and the social and literary history of the Thirties. (Available at Routledge - online.)
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| Christine Kinealy, Jason King & Gerard Moran, edss., Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger’ (Cork UP; Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac UP 2021), xxix, 293pp., ills. (b&w). CONTENTS: Christine Kinealy, Jason King, and Gerard Moran, Introduction; The Kindness of Strangers: Gerard Moran, ‘James Hack Tuke: An English Quaker philanthropist and “Ireland’s greatest benefactor”; Christine Kinealy, ‘Paul de Strzelecki: A Polish Count in Co. Mayo’; Catherine Shannon, ‘Captain Robert Bennet Forbes and his 1847 voyage of mercy to Cork’; Sandy Letourneau O’Hare, ‘Women’s Agency, ‘Lady Sligo of Westport House: “she rolled up her linen sleeves ...”’; Peter Murphy, ‘Mary Ann McCracken of Belfast: “better to wear out than to rust out”‘; Maureen Murphy, ‘Asenath Nicholson: Heroine of Ireland’s Great Hunger". Medical Heroes: Ciaran Reilly, ‘Dr. Richard Grattan: the Great Famine in Co. Kildare’; Marita Colnlon, ‘McKenna Dr. Daniel Donovan: A Famine doctor in Skibbereen’; Christine Kinealy, ‘Dr. William Duncan of Liverpool: “a city of plague’; Rebecca Abbot, ‘Dr. Charles Edward Strutt: a modest famine hero in Australia’; Laura J. Smith & Robert G. Kearns, ‘Dr. George Grasett: Toronto’s response to the typhus outbreak of 1847’; Role of Religious Orders: Turlough McConnell, ‘Edward Maginn of Derry and Donegal: bishops, rebels and contagions’; Mark McGowan, ‘Bishop Michael Power of Toronto’; Jason King, ‘Montreal’s Grey Nuns: the Great Hunger Migration and the Miracle of Rose’s Marble’; Irish Involvement: Ciaran O Murchadba, ‘Arthur Edward Kennedy; A Poor Law Inspector in Co. Clare’; Niamh Ann Kelly, ‘James Mahony: The illustrated London News’. ‘Reflections: LeAnne Howe & Padraig Kirwan, ‘The Choctaw Gift’; Caroilin Callery, Afterword; Bibliographical references and Index. |
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