Laurence O’Neill (1864-1943) was Lord Mayor of Dublin during key years in modern Irish history, 1917–1924. During these troubled years he held the confidence of…
Children’s Literature on the Move is the sixth volume in the Studies in Children’s Literature series. From translating Alice in Wonderland for a newly independe…
Throughout the history of modern Ireland, cultural representations of youth and childhood have served as focal points for discussions of social and political is…
This collection of essays, published in association with the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, challenges the view that national identificati…
The transformation of Ireland from a predominantly Irish-speaking country to a primarily English-speaking country was the most profound social change to take pl…
During the Romantic period in the north of Ireland, a circle of bards were corresponding with one another, encouraging each other to pen verse, often united by …
The essays in this book, the fourth in the Studies in Children’s Literature Series, examine how various texts read by children since the eighteenth century refl…
This collection of essays explores the life and legacy of the Irish scholar and jurist, Whitley Stokes (1830–1909). During his twenty-year career in India, Stok…
Charles Maturin (1780–1824) is best known today for his Gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). A thorough study of his wider work reveals him to have b…
A descendant of the fireside tale, the short story has never neglected the uncanny. Indeed the development of the literary ghost story helped to make short fict…
Emanating from the 2008 Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conference, this volume brings together scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland worki…
In the unsettled political and social context of nineteenth-century Ireland the land provides a space for negotiation - of identity, of nationality, of ownershi…
