19th-century studies

The MacGeough Bonds of The Argory

An Ulster Gentry Family, 1880-1950

Olwen Purdue

This work traces the fortunes of a minor gentry family, the MacGeough Bonds of The Argory, Co. Armagh, through the dramatic changes that occurred in rural Irela…

Studies in children's literature, 1500–2000

Celia Keenan & Mary Shine Thompson editors

Ranging from the fundamental question, whether a children's literature is possible, or what its formal and contextual parameters might be, to the exigent issues…

Edith Somerville

A biography

Gifford Lewis

Edith Somerville (1858–1949) was one half of the writing duo Somerville and Ross, best known for The Real Charlotte (1894) and Some experiences of an Irish R.M.…

The Irish novel in the nineteenth century

Facts and fictions

Jacqueline Belanger, editor

Featuring twelve original essays by leading scholars in the fields of Irish literary and cultural studies, this book investigates how the 19th-century Irish nov…

Maria Edgeworth and romance

Sharon Murphy

The work of Maria Edgeworth has always attracted interest, but little attention has been paid to her extraordinary recognition of the power of imagination, a fo…

Reading Irish histories

Texts, contexts and memory in modern Ireland

Lawrence W. McBride editor

An array of historians, social scientists, and scholars of literature examines how representatives of various political, social, and educational institutions an…

The Irish storyteller

Georges Zimmermann

Supported by documents, many of which were not readily available or have never been published before, this book studies images of the ‘Irish traditional storyte…