'This engaging, subtle book uses many perspectives, historically and theoretically informed, to explore Irish domestic space. Two fine Vona Groarke poems frame …
Revised and Expanded New Edition As Irish media and society move from an insular, domestic focus in the mid-twentieth century to the global outlook of the twen…
Food rioting, one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally, was practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early …
Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge is one of the symbols of the city. Opened on 19 May 1816, the first dedicated footbridge over the river Liffey, it was also the first i…
Grave Matters examines the universal subject of death – looking at the particular experience of death, burial and commemoration in Dublin since the sixteenth ce…
This analysis of the cultivation of the Irish language in urban areas is the result of recent research by both editors and a conference on urban writing practic…
The essays in this volume bring together leading Irish and Québécois scholars from eight different disciplines (history, literature, linguistics, design and mat…
Dublin’s Mansion House is the only mayoral residence in Ireland and is older than any surviving in Great Britain. Originally the town house of merchant and prop…
Shortlisted for The Apollo Awards 2016 Book of the Year and The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016. Also, Times Literary Supplement choice f…
Studies of Irish children’s literature are relatively numerous in Ireland, and yet the study of children and childhood, and the concepts associated with these w…
Translation was for centuries a locus of controversy, and the work of good translators has often been dismissed in an arbitrary, prescriptive manner. Today, suc…
Despite his vampire creation, Dracula, being world-famous, and in spite of a host of academic studies of the novel in which this vampire first appeared, Stoker …
