20th-century studies

Translation right or wrong

Susana Bayó Belenguer, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, editors

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…

Brendan Behan

Cultural nationalism and the revisionist writer

John Brannigan

This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923–64), author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. It charts Behan’s intelle…

Tolkien

The forest and the city

Helen Conrad-O'Briain & Gerard Hynes editors

Despite the association of J.R.R. Tolkien with the natural world, Middle-earth as landscape and built environment has been relatively neglected. Tolkien: the fo…

Laurence O'Neill (1864–1943)

Lord Mayor of Dublin (1917–1924), patriot and man of peace

Thomas J. Morrissey SJ

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…

Imagination in the classroom

Teaching and learning creative writing in Ireland

Anne Fogarty Éilís Ní Dhuibhne & Eibhear Walshe editors

This collection of essays is the first extensive exploration of the history and practice of teaching creative writing as a distinct discipline in Ireland. The v…

Children's literature on the move

Nations, translations, migrations

Nora Maguire & Beth Rodgers editors

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…

The country of the young

Interpretations of youth and childhood in Irish culture

John Countryman & Kelly Mathews, editors

Throughout the history of modern Ireland, cultural representations of youth and childhood have served as focal points for discussions of social and political is…

Irish and English

Essays on the Irish linguistic and cultural frontier, 1600–1900

James Kelly & Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, editors

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…

The Bell magazine and the representation of Irish identity

Kelly Matthews

This new study of The Bell magazine opens a window onto the Irish literary and cultural landscape of the mid-20th century. The Bell, which appeared monthly from…

Young Irelands

Studies in children's literature

Mary Shine Thompson, editor

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…

Film exhibition and distribution in Ireland, 1909–2010

Kevin Rockett with Emer Rockett

Utilizing a range of previously unexplored primary sources from film trade publications to cinema records, Film exhibition and distribution in Ireland, 1909–201…

A troubled see

Memoirs of a Derry bishop

Edward Daly

A troubled see: memoirs of a Derry bishop continues the story begun in Edward Daly’s bestselling Mister, are you a priest? (2000), which focused on his years as…