Throughout the history of modern Ireland, cultural representations of youth and childhood have served as focal points for discussions of social and political is…
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…
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…
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…
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 continues the story begun in Edward Daly’s bestselling Mister, are you a priest? (2000), which focused on his years as…
This collection of essays examines the work of Flann O’Brien, a subversive, confounding and hilarious Irish novelist. It also considers the work of Myles na Gop…
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…
This collection of essays, memoirs and poems is an acknowledgment of the work of Pierre Joannon. Over four decades he has made an outstanding contribution to Ir…
This collection of thirteen essays, penned by an array of leading scholars in the field, is the first full-length critical study of the Belfast poet and prose w…
Seamus Heaney and other eminent artists, scientists and commentators examine what happens when art is created. Is the imagination still seen as the driving forc…
Complex and paradoxical links between translation and censorship are explored in this wide-ranging collection of essays, written by fifteen scholars from eight …
