Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre
Explores how women in Irish theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have employed mythic narratives to expose the gap between women's material lives and idealised myths of femininity. This book will speak to students and academics with an interest in theatre, Irish studies and gender studies.
Shonagh Hill (University College Dublin)
Published: July /
2021
Cambridge University Press
9781108706841
267 Pages
€26.83
£22.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Theatre studies
The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers
Explores W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's relationship as played out against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy in the 1920s and 1930s and shows how Yeats, Pound, and others in their Italian network developed a late modernist style aimed at effecting world change.
Lauren Arrington (Professor of English, Maynooth University)
Published: July /
2021
Oxford University Press
9780198846543
256 Pages
€29.13
£25.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Literary studies: poetry & poets
The Philadelphia Irish: Nation, Culture, and the Rise of a Gaelic Public Sphere
This book describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted and acted upon in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community.
Michael L. Mullan
Published: July /
2021
Rutgers University Press
9781978815452
246 Pages
€26.00
£22.95
Paperback / softback
United States
Regional & national history
The Philadelphia Irish: Nation, Culture, and the Rise of a Gaelic Public Sphere
This book describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted and acted upon in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community.
Michael L. Mullan
Published: July /
2021
Rutgers University Press
9781978815469
246 Pages
€107.00
£94.5
Hardback
United States
Regional & national history
Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama: Second Edition
Shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strove to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.
Richard Rankin Russell
Published: July /
2021
Syracuse University Press
9780815636748
400 Pages
€27.00
£23.95
Paperback / softback
United States
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers’ Club (1933-1958)
As publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political campaigners against censorship and for intellectual freedom, a radical group of twentieth-century Irish womenformed a female-only coterie to foster women's writing and maintain a public space for professional writers.
Deirdre F. Brady
Published: July /
2021
Liverpool University Press
9781789622461
152 Pages
€104.86
£90.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
The Joyce Country: Literary Scholarship and Irish Culture
This new book by the eminent critic provides an informative and timely survey of contemporary approaches to Joyce and modern Irish writing over almost 40 years.
David Pierce
Published: July /
2021
Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.
9781913087517
364 Pages
€39.95
£34.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Literary studies: general
Ireland’s Loss Britain’s Gain: Irish Nurses in Britain Nightingale to Millennium
The book runs to 100,000 words, 345 pages, with 32 illustrations, contemporary photographs with other supportive material.There is a list of 707 references and citations with an extensive index for cross referencing
Ethel Corduff
Published: July /
2021
Rainbow Valley Books
9781999982935
342 Pages
€18.65
£16.00
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Social services & welfare, criminology
An Introduction to Old Irish Harp Playing Techniques
This book explains how to play the three first tunes traditionally taught to young Irish harpers.
Sylvia Crawford
Published: July /
2021
Simon Chadwick
9781838489106
104 Pages
€25
£20.00
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Techniques of music / music tutorials
A History of Irish Women’s Poetry
A comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women's poetry, this book will be of intense interest to students, researchers, and general readers alike. Coverings all historical periods - early modern, Renaissance, eighteenth-century, modern and contemporary, it closely reads poetry through many prisms - mythology, gender, history, the nation.
Ailbhe Darcy (Cardiff University); David Wheatley (University of Aberdeen)
Published: July /
2021
Cambridge University Press
9781108478700
502 Pages
€99.19
£84.99
Hardback
United Kingdom
Literary studies: poetry & poets