Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction

The Uncanny as a Method in Contemporary Irish Literature

Beatrice Masi

This volume examines how post-Celtic Tiger Irish literature responds to overlapping economic and environmental crises through an innovative blending of realism, speculative, and gothic modes. Focusing on seven texts published between 2004 and 2022, it introduces Uncanny Realism: a critical framework that explores how fractured, hybrid narratives destabilize familiar worldviews, drawing out latent histories and spectral signs of systemic crisis. These works blur boundaries between the real and the unreal, the living and the dead, the present and the past, the here and there, capturing a pervasive sense of dislocation and recurrence. Grouped by spatial context (rural, domestic, and urban) the selected texts trace how literature registers extractivism, precarity, and the erosion of social and material certainties across distinct Irish geographies. By emphasizing Ireland’s semi-peripheral position within the global capitalist system, the book reveals how these fictions not only narrate local transformation but are also deeply embedded in both global and planetary dynamics. The Uncanny as a Method in Contemporary Irish Literature challenges familiar binaries such as realism versus the speculative, national versus global, center versus periphery, and social and economic constructs versus planetary dynamics. It offers a new way to read literature in times of systemic rupture, contributing to Irish studies, ecocriticism, and world literature by reimagining how fiction can articulate the strange familiarities of global crisis.

How the Irish Became White Supremacists

Sean O’ Dubhghaill

This volume provides a critical analysis of Irish literature and the timely appraisal of contemporary developments in which ideas about Irishness have been constructed, exploited, and racialised. Exploring race, exceptionalism, and white supremacy, this book aims to start a conversation about the ways in which the idea of what it means to be ‘Irish’ has been constructed, reified, and commodified and the role that Irish Studies, and academia in general, plays in this. Dismantling the notion of Irishness, this text examines contemporary developments in Ireland relating to asylum seekers and ‘non-nationals’ in contemporary literary works, exploring a phenomenon that structures and creates power disparities. This volume will be an essential resource for academics interested in understanding current developments in Irish society.

The 1920s London-Irish Theatre

A History

Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel

The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History documents, explores and interrogates the Irish theatre that was prevalent in London during the 1920s. This includes consideration of the movements that impacted 1920s London theatre, such as the influential repertory theatres of the first decade of the twentieth century, as well as the detailed history of the Irish Players. Each identified London-Irish production is discussed through contemporary theatre reviews from London newspapers and journals, and within the decade’s historical context. Dramatists, their plays, actors, producers, and the physical theatres are all considered as extensively as evidence allows. Major productions, like those of Lennox Robinson’s The White-Headed Boy, Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, and Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan with its distinct Irish echoes are considered, along with productions of George Shiels’ Professor Tim and Bernard Duffy’s The Counter Charm and more. Producers discussed include James Fagan and Charles Macdona, while considered actors include Sara Allgood, Maire O’Neill, Arthur Sinclair, Fred O’Donovan, Ellen O’Malley, Ethel O’Shea, and many more. This leads, for the first time, to a full portrait of the Irish theatre that was produced in London during the 1920s in not only the West End, but also in smaller London theatres and in suburban repertory theatres.

Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation

Eugene O'Brien, Ian Hickey

Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation is comprised of 11 chapters that examine the Nobel prize winning poet’s translations and that situate the works within a transnational perspective. The chapters focus on the broad and varied connections Heaney makes with writers from an Irish and European background. The book contains close readings of the poet’s associations and interest in exemplars such as Dante, Virgil, Baudelaire, Blandiana and Ní Dhomhnaill, to mention but a few. Attention is also paid to broader areas of influence such as the Greek and Roman classics, Anglo-Saxon, Irish and Eastern-European literature. The volume addresses Heaney’s poetry in translation, as well as his dramatic works and prose writing. This study is broad in its approach to Heaney’s translations and offers new readings of these works from leading international scholars in the field.

The Invention of Telepathy, 1870-1901

Roger Luckhurst

The Invention of Telepathy explores one of the enduring concepts to emerge from the late nineteenth century. Telepathy was coined by Frederic Myers in 1882. He defined it as 'the communication of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognised channels of sense'. By 1901 it had become a disputed phenomenon amongst physical scientists yet was the 'royal road' to the unconscious mind. Telepathy was discussed by eminent men and women of the day, including Sigmund Freud, Thomas Huxley, Henry and William James, Mary Kingsley, Andrew Lang, Vernon Lee, W. T. Stead, and Oscar Wilde. Did telepathy signal evolutionary advance or possible decline? Could it be a means of binding the Empire closer together, or was it used by natives to subvert imperial communications? Were women more sensitive than men, and if so why? Roger Luckhurst investigates these questions in an exciting and accessible study that mixes history of science with cultural history and literary analysis.

Musical Courier

A Weekly Journal Devoted to Music and the Music Trades

Unknown author

Vols. for 1957-61 include an additional (mid-January) no. called Directory issue, 1st-5th ed. The 6th ed. was published as the Dec. 1961 issue.