Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. 260 pp. $81.00; $24.99 paper. he nation of
Ireland has been, in large measure, the creation of its writers, of a thousand real-life Stephen …

Since the 1980s, contemporary Irish literature has borne witness to dramatic and
accelerated social change. Anna Burns's Milkman and Anne Enright's The Gathering …

When it came to the choice of an MA course at University College Dublin in 1969, for me and
for almost all my friends who had graduated with a BA in English, there was only one real …

An Introduction to Contemporary Irish Literature provides a thorough initiation into the works
of a broad selection of living Irish writers. The collection treats the writings of a range of …

" Writing Modern Ireland'examines the complex literary manifestations of Ireland and
Irishness from the turn of the twentieth century to very recently. Together with examinations …

In 2005 Wake Forest University Press published the first volume in a projected series of
anthologies of Irish poetry. Though it is not the only new anthology of contemporary work …

The book provides a new perspective on the establishment of Irish literature in English. This
emerged in the early nineteenth century in an effort to create an independent writing in …

The following three opinions on the anthology are position papers which were made
available in advance of the Panel Discussion at CAIS/ACIS Conference in Galway, July …

Once a country of emigration and diaspora, in the 1990s Ireland began to attract immigration
from other parts of the world: a new citizenry. By the first decade of the twenty-first century …

This is a collection of essays and articles on Irish literature in English which were first
published between 1973 and 2004. Apart from any individual merit some of them may still …