Irish Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Irish Children's Literature and Culture

   New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing

   Edited by Keith O'Sullivan, Valerie Coghlan

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

   W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge

   By George Cusack

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of...

   Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
3. Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change

   Race, Sex and Nation

   By Gerardine Meaney

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women. It looks at the relationship between sexual and cultural dissent and the long, slow role of culture in...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature

   By Christopher Dowd

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through the Great Depression. It goes beyond an analysis of negative Irish stereotypes and shows how Irish characters became the site of intense...

   Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
5. W.B. Yeats

   Edited by Norman A. Jeffares

   This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published January 6th 2010 by Routledge
6. Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

   By Robin Bates

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney resisted...

   Published October 20th 2009 by Routledge
7. James Joyce. Volume I: 1907-27

   Edited by Robert Deming

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge
8. James Joyce. Volume 2: 1928-41

   Edited by Robert Deming

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge
9. James Joyce

   Edited by B.C. Southam

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. Available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes....

   Published March 8th 2007 by Routledge
10. The Poems of W.B. Yeats

    A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

    Edited by Michael O'Neill

    Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

    Deeply involved with Irish culture and history, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest poets writing in the last two centuries. This sourcebook provides essential help for readers who wish to learn more about his powerful, haunting poems. Considering Yeats's early, dreamily evocative poems...

    Published December 10th 2003 by Routledge