IrishStudies
ChangingLand DiasporaActivismandthe IrishLandWar



NiallWhelehan
TheIrishLandWarrepresented asocialrevolutionthatwas partofabroaderideological momentwhenestablished ideasoflandownershipwere fundamentallychallenged.
ChangingLandoffersanewandoriginalstudyofIrish emigrants’activismintheUS,Argentina,Scotland, andEnglandandtheirmultifacetedrelationships withIreland.
NewYorkUniversityPress
Series:TheGlucksmanIrishDiasporaSeries
December2021224pp
9781479809554 £25.99 HB now£18.19

YoungIreland AGlobalAfterlife ChristopherMorash
Followsagroupofpeople exiledfromIrelandaftera failedrebellionandtherole theyhadinthebuildingofnew nationsandstates.
YoungIreland isavitalnew perspectiveinthefieldofIrish diasporastudies,highlightingtheimpacttheYoung Irelandgenerationhadonemergingdemocraciesand internationaldebates,bothinspiteofandbecause oftheirdefeatanddispersion.
NewYorkUniversityPress
Series:TheGlucksmanIrishDiasporaSeries
September2023304pp
9781479822218 £29.99 HB now£20.99
TheIrishRevolution AGlobalHistory
EditedbyPatrickMannion &FearghalMcGarry
TheIrishWarofIndependence isoftenunderstoodasthe culminationofcenturiesof politicalunrestbetween IrelandandtheEnglish.This bookreassessestheconflictas aninherentlytransnationalevent,examininghow circumstancesandindividualsabroadshapedthe courseIreland’sstruggleforindependence.
NewYorkUniversityPress
Series:TheGlucksmanIrishDiasporaSeries
May20221b&willus.368pp
9781479808892 £29.99 HB now£20.99
-ForthcomingAidingIreland
TheGreatFamineandthe
RiseofTransnational Philanthropy

AneliseHansonShrout
AidingIreland investigatesthe Irishfamineasafoundational momentfornormalizing internationalgiving.AneliseHansonShroutargues thatthesediversemenandwomenfoundfamine relieftobepoliticallyuseful.Shrouttakesreaders fromIrelandtoBritain,acrosstheAtlantictothe UnitedStates,andacrosstheMississippitoIndian Territory,uncoveringwhatwastobegainedforeach groupbyparticipatinginglobalfaminerelief.
NewYorkUniversityPress

Series:TheGlucksmanIrishDiasporaSeries
January2024280pp
9781479824595 £29.99 HB now£20.99
AmericaandtheMakingofan IndependentIreland

AHistory
FrancisM.Carroll
“ProfessorCarrollhasgivenusaveryuseful synthesisofhisdecadesofstudyofAmerica andIrelandintherevolutionaryperiodthat willbeofinteresttostudentsandscholars ofIrishAmerica,U.S.-Irishrelationsand ethnicpoliticsintheUnitedStatesinthe firstquarterofthetwentiethcentury.“— IrishHistoricalStudies
NewYorkUniversityPress
Series:TheGlucksmanIrishDiasporaSeries
January202112b&willus.312pp
9781479805655 £29.99 HB now£20.99
Hereafter
TheTellingLifeofEllenO'Hara
VonaGroarke
“Agroundbreakingblendofhistory,poetry, andprose,atriumphofnegativecapability. Thisisarich,rewarding,andheartbreaking read.GroarkerestoresnotjustEllen,butall theotherwomenwho‘lefttoliveinother peoples’houses.’“—MartinaEvans, The IrishTimes
NewYorkUniversityPress
Series:TheGlucksmanIrishDiasporaSeries
November202228b&willus.224pp
9781479817511 £18.99 HB now£13.29
HomewardBound
ReturnMigrationfromIrelandandIndia attheEndoftheBritishEmpire
NiamhDillon
“HomewardBound reverberateswith subjectiveambivalencesabout macropoliticalchangeanditsdiasporic effects.Dillon’sgenerousquotations provideherintervieweeswiththespaceto unfurlboththeirinstinctiveaffinitywith 'returning'toBritain,andtheirlamentsfora lostplaceandstatus.Theoretically sophisticatedandtextuallyrich.”—Irish StudiesReview
NewYorkUniversityPress
Series:TheGlucksmanIrishDiasporaSeries
December20221b&willus.256pp
9781479817313 £25.99 HB now£18.19
TheCoffinShip
LifeandDeathatSeaduringtheGreat IrishFamine


CianT.McMahon
Thestandardstoryoftheexodusduring Ireland’sGreatFamineisoneoftired clichés,half-truths,anddrystatistics.In The CoffinShip,agroundbreakingworkof transnationalhistory,CianT.McMahon offersavibrant,freshperspectiveonanoftignoredbutvitalcomponentofthe migrationexperience:thejourneyitself.
NewYorkUniversityPress

Series:TheGlucksmanIrishDiasporaSeries
November202211b&willus.328pp
9781479820535 £19.99 PB now£13.99
CanadaandIreland
APoliticalandDiplomaticHistory
PhilipJ.Currie
“Thisisabrilliantandmuchneededbook. Currieistobecongratulatedforfocussing ontheunrecognizedandundiscussedissues inCanadian-Irishhistoryandcompilingsuch abalancedandsophisticatedanalysis.This willbeaperfecttexttoaccompanyanyIrish historycoursetaughtinCanada.”—Francis M.Carroll,UniversityofManitoba, CanadianJournalofIrishStudies
UBCPress
October202022b&wphotos284pp
9780774863285 £31.00 PB now£21.70
CatalogueofIrishManuscripts inHoughtonLibrary,Harvard University

CorneliusG.Buttimer
HarvardUniversityhasthelargestcollection ofIrish-languagecodicesinNorthAmerica, heldinHoughtonLibrary,itsrarebook repository.Thiscataloguedescribesthe collectioninfullforthefirsttimeandwillbe aninvaluableaidtoresearchonIrishand IrishAmericanculturalandliteraryoutput. Theauthor’sintroductionexamineshow thecollectionwasformed.
UniversityofNotreDamePress
January2022432pp
9780268201012 £134.00 HB now£93.80
DerryCity

MemoryandPoliticalStrugglein
NorthernIreland
MargoShea
ExaminesCatholicDerryfromtheturnof thetwentiethcenturytotheendofthe 1960sandthestartoftheTroubles. Providesanaccountofthecultural, political,andsocialhistoryusingarchival research,oralhistories,landscapeanalysis, andpublicspeechesanddemonstrateshow communitiesmaintaintheiragencyinthe midstofpoliticalandculturalconflict.
UniversityofNotreDamePress
June2020350pp
9780268107932 £49.00 HB now£34.30
Ireland'sRevolutionary Diplomat

ABiographyofLeopoldKerney
BarryWhelan
"[BarryWhelan]givesavaluableinsightinto theearlyyearsoftheIrishdiplomatic servicebygoingbehindtheofficialrecords. Hehasalsohelpedrestorethereputationof oneofitspioneers."—TheIrishCatholic
"[In]Whelan'sbiographyofKerney,his meticulousresearchsuccessfullyupends whathashithertoprevailedasacademia's receivedwisdom."—HistoryofIreland
UniversityofNotreDamePress
February2019356pp
9780268105051 £45.00 HB now£31.50
NineIrishPlaysforVoices
EamonGrennan
"Thiscollectionofnineplaysforvoiceswill beofenormousinteresttoreaderswho wanttodeepentheirknowledgeoftheatre, Irishculture,andtherelationshipbetween greatliteratureandsociety.Itprovidesnew perspectivesonsuchwell-knownfiguresas JamesJoyce,WBYeats,LadyGregoryand PeigSayers–whilealsoofferingan innovativeapproachtoIrishhistory."—

PatrickLonergan,UniversityofGalway
FordhamUniversityPress
April20239b&willus.360pp
9781531502546 £36.00 HB now£25.20
Partitions

ATransnationalHistoryofTwentiethCenturyTerritorialSeparatism
EditedbyArieM.Dubnov&Laura
Robson
Offersthefirstcollectivehistoryofthe conceptofpartition,tracingitsemergence intheaftermathoftheFirstWorldWarand locatingitsgenealogyinthepoliticsof twentieth-centuryempireand decolonization,focusingonthecasesofthe IrishFreeState,India,Pakistan,andthe StateofIsrael.
StanfordUniversityPress
January2019400pp
9781503607675 £27.99 PB now£19.59
RuairíÓBrádaigh
TheLifeandPoliticsofanIrish Revolutionary,2ndEdition
RobertW.White
Athisdeathin2013,RuairíÓBrádaigh remainedadivisiveandinfluentialfigurein IrishpoliticsandtheIrishRepublican movement.Inabrief"Afterword"forthis newedition,authorRobertW.White addressesÓBrádaigh'scontinuinginfluence ontheIrishRepublicanMovement, includingtheongoing"dissident"campaign.

IndianaUniversityPress
May202026b&wphotos,2maps476pp
9780253048295 £25.99 PB now£18.19
ConamaraChronicles
TalesfromIorrasAithneach
CompiledbySeánMacGiollarnáth
TranslatedbyLiamMacConIomaire &TimRobinson
OtherDónallÓBraonáin
"SeánMacGiollarnáth'slandmark publicationof1941demonstrateshiswork incollectingtraditionalmaterialand transcribingvernacularculture.Itisfitting toseetheworkintranslation,andreaders seekingtostepintothewondrousworldof Conamaratraditionwoulddowelltobegin here."—RíonachuíÓgáin,University CollegeDublin
IndianaUniversityPress
Series:IrishCulture,Memory,Place
September20225b&willus.,2maps332pp
9780253063526 £25.99 PB now£18.19
Smyllie'sIreland
Protestants,Independence,andtheMan
WhoRantheIrishTimes
CalebRichardson
AsIrishrepublicanssoughttoridthe countryofBritishinfluenceintheearly20th century,theinfluential IrishTimes editorR. M.Smyllienavigatedthepainfulexperience ofbeingmadetofeelanoutsiderinhisown homeland.InthistitleRichardsonoffersa wayofseeingSmyllieasrepresentativeof thelargerAnglo-Irishexperience.
IndianaUniversityPress
Series:IrishCulture,Memory,Place
April2019196pp
9780253041241 £29.99 PB now£20.99
SuitableStrangers
TheHungarianRevolution,aHunger Strike,andIreland'sFirstRefugeeCamp
VeraSheridan
"Thisisapowerfulandexcellently reconstructedhistoryofIreland'sfirstand tentativestepintothepost-WWIIrefugee crisis.Throughcarefulresearch,itshows theambiguityoftheIrishstateand populationtothoseescapingtheSoviet invasionofHungaryin1956.Byplacingitin theoftendisturbingdomesticcontextof Irelandduringthe1950s,thisstudynever losessightoftherefugeesthemselvesand theiragencyinthetwoyearsmanyofthem spentina'temporary'refugeecamp."—


TonyKushner,UniversityofSouthampton
IndianaUniversityPress
Series:IrishCulture,Memory,Place
January202322b&willus.,7b&wtables250pp
9780253064615 £25.99 PB now£18.19
WomenandtheDecadeof Commemorations

EditedbyOonaFrawley
Together,theessaysinWomenandthe DecadeofCommemorationsconsiderthe impactofwomen'sunseen,unsungwork, whichhasbeencriticallyimportantin shapingIreland,acountrythatcontinuesto strugglewithhonoringthefullroleof womentoday.
IndianaUniversityPress
Series:IrishCulture,Memory,Place
January202127b&willus.,1b&wtable374pp
9780253053725 £34.00 PB now£23.80
TheChildSexScandaland ModernIrishLiterature
WritingtheUnspeakable
JosephValente&MargotGayle BackusForewordbyFintanO'Toole
Examinesmodernculturalresponsesto childsexabuseinIreland.Using descriptionsofthesescandalsfoundin newspapers,historiographicalanalysis,and 20th-and21st-centuryliterature,Valente andBackusexposeapublicsphereardently committedtoIrishchildren'ssoulsand piouslyoblivioustotheirphysicalwelfare.
IndianaUniversityPress
Series:IrishCulture,Memory,Place
December20203colorillus.,17b&willus.300pp
9780253053183 £23.99 PB now£16.79
UnholyCatholicIreland

ReligiousHypocrisy,SecularMorality, andIrishIrreligion
HughTurpin
"Thisstudyistobewarmlywelcomed.Itis writtenbeautifullyandmakesasignificant contributiontothefieldofthestudyofIrish Catholicism—anditsrejection.Believers andnon-believersalikewilllearnmuch fromTurpin'sfindings,whichinviteusto reconsiderthecomplexitiesofIrishreligion andirreligionanew."—SalvadorRyan, The IrishIndependent StanfordUniversityPress
Series:SpiritualPhenomena
September2022344pp
9781503633131 £23.99 PB now£16.79
Women'sLifeWritingand EarlyModernIreland

EditedbyJulieA.Eckerle&Naomi McAreavey
Thisbookprovidesanoriginalperspective onbothnewandfamiliartextsinthisfirst criticalcollectiontofocusonseventeenthcenturywomen’slifewritingina specificallyIrishcontext.BymakingIreland andIrishnessthefocusoftheiressays,the contributorsresituatewomen’snarrativesin apowerfulandrevealinglandscape.
UniversityofNebraskaPress
Series:WomenandGenderintheEarlyModern World June2019Index342pp
9780803299979 £29.99 PB now£20.99