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Irish Studies Founded in 1981, the Irish Studies series was the first of its kind in North America. Monographs on writers such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Liam O’Flaherty, Seamus Heaney and Roddy Doyle have distinguished Syracuse University Press as a leader in the field. The series is committed to publishing groundbreaking work in areas as wideranging as the performing arts, Irish America, religion, language, literary studies, and women’s studies. The press is proud to be the exclusive distributor of two prestigious Irish publishers as well, Dedalus Press and Arlen House. Series Editor:
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Compassionate Stranger Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine Maureen O’Rourke Murphy “Compassionate Stranger is a landmark work of historical exploration and scholarship.”—Peter Quinn, author of Dry Bones
Cloth $39.95 978-0-8156-1044-1 Ebook 978-0-8156-5289-2
“Meticulously researched, beautifully written, Compassionate Stranger is a gift to scholarship, literature, Ireland, and to readers everywhere who seek to understand both the hardship and nobility of the poor.”—Roger Rosenblatt, essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour
Irish Women Dramatists 1908–2001 Edited by Eileen Kearney and Charlotte Headrick “The first anthology of Irish women playwrights that is firmly grounded in the history of twentieth-century Irish theater and the social history of modern Ireland.”—John P. Harrington, editor of Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama
Paper $34.95s 978-0-8156-3375-4 Ebook 978-0-8156-5292-2
“This wonderful new anthology . . . celebrates seven great writers, whose dramas display the vitality, virtuosity and variety of Irish women’s playwriting—giving us works that range from comedy to high drama to the deepest tragedy.”—Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, Galway
The Banshees A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers Sally Barr Ebest “The Banshees will undoubtedly resonate with the women who are reading and writing in the twenty-first century. It will be intriguing to watch how Irish-American women receive it, and how they use it to make and remake themselves.”—New Hibernia Review “This insightful volume will appeal to students of Irish literature, feminism, and twenith-century American sociopolitical history.” —Library Journal
Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3330-3 Ebook 978-0-8156-5240-3
All Dressed Up Modern Irish Historical Pageantry Joan FitzPatrick Dean “A great strength of the book is the author’s ability to write with verve and wit, offering microscopic and telescopic views of these events. That is, while she examines these Irish paratheatricals as distinct to events within Ireland, she also places them in the broad streams of European and American social and cultural history.” —Timothy McMahon, author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893–1910
Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3374-7 Ebook 978-0-8156-5284-7
A Chastened Communion Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism Andrew J. Auge “The title—A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism—implies that after a period of retreat and repentance, the Irish church will emerge vibrant and renewed to meet the challenges of the future. But although he cautions that ‘we might be inclined to add a note of regret to the general celebratory chorus heralding the passing of Irish Catholicism,’ Auge neither expects nor predicts any such revival. His study is all the more convincing for that honesty. The effect on those disposed to receive it will indeed be liberating.”—New Hibernia Review
Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3329-7 Ebook 978-0-8156-5239-7
Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama Richard Rankin Russell “Russell’s book does makes astute observations about the richness and strength of Friel’s theater drawn from a wide variety of topographies in different lights to reflect a range of communities and connections that emerge. The book is a thoughtful and stimulating read of Friel’s most canonical plays, capturing the changes from traditional kinds of communities to other possibilities of community.”—Comparative Drama
Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3331-0 Ebook 978-0-8156-5234-2 Series: Irish Studies
The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre Beyond O’Casey Elizabeth Mannion “The importance of the Abbey’s urban drama is clearly mapped out and will be useful to graduate students interested in Irish literature or scholars of urban theatre.”—Lauren Arrington, University of Liverpool
Cloth $34.95s 978-0-8156-3367-9 Ebook 978-0-8156-5304-2
“This book significantly adds to the narrative of twentieth century Irish drama, providing the ‘missing chapter’ of the Abbey Theatre’s early history, by skillfully examining and contextualizing the Theatre’s urban plays outside of Sean O’Casey’s Dublin trilogy. It is a necessary addition for all Irish Studies libraries.”—Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, author of Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation
Rethinking Occupied Ireland Gender and Incarceration in Contemporary Irish Film Jessica Scarlata “Sharing James Joyce’s belief that Ireland fretted in the shadow of two empires, Scarlata examines how the carceral regimes of British rule in Northern Ireland, and the Catholic Church in the Irish state, encased bodies as well as minds in a permanent state of emergency. Written with considerable verve and acumen, this wideranging study makes an incisive contribution to film theory and history, gender studies, postcolonialism and Irish Studies.”—Luke Gibbons, coauthor of Cinema and Ireland
Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3332-7 Ebook 978-0-8156-5241-0
Ireland in Focus Film, Photography, and Popular Culture Edited by Eóin Flannery and Michael Griffin From an analysis of the Guinness brand’s reflection of Irish identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of political prisoners, this pioneering collection of essays seeks to present Ireland’s relationship to visual culture as a whole. While other works have explored the imagistic history of Ireland, most have restricted their lens to a single form of visual representation. Ireland in Focus is the first book to address the diverse range of visual representations of national and communal identity in Ireland.
Cloth $29.95s 978-0-8156-3203-0
Carmilla A Critical Edition Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Edited and with an Introduction by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan “This welcome edition of Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic gothic tale Carmilla frames the original serialized text with an admirable introduction and a series of brilliant essays that both return the vampire tale to its native historical earth and trace its flowering across varied national terrains, expressive genres and cultural traditions.” —Joseph Valente, author of The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880–1922
Paper $19.95s 978-0-8156-3311-2 Ebook 978-0-8156-5204-5 Forthcoming Fall 2015. . .
The Snake’s Pass A Critical Edition Edited by Lisabeth C. Buchelt
“Highly recommened.”—Choice
The Midnight Court / Cúirt an Mheán Oíche A Critical Edition Brian Merriman Translated by David Marcus Edited and with an Introduction by Brian Ó Conchubhair “Presents Merriman’s achievement to all, whether in North America or anywhere else, who have an interest in Irish language, Irish history and Irish literature and who have a sense of humor to match. The inclusion of essays, an additional reading list, the timeline of events and the publication history of the poem add significantly to its usefulness for students. For many it will serve as a springboard to further study but for all it will be a thoroughly good read.” —Journal of Celtic Language Learning
Paper $19.95s 978-0-8156-3260-3
Dance Lessons A Novel Áine Greaney “Greaney’s second novel (after The Big House) depicts grief with trust in the reader’s empathy. The author is able to capture emotional nuance with minimal flourish; her characters emerge as strong individuals confronting unexpected pain.”—Publishers Weekly “A beautiful examination of three women’s lives, this novel deftly explores both relationships and solitude, with Ireland’s gorgeous countryside as backdrop.”—Booklist
Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-0984-1
Joyce/Shakespeare Edited by Laura Pelaschiar “This collection gathers an impressive international group of Joyce critics who combine to give a series of superlative essays replete with many excellent readings of the intertextual network connecting Joyce and Shakespeare.”—Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
Paper $19.95s 978-0-8156-3389-1 Ebook 978-0-8156-5312-7
“Pelaschiar has assembled some of the best Joycean minds on the subject who, in tune with the theme at hand, fill odd gaps and develop new and unexpected insights.”—Fritz Senn, founder and director of the James Joyce Foundation in Zürich
Collaborative Dubliners Joyce in Dialogue Edited by Vicki Mahaffey “A fresh direction in Joyce studies and a rare offering in humanities research as well. The scholarly pairings present sometimes divergent, other times complementary, viewpoints that respond to the editor’s strategy ‘to create a situation in which each critic had to negotiate with a different set of assumptions in a collaborative effort to create a more elastic, responsive, capacious reading of the text.’”—James Joyce Quarterly
Cloth $60.00L 978-0-8156-3270-2 Paper $29.95s 978-08156-3269-6
Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism Julia M. Wright “Offering an insightful, global view of the Romantic age, Wright (Dalhousie Univ.) reworks the familiar theme of the centrality of land in the varied expressions of Irish identity and nationality.”—Choice “Wright’s astute and incisive analysis presents original perspectives on Irish literary history, reveals significant new tropes and connections within and beyond Irish literary tradition, traces the textual genealogies of iconic sites like Glendalough and Killarney, and explores neglected works by and interconnections among writers.”—Mary Helen Thuente, author of The Harp Re-Strung: The United Irishmen and the Rise of Irish Literary Nationalism
Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3353-2 Ebook 978-0-8156-5266-3
“Other People’s Diasporas” Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture Sinéad Moynihan “One of the most impressive aspects of Moynihan’s overall approach is her repeated warning against recasting Irish experience in terms of American debates of race and immigration . . . her own close readings of Irish texts are similarly enhanced by an attentiveness to the small print of race and immigration in contemporary Ireland.”—The Irish Times
Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3310-5 Ebook 978-0-8156-5212-0
James K. McGuire Boy Mayor and Irish Nationalist Joseph E. Fahey “Joseph Fahey has eloquently brought to life the story of James K. McGuire—the boy mayor of Syracuse, New York, prominent businessman, and leading Irish-American nationalist in the years of Ireland’s struggle for self-government. . . . McGuire merits a full biography and Fahey’s extensively researched study splendidly fills this gap in our understanding of Irish-American leadership.”—Francis Carroll, History Department, University of Manitoba
Cloth $24.95 978-0-8156-1032-8 Ebook 978-0-8156-5277-9
Of Irish Descent Origin Stories, Genealogy, and the Politics of Belonging Catherine Nash “The complex dynamics of Irish identity are exposed in Nash’s brilliant new book…. Her rigorous examination of the political, cultural, and material effects of Irish genealogy and genetics and the numerous examples she provides of ordinary Americans, Canadians, and Northern Irish who are using genealogy to transform outmoded ideas of a ‘pure points of ancestral origin’… are cause for optimism.”—Journal of American Ethnic History
Cloth $29.95s 978-0-8156-3159-0
Memory Ireland Volume 1: History and Modernity
Edited by Oona Frawley
Volume 2: Diaspora and Memory Practices Volume 3: The Famine and the Troubles
Edited by Oona Frawley Edited by Oona Frawley
Volume 4: James Joyce and Cultural Memory
Edited by Oona Frawley & Katherine O’Callaghan
“These essays form a valuable contribution to the field of Irish Studies, providing a necessary framework for an expanded and explicit engagement with cultural memory as a defining force in the way we talk about Irish history and identity.”— New Hibernia Review “Frawley and O’Callaghan share a wealth of thoughtful and engaging essays that will stimulate reflection on this most timely of Irish writers.”—Breac
Gender and Medicine in Ireland 1700–1950 Edited by Margaret Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh “This fine collection of essays will greatly enhance the corpus of knowledge of the history of Irish medicine.”— Irish Economic and Social History “The themes of gender and medicine are complex and important, necessitating broad-based considerations that often cut across the histories of gender, medicine, and broader Irish society. This collection succeeds admirably in reflecting the intrinsically crossdisciplinary nature of the subject at hand.”—Brendan Kelly, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine
Paper $39.95s 978-0-8156-3271-9
VOLUME 1: Cloth $34.95s 978-0-8156-3250-4 VOLUME 2: Cloth $39.95s 978-08156-3297-9 VOLUME 3: Cloth $44.95s 978-0-8156-3351-8 Ebook 978-0-8156-5264-9 VOLUME 4: Cloth $44.95s 978-0-8156-3352-5 Ebook 978-0-8156-5265-6
Distributed titles The Cask of Moonlight
Nine Bright Shiners
Patrick Kehoe
Theo Dorgan
Set in Barcelona, Kehoe’s lucid, lighthanded lyrics brilliantly illuminate a time and a place, like a full moon over the “beehive ways of the city.” His is already a distinctive voice in Irish poetry.
Dorgan’s new collection is a sequence of elegies that reflect on early and recent deaths, from the loss of his infant sister to the suicide of a contemporary. The book is unflinching in facing up to death and the poet’s own mortality, but these dark meditations are framed by whole-hearted celebrations of love, life, art, and voyaging.
Paper $16.50 978-1-906614-95-9 Distributed for Dedelus Press
Paper $17.50 978-1-906614-98-0 Distributed for Dedelus Press
Liffey Swim
Borrowed Space
Jessica Traynor
New and Selected Poems Enda Wyley
Liffey Swim is the debut collection from Dubliner Jessica Traynor, whose family portraits combine with myth and history to create a strikingly assured and engaging suite of poems. Delivered in a language that is at once fresh and confident, these poems herald Traynor as a powerful new talent in Irish writing.
Filled with energy, imagination, and heart, Wyley’s poems convey the quiet determination of a seasoned poet. She has twice been a winner in the British National Poetry Competition and was the inaugural recipient of the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize.
Paper $14.95 978-1-906614-97-3
Paper $19.95 978-1-906614-96-6
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Distributed for Dedelus Press
Of Birds and Bones
Noir by Noir West
Geraldine Mitchell
Dark Fiction from the West of Ireland James Martyn Joyce, Editor
For all its darker moments, Of Birds and Bones has a lightless of touch. Tenderness and humour counterbalance an unblinking contemplation of human frailty in an uncertain world. Paper $19.95 978-1-85132-099-8 Distributed for Arlen House
This collection includes writing from a new wave of West of Ireland writers, including Ken Bruen, Seamus Scanlon, Mike McCormack, Des Kenny, Kernan Andrews and Órfhlaith Foyle. Paper $29.95 978-1-85132-077-6 Distributed for Arlen House
Hellkite
Darkness
Geraldine Mills
Liam O’Flaherty Edited by Brian Ó Conchubhair
In this, her third short story collection, Geraldine Mills extends her thematic range to excavate new and shifting landscapes. Not afraid to tackle taboos, Hellkite occupies a space all of its own, where gender expectations are re-aligned to explore woman’s inhumanity to man. Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-100-1 Distributed for Arlen House
Darkness challenges social, cultural, and moral conventions and presents a searing critique of social life in the Irish Free State’s initial years. This scholarly edition includes the text, contemporary reviews, illustrations, and a substantial critical introduction by Ó Conchubhair. Cloth $34.95 978-1-85132-074-5 Distributed for Arlen House
Distributed titles Na Saighneain
The Negative Cutter
Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Patrick Chapman
The collection showcases Ó Searcaigh’s continuing presence as a powerful and important voice not only for poetry in Irish but for the craft of poetry more widely.
Contrasting humor with darkness, this kindred pair of novellas offers subtle portraits of ordinary people confronting the absurd and the sublime.
Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-095-0
Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-089-9
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Distributed for Arlen House
From Trinity to Treanmanagh
Beautiful Wheel
Patrick Melia
Theodore Deppe
Melia’s memoir vividly collects reminiscences from a childhood in Wales in the 1930s to married life with famous artist Pauline Bewick and travels around Paris, the South of France, Italy, and Slovenia.
The fifth collection of poetry from the American-born, Ireland-based writer Theodore Deppe. These peoms engage with questions of mortality and loss, friendship and love.
Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-085-1
Distributed for Arlen House
Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-084-4
Distributed for Arlen House
A Butterfly’s Wing Vivienne McKechnie This debut collection of poetry focuses on issues of loss, love, friendship, Irish society and emigration. Paper $19.95 978-1-85132-092-9 Distributed for Arlen House
riddle me this : cuir amach seo dom Celia de Freine As its name suggests, the title poem, which Celia de Freine wrote while in Slovenia, takes its cue from the riddle, a traditional Slovene form. Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-098-1 Distributed for Arlen House
Forget the Lake
Pagan to the Core
Mary Turley-McGrath
Maighread Medbh
Mary Turley-McGrath’s second collection of poetry includes meditations on art, keen observations of the natural world, and the scrutiny of family attachments and lineage.
One of the pioneers of Irish performance poetry returns with a stunning new book, a reinterpretation of her first collection, The Making of a Pagan (1990).
Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-093-6
Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-088-2
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Distributed for Arlen House
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