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Irish StudiesFounded 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 wide-ranging 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.

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“Compassionate Stranger is a landmark work of historical explora-tion and scholarship.”—Peter Quinn, author of Dry Bones

“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

Compassionate StrangerAsenath Nicholson and the Great Irish FamineMaureen O’Rourke Murphy

“The first anthology of Irish women playwrights that is firmly ground-ed 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

“This wonderful new anthology . . . celebrates seven great writ-ers, 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

Irish Women Dramatists1908–2001Edited by Eileen Kearney and Charlotte Headrick

“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

The BansheesA Literary History of Irish American Women WritersSally Barr Ebest

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“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

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All Dressed UpModern Irish Historical PageantryJoan FitzPatrick Dean

“The title—A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Ca-tholicism—implies that after a period of retreat and repentance, the Irish church will emerge vibrant and renewed to meet the chal-lenges 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 convinc-ing for that honesty. The effect on those disposed to receive it will indeed be liberating.”—New Hibernia Review

A Chastened CommunionModern Irish Poetry and CatholicismAndrew J. Auge

“Russell’s book does makes astute observations about the richness and strength of Friel’s theater drawn from a wide variety of topog-raphies 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 commu-nity.”—Comparative Drama

Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s DramaRichard Rankin Russell

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Series: Irish Studies

“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

“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 neces-sary addition for all Irish Studies libraries.”—Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, author of Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation

The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey TheatreBeyond O’CaseyElizabeth Mannion

“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 emer-gency. Written with considerable verve and acumen, this wide-ranging study makes an incisive contribution to film theory and history, gender studies, postcolonialism and Irish Studies.”—Luke Gibbons, coauthor of Cinema and Ireland

Rethinking Occupied IrelandGender and Incarceration in Contemporary Irish FilmJessica Scarlata

From an analysis of the Guinness brand’s reflection of Irish identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of political prison-ers, 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.

Ireland in FocusFilm, Photography, and Popular CultureEdited by Eóin Flannery and Michael Griffin

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“This welcome edition of Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic gothic tale Carmilla frames the original serialized text with an admirable intro-duction and a series of brilliant essays that both return the vam-pire 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

“Highly recommened.”—Choice

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Forthcoming Fall 2015. . .

The Snake’s PassA Critical EditionEdited by Lisabeth C. Buchelt

CarmillaA Critical EditionJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu Edited and with an Introduction by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

“Presents Merriman’s achievement to all, whether in North America or anywhere else, who have an interest in Irish language, Irish his-tory 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 spring-board to further study but for all it will be a thoroughly good read.” —Journal of Celtic Language Learning

The Midnight Court / Cúirt an Mheán OícheA Critical EditionBrian Merriman Translated by David Marcus Edited and with an Introduction by Brian Ó Conchubhair

“Greaney’s second novel (after The Big House ) depicts grief with trust in the reader’s empathy. The author is able to capture emotion-al 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

Dance LessonsA NovelÁine Greaney

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“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 connect-ing Joyce and Shakespeare.”—Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

“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

Joyce/ShakespeareEdited by Laura Pelaschiar

“A fresh direction in Joyce studies and a rare offering in humani-ties 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

Collaborative DublinersJoyce in DialogueEdited by Vicki Mahaffey

“Offering an insightful, global view of the Romantic age, Wright (Dal-housie 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 perspec-tives 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

Representing the National Landscape in Irish RomanticismJulia M. Wright

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“One of the most impressive aspects of Moynihan’s overall ap-proach 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 attentive-ness to the small print of race and immigration in contemporary Ireland.”—The Irish Times

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“Other People’s Diasporas”Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American CultureSinéad Moynihan

“Joseph Fahey has eloquently brought to life the story of James K. McGuire—the boy mayor of Syracuse, New York, prominent busi-nessman, and leading Irish-American nationalist in the years of Ire-land’s struggle for self-government. . . . McGuire merits a full biog-raphy and Fahey’s extensively researched study splendidly fills this gap in our understanding of Irish-American leadership.”—Francis Carroll, History Department, University of Manitoba

James K. McGuireBoy Mayor and Irish NationalistJoseph E. Fahey

“The complex dynamics of Irish identity are exposed in Nash’s bril-liant new book…. Her rigorous examination of the political, cultural, and material effects of Irish genealogy and genetics and the nu-merous 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 opti-mism.”—Journal of American Ethnic History

Of Irish DescentOrigin Stories, Genealogy, and the Politics of BelongingCatherine Nash

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“These essays form a valuable contribution to the field of Irish Studies, providing a necessary frame-work 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 reflec-tion on this most timely of Irish writers.”—Breac

Memory IrelandVolume 1: History and Modernity Edited by Oona Frawley

Volume 2: Diaspora and Memory Practices Edited by Oona Frawley

Volume 3: The Famine and the Troubles Edited by Oona Frawley

Volume 4: James Joyce and Cultural Memory Edited by Oona Frawley & Katherine O’Callaghan

“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 cross-disciplinary nature of the subject at hand.”—Brendan Kelly, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine

Gender and Medicine in Ireland1700–1950Edited by Margaret Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh

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Nine Bright ShinersTheo Dorgan

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 con-temporary. 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.

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The Cask of MoonlightPatrick Kehoe

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.

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Borrowed SpaceNew and Selected PoemsEnda Wyley

Filled with energy, imagination, and heart, Wy-ley’s poems convey the quiet determination of a seasoned poet. She has twice been a win-ner in the British National Poetry Competition and was the inaugural recipient of the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize.


Liffey SwimJessica Traynor

Liffey Swim is the debut collection from Dub-liner Jessica Traynor, whose family portraits combine with myth and history to create a strikingly assured and engaging suite of po-ems. Delivered in a language that is at once fresh and confident, these poems herald Traynor as a powerful new talent in Irish writing.


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Noir by Noir WestDark Fiction from the West of IrelandJames Martyn Joyce, Editor

This collection includes writing from a new wave of West of Ireland writers, including Ken Bruen, Seamus Scanlon, Mike McCormack, Des Ken-ny, Kernan Andrews and Órfhlaith Foyle.

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Of Birds and BonesGeraldine Mitchell

For all its darker moments, Of Birds and Bones has a lightless of touch. Tenderness and hu-mour counterbalance an unblinking contem-plation of human frailty in an uncertain world.


DarknessLiam O’Flaherty Edited by Brian Ó Conchubhair

Darkness challenges social, cultural, and moral conventions and presents a searing cri-tique of social life in the Irish Free State’s initial years. This scholarly edition includes the text, contemporary reviews, illustrations, and a sub-stantial critical introduction by Ó Conchubhair.

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HellkiteGeraldine Mills

In this, her third short story collection, Geraldine Mills extends her thematic range to excavate new and shifting landscapes. Not afraid to tack-le taboos, Hellkite occupies a space all of its own, where gender expectations are re-aligned to explore woman’s inhumanity to man.


The Negative CutterPatrick Chapman

Contrasting humor with darkness, this kindred pair of novellas offers subtle portraits of ordi-nary people confronting the absurd and the sublime.


Na SaighneainCathal Ó Searcaigh

The collection showcases Ó Searcaigh’s con-tinuing presence as a powerful and important voice not only for poetry in Irish but for the craft of poetry more widely.


Beautiful WheelTheodore Deppe

The fifth collection of poetry from the Amer-ican-born, Ireland-based writer Theodore Deppe. These peoms engage with questions of mortality and loss, friendship and love.


From Trinity to TreanmanaghPatrick Melia

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.


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riddle me this : cuir amach seo domCelia 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.

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A Butterfly’s WingVivienne McKechnie

This debut collection of poetry focuses on is-sues of loss, love, friendship, Irish society and emigration.


Pagan to the CoreMaighread Medbh

One of the pioneers of Irish performance po-etry returns with a stunning new book, a rein-terpretation of her first collection, The Making of a Pagan (1990).


Forget the LakeMary Turley-McGrath

Mary Turley-McGrath’s second collection of poetry includes meditations on art, keen ob-servations of the natural world, and the scru-tiny of family attachments and lineage.


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