Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Irish Literature offers a range of theoretical perspectives, focusing in greater part on texts from the 20th and 21st centuries, and on a multi-racial, multi-cultural contemporary Irish society. This series makes full use of a range of contemporary theoretical perceptions, including deconstructive, psychoanalytic, ecocritical, translational, gender/feminist, cultural materialist, postmodern, new materialist, queer theoretical and presentist observations, offering genuinely fresh insights into Irish writing. Questioning issues of the canon, high and popular cultures and the traditionally historical orientations of Irish studies, this series uses theory to liberate new meanings in terms of Irish writing, society and culture, and to show how such writing has been, and continues to be, an agent of change in that culture.
How the Irish Became White Supremacists
1st Edition
By Sean O’ Dubhghaill
January 30, 2026
This volume provides a critical analysis of Irish literature and the timely appraisal of contemporary developments in which ideas about Irishness have been constructed, exploited, and racialized. Exploring race, exceptionalism, and white supremacy, this book aims to start a conversation about the ...
Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation
1st Edition
Edited
By Eugene O'Brien, Ian Hickey
December 22, 2025
Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation is comprised of eleven essays that examine the Nobel prize winning poet’s translations, and that situates the works within a transnational perspective. The essays focus on the broad and varied connections Heaney makes with writers from an Irish and European ...
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood
1st Edition
By Iria Seijas-Pérez
December 05, 2025
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction is the first sustained critical analysis of the representation of sapphic adolescent protagonists in contemporary Irish Young Adult (YA) literature. Ten YA novels published between 2017 and 2023 by both well-established and emerging Irish female...
The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History
1st Edition
By Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
November 17, 2025
The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History documents, explores and interrogates the Irish Theatre that was prevalent in London during the 1920s. This includes consideration of the movements that impacted 1920s London theatre, such as the influential repertory theatres of the first decade of the ...
Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931–1965: The Men We Dreamed Of
1st Edition
By Loic Wright
September 29, 2025
Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931-1965 is a critical analysis of the construction, consolidation, and regulation of post-colonial Irish masculinity as evidenced by Irish fiction published during the mid-twentieth century. Investigating the years of the Irish ...
The Poetry of Bloody Sunday: Reading Irish Poets
1st Edition
By Kübra Özermiş
September 29, 2025
As a turning point that changed the course of the ‘Troubles’, the Bloody Sunday massacre continues to define ongoing debates about the legacy of the ‘Troubles’ and the impact of state violence. Bloody Sunday has been at the centre of numerous cultural and literary expressions, which deal with the ...
Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature: Sounds and Signs
1st Edition
By Wit Pietrzak
September 15, 2025
Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature explores how poetic language can apprehend non-anthropocentric points of view. It builds on the recent developments in environmental humanities and seeks to show that four Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon and Seán ...
James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing
1st Edition
By Annalisa Mastronardi
September 10, 2025
James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing is a ground-breaking study that, for the first time, explores in depth the influence of James Joyce on Irish women writers, from his contemporaries to more recent voices. With a particular focus on Anne Enright’s The Gathering, Eimear ...
Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy: Feminist Myths of Monstrosity
1st Edition
By Salomé Paul
July 30, 2025
Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy examines the feminist transposition of Greek tragedy in the theatre of the contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr. Through a comparison of the plays based on classical drama with their ancient models, it investigates Carr’s transformation not only of the narrative ...
Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature: Heroes, Lads, and Fathers
1st Edition
By Cassandra S. Tully de Lope
July 30, 2025
This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary methodology. The study of language performance through literary analysis and corpus studies will enable readers to approach literary texts from both quantitative and ...
Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime
1st Edition
By Maria McGarrity
July 30, 2025
Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the primitive sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland’s artistic production and the wider global cultural production of postcolonial literature. A concern for and anxiety about the primitive persists ...
The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: Toward Heaven
1st Edition
By Edward T. Duffy
July 30, 2025
The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry is a critical study of the poet's later work. While exploring his practice as a translator, it also traces his increasing preoccupation with the possibilities and conditions of translation in the theological sense of being lifted up in spirit. To the...