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.
Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society: Breaking New Ground
1st Edition
Edited
By María Amor Barros-del Río
December 25, 2025
Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have been enriching Irish literature since the twentieth century and engages with the ongoing dialogue between contemporary Irish literature and society. Driven by the growing interest in ...
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Hickey, Eugene O'Brien
November 27, 2025
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different perspectives on this body of work which vary from sustained thematic analyses on poetic form, the ...
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood
1st Edition
By Iria Seijas-Pérez
November 25, 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 06, 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 ...
The Writings of Padraic Colum: ‘That Queer Thing, Genius’
1st Edition
Edited
By Pádraic Whyte, Keith O’Sullivan
October 26, 2025
This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum (1881–1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adults and children, and a collector of folklore. ...
Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931–1965: The Men We Dreamed Of
1st Edition
By Loic Wright
September 28, 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 28, 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 14, 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 09, 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 ...