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.
Nature, Animals and Place in Michael Longley’s Poetry
1st Edition
By Michael Glenfield
March 02, 2027
Nature, Animals and Place in Michael Longley’s Poetry examines the nature, animal and landscape poetry of Michael Longley. This book demonstrates that nature is the central strand of Longley’s poetic braid, around which his other themes entwine. It applies a thematic approach to create distinct but...
Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature: Sounds and Signs
1st Edition
By Wit Pietrzak
December 28, 2026
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
December 28, 2026
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 ...
Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931–1965: The Men We Dreamed Of
1st Edition
By Loic Wright
December 28, 2026
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
December 28, 2026
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 ...
Blackness in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Affect, Race, Representation
1st Edition
By Victor Pacheco
December 21, 2026
Blackness in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Race, Affect, Representation analyses the representation of black characters in the novels of Colum McCann, Sebastian Barry, and Oona Frawley, and in the short stories of Roddy Doyle, Melatu-Uche Okorie, and Kit de Waal. This book argues that affect is an ...
Writing the Working Class and the Troubles in the North of Ireland
1st Edition
By Ciara McAllister
December 21, 2026
Writing the Working Class and the Troubles in the North of Ireland is the first monograph-length study to assess the role that class has played in both the literary and dramatic construction of the Troubles (1969-98). Through its attention to issues of form, audience and authorship, as well as the ...
A Hauntological-Communitarian Approach to the Work of Anna Burns
1st Edition
By Felicity Jane Octavia Smith
December 15, 2026
A Hauntological-Communitarian Approach to the Work of Anna Burns is the first critical study of Anna Burns’ fiction, establishing her as one of the most significant writers of our time, especially within the context of contemporary Irish literature. Read through the lens of a combination of ...
Irish Animal Poetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Eóin Flannery, Eugene O'Brien
November 17, 2026
Irish Animal Poetics is an interdisciplinary edited collection of essays focused on the representation of relationships between the human and the nonhuman within Irish literary and cultural histories. Drawing on the field of Environmental Humanities, this book traces a constellation of fictional, ...
Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre: Emerging from the Silence
1st Edition
Edited
By Clara Mallon, Salomé Paul
October 15, 2026
Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre critically engages with works of theatre both by and about working-class women, historically and presently. Addressing professional and community theatre productions, from both textual and performative perspectives, this volume focuses on works of...
Tom Murphy’s Theatre of Everyday Space
1st Edition
By Moonyoung Hong
August 26, 2026
By the time of his death in 2018, Tom Murphy was widely recognised as one of Ireland’s most important modern playwrights. Ireland’s experience of rapid modernisation, emigration, and globalisation is vividly captured in his plays, challenging generic notions of space, place, and the nation. In ...
Irish-American Catholic Women Writers vs. the Church: Resisting Lives
1st Edition
By Sally Barr Ebest
August 16, 2026
This compelling study examines how Irish-American Catholic women writers challenged centuries-old Church mandates through their literary works published between 1957 and 2017. The book analyzes novels and memoirs that document these women's systematic rejection of religious expectations for female ...