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.
Seamus Heaney and Contemporary Elegy
1st Edition
By Huiwen Shi
August 06, 2026
Seamus Heaney and Contemporary Elegy is the first book to examine Seamus Heaney’s engagements, experiments, and revisions of the elegy as a major lyric genre. Through interpreting the elegiac work of Seamus Heaney, one of the largest single bodies of contemporary lyric elegy, this book proposes a ...
Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling
1st Edition
By Paul Delaney
July 19, 2026
This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland. More specifically, it discusses the cultural, material, and ideological usages of the short form in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, engaging with the forces that have helped to shape the ...
Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By David McKinney
May 21, 2026
This volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009–2015. Through cross-comparisons between the aesthetics and form of Beckett’...
The Uncanny as a Method in Contemporary Irish Literature
1st Edition
By Beatrice Masi
April 14, 2026
This volume examines how post-Celtic Tiger Irish literature responds to overlapping economic and environmental crises through an innovative blending of realism, speculative, and gothic modes. Focusing on seven texts published between 2004 and 2022, it introduces Uncanny Realism: a critical ...
How the Irish Became White Supremacists
1st Edition
By Sean O’ Dubhghaill
December 28, 2025
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 racialised. 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 28, 2025
Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation is comprised of 11 chapters that examine the Nobel prize winning poet’s translations and that situate the works within a transnational perspective. The chapters focus on the broad and varied connections Heaney makes with writers from an Irish and European ...
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. ...
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 ...