Land reasserts the Gaelic language and culture in opposition to the culture of the British colonisers, but relies on simplistic characterisations.
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Loss is inevitable, but the formalised language of poetry may help us endure it.
Favouring restraint over spectacle, these stories offer intimate portraits of people shaped by history, disappointment, tragedy, grief and the long shadows of secrecy.
This dynamic production of Synge’s 1907 play refuses to treat it as a museum piece.
Was the premature death of Shakespeare’s only son really the inspiration for Hamlet?
The essay form is a response to minds, art, communities and culture, understood through a writer’s body, intellect and being.
Twist is a richly allusive novel, with echoes of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Philip Roth.
The best things to watch, visit and read this week, as recommended and analysed by academic experts.
The Irish literary scene is thriving, which makes choosing just five other Irish writers likely to appeal to fans of Rooney a daunting task.
The venerated and critically acclaimed Shane MacGowan has died in Dublin at the age of 65.
The novel imagines how a society can be gripped by a slow-building authoritarian regime yet continue its mundane daily rituals.
Irish writers have benefited from structural factors in recent years. However, ask them in person and Irish writers are more likely to highlight impediments to producing work.
Perception and reality collide when a mother and daughter are compelled to live in the shadow of a monstrous artist.
John Banville calls Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill’s Hotel, ‘an inexplicably neglected 20th-century masterpiece’. Carol Lefevre shares her fascination with William Trevor’s ‘crazed’ photographer Ivy Eckdorf.
Samuel Beckett’s first play was once most notorious for the audible yawns, walkouts (and fights) during interval. But it is a play of great insight into the condition of waiting.
The famine caused a million deaths and scarred the national psyche for generations. How do you even start to try and represent that in film literature, or art?
Little is known, but much is speculated, about James Joyce’s daughter and muse, Lucia.
Around the world today, fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses will celebrate Bloomsday. This experimental novel can be bewildering to read, but for those who persist, it is a ‘feast’ of a book.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, University College Dublin
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PhD candidate, English Literature, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, Adelaide University
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer (English and Drama), Australian National University
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Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
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Author: Reframing A Portrait of the Artist: Joyce and the phenomenological imagination, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University
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PhD Candidate in Irish literature, University of Limerick
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Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, Adelaide University