The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

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Anne Fogarty is Professor Emerita of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. She was Associate Director of the Yeats International Summer School 1995-1997 and Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School 2017-2023. She was editor of the Irish University Review 2002-2009 and co-editor with Luca Crispi of the Dublin James Joyce Journal 2008-2023. Currently, she is editor for the Irish Writers series for Bucknell University Press. She has co-edited several collections of essays on Joyce and recently co-edited Deirdre Madden: New Critical Perspectives (with Marisol Morales-Ladrón) (2022) and Reading Gender and Space (with Tina O'Toole) (2023). She has published widely on aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writing, especially on the Revival period, and on women authors. Her new edition of Dubliners is forthcoming from Penguin in 2025.

Eugene O'Brien is Professor of English Literature and Theory and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the editor for the Oxford University Press Online Bibliography project in literary theory and of the Routledge Studies in Irish Literature series. His books include Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis (with Andrew J. Auge) (Routledge, 2021) and Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century (with Eamon Maher) (2021). His latest book, Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, was published by Routledge in 2023. A co-edited volume of Études Irlandaises 49 (1), Contemporary Irish Poetics (with Eóin Flannery), and a co-edited book, The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney's Prose (with Ian Hickey) (Routledge), were published in 2024. He is currently working on a monograph on Micheal O'Siadhail entitled Reading Micheal O'Siadhail: The Gift of Tongues (Routledge).

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This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and its flourishing popularity worldwide.

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I. Narrative Imaginings: Between Ideology and Resistance

1. Counterfactual Geographies: Creating Urban Space in Post-Crash Irish Fiction

Liam Lanigan

2. Representations of Catholicism in Contemporary Irish Fiction

Eamon Maher

3. Four Recent Irish-language Novels, A Century after Pearse

Máire Ní Annracháin

4. Conversational Ethics and Aesthetics in the Contemporary Family Novel: Anne Enright's The Green Road (2015) and Donal Ryan's The Queen of Dirt Island (2022)

Katharina Rennhak

5. Liquid Modernity and Twenty-First Century Irish Young Adult Fiction

Ian Hickey

6. The Biopolitics of Emotions and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary Irish Writing by Non-White Authors

Jun Du

7. Embodied Pasts and Precarious Futures: Somatic Storytelling in Trespasses (2022) and Close to Home (2023)

Caroline Magennis

8. The Ethics of Care in Sally Rooney's Novels: Between Self and Other

María Amor Barros-del Río

9. 'Feeling Catty': Reading Animals in Short Stories by Contemporary Irish Women Writers

Anne Fogarty

II. A Poetics of the Unfinished and the Transformative

10. Remapping Ireland in Poems by Paula Cunningham, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanaín and Nithy Kasa

Lucy McDiarmid

11. Twenty-First Century Migrant Irish Poets in the UK: Martina Evans and Fran Lock

Ailbhe Darcy

12. 'The art of yielding': Contemporary Irish Ecopoetics

Eoin Flannery

13. Wilful renewing: Tradition and Innovation in the work of Aifric Mac Aodha and Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh

14. Micheal O'Siadhail: Intersecting, Resonant and Polyglot Voices

Eugene O'Brien

15. Queer Poetry

Kit Fryatt

16. 'The Art of Losing': Ailbhe Darcy's Ekphrastic Touch

Daniela Theinová

17. 'Echo is dumb': Modes of Address and Generational Dialogue in Irish Poetry

David Wheatley

18 'Memory followed you / on the water': Oceanic Perspectives in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry

Lucy Collins

III. Theatrical Engagements and Critiques

19. Ecodramaturgy and the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Abbey Theatre's Adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger (2020)

Patrick Lonergan

20. THISISPOPBABY: Glorious Energy, Grief, and the Twenty-First Century Craic Tax

Martin Kenny and Miriam Haughton

21. Class Matters: Working-Class Theatre in the Wake of the Economic Crash

Clara Mallon

22. Talking about Sex in Twenty-First-Century Irish Prose and Performance

Paige Reynolds

23. Ethnotheatre in Northern Ireland: Research-Led Work by Kabosh Theatre Company

Lisa Fitzpatrick

24. Visceral Injustices in The Blue Boy (2011), Woman Undone (2018) and The Examination (2019) by Brokentalkers

Eamonn Jordan

25. Agonistic Spaces: Dissensus and Ethical Conflicts in Recent Irish Theatre

Clare Wallace

IV New Voices, New Forms, New Modes of Material Production

26. The Rise of Ireland's Campus Novel

Deirdre Flynn

27. Irish Fantasy Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

Jack Fennell

28. The Personal Essay

Claire Lynch

29. Global Irish Crime Fiction in the Twenty-First Century: Expanding the Scope

Molly Slavin

30. Contemporary Irish Poetry off the Page

Julie Morrissy

31. Still Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Epochal Change in Twenty-First -Century Irish Poetry

Alexander Muller and Jefferson Holdridge

32. Changing Irish Identity: Black Writing in Contemporary Ireland

Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro and Victor Augusto da Cruz Pacheco

33. The Stinging Fly and Contemporary Irish Short Fiction

Elke D'hoker

34. The Journal Era: Style and Twenty-First Century Irish Literary Magazines

Liam Harrison

35. Languages and Publishing in Contemporary Irish Writing

Tim Groenland and Margaret Kelleher