Recently added articles from Irish Literary Supplement:

What rough beast comes?(Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Owens, Coilin ... R.F. FOSTER Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000. Oxford University Press, 2008, $30.00 IN THESE FIVE LECTURES delivered at Queen's University, Belfast, Roy Foster peruses the strange birth of the Celtic Tiger. Over the last ...

The state of Irish culture.(Outrageous Fortune: Culture and Capital in Modern Ireland)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Coughlan, Patricia ... JOSEPH CLEARY Outrageous Fortune: Culture and Capital in Modern Ireland. Field Day, 2007, $30.00, 25 [euro] FORCEFULLY WRITTEN AND making wide sweeps over Irish literary history, Joe Cleary's book bids for attention from all those concerned with the state ...

Living with document number two.(Imagining Ireland's Independence: The Debates Over the Anglo-Irish Treaty)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Hachey, Thomas E. ... JASON KNIRCK Imagining Ireland's Independence: The Debates Over the Anglo-Irish Treaty Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group Inc., 2006, $72.00, $24.95 JASON KNIRCK'S, Imagining Ireland's Independence: The Debates Over the Anglo-Irish Treaty is the first ...

Politics and philanthropy among Anglican women.(Anglican Women in Dublin Philanthropy, Politics and Education in the Early Twentieth Century)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Lane, Leeann ... OONAGH WALSH Anglican Women in Dublin Philanthropy, Politics and Education in the Early Twentieth Century. University College Dublin Press, 2005, 42.00 [euro], 18.95 [euro] BY THE LATE nineteenth century the various Land Acts since 1870, the growing ...

The people's history.(Remembering the Year of the French. Irish Folk History and Social Memory)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Murphy, Maureen ... GUY BEINER. Remembering the Year of the French. Irish Folk History and Social Memory. Tim University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, $49.95 LATE IN THE SUMMER OF 1798, a small fleet carrying French troops, sailed under English colors into Killala Bay, County ...

The language of sacrifice.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Karnes, Joie ... JASON KNIRCK Women of the Dail: Gender, Republicanism and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Foreword by Maria Luddy, Irish Academic Press, 2006, $65.00, $29.50 In "WOMEN DISARMED: THE Militarization of Polities in Ireland 1913-1923," Sarah Benton paraphrased Levi ...

The Famine revisited.(Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Daly, Anthony R. ... CORMAC O GRADA Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives University College Dublin Press, 2006, 28.00 [euro] GIVEN THE ABUNDANCE OF BOOKS and articles on the Irish Famine that have been written in the last fifteen years, perhaps the first ...

Feminism, nationalism, and motherhood.(Women, Press, and Politics During the Irish Revival)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Thuente, Mary Helen ... KAREN STEELE Women, Press, and Politics During the Irish Revival Syracuse University Press, 2007, $24.95 KAREN STEELE'S ANALYSIS of the contributions of women to the advanced nationalist press during the two decades preceding the Easter Rising of 1916 ...

Monument to a movement.(The Gaelic Athletic Association in Dublin, 1884-2000)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Murphy, William ... WILLIAM NOLAN, EDITOR The Gaelic Athletic Association in Dublin, 1884-2000 Geography Publications, 2005, 50.00 [euro] STANDING AT THREE VOLUMES, bound and boxed, The Gaelic Athletic Association in Dublin, 1884-2000, is not just a history, it is a monument ....

Taipeis Gael and traditional weaving.(Weaving Tapestry in Rural Ireland Taipeis Gad, Donegal)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Miltcheva, Meglena Z. ... MEGHAN NUTTALL SAYRES Weaving Tapestry in Rural Ireland Taipeis Gad, Donegal ATRIUM (Ireland), 2006; Dufour Editions Inc., 2007, $35.95 THE APPEARANCE OF THIS BOOK owes as much to the author's interest in weaving, harvesting and dyeing yam as to her desire ...

Irish fiction through a kaleidoscope.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Lynch, Rachael Sealy ... JOHN WILSON FOSTER, EDITOR The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel Cambridge University Press, 2006, $80.00, $29.99 THIS WORKMANLIKE VOLUME functions, as a literary companion should, offering a comprehensive backdrop of three hundred years of Irish ...

A tribute to Farrell.(A World I Never Made)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; McCaffrey, Lawrence J. ... JAMES T. FARRELL A World I Never Made "Introduction" by Charles Fanning University of Illinois Press, 2007, $24.95 IT ONCE SEEMED Chicago Irish writers might contribute substantial quantity and quality to Irish-American literature. In his introductory ...

Cambridge introductions.(The Cambridge Introduction to W.B. Yeats)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Owens, Coilin ... DAVID HOLDEMAN The Cambridge Introduction to W.B. Yeats. Cambridge University Press, 2007, $65.00, $19.99. ERIC BULSON. The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce. Cambridge University Press, 2007, $65.00, $19.99 THESE TWO RECENT ADDITIONS to the ...

That politics thing again.(Blood Kindred: W. B Yeats, The Life, The Death, The Politics)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; O'Brien, Paul ... W. J. McCORMACK Blood Kindred: W. B Yeats, The Life, The Death, The Politics. Pimlico, London, 2005, 12-99 [pounds sterling] IN AN UNUSUAL ARTICLE in a recent issue of The Irish Book Review William McCormack reflected on the lack of reaction to his book ...

The poet's life.(The Pear is Ripe: A Memoir)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Farrell, Tyler ... JOHN MONTAGUE The Pear is Ripe: A Memoir Liberties Press, 2008, 25.00 [euro] THE AIM OF MEMOIR has always been rooted in truthful and mostly believable memory. However, any autobiography that attempts to be absolute truth Will ultimately fail. Therefore, ...

Dublin's Baggotomia.(Parsons Bookshop: At the Heart of Bohemian Dublin 1949-1989)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Krause, David ... BRENDAN LYNCH Parsons Bookshop: At the Heart of Bohemian Dublin 1949-1989 The Liffey Press, 2006, 16.95 [euro] PARSONS BOOKSHOP had been a Dublin literary landmark for forty years, from 1949 to 1989, a popular meeting place for well-known buyers and ...

The empire turned back.(Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India, and Ireland)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Doyle, Mark ... KAORI NAGAI Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India, and Ireland. Cork University Press, 2006, $39.00 FEW LITERARY FIGURES inhabit their age quite like Rudyard Kipling did. Born in Bombay to British parents (his father hailing from Yorkshire, his mother ...

Decolonizing perspectives.(The Renaissance in India)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Lennon, Joseph ... JAMES HENRY COUSINS The Renaissance in India Dilip Kumar Chatterjee, Editor Kolkata: Standard Book Agency, 2005 JAMES COUSINS SPENT half of his life in Ireland and half in India. He wrote devotional poetry, drama, and dozens of essays on religion, ...

The esteemed Margaret McCurtain at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham where she received a D. Litt. from the National University of Ireland.(Brief article)(Photograph)

Mar 22, 2008 ... The esteemed Margaret McCurtain at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham where she received a D. Litt. from the National ...

The height of his prowess.(Matters of Life & Death)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Pearce, Sandra Manoogian ... BERNARD MACLAVERTY. Matters of Life & Death. Norton, 2006, $23.95 BERNARD MACLAVERTY is well-known for his haunting and compelling 1983 novel Cal, for which he later wrote the screenplay of the award-winning movie (Helen Mirren won Best Actress at the ...