Irish Literary Supplement back issues from September 2006:
The Boston scene.(See You At The Hall! Boston's Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... SUSAN GEDUTIS. See You At The Hall! Boston's Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance. Northeastern University Press, 2004, $19.95; $26.95 IRISH MUSIC IN BOSTON TODAY comprises several scenes, a situation that reflects the fragmentation of the music. Traditional music is carried on ...
The Real Scarlet Pimpernal.(Mick: The Real Michael Collins)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... PETER HART Mick: The Real Michael Collins Viking, 2005, $27.95 MICHAEL COLLINS died in 1922 just two months shy of his thirty-second birthday. It is indicative of the magnitude of his personal and political legacy that he has been the subject of approximately fifteen book-length ...
The gender clash.(Are Men Necessary)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... MAUREEN DOWD Are Men Necessary New York: Putnam, 2005, $24.95 MAUREEN DOWD, one of the columnists with the New York Times, is the only woman among their number. The singularity of such a pinnacle ought to be a reproach to the newspaper even as it is justly a point of pride for ...
Honoring a pioneer.(Taking Sides?: Colonial and Confessional Mentalites in Early Modern Ireland)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... VINCENT P. CAREY AND UTE LOTZ-HEUMANN, EDITORS Taking Sides?: Colonial and Confessional Mentalites in Early Modern Ireland Four Courts Press, 2004, 75 [euro] WHEN COMPILING a bibliography for students approaching early modern Irish history, one is immediately struck by the ...
Through American and Irish Wars: The Life and Times of General Thomas W. Sweeny 1820-1892.(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006 ... YEARS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, William Tecumseh Sherman presented a personally drawn up map of the battle of Shiloh to the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. In his speech on that occasion, recalling critical points in the battle, he singled out the performance of Colonel Thomas Sweeny as ...
Irish-American politics across the river.(Mysteries of My Father)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... THOMAS FLEMING Mysteries of My Father John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005, $24.95 IN 1998, GIL MALMASSON, a Frenchman, found a ring in the Argonne Forest inscribed "From Mayor Frank Hague to Sheriff Teddy Fleming." Thomas J. Fleming, Jr. lost the ring in 1968 while preparing a ...
Women in the struggle.(Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... LOUISE RYAN AND MARGARET WARD, EDITORS Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags Irish Academic Press, 2005 ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT and welcome developments in recent Irish historiography has been the increasing amount of scholarly research and ...
A cautionary tale.(Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... FEARGHAL MCGARRY Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero Oxford University Press, 2005, $42.00, 35.00 [euro], 25.00 [pounds sterling] FEARGHAL MCGARRY FIRST MADE his mark as a historian with Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War (1999), described by me as "the definitive textbook on ...
The ballot and the bullet in Irish history.(From Political Violence to Negotiated Settlement: The Winding Path to Peace in Twentieth-Century Ireland)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... MAURICE J. BRIC AND JOHN COAKLEY, EDITORS From Political Violence to Negotiated Settlement: The Winding Path to Peace in Twentieth-Century Ireland University College Dublin Press, 2004, $39.95; 25 [euro] A MAJOR CONCERN of Irish historians and political scientists in recent ...
Cork through many eyes.(As Others Saw Us: Cork through European Eyes)(A Safe Harbour: Writing by Migrants to Cork)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... JOACHIM FISCHER AND GRACE NEVILLE, EDITORS As Others Saw Us: Cork through European Eyes Cork: The Collins Press, 2005. ROSEMARY CANAVAN, EDITOR A Safe Harbour: Writing by Migrants to Cork Cork: Nasc, The Irish Immigration Support Centre, 2005 THE COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ...
A magisterial work.(Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... DAVID DICKSON Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 University of Cork Press, 2005 WHEN HE ANNOUNCED the publication of David Dickson's Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 at the American Committee for Irish Studies' Meeting at the University of ...
Silencing the public voice.(Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban Four Courts)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... MARY P. CORCORAN AND MARK O'BRIEN, EDITORS Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban Four Courts Press, 2005, 24.95 [euro]; $35.00 FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES before the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland broke out, cultural life in the South had been ...
The nationalist merry-go-round in Irish politics.(Nationalism and the Irish Party: Provincial Ireland, 1910-1916 )(Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891-1921 )(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... MICHAEL WHEATLEY Nationalism and the Irish Party: Provincial Ireland, 1910-1916 Oxford University Press, 2005, 50 [pounds sterling] FERGUS CAMPBELL Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891-1921 Oxford University Press, 2005, 55 [pounds sterling] ...
Old times there are just not quite forgotten.(Dr. Grady MacWhinney's Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways of the Old South )(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2006 ... "His Cracker Culture: Celtic" Ways of the Old South (University of Alabama, 1988) most fully expressed his theory. He traced 'cracker' to the Gaelic word craic--still used in Ireland and anglicized in spelling to 'crack'--and said it meant 'entertaining conversation.' (Folk etymology had ...
Kiberd's political wonderings.(The Irish Writer and the World)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... DECLAN KIBERD The Irish Writer and the World Cambridge University Press, 2005 DECLAN KIBERD IS A prolific and wide-ranging Irish literary critic who has been highly praised for the three distinguished books he has written in the past decade. As the Professor of Anglo-Irish ...
Poets of a decade.(Irish Poetry of the 1930s)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... ALAN GILLIS Irish Poetry of the 1930s Oxford University Press, 2005. $60.00 ALLAN GILLIS'S IMPORTANT new book-length argument Irish Poetry of the 1930s should not be confused with a careful pedestrian saunter through this decade. Nor should we anticipate that the seven poets ...
Different strokes for different Irish folks.(John Banville)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2006 ... "'I'm constantly being accused ot being elitist,' [John Banville] said. 'But I write quite easy, approachable books .... English writers for the most part try to follow Orwell's dictum that prose should be a pane of clear glass through which you look,' he said. 'But Irish writers think of ...
Skipping the obvious for the rich and rare.(Harbour Lights)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... DEREK MAHON Harbour Lights The Gallery Press, 2005, 8.95 [euro] IN AN INTERVIEW FOR THE Paris Review (2000) with Eamon Grennan, Derek Mahon claimed, "What interests me is forbidden poetry written by solitaires in the cold, written by solitaires in the open, which is where the ...
The Irish in Maine.(They Change Their Sky: The Irish in Maine)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... MICHAEL C. CONNOLLY, EDITOR They Change Their Sky: The Irish in Maine The University of Maine Press, 2004 WE ARE STILL A LONG WAY from knowing all there is to know out the Irish in America. During the last three decades, scholarly research has included studies of the Irish in ...
Micheal O'Siadhail, Irish poet for the world.(Love Life)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... MICHEAL O'SIADHAIL Love Life Bloodaxe Books, 2005, 8.95 [pounds sterling] The word is praise, / the theme a scale of infinite permutations. THE PUBLICATION OF Love Life, the twelfth volume of Micheal O'Siadhail's poetry, calls for a retrospective view of the ...
Owning the losses.(The Narrows)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... DANIEL TOBIN The Narrows Four Ways Books, 2005, $14.95 DANIEL TOBIN'S THIRD COLLECTION, The Narrows, holds together with an extraordinary coherence. Tobin manages to bring together autobiography, family history, and the larger narratives of diasporic and American history into a ...
Wake Forest University Press celebrated its 30th birthday and the official opening of the Dolmen Archive at Wake Forest this past spring during the Press's annual Irish Festival.(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2006 ... WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY PRESS celebrated its 30th birthday and the official opening of the Dolmen Archive at Wake Forest this past spring during the Press's annual Irish Festival. Wake Forest Press has published Irish poetry in the United States since 1976, when Dillon Johnston founded the ...
The elusive Edgeworth.(Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... CLIONA O GALLCHOIR Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation University College Dublin Press, 2005, 55 [euro] stg 42 [pounds sterling]; 25 [euro], stg 18.95 [pounds sterling] IT HAS LONG BEEN A GIVEN of scholarship on Castle Rackrent that the servant of the Rackrent ...
The Irish Hobo.(From other works)(immigrants)
Sep 22, 2006; ... "Tramps often threw up barriers of their own to black migration. The large number of Irish immigrants in America's tramp army suggests that the road itself may have served as a critical racial proving ground for poor white men. Notorious for their particularly virulent brand of white ...
The Queen of Crooks.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... The Queen of Crooks NUALA O'FAOLAIN The Story of Chicago May Riverhead, 2005, $24.95 DURING THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, Nuala O'Faolain has established herself as an exciting memoirist with Are You Somebody (1998) and Almost There (2003); she has also confirmed her innovative ...
An interview with Bernard MacLaverty.(Interview)
Sep 22, 2006; ... DESPITE A REMARKABLE AND SUSTAINED output of four novels and five short story collections, Belfast-born Bernard MacLaverty (born. 1942) has yet to receive the critical attention he deserves. There is no book-length study of his work and only a scattering of articles. After working as a lab ...
Getting her due.(Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Getting Her Due MAUD ELLMANN Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page Edinburgh University Press, 2004 IN THE SPRING 2003 ISSUE of American Literary History, Catherine Gunther Kodat recounts an "arresting moment." At a recent meeting of the American Literature Association, ...
O'Casey's war on war.(Sean O'Casey's Theatre of War)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... RONALD AYLING Sean O'Casey's Theatre of War The Kalamalka Press, 2004, CDN $10.00. LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE, Ronald Ayling has been greatly troubled by the growing murderousness of the world and by its most powerful nation ... actively pursuing war-mongering policies, led by a ...
To each his or her own Wilde.(The Faiths of Oscar Wilde)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... JARLATH KILLEEN The Faiths of Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan 2005. TO EACH, HIS OR HER OSCAR WILDE. For every new collection of Wilde's epigrams, for every new coffee mug, fridge magnet and pair of cuff-links, there is, fortunately, a new work exploring in many ways and many ...
The gang of five.(The American Classics)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... DENIS DONOGHUE The American Classics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. WITH ITS AUTHOR'S ALMOST uncanny knack for asking the telling and timely question, Denis Donoghue's latest book, The American Classics, questions the relationship between the classic works of American ...
Gillian McIntosh has put together a showy commemorative edition of the first 100 years of Belfast City Hall (Blackstaff, Dufour Editions, 2006, $49.95).(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Gillian McIntosh has put together a showy commemorative edition of the first 100 years of Belfast City Hall (Blackstaff, Dufour Editions, 2006, $49.95). City Hall opened on August ...
Richard Nairn's Ireland's Coastline: Exploring Its Nature and Heritage (The Collins Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $47.95).(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Richard Nairn's Ireland's Coastline, Exploring Its Nature and Heritage (The Collins Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $47.95), is a ...
The Yeats series of manuscript materials continues with The King's Threshold, edited by Declan Kiely.(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... The Yeats series of manuscript materials continues with The King's Threshold, ...
The New Ireland and its Sacred Cows, edited by Jim Malone (The Liffey Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $26.95), is subtitled Orthodoxies and Heresies at the Merriman Summer School 2004.(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * The New Ireland and its Sacred Cows, edited by Jim Malone (The Liffey Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $26.95), is subtitled Orthodoxies and Heresies at the Merriman Summer School 2004. It's more the former than the latter, but a ...
Ireland: Space, Text, Time, edited by Liam Harte, Yvonne Whelan, and Patrick Crotty (Liffey Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $33.95), is a collection of nineteen essays under three groupings: "Landscape, Heritage, Memory"; "Geographies of Belonging"; and "Negotiating Migrant and Diaspora Sapces.".(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Ireland: Space, Text, Time, edited by Liam Harte, Yvonne Whelan, and Patrick Crotty (Liffey Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $33.95), is a collection of nineteen essays under three groupings: ...
The covers of the magazine Phoenix.(Anthologies & Collections)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * The covers of the magazine Phoenix, dating from 1983, is the subject of the appropriately ...
Keening and Other Old Irish Musics, by Breandan O Madagan (Clo Iar-Chonnachta; Dufour Editions, 2006, $21.95).(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Keening and Other Old Irish Musics, by Breandan O Madagan (Clo Iar-Chonnachta; Dufour Editions, 2006, $21.95), analyzes the musical traditions of ...
From the work of John Broderick comes The Waking of Willie Ryan and The Pilgrimage (Sitric; Lilliput Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $19.95 each).(Reprints)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * From the work of John Broderick comes The Waking of Willie Ryan and The Pilgrimage (Sitric; Lilliput Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $19.95 ...
Irish Academic Press have reprinted Ruth Dudley Edwards's Patrick Pearse, The Triumph of Failure (ISBS, 2006, $30), first printed in 1977.(Reprints)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Irish Academic Press have reprinted Ruth Dudley Edwards's Patrick Pearse, The Triumph ...
Books received.(Poetry)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Books received include Mary O'Malley's A Perfect V (Carcanet, 2006, 8.95 [pounds sterling]); Rogha Danta, Selected Poems, by Gabriel Rosenstock (Clo Iar-Chonnachta; Dufour Editions, 2006, ...
Former US ambassador to Ireland and France Walter J.P. Curley has put together Vanishing Kingdoms.(History)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Former US ambassador to Ireland and France Walter J.P. Curley has put together Vanishing Kingdoms, The Irish Chiefs and Their Families ...
The Blessington Estate 1667-1908, by Kathy Trant (Anvil Books; Dufour Editions, 2004, 2006, $24.95).(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * The Blessington Estate 1667-1908, by Kathy Trant (Anvil Books; Dufour Editions, 2004, 2006, $24.95), ...
Broken Rails, by Brian Mac Aongusa (Currach Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $29.95).(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Broken Rails, by Brian Mac Aongusa (Currach Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $29.95), is an interesting read of crashes and sabotage on Irish railways through the years ....
John Cowell's story of Brigid Lyons Thornton, told in A Noonetide Blazing (Curragh Press; Dufour Editions, 2005, $24.95).(History)(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * John Cowell's story of Brigid Lyons Thornton, told in A Noonetide Blazing (Curragh Press; Dufour Editions, 2005, $24.95), brings back memories of the Easter Rising, the War of Independence, and all ...
Recollections of 1916 and Its Aftermath (Irish Books and Media, 2005, $23.95), by Jane O'Hea O'Keefe, comprises interviews (on paper and CD) with some of the survivors of the Easter Rising, War of Independence, and Civil War.(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Recollections of 1916 and Its Aftermath (Irish Books and Media, 2005, $23.95), by Jane O'Hea O'Keefe, comprises interviews (on paper and CD) with some of the survivors of the ...
Ellen W. Wolff's "An Anarchy in the Mind and in the Heart," Narrating Anglo-Ireland (Bucknell University Press, 2006, $48.50).(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Ellen W. Wolff's "An Anarchy in the Mind and in the Heart," Narrating Anglo-Ireland (Bucknell University Press, 2006, ...
Beckett after Beckett, by S.E. Gontarski and Anthony Uhlmann (University Press of Florida, 2006, $55.00).(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Beckett After Beckett, by S.E. Gontarski and Anthony Uhlmann (University Press of Florida, 2006, $55.00), is a ...
Out of Due Time, by Dora Paschal Scotti (Catholic University of America Press, 2006, $69.96).(Book review)(Brief review)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Out of Due Time, by Dora Paschal Scotti (Catholic University of America Press, 2006, $69.96), is a study ...
Hurler on the Ditch, by Michael Mills (Currach Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $21.95).(Journalism)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * Hurler on the Ditch, by Michael Mills (Currach Press; Dufour Editions, 2006, $21.95), is subtitled "Memoir of a Journalist Who ...
An Sionnach bills itself as a journal of literature, culture, and the arts, and its second issue provides a fine mix of the above.(Journals)
Sep 22, 2006; ... * An Sionnach bills itself as a journal of literature, culture, and the arts, and its second issue provides a fine mix of the above. Published by Creighton University ...
Boston College and all things Irish.
Sep 22, 2006; ... BOSTON COLLEGE'S CENTER FOR IRISH PROGRAMS has scheduled yet another ambitious agenda for the upcoming 2006-'07 academic year. Apart from hosting a British Council sponsored program on September 21, featuring a symposium on "Britain and Ireland: Lives Entwined," involving NUI Chancellor ...