Technology in Irish Literature and Culture

Margaret Kelleher is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. She is Board Member of the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), former Chair of the Board of the Irish Film Institute (IFI) and a member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). See https://people.ucd.ie/margaret.o.kelleher. James O'Sullivan lectures in digital arts and humanities at University College Cork. His publications include Towards a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature & Literary Games (2019) and The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (2022). Visit jamesosullivan.org for more on his research.

'The scope afforded by this edited collection allows readers to trace historical undercurrents in Irish writing in a rapidly expanding field of literary inquiry and digital production. It will be essential reading for those interested in a thorough literary historical treatment of the changing and often contradictory powers, pleasures, and uses of technology as a theme, a method, and a mode of enquiry in Irish literature and culture.' Maria Mulvany, Irish University Review

• Introduction Margaret Kelleher and James O'Sullivan; Part I. Genealogies: 1. Print as technology: the case of the Irish language 1571–1850 Marc Caball; 2. Printing and publishing technologies: 1700–1820 Máire Kennedy; 3. The optical telegraph, the United Irish press, and Maria Edgeworth's 'White Pigeon' Joanna Wharton; 4. Technologies of sound: telephone/gramophone Chris Morash; Part II. Infrastructures: 5. Electric signs and echo chambers: the stupidity of affect in modern Irish literature Barry Sheils; 6. Literature and the technologies of radio and television Robert Savage; 7. The re-tuning of the world itself': Irish poetry on the radio Ian Whittington; Part III. Invention: 8. Technology, writing and place in medieval Irish literature Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 9. The critique of sola scriptura in a tale of a tub and STEM in Gulliver's travels Sean Moore; 10. Technology and Irish modernism Kathryn Conrad; 11. W. B. Yeats, the revival and scientific invention Aoife Lynch; 12. James Joyce, Irish modernism and watch technology Katherine Ebury; 13. Technology, terminology and the Irish language, past and present Sharon Arbuthnot; Part IV. The Digital: 14. Irish literary feminism and its digital archive(s) Margaret Kelleher and Karen Wade; 15. Consoling machines in contemporary Irish fiction Claire Lynch; 16. 'At me too someone is looking': staging surveillance in Irish theatre Victor Merriman; 17. Technology in contemporary Irish poetry: data at 'the edge of language' Anne Karhio; 18. Irish digital literature James O'Sullivan.