The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry

Eric Falci is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966–2010 (2012), the Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010 (2015), Late Along the Edgelands (2019), and The Value of Poetry (2020), as well as a number of essays on Irish and British poetry. With Paige Reynolds, he co-edited Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020 (2020).

• Introduction Eric Falci; Part I. Early and Medieval Irish Poetry: 1. Language and poetry from early medieval to early modern Irish Damian McManus; 2. The roles of poets Catherine McKenna; 3. Early Irish women poets Sarah McKibben; 4. Early Irish poetry: form and versification Ranke de Vries; 5. The layout and presentation of Irish poetry in manuscripts Pádraig Ó Macháin; 6. Early Medieval religious poetry Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh; 7. Poems in the prose: Medieval Irish prosimetric texts Greg Toner; 8. Early Irish poetry and the natural world Kaarina Hollo; 9. The poetry of and in Dindshenchas texts Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; Part II. Classical Bardic Poetry and Early Modern Ireland: 10. Bardic poetry Mícheál Hoynel; 11. Bardic poets and the wider world Brendan Kane; 12. Duanaireadha: the manuscript tradition Síle Ní Mhurchú; 13. Varieties of Irish poetry, c. 1200–1650 Gordon O Riain; 14. Gaelic poetry and cultural crisis: Kinsale to Aughrim Natasha Sumner; 15. Dáibhí Ó Bruadair Margo Griffin-Wilson; 16. Aogán Ó Rathaille Marc Caball; 17. Jonathan Swift as Irish poet Moyra Haslett; 18. Oliver Goldsmith's transitional landscapes Michael Griffin; 19. Adversity and resistance in eighteenth-century poetry in Irish Deirdre Nic Mhathúna; 20. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill and Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire Máirín Nic Eoin; 21. Brian Merriman Róisín Áine Costello; 22. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ulster Scots Poetry Carol Baraniuk; Part III. Irish Poetry and Modernity: 23. Romantic Ireland James Chandler; 24. Nineteenth-Century Poetry in Irish Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail; 25. Poetry and the Nation James Kelly; 26. James Clarence Mangan Sinéad Sturgeon; 27. Assembling Irish poetry Leith Davis; 28. Reviving poetry Renée Fox; 29. Lyric Forms in the revival Matthew Campbell; 30. The earlier poetry of W. B. Yeats Alex Davis; 31. Irish Poetry and War, 1912–1923 Fran Brearton; 32. The Later Yeats and Irish poetry Tom Walker; 33. Irish-Language revival poetry Brian Ó Conchubhair; 34. Varieties of Irish modernism: English-language poetry David Wheatley; 35. Varieties of Irish modernism: Irish-language poetry Máire Ní Annracháin; 36. Irish poetry at Midcentury Lucy Collins; Part IV. Towards the Present: 37. Northern Irish poetry Julia Obert; 38. Seamus Heaney Gary Wade; 39. The Innti generation and Irish-language poetry in the late twentieth century Daniela Theinová; 40. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Rióna Ní Fhrighil; 41. Gender and sexuality in late twentieth-century Irish poetry Eric Falci; 42. Re-Assembling Irish poetry Clíona Ní Riordáin; 43. Formal matters Kit Fryatt; 44. Varieties of the modern long poem in Ireland Alan Gillis; 45. Irish Poetry's ecological imagination Kelly Sullivan; 46. Ethics and care in contemporary Irish women's poetry Anne Fogarty; 47. Being an Irish poet Adam Hanna; 48. The poetics of identity in contemporary Ireland Malcolm Sen; 49. Irish poets in and of the world Ailbhe McDaid; Conclusion: twenty-first century Irish poetry Eric Falci.