Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

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).

• I. Narrative Imaginings: Between Ideology and Resistance1. Counterfactual Geographies: Creating Urban Space in Post-Crash Irish FictionLiam Lanigan2. Representations of Catholicism in Contemporary Irish FictionEamon Maher3. Four Recent Irish-language Novels, A Century after PearseMáire Ní Annracháin4. 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 Rennhak5. Liquid Modernity and Twenty-First Century Irish Young Adult FictionIan Hickey6. The Biopolitics of Emotions and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary Irish Writing by Non-White AuthorsJun Du7. Embodied Pasts and Precarious Futures: Somatic Storytelling in Trespasses (2022) and Close to Home (2023)Caroline Magennis8. The Ethics of Care in Sally Rooney’s Novels: Between Self and OtherMaría Amor Barros-del Río9. ‘Feeling Catty’: Reading Animals in Short Stories by Contemporary Irish Women WritersAnne FogartyII. A Poetics of the Unfinished and the Transformative10. Remapping Ireland in Poems by Paula Cunningham, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanaín and Nithy KasaLucy McDiarmid11. Twenty-First Century Migrant Irish Poets in the UK: Martina Evans and Fran LockAilbhe Darcy12. ‘The art of yielding’: Contemporary Irish EcopoeticsEoin Flannery13. Wilful renewing: Tradition and Innovation in the work of Aifric Mac Aodha and Séamus Barra Ó SúilleabháinAilbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh14. Micheal O’Siadhail: Intersecting, Resonant and Polyglot VoicesEugene O’Brien15. Queer PoetryKit Fryatt16. ‘The Art of Losing’: Ailbhe Darcy’s Ekphrastic TouchDaniela Theinová17. ‘Echo is dumb’: Modes of Address and Generational Dialogue in Irish PoetryDavid Wheatley18 ‘Memory followed you / on the water’: Oceanic Perspectives in Contemporary Irish Women’s PoetryLucy CollinsIII. Theatrical Engagements and Critiques19. Ecodramaturgy and the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Abbey Theatre’s Adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger (2020)Patrick Lonergan20. THISISPOPBABY: Glorious Energy, Grief, and the Twenty-First Century Craic TaxMartin Kenny and Miriam Haughton21. Class Matters: Working-Class Theatre in the Wake of the Economic CrashClara Mallon22. Talking about Sex in Twenty-First-Century Irish Prose and PerformancePaige Reynolds23. Ethnotheatre in Northern Ireland: Research-Led Work by Kabosh Theatre CompanyLisa Fitzpatrick24. Visceral Injustices in The Blue Boy (2011), Woman Undone (2018) and The Examination (2019) by BrokentalkersEamonn Jordan25. Agonistic Spaces: Dissensus and Ethical Conflicts in Recent Irish TheatreClare WallaceIV New Voices, New Forms, New Modes of Material Production26. The Rise of Ireland’s Campus NovelDeirdre Flynn27. Irish Fantasy Fiction in the Twenty-First CenturyJack Fennell28. The Personal EssayClaire Lynch29. Global Irish Crime Fiction in the Twenty-First Century: Expanding the ScopeMolly Slavin 30. Contemporary Irish Poetry off the PageJulie Morrissy31. Still Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Epochal Change in Twenty-First -Century Irish PoetryAlexander Muller and Jefferson Holdridge32. Changing Irish Identity: Black Writing in Contemporary IrelandSandrine Uwase Ndahiro and Victor Augusto da Cruz Pacheco33. The Stinging Fly and Contemporary Irish Short FictionElke D’hoker34. The Journal Era: Style and Twenty-First Century Irish Literary MagazinesLiam Harrison35. Languages and Publishing in Contemporary Irish WritingTim Groenland and Margaret Kelleher