Edinburgh Companion to Irish Literature and Periodical Culture

Elke D’hoker is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven and Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She has published widely on Irish fiction, the modern short story, periodical studies and literary pedagogy. She is the author of Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (2016) and Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville (2004). She has edited or co-edited 11 books, including The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2022), Sarah Hall. Critical Essays (2022), Ethel Colburn Mayne. Selected Stories (2021), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture (2021), The Irish Short Story (2015) and Mary Lavin (2013). Phyllis Boumans is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History at Radboud University Nijmegen. She previously worked as Lecturer at Stockholm University. Her work has appeared in Irish University Review, New Hibernia Review and Irish Studies Review, and she is co-editor of a special issue on Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth-Century for the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (2024) and The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2022). Her current postdoctoral project focuses on mid-twentieth-century Irish radio stories.

This highly absorbing and informative volume provides a much needed history of Irish periodical culture: individual essays illuminate the diversity and vitality of Irish literary magazines and journals, along with fascinating transnational dimensions. Overall the collection confirms the centrality of periodicals, as media and material objects, in the making of literary success.

• List of IllustrationsFunding Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Magazines and the Remapping of Irish LiteratureElke D’hoker and Phyllis Boumans Part I: Studying Periodical Fiction: Theory and Methods2. Irish Literature as Periodical Literature: Dykes, Ditches, Fields and FlowFionnuala Dillane 3. Irish Periodical Studies and the Digital: Reimagining the Archival Landscape in an Age of Mass DigitisationKaren Wade 4. Visuality and the Page in Nineteenth-Century Irish Periodicals: Political and Economic Strategies in The Jarvey, Weekly Freeman and The Lady of the HouseElizabeth TilleyPart II : Editorial Mediations 5. Editing The Shamrock Magazine: Rose Kavanagh and the Role of Late Nineteenth-Century Irish Women EditorsKathryn Laing 6. Motley Crew: Mary Manning and the Gate Theatre’s Literary Periodical (1932-1934)Gavin McAlinden 7. Word and Image: The Bell and the Inter-Arts Networks of Late Modernism in Post-War Irish CultureConor LinniePart III: Defining Irish Culture: Nineteenth-Century Magazines8. New Frankensteins: Gothic Fiction in Irish Magazines (1830-1840)Christina Morin 9. The Irish Revival and Annual Supplements: The Irish Homestead’s Christmas Numbers A Celtic Christmas (1897-1910)Giulia Bruna 10. (Re)Defining Irish Womanhood: Serials and Short Stories in The Lady of the House (1890-1914)Lauren Ottaviani 11. ‘De Ghaedhilg na hAimsire seo’: The Gaelic Journal/Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge (1882-1909)Regina Uí Chollatáin Part IV: Twentieth-Century Little Magazines 12. ’Vivid, Coarse, and Vital Worlds’: Surge and Other Periodicals of the Irish Literary LeftKarl O’Hanlon13. ‘Coming into his Kingdom’: The Kilkenny Magazine: An All Ireland Literary Review (1960-1970)Niall Carson 14. Truculence and Abuse: The Little Magazine and its Means of Production in the Modernising 1960s and 1970sWill Fleming 15. ‘A Gymnasium for Creative Impulse’: Reading The Dubliner (1961-1974)Tapasya Narang Part V: Diversifying Irish Literature: Contemporary Magazines16. Poetry Ireland Review 1981-1998: Poetry, Conflict and the Language of Public LifeLucy Collins17. ‘From the twisted branches of civil discord’: Troubled Aesthetics in the Honest Ulsterman, 1968-1986Scott McKendry 18. Almost a Century: Cyphers Approaches 100 IssuesEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin19. 'What's actually happening’: The Stinging Fly, Editorial Practice and Short FictionPaul DelaneyPart VI: Dealing with Magazines: Authorial Perspectives20. Periodical Networks: Emily Lawless’s Journal Contributions (1881-1914)Heidi Hansson 21. Bullockbefriending, Bullockdefriending: James Joyce Negotiating Periodical and Reprint CultureRonan Crowley22. A Lord Abroad: Tracing the Fiction of Lord Dunsany in British and American PeriodicalsDana Steglich 23. Circulating Stories: Mary Lavin and the Magazine MarketplaceElke D’hoker24. Growing Up: John McGahern and the Literary MagazineFrank Shovlin Part VII: Transnational Exchanges25. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: Irish Poetry and ‘The New Poetry’Tom Walker26. A New Age: Irish Literature in Modernist British PeriodicalsAlex Davis 27. Literary Crossroads: Poetry Translation in Irish Periodicals, 1920s–1950sHitomi Nakamura28. ’For Export Only’: Irish Writers and US Magazines at Mid-CenturySinéad Moynihan 29. The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker: Irish Writers and America’s Big Weeklies in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Open Access)Yen-Chi Wu 30. ‘Health is in outward looking’: European Literature, Art and Cultural Exchange in Envoy (1949-1951)Phyllis BoumansNotes on ContributorsIndex