Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020: Volume 6

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 (Cambridge, 2012) and the Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010 (Cambridge, 2015), as well as a number of essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish and British poetry. Paige Reynolds, Professor of English at College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, is the author of Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle (Cambridge, 2007) and editor of Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture (2016). She has published essays on modernism, drama, and contemporary Irish writing and performance, and is editor of the forthcoming collection The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions.

• Introduction Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds; Part I. Times: 1. The contemporary conditions of Irish language literature Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh; 2. The cultures of poetry in contemporary Ireland David Lloyd; 3. Troubles literature and the end of the troubles Julia Obert; 4. Contemporary Irish theatre and media Paige Reynolds; 5. Writing childhood: young adult and children's literature Patricia Kennon; Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney Eric Falci; Part II. Spaces: 6. Habitations: space, place, real estate Adam Hanna; 7. Crossings: Northern Irish literature from Good Friday to Brexit Stefanie Lehner; 8. Adaptations: commemoration and contemporary Irish theatre James Moran; 9. Relocations: diaspora, travel, migrancy Ellen McWilliams; 10. Arrivals: inward migration and Irish literature Anne Mulhall; Coda: Tom Murphy and Brian Friel Patrick Lonergan; Part III. Forms of Experience: 11. The Irish realist novel Joe Cleary; 12. Faith, secularism, and sacred institutions Diarmaid Ferriter; 13. Writing the tiger: economics and culture Sarah Townsend; 14. Violence, trauma, recovery Christopher Langlois; 15. Modes of witnessing and Ireland's institutional history Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly and Tom Lane; Coda: Edna O'Brien and Eimear McBride Clair Wills; Part IV. Practices, Institutions, and Audiences: 16. Mediation and translation in Irish language literature Rióna Ní Fhrighil; 17. Irish studies and its discontents Ronan McDonald; 18. Historical transitions in Ireland on screen Barry Monahan; 19. Irish blockbusters and literary stars at the end of the millenium Stephen Watt; 20. Contemporary literature and public value Margaret Kelleher; Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the future present Paige Reynolds.

'This is an extraordinary achievement, a hugely enjoyable and instructive read. It does not leave Irish Studies as it found it, instead renovating and extending the subject.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times