The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel

Christopher Morash, FTCD, MRIA is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing in Trinity College Dublin. He has published extensively on Irish literature and culture. His books include A History of Irish Theatre (2002), A History of Irish Media (2009), Yeats on Theatre (2021), and Dublin: A Writer's City (2023).

• Introduction Chris Morash; Part I. The Irish Novel Before 1800: 1. Eighteenth-century Irish publishers and reader Toby Barnard; 2. The novel in Ireland before the novel Ian Campbell Ross; 3. Lives and adventures 1: Irish women and the eighteenth-century novel Aileen Douglas; 4. Lives and adventures 2: Irish men and the eighteenth-century novel Declan Kavanagh; 5. Frances Sheridan, novels and memoirs Amy Prendergast; Part II. The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century; 6. Maria Edgeworth, and the novel as education James Chandler; 7. The national tale Julia M. Wright; 8. Irish gothic Christina Morin; 9. Tales of the peasantry and famine Melissa Fegan; 10. Property and the Irish novel Jason King; 11. Serial publication and the transatlantic Irish novel Lindsay Janssen; 12. Religion, migration and the Irish novel Marguérite Corporaal; 13. Narrating Irish history Jim Shanahan; 14. Irish children's novels in the nineteenth century Rebecca Long; 15. Irish novels of precarious self-fashioning Eibhear Walshe; Part III. The Irish Literary Revival and its Aftermath: 16. Novels of the Irish revival Gregory Castle; 17. Inventing the novel in Irish, 1894–1970 Philip O'Leary; 18. Children's novels and the literary revival Ciara Ní Bhroin; 19. Independence and enclosure Derek Hand; 20. Ulysses Catherine Flynn; 21. Joyce and Irish modernism Ronan McDonald; 22. The novels and novellas of Máirtín Ó Cadhain Alan Titley; 23. Revival, censorship, revolutions Lauren Arrington; 24. Politics and violence in the Irish novel after 1922 Keelan Harkin; 25. Realism and rural Ireland Paul Delaney; 26. Samuel Beckett's trilogy and the limits of fiction Emilie Morin; Part IV. Modernisation: The Second Part of the Twentieth Century; 27. The Irish novel in translation Michael Cronin; 28. Edna O'Brien's narratives of self-fashioning Maureen O'Connor; 29. Sexuality and the Irish novel Michael G. Cronin; 30. Experimentalism and the novel in Irish, 1970–2000 Máirtín Coilféir; 31. Irish science fiction Richard Howard; 32. History and the Irish novel after 1970 Gerry Smyth; 33. John McGahern's fictions Frank Shovlin; 34. Northern Ireland and troubles fiction Liam Harte; 35. Irish working-class novels after 1950 Michael Pierse; Part V. The Long Twenty-First Century; 36. The Irish-language novel, 1980–2024 Brian Ó Conchubhair; 37. The Irish novel and global literary culture Joe Cleary; 38. John Banville, art and genre Elke D'hoker; 39. A splintered past: history in the Irish novel since 1990 Emer Nolan; 40. Irish children's novels after 1960 Pádraic Whyte; 41. Irish crime fiction John Connolly; 42. Contemporary Irish popular fiction Margaret O'Neill; 43. Irish fiction and migration in the long twenty-first century Chris Murray; 44. Irish fiction and gender in the long twenty-first century Paige Reynolds; 45. Anne Enright, trauma and fiction Hedwig Schwall; 46. Fractured selves Kevin Power; 47. The transnational Irish novel Chris Morash; Select bibliography; Index.