New books in Irish Studies

Irish Studies Changing Land

The Irish Revolution

Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War Niall Whelehan The Irish Land War represented a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of land ownership were fundamentally challenged.

Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants’ activism in the US, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland.

New York University Press Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series December 2021 224pp 9781479809554 £25.99 HB

A Global History Edited by Patrick Mannion & Fearghal McGarry The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. This book reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how circumstances and individuals abroad shaped the course Ireland’s struggle for independence.

New York University Press Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series May 2022 1 b&w illus. 368pp 9781479808892 £29.99 HB

Young Ireland

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Aiding Ireland

A Global Afterlife Christopher Morash Follows a group of people exiled from Ireland after a failed rebellion and the role they had in the building of new nations and states.

Young Ireland is a vital new perspective in the field of Irish diaspora studies, highlighting the impact the Young Ireland generation had on emerging democracies and international debates, both in spite of and because of their defeat and dispersion.

New York University Press Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series September 2023 304pp 9781479822218 £29.99 HB

The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy Anelise Hanson Shrout Aiding Ireland investigates the Irish famine as a foundational moment for normalizing international giving. Anelise Hanson Shrout argues that these diverse men and women found famine relief to be politically useful. Shrout takes readers from Ireland to Britain, across the Atlantic to the United States, and across the Mississippi to Indian Territory, uncovering what was to be gained for each group by participating in global famine relief.

New York University Press Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series January 2024 280pp 9781479824595 £29.99 HB

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America and the Making of an The Coffin Ship Independent Ireland Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine Cian T. McMahon

A History Francis M. Carroll

“Professor Carroll has given us a very useful synthesis of his decades of study of America and Ireland in the revolutionary period that will be of interest to students and scholars of Irish America, U.S.-Irish relations and ethnic politics in the United States in the first quarter of the twentieth century. “— Irish Historical Studies New York University Press

The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oftignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself.

New York University Press

Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series January 2021 12 b&w illus. 312pp 9781479805655 £29.99 HB

Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series November 2022 11 b&w illus. 328pp 9781479820535 £19.99 PB

Hereafter

Canada and Ireland

“A groundbreaking blend of history, poetry, and prose, a triumph of negative capability.

This is a rich, rewarding, and heartbreaking read. Groarke restores not just Ellen, but all the other women who ‘left to live in other peoples’ houses.’ “—Martina Evans, The Irish Times New York University Press

“This is a brilliant and much needed book.

Currie is to be congratulated for focussing on the unrecognized and undiscussed issues in Canadian-Irish history and compiling such a balanced and sophisticated analysis. This will be a perfect text to accompany any Irish history course taught in Canada.” —Francis M. Carroll, University of Manitoba, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies UBC Press

A Political and Diplomatic History Philip J. Currie

The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara Vona Groarke

Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series November 2022 28 b&w illus. 224pp 9781479817511 £18.99 HB

Homeward Bound

Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire Niamh Dillon “Homeward Bound reverberates with subjective ambivalences about macropolitical change and its diasporic effects. Dillon’s generous quotations provide her interviewees with the space to unfurl both their instinctive affinity with 'returning' to Britain, and their laments for a lost place and status. Theoretically sophisticated and textually rich.” —Irish Studies Review New York University Press Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series December 2022 1 b&w illus. 256pp 9781479817313 £25.99 HB

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October 2020 22 b&w photos 284pp 9780774863285 £31.00 PB

Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University Cornelius G. Buttimer

Harvard University has the largest collection of Irish-language codices in North America, held in Houghton Library, its rare book repository. This catalogue describes the collection in full for the first time and will be an invaluable aid to research on Irish and Irish American cultural and literary output.

The author’s introduction examines how the collection was formed.

University of Notre Dame Press January 2022 432pp 9780268201012 £134.00 HB

Derry City

Partitions

Examines Catholic Derry from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the 1960s and the start of the Troubles.

Provides an account of the cultural, political, and social history using archival research, oral histories, landscape analysis, and public speeches and demonstrates how communities maintain their agency in the midst of political and cultural conflict.

University of Notre Dame Press

Offers the first collective history of the concept of partition, tracing its emergence in the aftermath of the First World War and locating its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization, focusing on the cases of the Irish Free State, India, Pakistan, and the State of Israel.

Stanford University Press

Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland Margo Shea

June 2020 350pp 9780268107932 £49.00 HB

A Transnational History of TwentiethCentury Territorial Separatism Edited by Arie M. Dubnov & Laura Robson

January 2019 400pp 9781503607675 £27.99 PB

Ireland's Revolutionary Diplomat

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh

"[Barry Whelan] gives a valuable insight into the early years of the Irish diplomatic service by going behind the official records.

He has also helped restore the reputation of one of its pioneers." —The Irish Catholic "[In] Whelan's biography of Kerney, his meticulous research successfully upends what has hitherto prevailed as academia's received wisdom." —History of Ireland University of Notre Dame Press

At his death in 2013, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh remained a divisive and influential figure in Irish politics and the Irish Republican movement. In a brief "Afterword" for this new edition, author Robert W. White addresses Ó Brádaigh's continuing influence on the Irish Republican Movement, including the ongoing "dissident" campaign.

Indiana University Press

A Biography of Leopold Kerney Barry Whelan

February 2019 356pp 9780268105051 £45.00 HB

Nine Irish Plays for Voices Eamon Grennan

"This collection of nine plays for voices will be of enormous interest to readers who want to deepen their knowledge of theatre, Irish culture, and the relationship between great literature and society. It provides new perspectives on such well-known figures as James Joyce, WB Yeats, Lady Gregory and Peig Sayers–while also offering an innovative approach to Irish history." — Patrick Lonergan, University of Galway Fordham University Press April 2023 9 b&w illus. 360pp 9781531502546 £36.00 HB

The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, 2nd Edition Robert W. White

May 2020 26 b&w photos, 2 maps 476pp 9780253048295 £25.99 PB

Conamara Chronicles

Tales from Iorras Aithneach Compiled by Seán Mac Giollarnáth Translated by Liam Mac Con Iomaire & Tim Robinson Other Dónall Ó Braonáin "Seán Mac Giollarnáth's landmark publication of 1941 demonstrates his work in collecting traditional material and transcribing vernacular culture. It is fitting to see the work in translation, and readers seeking to step into the wondrous world of Conamara tradition would do well to begin here."—Ríonach uí Ógáin, University College Dublin Indiana University Press Series: Irish Culture, Memory, Place September 2022 5 b&w illus., 2 maps 332pp 9780253063526 £25.99 PB

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Smyllie's Ireland

Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times Caleb Richardson As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British influence in the early 20th century, the influential Irish Times editor R. M. Smyllie navigated the painful experience of being made to feel an outsider in his own homeland. In this title Richardson offers a way of seeing Smyllie as representative of the larger Anglo-Irish experience.

Indiana University Press Series: Irish Culture, Memory, Place April 2019 196pp 9780253041241 £29.99 PB

The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature

Writing the Unspeakable Joseph Valente & Margot Gayle Backus Foreword by Fintan O'Toole Examines modern cultural responses to child sex abuse in Ireland. Using descriptions of these scandals found in newspapers, historiographical analysis, and 20th- and 21st-century literature, Valente and Backus expose a public sphere ardently committed to Irish children's souls and piously oblivious to their physical welfare.

Indiana University Press Series: Irish Culture, Memory, Place December 2020 3 color illus., 17 b&w illus. 300pp 9780253053183 £23.99 PB

Suitable Strangers

The Hungarian Revolution, a Hunger Strike, and Ireland's First Refugee Camp Vera Sheridan "This is a powerful and excellently reconstructed history of Ireland's first and tentative step into the post-WWII refugee crisis. Through careful research, it shows the ambiguity of the Irish state and population to those escaping the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. By placing it in the often disturbing domestic context of Ireland during the 1950s, this study never loses sight of the refugees themselves and their agency in the two years many of them spent in a 'temporary' refugee camp."— Tony Kushner, University of Southampton Indiana University Press Series: Irish Culture, Memory, Place January 2023 22 b&w illus., 7 b&w tables 250pp 9780253064615 £25.99 PB

Women and the Decade of Commemorations Edited by Oona Frawley

Together, the essays in Women and the Decade of Commemorations consider the impact of women's unseen, unsung work, which has been critically important in shaping Ireland, a country that continues to struggle with honoring the full role of women today.

Indiana University Press Series: Irish Culture, Memory, Place January 2021 27 b&w illus., 1 b&w table 374pp 9780253053725 £34.00 PB

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Unholy Catholic Ireland

Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion Hugh Turpin "This study is to be warmly welcomed. It is written beautifully and makes a significant contribution to the field of the study of Irish Catholicism—and its rejection. Believers and non-believers alike will learn much from Turpin's findings, which invite us to reconsider the complexities of Irish religion and irreligion anew."—Salvador Ryan, The Irish Independent Stanford University Press Series: Spiritual Phenomena September 2022 344pp 9781503633131 £23.99 PB

Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland

Edited by Julie A. Eckerle & Naomi McAreavey This book provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenthcentury women’s life writing in a specifically Irish context. By making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women’s narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape.

University of Nebraska Press Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World June 2019 Index 342pp 9780803299979 £29.99 PB