New Books in Irish Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Ireland about their New Books

Books
History
Politics
176
Robert Snyder, "All the Nations Under Heaven: I...
An Interview with Robert Snyder
25 min
177
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Britain 1851-...
An interview with Jeremy Black
39 min
178
Kenneth Shonk, "Ireland's New Traditionalists: ...
An interview with Kenneth Shonk
52 min
179
Caroline Ritter, "Imperial Encore: The Cultural...
An interview with Caroline Ritter
40 min
180
Roy Flechner, "Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend...
An interview with Roy Flechner
46 min
181
Michael J. Pfeifer, "The Making of American Cat...
An interview with Michael J. Pfeifer
73 min
182
Gerry Smyth, "Sailor Song: The Shanties and Bal...
An interview with Gerry Smyth
53 min
183
N. Mclaughlin and J. Braniff, "How Belfast Got ...
Braniff and McLaughlin center Belfast, the complex political situation of Northern Ireland just before the Troubles, and the Blues...
68 min
184
Audrey J. Horning, "Ireland in the Virginian Se...
Audrey Horning revisits the fraught connections between Ireland and colonial Virginia...
83 min
185
Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxfo...
The book takes readers through Greek, Latin, Old English and the Germanic Languages, Sanskrit, Old Irish and the Celtic Languages, and Hebrew, introducing their phonology, morphology, lexicons, grammar, and excerpting passages from texts such as the Illiad, Beowulf, and the Rig Veda...
62 min
186
Patrick Honohan, "Currency, Credit and Crisis: ...
For readers – including non-economists – who want to get to grips with the nature and scale of the last financial crisis, how it was managed and mismanaged, and its particular impact on a small, open economy, Patrick Honohan's book...
46 min
187
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain: 1945 to Br...
According to the influential French commentator and scholar, Raymond Aron, one the great un-answered questions of the post-1945 period is how and why the British went from being ‘Romans to Italians’...
68 min
188
Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgott...
This is the story of U Dhammaloka, an Irishman who “went native” and became a Buddhist monk in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century...
48 min
189
Nadine El-Enany, "Bordering Britain: Law, Race ...
How can we understand the legacy of colonialism within contemporary society?
43 min
190
Sarah Stockwell, "The British End of the Britis...
How did de-colonialization impact the United Kingdom itself?
43 min
191
Paul Lay, "Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall o...
"Providence Lost" is the most up to date and accessible narrative of this crucial period...
38 min
192
Gerald Dawe, "The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays ...
Dawe gathers work from the 1980s to the present day that reflects upon the problem of Protestant culture in Northern Ireland. In this careful and deliberate work,..
37 min
193
Jeremy Black, "Geographies of an Imperial Power...
A great deal of recent discussion among humanities scholars has focused on the possibility or even necessity of “de-colonising the curriculum.” But what does this project mean?
26 min
194
Seán Crosson, "Gaelic Games on Film" (Cork UP, ...
In "Gaelic Games on Film," Crosson traces out the use of Irish sports in Irish, American, and British cinema.
64 min
195
Richard Whatmore, "Terrorists, Anarchists, and ...
Whatmore tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire...
74 min
196
Hannah Weiss Muller, "Subjects and Sovereign: B...
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...
38 min
197
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Tr...
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov uncover the collective history of the concept of partition and locate its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization...
46 min
198
Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, "The Solemn League and C...
MacKenzie re-examines the political and constitutional bonds that were implied by the covenant to which the English and Scottish parliaments had subscribed at the beginning of the first civil war, and considers why so many Presbyterians understood the Cromwellian occupation to represent a breach of the covenant’s obligations...
32 min
199
Guy Beiner, "Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forg...
Beiner argues for the complexities and ambiguities of communal recollection by focusing on the contested memories of one of the shortest and certainly the bloodiest of politically driven Irish insurrections...
33 min
200
Isobel O’Hare, "all this can be yours" (Univers...
Isobel O’Hare’s all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2019) presents a series of erasures crafted from celebrity sexual assault apologies...
55 min