The Irish
University Review publishes
essays on all aspects of Irish literature and culture from the
sixteenth
century to the twenty-first century. It produces an annual Special
Issue which
focuses either on the work of a particular author or on key topics such
as
Hiberno-English, the Long Poem, and the Irish Literary Revival.
Although the Irish
University Review publishes
work on canonical Irish writers such as W.B. Yeats, Brian Friel, James
Joyce,
and Seamus Heaney, it particularly encourages investigations of
neglected or
emerging authors and under-examined literary and cultural issues.
The Irish University Review
also publishes reviews of recent publications in Irish Studies in each
issue, and, usually in the Autumn issue, the annual IASIL bibliography
of publications in Irish Studies.
Forthcoming Issues
Due in May 2012 is the Spring Special
Issue of the Irish University Review,
guest edited by Dr Lucy Collins, on 'Irish Poetry Cultures, 1930-1970'.
It includes new essays on Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Blanaid
Salkeld, Louis MacNeice, John Jordan, Liam Miller and the Dolmen Press,
Irish women writers and periodical culture, Irish language
poetry, reflections on national library poetry archives by Eilis
Ni Dhuibhne, and two previously unpublished poems by Maurice Craig. It
also includes a substantial reviews section. This issue will be the
first Irish University Review
issue to be published by Edinburgh University Press.
Autumn 2011 Issue
Volume 41, Issue 2 was published in November 2011 as a general issue of
the journal
which included the annual IASIL bibliography. This issue also
included
essays on Robert Graves, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Samuel Beckett,
Bernard MacLaverty, Brian Friel, Rita Ann Higgins, John F. Deane, Nuala
O'Faolain, Jennifer Johnston, and Sebastian Barry.
Special Issue: Irish Fiction,
1660-1830
Guest edited by Professor
Ian Campbell Ross, Dr Aileen Douglas and Dr Moyra Haslett, the latest
special issue of the Irish
University Review addresses the early history of the Irish novel
in English. It includes original essays by leading scholars on the
geography and politics of early Irish fiction, on literary
experimentalism, print culture, children's fiction, the gothic,
empire, and rebellion. It also includes an addendum to Rolf and Magda
Loeber's Guide to Irish Fiction,
1650-1900. The volume represents new critical directions in expanding and
deepening scholarship on Irish fiction. It was launched on Tuesday
April 19th in 2011 in Newman House, Dublin, by Professor Margaret
Kelleher, chair of IASIL, and director of An Foras Feasa, who hailed it
as a magnificent achievement in Irish literary studies, and a landmark
in critical studies of eighteenth-century fiction.
40th Anniversary Issue
The fortieth anniversary issue of the Irish
University Review, launched on Tuesday April 27th 2010, was
devoted to the work of Frank McGuinness. The special
issue of the journal gathered
together new essays on Frank McGuinness’s work by leading
scholars of
contemporary Irish drama. It also included an essay by the playwright
which
surveys the last ten years of his own creative output, and an interview
conducted by Professor Anthony Roche, which explored Frank
McGuinness’s
experiences and achievements. The
special issue was launched by Professor Chris Morash of NUI Maynooth,
who said
that the volume of essays represented an important moment in the
critical
reception of Frank McGuinness’s work.
Electronic Access
The contents of all issues of the Irish
University Review are
listed in the MLA International
Bibliography. The full text digital archive of the journal from 1970 to
2007 is available to participating libraries and institutions through
JSTOR. The journal also has an agreement with the Gale group whereby
individual digitalised essays may be purchased by subscription to
HighBeam Research.
