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English Language and Literature

Journals

The Irish Review
The Irish Review, begun in 1986, provides a forum for critical and creative writing in English and Irish.
Irish University Review
The premier and leading journal in Irish literary criticism. It covers, on a global scale, all aspects of Irish literature in the English language.
New Hibernia Review
A multidisciplinary journal of Irish Studies that presents plainly argued scholarship on all aspects of Irish civilization.

Literary Texts

An Irish Literature Reader (2nd edition 2006) by James MacKillop, Maureen O'Rourke Murphy (Editors)
Earlier edition available in print at Drexel Library PB1421 .I76 1987
Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature (2019) by Tim Wenzell (Editor)
Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre (2020) by Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos, Shaun Richards (Editors)
This anthology of Irish documentary drama features six challenging plays which comment on crucial events of Irish history and of the diaspora.
Irish Women Dramatists (2014) by Eileen Kearney, Charlotte Headrick (Editors)

History and Criticism

Irish Literature in Transition
A six-volume set delves into Irish Literature chronologically from 1700-2020.
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
Drexel Library PR8797 .C36 2006
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
Also in print at Drexel Library PR8789 .C28 2004

A Companion to Irish Literature (2010) by Julia M. Wright (Editor)
The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism (2010) by Terence Brown
Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama (2016) by Margaret Hallissy
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre (2016) by Nicholas Grene, Chris Morash (Editors)
Irish Literature Since 1800 (2002) by Norman Vance
Also available in print at Drexel Library PR8750 .V35 2002
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature (2020) by Richard Bradford (Editor)
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (2004) by Joe Cleary, Claire Connolly (Editors)
Also available in print at Drexel Library DA959.1 .C35 2004