Irish Literary Studies

Selected Stories is a collection of Kiely’s short stories. These stories have a great deal taken from Ben’s own experiences both abroad and at home in Ireland. Kiely captures various moments in Irish and American culture.

What lessons can we learn from the developing world? What is it like to live on less than €2 a day and what could the future hold for a child born in the developing world today?

‘To follow Hubert Butler is to enjoy the hair-raising frisson of history passing by.’ Eoghan Harris, Image

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism, Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and the first-time reader alike.

The wit and wisdom of Oscar Wilde.

Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) adopted not only a new name (George Knowall) for these rarely seen pieces published in the Nationalist. He takes on the character of a quizzical, enquiring humorist who might be found in a respectable pub in Carlow seeing through humbug and cant.

In the first decade of the new millennium, Jody Allen Randolph interviewed twenty-two leading Irish poets, artists, fiction writers and playwrights to create a record of how the makers of a culture saw their country as it moved into a new era.

Elizabeth Bowen has in more recent times been recognised as being as radically important to our understanding of twentieth-century literature as Samuel Beckett and she is now considered among the most highly significant writers of the twentieth century.

This book concerns Tomas O'Crohan of the Blasket Islands and offers a radical reinterpretation of this iconic Irish figure and his place in Gaelic literature.