The Irish Review 48 includes essays by Catherine Nash, on genetics and the Irish, and Richard Kirkland on the state of Irish Studies. Clare O’Halloran revisits Moore’s Captain Rock, while there are essays on Irish political thought and Synge and Jewishness on the Abbey stage.
Contents
Blood of the Irish: Knowing ‘Ourselves’ Genetically CATHERINE NASH
Synge, An-sky, and the Irish Jewish Revival IRINA RUPPO MALONE
‘The State’ – Ireland’s Contribution to the History of Political Thought MARK A. HUTCHINSON
Stories of Subversion: Thomas Moore’s Memoirs of Captain Rock and Irish Historical Tradition CLARE O’HALLORAN
Seeking a Protestant Purgatory: Resonances in Twentieth-century Anglo-Irish Writing IAN D’ALTON
Between the Old World and the New: the Farahy Address, 2013 ROBERT TOBIN
Towards a Disciplinary History of Irish Studies RICHARD KIRKLAND
Boston or Berlin? Reflections on a Topical Controversy, the Celtic Tiger and the World of Irish Studies JOACHIM FISCHER
Reviews
MICHELLE O’RIORDAN on James Kelly and Ciarán MacMurchaidh (eds), Irish and English: Essays on the Irish Linguistic and Cultural Frontier, 1600-1900
EIBHEAR WALSHE on Brian Cliff and Nicholas Grene (eds), Synge and Edwardian Ireland
KATHRYN LAING on Eve Patten, Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning’s Fictions of War; Deirdre David, Olivia Manning: A Woman at War
PATRICK MAUME on Heather Laird (ed.) Daniel Corkery’s Cultural Criticism: Selected Writings
JAMES MORAN on Tony Murray, London Irish Fictions; Seán Sorohan, Irish London during the Troubles; Tom Herron (ed.), Irish Writing London: Volume 1, Revival to the Second World War; Tom Herron (ed.), Irish Writing London: Volume 2, Post-War to the Present
HEATHER LAIRD on Kelly Matthews, The Bell Magazine and the Representation of Irish Identity
JULIANA ADELMAN on Don O’Leary, Irish Catholicism and Science: from ‘Godless Colleges’ to the Celtic Tiger
Colin Graham 