This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an event which sparked something akin to a period of national mourning in Ireland.

The remarkable story of the money sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 during the Great Irish Famine is one that is often told and remembered by people in both nations.

Explores the 1999 film adaptation by Director Atom Egoyan of Irish writer William Trevor's novel of 1994. This title addresses issues such as - hitchcockian influences, the sense of place in the visual discourse, and the characterisation of the serial killer Hilditch, as constructed initially by Trevor and interpreted by Egoyan.

This book is the first to explore the archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland, primarily from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.

Dublin's Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of the past, an intact example of a nineteenth-century natural science collection. This book is the first detailed exploration of its early history, showing how and why it came into being, and what it meant in nineteenth-century Irish culture.

The book draws on unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O'Brien's art. Focuses these inquiries onto key encounters between the body and the law, between death and the comic spirit in the author's canon.