'These [How to Read] books let you encounter thinkers eyeball to eyeball by analysing passages from their work' Terry Eagleton, New Statesman

This new and expanded edition of Talking of Joyce focuses on James Joyce's cultural ancestry - aesthetic and linguistic, in particular - and his Italian influences and connections. This volume brings to light fascinating aspects of Ireland's most famous literary figure and places him in a wider cultural context.

In her volume of The Poet's Chair Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill discusses the importance of place in Irish literature and the need to preserve important sites of Irish literary activity, brings us on a turbulent Turkish adventure, and explores Ireland's rich folklore tradition.

A stunning book about significant medieval manuscripts; their authors, their histories and the moments that mark their lifetimes.

This series offer a detailed history of how prose in the Irish language developed from 1922 to 1951. Making use of contemporary newspapers, journals, personal papers, and other primary texts - novels, short stories, plays, biographies - the books recreate the intellectual and ideological climate of the spread of Irish as a modern literary language.

Drawing on Leonidas Warren Payne's own writing, interviews with former colleagues and students, and private letters lain undisclosed since his death, Rare Integrity reveals a portrait of a man whose great gift of creative generosity and warmth of heart enabled him to see a person as the person wished to be seen.

A scholarly edition of a work by Henry Fielding. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.