Cambridge University Press

This is among the very first collections for graduates and researchers to track Irish and Northern Irish writing across the twentieth century's long turn, and the remarkable transitions that accompanied it. It revisits major writers and texts, providing path-making accounts of emergent figures through a range of perspectives.

Focusing on women's relationships, life-circumstances and agency, Elaine Farrell reveals the voices, emotions and decisions of incarcerated women and those affected by their imprisonment, offering an intimate insight into their experiences of the criminal justice system across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland.

This Element shows how joining the European Union helped Ireland energize what had been a stagnant agricultural backwater. Ireland became a prosperous globalized hub for multinational firms exporting technologically sophisticated products and services. But there have been some severe policy errors along the way.

This rigorous and accessible study explores the transformative impact of reverse migration from America to post-Famine Ireland. Using Irish census schedules and American passport applications to assemble a vivid picture of a changing Irish society, this book offers surprising insights into Ireland's growing population of American-born residents.

Specially-commissioned essays offering an overview of the place of feminism in philosophy.

From the politics of John Redmond to the political violence of Michael Collins, Irish nationalism in Britain was integral to British assessments of the Irish Question. Far from a 'sideshow' to the revolutionary events in Ireland, this study argues that the Irish Revolution was defined by political conflicts, and cultures, across the Irish Sea.

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design.

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design.

Takes a fresh look at the history of famine relief and humanitarianism through a novel moral economy approach, drawing on case studies of the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s, the famine in Soviet Russia in 1921-3, and the famine in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Pioneering analysis of how the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme have been remembered in Ireland since 1916.

The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.

For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution as a series of interconnected 'Great Wars'.