Cork University Press

A Festschrift for the acclaimed critic at UCC; essays on a wide variety of topics

We are in a crisis of care, one that needs an immediate response. This crisis is experienced in both our everyday lived experiences and in our interactions with the formal health and care systems.

The famine of 1879-80 and how it affected the on-going issues of land ownership and exploitation. An original study

Harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings of fear and powerlessness into affirmative narratives. Storytelling shapes our existence and influences personal, sociocultural, and public discourses about how we live

The book revisits the roles of West, South and East Asia in the work of W.B. Yeats and revises the theoretical bases that have been applied to his use of Asia in the past.

This is a fresh and original account of the most telling era in Dublin's development. Diarmuid O Grada depicts the Georgian city as a place of conflict where sharp divisions arose between the haves and have-nots. His work reveals the causes of this upheaval and its impact on ordinary Dubliners.

This new, expanded edition of the widely praised biography of the Booker Prize-winning author JG Farrell is timely. His literary achievement is still in the ascendent, as proved by the posthumous award in 2010 of the 'Lost' Booker for 'Troubles', decided by international e-vote. That made him a double Booker winner.

This book is the first to provide an in-depth discussion of crime in Ireland from 1870 to 1920.

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.

This book examines the relationship between Irish republicanism, policing and crime from 1916 to the present day.

Emily Lawless is one of the most important of Ireland's forgotten women writers. From a Protestant ascendancy background, she combined nationalist feelings with unionist sympathies. This important new study argues that her own term, "interspace", can be used to explain her vision of Ireland and her position as an Anglo-Irish woman writer determined to resist categorization or stock solutions at a time of polarization and cultural transition.