The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing (Hardcover)

I. Narrative Imaginings: Between Ideology and Resistance

1. Counterfactual Geographies: Creating Urban Space in Post-Crash Irish Fiction

Liam Lanigan

2. Representations of Catholicism in Contemporary Irish Fiction

Eamon Maher

3. Four Recent Irish-language Novels, A Century after Pearse

Maire Ni Annrachain

4. Conversational Ethics and Aesthetics in the Contemporary Family Novel: Anne Enright’s The Green Road (2015) and Donal Ryan’s The Queen of Dirt Island (2022)

Katharina Rennhak

5. Liquid Modernity and Twenty-First Century Irish Young Adult Fiction

Ian Hickey

6. The Biopolitics of Emotions and the Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary Irish Writing by Non-White Authors

Jun Du

7. Embodied Pasts and Precarious Futures: Somatic Storytelling in Trespasses (2022) and Close to Home (2023)

Caroline Magennis

8. The Ethics of Care in Sally Rooney’s Novels: Between Self and Other

Maria Amor Barros-del Rio

9. ‘Feeling Catty’: Reading Animals in Short Stories by Contemporary Irish Women Writers

Anne Fogarty

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II.? A Poetics of the Unfinished and the Transformative

10. Remapping Ireland in Poems by Paula Cunningham, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Nithy Kasa

Lucy McDiarmid

11. Twenty-First Century Migrant Irish Poets in the UK: Martina Evans and Fran Lock

Ailbhe Darcy

12. ‘The art of yielding’: Contemporary Irish Ecopoetics

Eoin Flannery

13. Wilful renewing: Tradition and Innovation in the work of Aifric Mac Aodha and Seamus Barra O Suilleabhain

Ailbhe Ni Ghearbhuigh

14. Micheal O’Siadhail: Intersecting, Resonant and Polyglot Voices

Eugene O’Brien

15. Queer Poetry

Kit Fryatt

16. ‘The Art of Losing’: Ailbhe Darcy’s Ekphrastic Touch

Daniela Theinova

17. ‘Echo is dumb’: Modes of Address and Generational Dialogue in Irish Poetry

David Wheatley

18 ‘Memory followed you / on the water’: Oceanic Perspectives in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry

Lucy Collins

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III. Theatrical Engagements and Critiques

19. Ecodramaturgy and the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Abbey Theatre’s Adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger (2020)

Patrick Lonergan

20. THISISPOPBABY: Glorious Energy, Grief, and the Twenty-First Century Craic Tax

Martin Kenny and Miriam Haughton

21. Class Matters: Working-Class Theatre in the Wake of the Economic Crash

Clara Mallon

22. Talking about Sex in Twenty-First-Century Irish Prose and Performance

Paige Reynolds

23. Ethnotheatre in Northern Ireland: Research-Led Work by Kabosh Theatre Company

Lisa Fitzpatrick

24. Visceral Injustices in The Blue Boy (2011), Woman Undone (2018) and The Examination (2019) by Brokentalkers

Eamonn Jordan

25. Agonistic Spaces: Dissensus and Ethical Conflicts in Recent Irish Theatre

Clare Wallace

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IV New Voices, New Forms, New Modes of Material Production

26. The Rise of Ireland’s Campus Novel

Deirdre Flynn

27. Irish Fantasy Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

Jack Fennell

28. The Personal Essay

Claire Lynch

29. Global Irish Crime Fiction in the Twenty-First Century: Expanding the Scope

Molly Slavin

30. Contemporary Irish Poetry off the Page

Julie Morrissy

31. Still Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Epochal Change in Twenty-First -Century Irish Poetry

Alexander Muller and Jefferson Holdridge

32. Changing Irish Identity: Black Writing in Contemporary Ireland

Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro and Victor Augusto da Cruz Pacheco

33. The Stinging Fly and Contemporary Irish Short Fiction

Elke D’hoker

34. The Journal Era: Style and Twenty-First Century Irish Literary Magazines

Liam Harrison

35. Languages and Publishing in Contemporary Irish Writing

Tim Groenland and Margaret Kelleher