Archive for March, 2020

E-Bookshelf of Irish Studies

Posted on March 25, 2020 in Uncategorized

Some recent e-books in the Hesburgh Libraries.

 

 

Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918-19

Ida Milne.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.

https://onesearch.library.nd.edu/permalink/f/tgve9/ndu_aleph004726057

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and the Poetics of Space, 700-1250

Amy C. Mulligan
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019

https://onesearch.library.nd.edu/permalink/f/tgve9/ndu_aleph005420885

 

 

 

Revivalism and Modern Irish Literature

Fionntán de Brún
Cork: Cork University Press, 2019

https://onesearch.library.nd.edu/permalink/f/tgve9/ndu_aleph005113352

 

 

 

 

Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism

Kathryn Conrad, Cóilín Parsons and Julie McCormack Weng, editors.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2019

https://onesearch.library.nd.edu/permalink/f/tgve9/ndu_aleph005304517

 

 

 

 

Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland. 

Clara Fischer and Áine Mahon, eds.  
New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
https://onesearch.library.nd.edu/permalink/f/tgve9/ndu_aleph005421997

The Americanisation of Ireland: Migration and Settlement, 1841-1925

David Fitzpatrick.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020

https://onesearch.library.nd.edu/permalink/f/tgve9/ndu_aleph005420817

The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach

Zöe O’Reilly.
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

https://onesearch.library.nd.edu/permalink/f/tgve9/ndu_aleph005421996

 

Use your Notre Dame user name and password to open these e-books. E-books are purchased in various ways, sometimes allowing one reader at a time, sometimes with unlimited access. They can all be found in the Hesburgh Library catalog.

If you are reading this and you belong to a different university, you might still have access to these e-books through your own library.

Reading Retreat 2020 — Irish Literature Online for Notre Dame Community

Posted on March 21, 2020 in Uncategorized

Looking for Irish literature online? Staff and faculty, as well as students, may access ebooks at the Hesburgh Libraries.

It is relatively easy to find online works of literary criticism in the library catalog, but not so easy to find ebooks of fiction and poetry. So I’ve listed some books below.

Note also that if you are a resident of St. Joseph County, you may have access to novels and audio-books in the digital collection of St. Joseph County Public Library.  If you never got around to registering for public library membership, check their website to see how you can register online:

sign up for library card

Haven’t you wanted to read one of the English translations of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s great Irish novel, Cré na Cille since they were both published?

The library has online copies of Graveyard Clay, the translation by Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson.

Máirtín Ó Cadhain. Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille. A Narrative in Ten Interludes. Translated by Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson. New Haven: Yale U.P., 2016.

 

 

A Selection of Irish Writing online via ND Catalog

Links are to the catalog entry – find the ‘Online Access’ links there.

Ciaran Carson. From There to Here: Selected Poems and Translations. Gallery Press, 2018.

Francis Ledwidge. Selected Poems. Edited by Dermot Bolger; with an introduction by Seamus Heaney. New Island, 2017.

Sara Baume. A Line Made by Walking. Houghton Mifflin, 2017.

Emilie Pine. Notes to Self: Essays. Dial Press, 2019.

Melatu Uchie Okorie. ‘This Hostel Life’. In Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Recessionary Imaginings II: Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing, 03 April 2017, Vol.28(2), pp.185-193

Patrick McCabe. The Big Yaroo. New Island, 2019.

 

 

Irish Fiction in the Public Library’s Digital Collections

See the St. Joseph County Public Library website for information

Anna Burns. Milkman. (They also have the audiobook for streaming).

Anna Burns. Little Constructions.

Edna O’Brien. The Little Red Chairs.

Edna O’Brien. Girl.

Sebastian Barry. Days Without End.

Sally Rooney. Normal People.

Sally Rooney. Conversations With Friends.

Liz Nugent. Lying in Wait.

John Banville. Mrs.Osmond.

In checking our online Irish literature, I noted that the poetry collections online in the Proquest/Literature Online collection are good for reference but not enjoyable for reading, so I did not list them. Similarly, many plays by Irish writers are included in the Drama Online database, but I had repeated problems accessing the database and so I’d rather leave them until another time. 

Disclaimer: I have no ‘inside knowledge’ of the St. Joseph County Public Libraries. I checked their website and catalog for the information above.