Do you miss going to the shelves to browse?  Here is a selection of recent e-books in the Hesburgh Libraries’ Irish literature collection. 

I would be very interested in hearing about your experience with various e-book readers and platforms.

A Notre Dame user name and password is needed to read these books.

FICTION

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.
Eimear McBride. 2015

Days Without End.
Sebastian Barry. 2017.

Beatlebone 
Kevin Barry. 2015

The Gathering. 
Anne Enright. 2007

 

POETRY

The Lost Land. 
Eavan Boland. 1998

Poems read by Eavan Boland on video:
Quarantine  
Code
Love  
Exile, Exile!
Lava Cameo
The Journey
The Pomegranate

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

The Mother House. 
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.  2020

Besides the ebooks listed above, the Literature Online collection includes thousands of poems. It allows the reader to view poems individually rather than turning pages, and the lines of poetry are all numbered, which is a distraction. So it is useful for reference but a poor substitute for the printed page. Included in the collection are poems by Louis MacNiece, Patrick Kavanagh, Medbh McGuckian, Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Molloy, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland.

 

CRITICAL WORKS ON IRISH LITERATURE

Revolutionary Damnation: Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce to Enright.

Sheldon Brivic. 2017

After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present.

Declan Kiberd. 2017

 

Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature.

Nicholas Taylor-Collins and Stanley ven der Zeil, eds. 2018

 

All on Show: The Circus in Irish Literature and Culture.
Eleanor Lybeck. 2019

 

Irish Literature in Transition, 1940-1980.
Eve Patten. 2020

 

The New Samuel Beckett Studies.

Jean-Michel Rabaté. 2019

 

Samuel Beckett: Poet + Critic.

Lawrence E. Harvey. 2019

 

Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr.

Sanford Sternlicht. 2010

 

Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature.

Pilar Villar-Argaz, ed. 2013.

 

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets.

Gerald Dawe, ed. 2018

 

Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe.

Barry McCrea. 2015

 

Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry

Ruben Moi. 2020

 

Five Irish Women: The Second Republic, 1960-2016.

Emer Nolan. 2019

 

Laying Out the Bones: Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel from James Joyce to Anne Enright.

Bridget English. 2017