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Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel

Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel

Costello-Sullivan, Kathleen
Hand, Derek
Murphy, Neil

Paperback

Series: Irish Studies

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0815612109
ISBN13: 9780815612100
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 528
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.07 Width: 7.10 Depth: 9.98
Language: English

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.

Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization, reform, and economic successes and challenges, this period of relentless disruption also offered immense imaginative possibilities for Irish writers. With change and structural transformation as the guiding principles, the work of Irish novelists during the modern era embraced changing values, a reimagining of cultural frames, and a rewriting of the primary narratives of what it meant to be Irish.

Bringing together thirty scholars from across the field, Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel offers a complete contextualized reading to study vital changes in Irish national and cultural identity.

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