The Liffey Press has launched a major new series of books, Contemporary Irish Writers and Filmmakers. While most books on Irish literature focus on the “holy trinity” of Joyce, Yeats and Beckett, this is the first series of books to come to grips with those writers and filmmakers whose work reflects the realities of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Ireland. As such, this series will become a landmark in Irish cultural debate.
As Eugene O’Brien, series editor, notes, “modes and worldviews inherited from the past no longer seem adequate to describe an increasingly cosmopolitan and complex society. This is the void which [the series] hopes to fill by providing an examination of the state of contemporary cultural Ireland through an analysis of its writers and filmmakers”.
The first four books in the series were launched by Professor Declan Kiberd on March 7th, in the Irish Film Centre. The first four titles are:
SEAMUS HEANEY: CREATING IRELANDS OF THE MIND by Eugene O’Brien (paperback, €16.50, ISBN: 1-904148-02-6)
BRIAN FRIEL: DECODING THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRIBE by Tony Corbett (paperback, €16.50, ISBN: 1-904148-03-4)
JIM SHERIDAN: FRAMING THE NATION by Ruth Barton (paperback, €16.50, ISBN: 1-904148-05-0)
JOHN BANVILLE: EXPLORING FICTIONS by Derek Hand (paperback, €16.50, ISBN: 1-904148-04-2)
Forthcoming titles in the series include studies on William Trevor, Roddy Doyle, Jennifer Johnston, Neil Jordan and Conor MacPherson.
Further details are available at: www.theliffeypress.com
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