Irish Studies Publications Around the World - 2022

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https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2023-11479

Abstract

When I started doing this book-review editing job in 2020, the serious health risks of the COVID-19 pandemic were understood, and care was being taken to curb its spread. Ironic might not be the precise word for it, but it was easier to follow international events in Irish Studies when protections against infection were still in place, and events were almost exclusively held virtually. Now that the world has decided that we are no longer in danger, even though the virus refuses to cooperate with this version of reality, nearly everything from plays to conferences to concerts was back to in-person attendance by the end of 2022. Some of the consequences of this change of policy could not be hidden. Folk-rock music group Clannad had to cancel their farewell tour of Ireland in March, due to the virus. In June, a much-anticipated appearance in Cork of The Chemical Brothers was cancelled (the English duo withdrew from the Glastonbury Festival as well).

Author Biography

Maureen O’Connor, University College Cork

Maureen O’Connor is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English in University College Cork. She is the author of The Female and the Species: The Animal in Irish Women’s Writing (2010) and of Edna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction (2021). She is the co-editor, with Derek Gladwin, of a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, “Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities” (2018); with Kathryn Laing and Sinéad Mooney, of Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives (2006); with Lisa Colletta, of Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O’Brien (2006); and, with Tadhg Foley, of Ireland and India: Colonies, Culture, and Empire (2006). She is currently writing a volume for inclusion in the Cork University Press series, “Síreacht: Longings for Another Ireland,” on the topic of Animals and is co-editing a forthcoming special issue of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe, with Ina Bergmann, Maria Eisenmann, and Kirsten Sandrock, on the subject of “The Irish Animal, Real and Imagined”.

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2023-03-17

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Maureen O’Connor. (2023). Irish Studies Publications Around the World - 2022. Estudios Irlandeses, 18(1), 250–308. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2023-11479

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Vol. 18 No. 1 (2023): Issue 18 - 2023

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The Year in Review

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