The shattered worlds of Standish O'Grady

J.G. Farrell’s Empire Novels

The decline and fall of the human condition

Rebecca Ziegler

Despite its name, the real subject of J.G. Farrell’s three-and-a-half-book Empire Series is not the British empire, but the human condition, a state characteriz…

'Is it about a bicycle'?

Flann O'Brien in the twenty-first century

Jennika Baines editor

This collection of essays examines the work of Flann O’Brien, a subversive, confounding and hilarious Irish novelist. It also considers the work of Myles na Gop…

Brendan Behan

Cultural nationalism and the revisionist writer

John Brannigan

This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923–64), author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. It charts Behan’s intelle…

Patrick Pearse and the theatre

Eugene McNulty & Róisín Ní Ghairbhí, editors

This book focuses on Patrick Pearse the theatre man. Pearse, like many among the revolutionary generation, was deeply interested in the theatre and its possibil…