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Autumn 2007 Issue Now Available!

 

Good news: The Irish Book Review is back with a bang!

The Autumn 2007 issue is now available and features reviews of the work of Niall Williams, John F. Deane and Thomas Kinsella.
Also covered are poets John Hewitt and Tom Morgan; the literary biographies of Emily Lawless and Sheila Wingfield, Viscountess Powerscourt; Irish language titles Bibeanna and Bliain an Bhandé and fiction from newcomer Karen Ardiff ....
Not to mention extensive coverage of the latest Ross O'Carroll-Kelly offering and an interview with his creator Paul Howard!

Keep an eye out for the upcoming Winter issue which contains, among many others, reviews of David Andrews' autobiography Kingston Republican: A Memoir, Roddy Doyle's The Deportees and Patricia Craig's candid autobiography Asking for Trouble.
 

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Below is a listing of the contents of the Autumn 2007 issue.  To subscribe to The Irish Book Review click here.

 

Contents

Editorial by Eugene O’Brien


‘White House Poets: The Democratisation of Poetry’ by Eugene O’Brien


Michael Davitt by Laurence Marley, reviewed by William Sheehan


New Voices in Irish Criticism by Paula Murphy et al., reviewed by John McDonagh


Interview with Paul Howard a.k.a Ross O’Carroll-Kelly


Versions of Ireland by Eóin Flannery, reviewed by Eamon Maher


Bibeanna: Memories from a corner of Ireland edited by Brenda Ní Shúilleabhain, reviewed by Louis de Paor


‘Work in Progress’: Ken Bruen’s Benediction


Boy in the World by Niall Williams, reviewed by Paula Murphy


Eire-Ireland: Special Issue reviewed by Eóin Flannery


A Dublin Documentary by Thomas Kinsella, reviewed by Eugene O’Brien


Reading the Dog by Maria McManus, reviewed by Maria Beville


That Neutral Island by Claire Wills and The Emergency by Brian Girvin, reviewed by Mary Daly


The Disinherited by John Campbell, reviewed by Jean-Christophe Penet


Emily Lawless by Heidi Hansson, reviewed by Ann Fogarty


Protestants: A Play in Seven Scenes by Robert Welch, reviewed by Paula Murphy


The Irish Reader: Essays for John Devitt by Michael Hinds, reviewed by Maeve Tynan


The Last of the Name by Charles McGlinchey, reviewed by Eugene O’Brien


Billy, Come Home by Mary Rose Callaghan, reviewed by Lillian Burke


John Hewitt: Selected Poems by John Hewitt, reviewed by Eugene O’Brien


The Irish Labour Party by Niamh Puirséil, reviewed by Maura Adshead


Stimulus of Sin: John Broderick Collection edited by Madeline Kingston, reviewed by Peter Guy


The Heather Fields by John F. Deane, reviewed by Eóin Flannery


Self into Song by Carol Rumens, reviewed by Kit Fryatt


Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts by Patricia Boyle Haberstroh and Christina St. Peter, reviewed by Marita Ryan


The Secret of My Face by Karen Ardiff, reviewed by Cathy McGlynn


Fighting for Dublin: The British Battle for Dublin 1919-1921 and British Voices from the War of Independence1918-1921 by William Sheehan, reviewed by William Murphy


The Horse’s Nest by Moyra Donaldson and One Wanted Thing by Cherry Smyth, reviewed by Michael Hinds


This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, reviewed by Eugene O'Brien


Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother by Douglas A. Martin, reviewed by Damien Shortt


Ballintrillick by Tom Morgan, reviewed by Seán Crosson


Ancient Appetites by Oisin McGann, reviewed by Peter Guy


Something to Hide by Penny Perrick, reviewed by Maeve Tynan


Across the Bitter Sea by John Boyd and The Telling Year by Malachi O’Doherty, reviewed by Tony Corbett


Playing with the Moon by Eliza Graham, reviewed by Kathryn Laing


Bliain an Bhandé by Gabriel Rosenstock, reviewed by Stephen Newman


‘My Back Pages’ by Vincent Browne
 


 



 
 

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