Books from Colin Smythe
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Three Plays
By Chi-Jin Yoo, Ch'i-jin YuIn his study Irish Influences on Korean Theatre during the 1920s and 1930s, Won-Jae Jang alerted scholars to a previously unexamined example of intercultural exchange in which Korean scholars looked...
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Irelands in the Asia-Pacific
By Peter Kuch, Julie-Ann RobsonSince Mary McAleese embraced the expatriate and emigrant Irish in her inaugural Presidential address, much has been made of the global Irish family. This exciting collection of essays by a...
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The Poetry of Derek Mahon
By Elmer Kennedy-AndrewsAs the first major book-length study of the poetry of Derek Mahon, this volume of fourteen essays represents a long overdue account and assessment of one of the foremost living...
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Selected Plays of George Shiels
By George ShielsContains The Retrievers (hitherto unpublished), Professor Tim, The New Gossoon, The Passing Day, The Rugged Path, and The Summit, bibliographical checklist. George Shiels (1886-1949) was one of the most prolific...
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The Colour of Magic
By Terry PratchettThe first novel of the Discworld series. On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle, a wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's Rincewind, an avaricious but inept...
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The Cock and Anchor: Being a Chronicle of Old Dublin City
By Joseph Sheridan Le FanuFirst published in 1845, Le Fanu's The Cock and Anchor is one of the most interesting historical novels written in Ireland in the nineteenth century. It is many things at...
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Theatre of Shadows: Samuel Beckett's Drama, L956-76 : from All that Fall to Footfalls, with Commentaries on the Latest Plays
By Rosemary PountneyTheatre of Shadows: Samuel Beckett's Drama, L956-76 : from All that Fall to Footfalls, with Commentaries on the Latest Plays
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Renegotiating and Resisting Nationalism in Twentieth-century Irish Drama
By Scott BoltwoodThe essays in this collection seek to refine our understanding of the often polyvalent and conflicted engagement that Irish dramatists have entered into with nationalism, a cultural and political movement...
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Representative Irish Tales
By William Butler YeatsA fine selection of Irish fiction, as representative of Yeats himself as it is of Irish novelists. Yeats' introductory commentary and notes provide an interesting perspective on a relatively unknown...
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Lady Gregory's Diaries, 1892-1902
By Lady GregoryThese diaries, covering the decade or so following the death of her husband in 1892 until they peter out in 1902, chart the course of Lady Gregory's gradual but remarkable...
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The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries
By Walter Yeeling Evans-WentzThe Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries
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The Insurrection in Dublin
By James StephensThe Insurrection in Dublin was first published in October 1916, barely six months after the Irish Volunteers' Easter Rising took place. The text was never revised so that it has...
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Four Plays by the Charabanc Theatre Company: Inventing Women's Work
By Marie Jones, Charabanc Theatre CompanyThe Charabanc Theatre Company played a major role in Northern Ireland's theatrical renaissance during the 1980s. Charabanc was formed by five out-of-work Belfast actresses (Marie Jones, Maureen Macauly, Eleanor Methven,...
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The Saints and Martyrs of Ireland
By H. Patrick MontagueThe influence of the Irish saints and martyrs on the Christian church cannot be overestimated; there has been a tradition of Irish saints for more than 1800 years. Although there...