Field Day Review: v. 5 - Tapa blanda

'A weighty critical intervention ... setting new standards in Irish periodical literature'. --Liam Harte, Irish Times, 13 May 2006

In every sense a handsome contribution to the canon of critical writing on Irish history and literature. ... The review articles are magisterial in their sweep and authority.' --Maurice Hayes, Irish Independent, 11 June 2005

An annual review of Irish Studies and international contexts. Essay contributors to 2009 edition include: Seamus Deane, 'The Great Nation and the Evil Empire'; Joe Cleary, 'Distress Signals: Sean O Faolain and the Fate of Twentieth-Century Irish Literature'; Catriona Kennedy, 'Our Separate Rooms: Bishop Stock's Narrative of the French Invasion of Mayo, 1798'; Juliana Adelman, 'Animal Knowledge: Zoology and Class-ification in Nineteenth-Century Dublin' Giovanni Arrighi in conversation with Joe Cleary; and Ciaran Deane, 'Brian Friel's Translations: The Origins of a Cultural Experiment'.