Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays and Monographs

P. J. Mathews argues against the received opinion that the Irish Revival was a purely mystical affair of high culture characterized by a preoccupation with a backward-looking Celtic spirituality, nostalgia...

This is the first study to survey the development of musical thought in modern Irish cultural history. It registers the function of music as a dynamic agent in the history of Irish ideas in the period...

If the 1790s can be seen as the pivotal decade in the revolution of modern Ireland, then an understanding of it is not just of scholarly interest, but has repercussions for current political and cultural...

This book places Irish antiquarianism in comparative context during the second half of the eighteenth century

These essays analyze Edmund Burke in comparison with other political philosophers and writers, including Montesquieu, Diderot, Tocqueville, Swift, and Acton.

Ireland’s Others is a collection of essays by noted literary and cultural critic Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. In this volume, Cullingford assesses attempts by Irish writers to reverse hostile colonial...

Circe’s Cup is a collection of eight essays that investigate the role writing played in transforming early modern Irish culture. This radical new assessment of culture and conflict in sixteenth- and...