Éire-Ireland 53:1&2 is up and available Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/38953. This issue we feature a trio of essays reappraising the ideology of Douglas Hyde, plus six essays and interviews on the curiously strong Irish basis of biofiction.

“It is difficult not to see him as a lump of genius just sitting there in the huts while the peasants did the talking.” On Yeats, by Jan Olof Olsson and Margareta Sjögren in Plogren och stjänorna (1968), reviewed by Clas Zilliacus, Éire-Ireland 4:2 (1969)

From the archives: detail from unsigned original cover art from Éire-Ireland 9:4 (1974)

“Early reviewers responded uneasily, at once amused and bemused.” From Ian Campbell Ross’s study, Éire-Ireland 18:3 (1983), of Thomas Amory, author of The Life of John Buncle, Esq. (1756), “the tale, told by himself, of an Irish Unitarian, eight times married.”

Past notes, Éire-Ireland 8:2 (1973): “Flood Waters Destroy Irish Library,” a reminder of when tropical storm Agnes destroyed “an extensive collection of books on all phases of Irish culture.” (See also buff.ly/2xTw6o3).

“I was always the pet of the family, kept for admiration in a cage like a canary.” From Lustre, a tragedy in one act, by Seamas O’Kelly and Count Casimir de Markievicz, published for only the second time in Éire-Ireland 2:4 (1967)

Building out the figure of Casement: “Roger Casement’s Contribution to the Ethnographical and Economic Botany Collections in the National Museum of Ireland,” by M.J.P. Scannell and O. Snoddy, Éire-Ireland 3:4 (1968)

"At the turn of the nineteenth century, Owenson and her contemporaries refashioned the bodkin's history for their own political ends." On the fashioning and use of the bodkin in Irish literature, as explored by Colleen Taylor in our latest issue: buff.ly/2VmEzLC

Excited to share information for the launch event for our latest Spring/Summer special issue, "Notaí/Notes: Music and Ireland," assembled by guest editors Méabh Ní Fhuartháin and Verena Commins: facebook.com/NUIGalwayCentr…

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