Field Day Review, Volume 5, 2009

Field Day Publications, Published 2009. Paperback, 245 pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs, engravings, and reproductions. In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with French flaps; sepia photograph of a graveside gathering to the front cover. Light bumping to edges with mild shelf wear. Binding tight; interior clean and unmarked.Volume 5 (2009) of Field Day Review, the annual journal of Irish Studies published by Field Day Publications in association with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Field Day grew out of the Field Day Theatre Company, founded in Derry in 1980 by Brian Friel and Stephen Rea with Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, and David Hammond, and became one of the most influential forces in late twentieth-century Irish cultural and intellectual life, central to the development of Irish Studies and to postcolonial readings of Irish history and literature. Edited by Seamus Deane, Breandan Mac Suibhne, and Ciaran Deane; gathers scholarly essays, an interview, and reviews on Irish literary and political culture.Contents: Brian Friel's Translations: The Origins of a Cultural Experiment (Ciaran Deane); Distress Signals: Sean O'Faolain and the Fate of Twentieth-Century Irish Literature (Joe Cleary); Family and Form in Ulysses (Barry McCrea); 'Our Separate Rooms': Bishop Stock's Narrative of the French Invasion of Mayo, 1798 (Catriona Kennedy); Animal Knowledge: Zoology and Classification in Nineteenth-Century Dublin (Juliana Adelman); Up for Grabs (Giovanni Arrighi in conversation with Joe Cleary); The Whole People of Ireland? (Ian McBride); Shadows of a Gunman (David Lloyd); Theatre, Globalization and Recalcitrant Audiences (Chris Morash); Modernism at the Movies (Sean Mannion); 'A Different Grammar' (Carl Dawson); Just Another Country? (Francis Mulhern); The Great Nation and the Evil Empire (Seamus Deane). …