Editorials – Irish Journal of American Studies

In October 1970, Richard Nixon—then approaching the end of his second year as US President—landed in Shannon Airport to commence a three-day visit to Ireland, announcing upon his arrival that he could “proudly ... Read More...

Issue 8 Editorial

David Coughlan

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Welcome to the eighth issue of IJAS Online, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies. After two special issues in 2017 and 2018, one guest-edited by Jennifer Daly on Marilynne Robinson... Read More...

Issue 7 Editorial: Special Postgraduate Issue

Rosemary Gallagher

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Taking its inspiration from the Great Seal of the United States, the November 2015 Irish Association for American Studies Postgraduate Symposium considered the implications inherent in the motto “E Pluribus Unu... Read More...

Issue 6 Editorial: Special Issue on Marilynne Robinson

Jennifer Daly

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With the publication of Housekeeping in 1980, Marilynne Robinson announced herself on the literary stage as a writer of singular fiction – and then proceeded to not publish another novel for more than 20 years.... Read More...

Issue 5 Editorial

David Coughlan

Editorials

Welcome to the fifth issue of IJAS Online, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies. Our contributions this issue include articles by Sue Norton and Laurence W. Mazzeno on the personal... Read More...

Issue 4 Editorial: Special Postgraduate Issue

Jennifer Daly

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In November 2014, the IAAS welcomed postgraduate and early-career scholars from across Ireland and the UK to Trinity College Dublin for the annual postgraduate symposium. Unlike previous IAAS events, the sympos... Read More...

Issue 3 Editorial

Alex Runchman

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We apologize for the belatedness of this issue of IJAS Online. This is in part due to circumstances within our control, but mainly to do with the time taken for the editorial team to discuss changes to the Jour... Read More...

Issue 2 Editorial

Philip Coleman

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Welcome to the second issue of IJAS Online, the official journal of the Irish Association for American Studies. This issue features new work from across the field of American Studies, including discussions o... Read More...

"The Product of a Spoiled America": Divorce as Collective Crisis in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1990s

“‘Normal People’ Indeed!”: Anne Tyler, Sally Rooney, and the Narrative of Youthful Quirk

Depictions of Shame: White Identity and Cultural Blackness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner

Satire, Symbolism, and the “Working Through” of Historical Ghosts in The Confidence-Man

The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon

On Becoming an Americanist

From Dangerous Outsiders to Beloved Innocents: Irish Servant Figures in American Gothic

Review: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

Review: Kloeckner, Knewitz, and Sielke, eds., Knowledge Landscapes North America

Review: T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America

The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon

Review: Andy Connolly, Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition

Review: Ernst, Matter-Siebel, and Schmidt, eds., Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism

Review: Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction

The IAAS's Americanista: An Interview with Catherine Gander (IAAS Chair)

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

IAAS 50th Anniversary Special Issue on Irish American Studies

Issue 8 Editorial

Issue 7 Editorial: Special Postgraduate Issue

Issue 6 Editorial: Special Issue on Marilynne Robinson

Issue 5 Editorial

Issue 4 Editorial: Special Postgraduate Issue

Issue 3 Editorial

Issue 2 Editorial