A History of Irish Working-Class Writing
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 140631984
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107149687
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- A History of Irish Working-Class Writing provides, across 22 chapters and a lengthy introduction, the “first comprehensive examination of Irish working-class writing” (Muireann Leech). It is a major intervention in Irish Studies, charting representations of working-class life from eighteenth-century rhymes and songs to the novels, plays and poetry of contemporary working-class Ireland. It presented significant challenges in terms of sourcing, commissioning and coordinating new scholarship and developing fresh scholarly engagements, described as a “colossal undertaking” by Dermot Bolger, and as a book that “will set many of the terms of cultural debate in the decades to come” by Declan Kiberd.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This 22-chapter, field-defining volume was edited by Pierse and includes two sections written solely by Pierse: a substantial introduction (36 pages) and a large chapter (26 pages). Pierse was commissioned, by Cambridge University Press, to edit the volume, had to develop a substantial and novel proposal that was peer-reviewed by the Press's Syndicate, and then had to commission a team of 23 academics (including the authors in the Foreword and Afterword sections) and manage this substantial and complex project to a deadline that would allow its publication to coincide with sister volumes on British and American working-class writing. The volume provides a wide-ranging and authoritative chronicle of the writing of Irish working-class experience, charting representations of Irish working-class life from eighteenth-century rhymes and songs to the novels, plays and poetry of working-class experience in contemporary Ireland.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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