The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Literature and Periodical Culture

This highly absorbing and informative volume provides a much needed history of Irish periodical culture: individual essays illuminate the diversity and vitality of Irish literary magazines and journals, along with fascinating transnational dimensions. Overall the collection confirms the centrality of periodicals, as media and material objects, in the making of literary success. – Margaret Kelleher, University College Dublin

Elke D’hoker is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven and Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She has published widely on Irish fiction, the modern short story, periodical studies and literary pedagogy. She is the author of Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (2016) and Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville (2004). She has edited or co-edited 11 books, including The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2022), Sarah Hall. Critical Essays (2022), Ethel Colburn Mayne. Selected Stories (2021), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture (2021), The Irish Short Story (2015) and Mary Lavin (2013).

Phyllis Boumans is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History at Radboud University Nijmegen. She previously worked as Lecturer at Stockholm University. Her work has appeared in Irish University Review, New Hibernia Review and Irish Studies Review, and she is co-editor of a special issue on Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth-Century for the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (2024) and The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2022). Her current postdoctoral project focuses on mid-twentieth-century Irish radio stories.