Description: An examination of work by Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne raising questions about gender, bodies and history in Contemporary Irish fiction.
Review Quotes: "Susan Cahill's imaginative and carefully-plotted book Irish Literature and the Celtic Tiger Years 1990-2008: Gender, Bodies, Memory addresses an important lacuna and uncovers inventive and innovative ways of thinking about how some of the most important writers of the period were influenced by and responded to the pressing concerns of the day... By unpacking relevant social and cultural contexts and drawing on an impressive range of theoretical sources, the book offers an extended and meticulously detailed treatment of the oeuvres of the key authors... Theoretically incisive, engaging, and lucid, Cahill's Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990-2008 is a generous and important book that breaks new ground and provides an essential map of recent developments in Irish fiction--a landmark study that opens up new and vital possibilities for thinking about Irish literature in the twenty-first century." - Canadian Journal of Irish Studies