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The collection of essays in The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel proposes - and provides - an expansion of Irish Studies to include also Irish detective fiction in a serious way. ... As stated earlier, I consider this anthology to be of interest to many readers, both those interested in Irish studies, and those interested in crime fiction generally. The chapters successfully combine and expand both areas. (Katarina Gregersdotter, Nordic Irish Studies, Vol. 16, 2017)

This collection of nine insightful essays opens new ground and advocates for a more considered appraisal of detective fiction, within Irish literary studies. Each essay offers a broad overview of several texts, considering reoccurring thematic issues across the series, rather than close readings of a single novel. The range and scope covered by the nine essays is commendable and a judiciously light theoretical emphasis, the absence of elitist academic jargon, will warm even casual readers to the analysis. (John Singleton, Review of Irish Studies in Europe - RISE, Vol. 2 (1-3), March, 2018) The collection of essays in The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel proposes - and provides - an expansion of Irish Studies to include also Irish detective fiction in a serious way. ... As stated earlier, I consider this anthology to be of interest to many readers, both those interested in Irish studies, and those interested in crime fiction generally. The chapters successfully combine and expand both areas. (Katarina Gregersdotter, Nordic Irish Studies, Vol. 16, 2017)

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Elizabeth Mannion earned her PhD at Trinity College, Dublin. Her research and teaching cover an interdisciplinary range of Irish studies, from modern drama to contemporary crime fiction. Recent publications include The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre: Beyond O’Casey, as well as chapters in the forthcoming Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland and A Cambridge History of Irish Working-Class Writing.

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