Margaret Kelleher & Philip O’Leary, eds. The Cambridge History of Irish Literature

The colossal new opus in the Cambridge Literary History series, The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, edited by Margaret Kelleher and Philip O’Leary, fills an obvious gap in the field of Irish literary historiography. The two volumes are remarkable by the sheer scope of the ground they cover (Irish literature from the works of St Patrick and early monastic literature to the present day), and by the consistent quality of the scholarship they offer in each of the twenty-two chapters and tw...