Ruth Gilligan - Non-Fiction

A SELECTION OF ESSAYS / BOOK REVIEWS / ACADEMIC ARTICLES

Review of Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey, Guardian, 29/08/24
'The Women We Were Before Children: Palimpsests of the City and the Self in The Hand that First Held Mine’, in Contemporary Critical Perspectives Maggie O’Farrell ed. Elaine Canning (London: Bloomsbury, 2024)
Review of The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes, Guardian, 25/04/24
Review of Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan, Irish Independent, 26/03/24
Review of Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, Irish Independent, 19/08/23
Review of Kala by Colin Walsh, Guardian, 05/07/23
Review of All Along the Echo by Danny Denton, Guardian, 27/04/22
8 Books About Feminist Folklore, Electric Lit, 10/10/20
On the Lies We Tell in Fiction, LitHub, 10/10/20
Writing into the Chaos, Dubray Blog, 08/06/20
Top 10 Irish Gothic Novels, Guardian Books, 01/04/20
Review of Inland by Téa Obreht, Irish Independent, 17/08/19
Review of The Fire Starters by Jan Carson, Irish Independent, 30/03/19
Review of The Rockingham Shoot & Other Dramatic Writings by John McGahern, Times Literary Supplement, 26/02/19
'Eimear McBride’s Ireland: A Case for Periodisation and the Dangers of Marketing Modernism', English Studies, 99.7 (2018)
Review of Ponti by Sharlene Teo, Irish Independent, 15/04/18
'Leopold Bloom is Not the Only Jew in Ireland', LitHub, 16/06/17
Review of The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride, LA Review of Books, 27/02/17
'The Diversification of Irish Literature: White Truth or White Lie?', World Literature Today, 16/10/17
'Write Like a Girl', Read It Forward, Feb 2017
'Who Ever Heard of an Irish Jew?' Forward, 30/01/17
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Guardian, 30/03/16
Write What You Want to Know, The Irish Times, 22/07/16
'Towards a Narratology of Otherness: Colum McCann, Ireland, and a New Transcultural Approach’, Studies in the Novel, 48.1 (2016)

A SELECTION OF ESSAYS / BOOK REVIEWS / ACADEMIC ARTICLES

Review of Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey, Guardian, 29/08/24

'The Women We Were Before Children: Palimpsests of the City and the Self in The Hand that First Held Mine’, in Contemporary Critical Perspectives Maggie O’Farrell ed. Elaine Canning (London: Bloomsbury, 2024)

Review of The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes, Guardian, 25/04/24

Review of Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan, Irish Independent, 26/03/24

Review of Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, Irish Independent, 19/08/23

Review of Kala by Colin Walsh, Guardian, 05/07/23

Review of All Along the Echo by Danny Denton, Guardian, 27/04/22

8 Books About Feminist Folklore, Electric Lit, 10/10/20

On the Lies We Tell in Fiction, LitHub, 10/10/20

Writing into the Chaos, Dubray Blog, 08/06/20

Top 10 Irish Gothic Novels, Guardian Books, 01/04/20

Review of Inland by Téa Obreht, Irish Independent, 17/08/19

Review of The Fire Starters by Jan Carson, Irish Independent, 30/03/19

Review of The Rockingham Shoot & Other Dramatic Writings by John McGahern, Times Literary Supplement, 26/02/19

'Eimear McBride’s Ireland: A Case for Periodisation and the Dangers of Marketing Modernism', English Studies, 99.7 (2018)

Review of Ponti by Sharlene Teo, Irish Independent, 15/04/18

'Leopold Bloom is Not the Only Jew in Ireland', LitHub, 16/06/17

Review of The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride, LA Review of Books, 27/02/17

'The Diversification of Irish Literature: White Truth or White Lie?', World Literature Today, 16/10/17

Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Guardian, 30/03/16

'Towards a Narratology of Otherness: Colum McCann, Ireland, and a New Transcultural Approach’, Studies in the Novel, 48.1 (2016)

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