Author guide
Seamus Deane Books in Order
Seamus Deane (1940–2021) was an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic, and intellectual historian from Derry. He taught at University College Dublin and the University of Notre Dame, co-founded the Field Day Theatre Company, and served as general editor of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. His work combined literary criticism, cultural history, postcolonial analysis, and poetry. His novel Reading in the Dark was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won major Irish and British literary awards.
Seamus Deane's Newest Book
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Start with one of these
Reading in the Dark
Deane's acclaimed and accessible novel, and the best entry point to his fiction.
Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880–1980
A central collection of his literary criticism and account of modern Irish literature.
Gradual Wars
His first major poetry collection and an entry point to his poetic work.
Read in order
Books by series
scholarly-book-series · completed
Critical Conditions
A Field Day, Cork University Press, and University of Notre Dame Press series of works on literary and cultural criticism.
- 15 Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund BurkeAmazon ↗
Book 15 · nonfiction · 2004
book-series · completed
The Irish Heritage
A series of short works on Irish history, literature, and culture published by Eason.
- 57 Irish Writers, 1886–1986Amazon ↗
Book 57 · nonfiction · 1986
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (6)
- Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880–1980Amazon ↗
nonfiction · 1985
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A Short History of Irish LiteratureAmazon ↗nonfiction · 1986
- The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789–1832Amazon ↗
nonfiction · 1988
- Reading in the DarkAmazon ↗
novel · 1996
- Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790Amazon ↗
nonfiction · 1997
- Small World: Ireland, 1798–2018Amazon ↗
nonfiction · 2021
Essays and speeches (2)
Poetry (5)
Other (1)
- GiB: A Modest ExposureAmazon ↗
graphic-work · 1990