Dr Ian Hickey
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Books
2027: Fragmentation in Twenty-First Century Irish Poetry and Fiction. Palgrave MacMillan [Forthcoming]
2026: The Routledge Companion to Seamus Heaney, Co-edited with Eugene O’Brien. Routledge. [Forthcoming]
2025: Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation, Co-edited with Eugene O’Brien. Routledge. [Forthcoming]
2024: The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose, Co-edited with Eugene O’Brien. Routledge.
2023: Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking, Co-edited with Ellen Howley. Routledge.
2021: Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry, Routledge. [Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize 2022]
Book Chapters
2026: ‘The Body and Seamus Heaney's Prose Writing’, The Routledge Companion to Seamus Heaney, Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien (eds.) Routledge. [Forthcoming]
2026: “The Legacy of Seamus Heaney’s Writing’, The Routledge Companion to Seamus Heaney, Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien (eds.) Routledge. [Forthcoming]
2025: ‘Introducing Heaney and Translation’, Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation, Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien (eds.), Routledge. [Forthcoming]
2025: ‘Translation and Seamus Heaney’s Prose Writing’, Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation, Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien (eds.), Routledge. [Forthcoming]
2024: ‘Fragmentation and Irish Young Adult Irish Fiction’, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Irish Literature, Anne Fogarty and Eugene O’Brien (eds). Routledge.
2024: ‘The Makings of a Music’: Musicality and Poetry in Seamus Heaney’s Prose’, The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose, Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien (eds.) Routledge.
2024: ‘Introduction: Coming to Poetics Terms with Himself and Others’, The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose, Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien (eds.) Routledge.
2023: ‘Introduction: Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking’, Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking, Ian Hickey and Ellen Howley (eds.). Routledge.
2023: ‘Dante, Time and the Hauntological in Heaney’s Poetry’, Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking, Ian Hickey and Ellen Howley (eds.). Routledge.
2023: ‘New Beginnings in Seamus Heaney’s “The Riverbank Field” and “Route 110”’, New Beginnings in Franco-Irish Studies, Eamon Maher and Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire (eds.). Routledge.
2021: ‘Challenging Societal Norms Through the Spoken Word: Benjamin Zephaniah’s City Psalms’, Spoken Word in the UK, Lucy English and Jack McGowan (eds.), Routledge.
Journal Articles
2025: ‘Fragmentation in Louise O’Neill’s Asking for It’, Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 20. pp.118-132.
2022: ‘Lost Futures and the Hauntological in Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane’ in Irish University Review, Volume 52, Issue 2. pp. 359-372.
2022: ‘Heaney, Catholicism and the Hauntological: The Later Poetry' in ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 53-69.
2020: ‘Derrida, Heaney and the Translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI’ in Études Irlandaises. Volume 45, Issue 2. pp. 101-117.
2020: ‘“The old cause is never dead”: Hauntology and Brendan Behan’s The Hostage’ in Irish Studies Review, Volume 28, Number 2. pp. 171-185.
2020: ‘“Dublin You Are”: Representations of Dublin in Twenty-First Century Irish Poetry’. in C21 Literature: Journal of Twenty-First Century Writings, Volume 8, pp. 1-26.
2019: ‘Elegising the Past and Future: Seamus Heaney’s “Route 110” Sequence’ in Irish University Review, Volume 49, Number 2. pp. 340-355.
2018: ‘The Haunted Bog and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney’ in Nordic Irish Studies, Volume 17, Number 2. pp. 35-54.
2018: ‘Virgilian Hauntings in the Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney’ in Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 13. pp. 27-40.
