Dr Ian Hickey
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Research Interests:
The Poetry and Prose of Seamus Heaney, 21st Century Irish Poetry and Fiction, Contemporary Literary Theory.
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鈥橞rien. Routledge. [Forthcoming]
2025: Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation, Co-edited with Eugene O鈥橞rien. Routledge.
2024: The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Prose, Co-edited with Eugene O鈥橞rien. Routledge.
2023: Seamus Heaney鈥檚 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: 鈥楾he Body and Seamus Heaney's Prose Writing鈥, The Routledge Companion to Seamus Heaney, Ian Hickey and Eugene O鈥橞rien (eds.) Routledge. [Forthcoming]
2026: 鈥淭he Legacy of Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Writing鈥, The Routledge Companion to Seamus Heaney, Ian Hickey and Eugene O鈥橞rien (eds.) Routledge. [Forthcoming]
2025: 鈥業ntroducing Heaney and Translation鈥, Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation, Ian Hickey and Eugene O鈥橞rien (eds.), Routledge.
2025: 鈥楾ranslation and Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Prose Writing鈥, Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation, Ian Hickey and Eugene O鈥橞rien (eds.), Routledge.
2024: 鈥楩ragmentation and Irish Young Adult Irish Fiction鈥, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Irish Literature, Anne Fogarty and Eugene O鈥橞rien (eds). Routledge.
2024: 鈥楾he Makings of a Music鈥: Musicality and Poetry in Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Prose鈥, The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Prose, Ian Hickey and Eugene O鈥橞rien (eds.) Routledge.
2024: 鈥業ntroduction: Coming to Poetics Terms with Himself and Others鈥, The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Prose, Ian Hickey and Eugene O鈥橞rien (eds.) Routledge.
2023: 鈥業ntroduction: Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Mythmaking鈥, Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Mythmaking, Ian Hickey and Ellen Howley (eds.). Routledge.
2023: 鈥楧ante, Time and the Hauntological in Heaney鈥檚 Poetry鈥, Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Mythmaking, Ian Hickey and Ellen Howley (eds.). Routledge.
2023: 鈥楴ew Beginnings in Seamus Heaney鈥檚 鈥淭he Riverbank Field鈥 and 鈥淩oute 110鈥濃, New Beginnings in Franco-Irish Studies, Eamon Maher and M谩irt铆n Mac Con Iomaire (eds.). Routledge.
2021: 鈥楥hallenging Societal Norms Through the Spoken Word: Benjamin Zephaniah鈥檚 City Psalms鈥, Spoken Word in the UK, Lucy English and Jack McGowan (eds.), Routledge.
Journal Articles
2025: 鈥楩ragmentation in Louise O鈥橬eill鈥檚 Asking for It鈥, Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 20. pp.118-132.
2022: 鈥楲ost Futures and the Hauntological in Kevin Barry鈥檚 City of Bohane鈥 in Irish University Review, Volume 52, Issue 2. pp. 359-372.
2022: 鈥楬eaney, Catholicism and the Hauntological: The Later Poetry' in ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 53-69.
2020: 鈥楧errida, Heaney and the Translation of Virgil鈥檚 Aeneid Book VI鈥 in 脡tudes Irlandaises. Volume 45, Issue 2. pp. 101-117.
2020: 鈥樷淭he old cause is never dead鈥: Hauntology and Brendan Behan鈥檚 The Hostage鈥 in Irish Studies Review, Volume 28, Number 2. pp. 171-185.
2020: 鈥樷淒ublin You Are鈥: Representations of Dublin in Twenty-First Century Irish Poetry鈥. in C21 Literature: Journal of Twenty-First Century Writings, Volume 8, pp. 1-26.
2019: 鈥楨legising the Past and Future: Seamus Heaney鈥檚 鈥淩oute 110鈥 Sequence鈥 in Irish University Review, Volume 49, Number 2. pp. 340-355.
2018: 鈥楾he Haunted Bog and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney鈥 in Nordic Irish Studies, Volume 17, Number 2. pp. 35-54.
2018: 鈥榁irgilian Hauntings in the Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney鈥 in Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 13. pp. 27-40.
