Murphy, Paula

Paula Murphy is an English Lecturer in Mary Immaculate College. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Mary Immaculate. Dr. Murphy has published widely on literary theory and Irish literature and is currently writing a book on Irish dramatists.

New Voices in Irish Literary Criticism: Ireland in Theory

2007 0-7734-5363-6
This book combines twelve essays derived from the proceedings of the New Voices in Irish Criticism Conference of 2005, which took place at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, all of which concentrate on the intersection between text and theory in the field of Irish Studies. All of the contributors to this volume have an interest in developing novel ways of reading both traditional and conventional Irish texts through various theoretical contexts, which include postcolonialism, feminism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction. The development and subversion of traditional critical approaches to Irish texts evidenced by these essays emphasizes the necessity for a theoretical thrust in Irish Studies, in order for conceptions of Irishness to avoid stagnation through constant critique, expansion and re-invention.