Field Day Publications
Field Day publishes works of literary criticism, history, politics and cultural studies. In spring 2005 it launched Field Day Review, an annual journal primarily concerned with Irish literary and political culture.
Brian Friel and Stephen Rea first established Field Day as a theatre company in 1980. Beginning with Friel’s Translations (1980), the company produced and toured over a dozen plays, including world premieres of Friel’s The Communication Cord (1982) and Making History and Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy (1990). From the outset, Field Day sought to make a cultural intervention into the course of politics in Ireland. To this end, Rea and Friel recruited Seamus Heaney, Seamus Deane, Tom Paulin, Davy Hammond, and Tom Kilroy to its board of directors.
Today, Stephen Rea and Seamus Deane remain as Field Day directors. Field Day Publications operates in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
FREE DOWNLOAD Select essays in full from Field Day Review (vols. 1-7)
• Luke Gibbons, ‘Space of time through times of space: Joyce, Ireland and Colonial Modernity’
• Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘Settling In: Dublin’s Jewish immigrants of a Century Ago’
• Breandán Mac Suibhne and Amy Martin, ‘Fenians in the Frame: Photographing Irish Political Prisoners, 1865-68’
• Benedict Anderson, ‘Globalization and Its Discontents’
• Seamus Deane, ‘Edward Said (1935-2003): A Late Style of Humanism’
• Brendan O’Leary, ‘Mission Accomplished? Looking Back at the IRA’
• Ciarán Deane, ‘Brian Friel’s Translations: The origins of a cultural experiment’
FREE DOWNLOAD sample pages from Field Day Review• Niall Ó Dochartaigh, ‘’Everyone Trying’, the IRA Ceasefire, 1975: A Missed Opportunity for Peace?’
Field Day catalogue 2005-2012 is out now.
