Dr Ian Hickey
Research interests
Research Interests: Contemporary Irish Poetry and Fiction, The Poetry and Prose of Seamus Heaney, Jacques Derrida, Literary and Cultural Theory, Spoken-Word Poetry.
Publications:
Books:
Hickey, I. & O’Brien, Eugene. [Editors] (2024) The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose, Routledge.
Hickey, I. & Howley, Ellen. [Editors] (2023) Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking, Routledge.
Hickey, I. (2021) Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry, Routledge. (Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize)
Book Chapters:
Hickey, I. (2024) ‘Liquid Modernity and Twenty-Fist Century YA Irish Writing: Louise O'Neill, Sarah Maria Griffin and Claire Hennessy’ in The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Irish Literature, Edited by Anne Fogarty and Eugene O’Brien. [Forthcoming: Routledge 2024]
Hickey, I. (2024) ‘‘The Makings of a Music’: Musicality and Poetry in Seamus Heaney’s Prose’ in The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose, Edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien.
Hickey, I. (2023) ‘Dante, Time and the Hauntological in Heaney’s Poetry’ in Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking, Edited by Ian Hickey and Ellen Howley, [Forthcoming: Routledge 2023]
Hickey, I. (2023) ‘New Beginnings in Seamus Heaney’s “The Riverbank Field” and “Route 110”’ in New Beginnings in Franco-Irish Studies, Edited by Eamon Maher and Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, (Forthcoming: Peter Lang 2023)
Hickey, I. (2021) ‘Challenging Societal Norms Through the Spoken Word: Benjamin Zephaniah’s City Psalms’ in Spoken Word in the UK, Edited by Lucy English and Jack McGowan, Routledge. pp. 246-259.
Journal Articles:
Hickey, I. (2022) ‘Lost Futures and the Hauntological in Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane’ in Irish University Review, Volume 52, Number 2, pp. 359-372.
Hickey, I. (2022) ‘Heaney, Catholicism and the Hauntological: The Later Poetry' in ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 53-69.
Hickey, I. (2020) ‘Derrida, Heaney and the Translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI’ in Études Irlandaises., Volume 45, Issue 2. pp. 101-117.
Hickey, I. (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.
Hickey, I. (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.
Hickey, I. (2019) ‘Elegising the Past and Future: Seamus Heaney’s “Route 110” Sequence’ in Irish University Review, Volume 49, Number 2. pp. 340-355.
Hickey, I. (2018) ‘The Haunted Bog and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney’ in Nordic Irish Studies, Volume 17, Number 2. pp. 35-54.
Hickey, I (2018) ‘Virgilian Hauntings in the Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney’ in Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 13. pp. 27-40.
Editorial of Journals:
Hickey, I & Kieran, P. (2021) The Furrow: Irish Institute for Catholic Studies Special Issue.
Book Reviews:
Hickey, I. (2022) 'Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill by Bridget Vincent (Oxford University Press)' in Irish Studies Review [Forthcoming November].
Hickey, I. (2021) ‘Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction by Marie Mianowski’ in Irish Studies Review Volume 29, Number 1.
