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Derek Hand

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E:Derek.Hand@dcu.ie

Book

	Year	Publication
	2011	Hand, D. (2011) A history of the Irish novel. [Link] [DOI]
	2019	MLA International Bibliography (2019) John Banville and the Idea of the Precursor: Some Meditations.
	2019	MLA International Bibliography (2019) Benedict Kiely and the 1950s: The Struggle to be Modern.
	2019	MLA International Bibliography (2019) Essays on John Mcgahern: Assessing a Literacy Legacy.
	2019	MLA International Bibliography (2019) Brendand Behan's Borstal Boy: The Public Persona and the Delicate Art of Deceit.
	2016	MLA International Bibliography (2016) Ireland and Europe after 1973.
	2016	MLA International Bibliography (2016) The Bend for Home: Truth, Beauty, Such Things.
	2016	Scopus - Elsevier (2016) 'Bid me strike a match and blow': The Silence in the Garden. [Link]
	2013	MLA International Bibliography (2013) 'I Had Always Despised Him a Little': Plumbing the Depths of Feeling in Mary's Lavin's Two Irish Novels.
	2013	MLA International Bibliography (2013) 'Bid Me Strike a Match and Blow': The Silence in the Garden.
	2002	Derek Hand (2002) John Banville: Exploring Fictions. Dublin: Liffey Press.
	2001	MLA International Bibliography (2001) Breaking Boundaries, Creating Spaces: W. B. Yeats's The Words upon the Window-Pane as a Postcolonial Text.
	2000	MLA International Bibliography (2000) John Banville and Irish History: The Newton Letter.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2022	Derek Hand (2022) 'Cyclops: A Sneer and a smile' In: The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses. London : Head of Zeus. [DOI]
	2022	Hand, D. (2022) 'Living lives: Deirdre Madden’s Authenticity, Molly Fox’s Birthday, Time Present and Time Past, and the Irish Celtic Tiger novel' In: Deirdre Madden: New critical perspectives. [Link] https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526118936.00022
	2021	Derek Hand (2021) ''What Would I Say, if I Had a Voice?’: The Irish Novel and the Articulation of Modernity' In: Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century. Oxford : Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b17973
	2020	Derek Hand; Liam Harte (2020) 'Dublin in the Rare New Times' In: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction. Oxford : Oxford University Press. [Link]
	2019	Derek Hand (2019) 'Benedict Kiely and the 1950s: the struggle to be modern' In: In a Harbour Green: Celebrating Benedict Kiely. Dublin : Merrion Press.
	2019	Hand, D. (2019) 'Feeling disaffection: Forms of estrangement in irish fiction' In: A History of Irish Modernism. [Link] [DOI]
	2019	Derek Hand (2019) 'Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy: The Public Persona and the delicate art of deceit' In: Reading Brendan Behan. Cork : Cork University Press.
	2019	Derek Hand (2019) 'Novels of the Celtic Tiger' In: Recalling the Celtic Tiger. Oxford : Peter ;Lang. [Link] https://doi.org/10.3726/b16190
	2018	Hand, D. (2018) 'Ireland and Europe after 1973' In: The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940. [Link] [DOI]
	2016	Hand, D. (2016) ''Bid me strike a match and blow': The Silence in the Garden' In: WILLIAM TREVOR: REVALUATIONS. [Link]
	2016	Derek Hand (2016) 'Dermot Healy’s The Bend for Home: truth, beauty, such things' In: Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy. Dublin : Dalkey Archive Press.
	2014	Hand, Derek (2014) '“George Moore’s Drama in Muslin: Art and the Middle Classes”' In: George Moore and the Land War. Bern : Peter Lang, 2014.
	2013	Derek Hand (2013) ''I despised him just a little’: plumbing the depths of feeling in Mary’s Lavin’s two Irish novels' In: Mary Lavin. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
	2013	Hand, Derek (2013) 'William Trevor’s The Silence in the Garden: ‘bid me strike a match and blow’”' In: William Trevor: A Collection Critical Essays. Manchester : Manchester University Press.
	2012	Derek Hand (2012) 'Living in a Global World: Making Sense of Place in the work of Colum McCann' In: This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann. Bern : Peter Lang.
	2009	Hand, Derek (2009) 'Ghosts from our future: Bowen and the unfinished business of living' In: Elizabeth Bowen: Vision and Revisions. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
	2009	Derek Hand (2009) 'Beyond History: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale' In: Irresponsibility & Literature. New York : Cambria Press.
	2007	Derek Hand (2007) 'Tom Murphy's 'The Gigli Concert' in The Irish Reader' In: The Irish Reader: Essays for John Devitt. Dublin : Otior Press.
	2006	Derek Hand (2006) 'The Anglo-Irish Big House Under Pressure: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and Molly Keane's Two Days in Aragon' In: Molly Keane: Centenary Essays. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
	2006	Derek Hand (2006) 'A Gothic Nightmare: John Banville's Birchwood and Irish History' In: Back to the Present, Forward to the Past: Irish Writing and History Since 1798. Amsterdam : Rodopi Press.
	2005	Derek Hand (2005) 'Éilís Ní Dhuibhne' In: The UCD Aesthetic: Celebrating 150 Years of UCD Writers. Dublin : New Island Press.
	2004	Eibhear Walshe (Ed) (2004) '• “Something Happened: Benedict’s Kiely’s Nothing Happens in Carmincross and the breakdown of the Irish Novel”' In: Representing the Troubles. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
	2003	Michael Boss and Eamon Maher (Eds.) (2003) '• “After the Big House: W.B. Yeats’s Purgatory: All things Must Pass”' In: Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture, and Literature at the Turn of the Century. Dublin : Veritas.
	2001	Hand, Derek (2001) 'Breaking Boundaries, Creating Spaces: WB Yeats's The Words Upon the Window-Pane as a Postcolonial Text' In: WB Yeats and Postcolonialism. North Carolina : Locust Hill Press.

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2019	Derek Hand & Eamon Maher (Ed.). (2019) Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a Literary Legacy. Cork: Cork University Press, [Link]

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2019	Hand, Derek (2019) 'John Banville and the idea of the precursor: Some meditations'. JOHN BANVILLE AND HIS PRECURSORS, .
	2013	Hand, Derek (2013) *''Bid me strike a match and blow': The Silence in the Garden'. WILLIAM TREVOR: REVALUATIONS*, .
	2016	Derek Hand (2016) '“‘Phantasmagorical realities’: Easter 1916 and the Extraordinary Self in Three Novelistic Responses to the Rising by Eimear O’Duffy, Iris Murdoch, and Roddy Doyle”'. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Volume 16 (Number 1).
	2015	Hand, Derek (2015) 'The cold of May Day Monday: an approach to Irish literary history'. Irish Studies Review, 23 (3):375-377.
	2010	Derek Hand (2010) 'Unresolved contradictions'. The Irish Review, .
	2008	Derek Hand (2008) 'Co-Editor of Special Issue of Irish University Review on Benedict Kiely'. Irish University Review, .
	2007	Hand, Derek and Loeber, Rolf and Loeber, Magda and Burnham, Anne Mullin (2007) 'A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900'. Irish University Review, .
	2006	Derek Hand (2006) 'Editor of Special Issue of Irish University Review on John Banville'. Irish University Review, .
	2006	Friberg, Hedda (2006) 'John Banville and Derek Hand in Conversation'. 36 (1):200-215.
	2006	Hand, Derek (2006) 'A Gothic Nightmare: John Banville and Irish History'. 161 .
	1997	Hand, Derek (1997) 'The Endless Possibilities of Ordinary Life'. 16 .
	2016	MLA International Bibliography (2016) ''Phantasmagorical Realities': Easter 1916 and the Extraordinary Self in Three Novelistic Responses to the Rising by Eimear O'Duffy, Iris Murdoch, and Roddy Doyle'. .
	2008	MLA International Bibliography (2008) 'Benedict Kiely'. .
	2006	MLA International Bibliography (2006) 'John Banville'. .
	2006	MLA International Bibliography (2006) 'John Banville and Derek Hand in Conversation'. .
	2006	MLA International Bibliography (2006) 'A Gothic Nightmare: John Banville and Irish History'. .
	2005	MLA International Bibliography (2005) 'Elizabeth Bowen's Suburbia: Life after the Big House'. .
	2003	MLA International Bibliography (2003) 'The Ontological Imperative in Irish Writing'. .
	2000	MLA International Bibliography (2000) 'Being Ordinary-Ireland from Elsewhere: A Reading of Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's The Bray House'. .

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2016	Derek Hand (2016) '“Easter Rising – L’uomo nuovo di Roddy Doyle”' . [Link]

Abstract

	Year	Publication
	1991	Hand, Derek (1991) John Banville's Science Tetralogy: Reluctant Postmodernism. ABST

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2015	Hand, D (2015) The cold of May Day Monday: an approach to Irish literary history. ABINGDON: BREV [DOI]

Radio Presentation

	Year	Publication
	2014	Derek Hand (2014) The Book Show. RADIO [Link]
	2013	Derek Hand (2013) Off the Shelf. RADIO [Link]
	2011	Derek Hand (2011) Miriam Meets..... Professor Declan Kiberd and Dr Derek Hand. RADIO [Link]
	2011	Derek (2011) Off the Shelf. RADIO [Link]
	2010	Derek Hand (2010) Off the Shelf. RADIO [Link]
	2005	Derek Hand (2005) Off the Shelf. RADIO [Link]

Documentary

	Year	Publication
	2007	Derek Hand (2007) WORDWEAVER - THE LEGEND OF BENEDICT KIELY. DOC [Link]

Video recording / TV

	Year	Publication
	2015	UCD Scholarcast (2015) Scholarcast Series 13: Dublin: One city-One Book Lecture Series 2015: Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy. VID [Link]

Web Page

	Year	Publication
	2005	Department of Environment (2005) Irish Writers. WEBP [Link]

Other Publication

	Year	Publication
	2022	Hand, Derek (2022) Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018. [DOI]
	2000	Hand, Derek and Harte, Liam and Parker, Michael and McCarthy, Conor (2000) Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories.

Editorial

	Year	Publication
	2008	Hand, Derek (2008) Introduction: Benedict Kiely and the persona of the Irish writer. ED
	2006	Hand, D (2006) Introduction: John Banville's quixotic humanity. ED

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Dublin City University		-
	IASIL	Academic organisation	-

Honors and Awards

Date	Title	Awarding Body
01/01/1996	Open Postgraduate Scholar in Arts	University College Dublin
01/01/1990	Anglo-Irish Bank Scholar	Anglo-Irish Bank
01/01/2005	College Research Fellowship	St Patrick's College, Drumcondra
01/01/2008	IRC Government of Ireland Research Fellowship for	Irish Research Council
01/01/2014	College Research Fellowship	St Patrick's College, Drumcondra

Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	Dublin City University	Professor, Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences	01/09/2002 -

Education

	Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
		University College Dublin	PhD

Research Interests

The Irish novel from the 17th century to the present. Irish writing and culture generally.

Teaching Interests

The Irish Novel, John Banville, Elizabeth Bowen, W.B. Yeats, Contemporary Irish Fiction, Modernism, Irish writing from 1600 to the present day