“Surveying a century of Irish adaptations from The Informer to Dancing at Lughnasa, Palmer, Conner, and ten other contributors celebrate a national cinema whose sources range far beyond Wilde and Shaw, a cinema with the power to raise pivotal questions that have obvious application to other national cinemas as well.“ (Thomas M. Leitch, author of “Adaptation and its Discontents” (2007))

“This timely and highly readable collection asks why the great flowering of Irish literature, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, is strangely resistant to film adaptation and, by extension, why there is so little written about Irish literary cinema. This collection convincingly identifies and fills this gap in the field of Adaptation Studies. The collection engagingly demonstrates that it’s high time we consider Irish film and literature as a group of texts that can be considered together while at the same time arguing how every example in the volume – from adaptations of the works of George Bernard Shaw to those of Roddy Doyle – invites and resists a monolithic notion of Irish literary cinema.” (Deborah Cartmell, author of “A Companion to Literature, Film and Adaptation” (2012))

“The imaginative vibrancy of Irish cinema receives its rightful due in this critically shrewd, reliably witty and historically nuanced survey of film adaptations. Indispensable for anyone curious about or fascinated by how modern Irish drama and fiction have been translated to the screen.” (Maria DiBattista, author of “Fast-talking Dames” (2001))