2009 Press Releases
Cork University Press acclaimed by the TLS
20.05.2009
In a recent article giving an overview of academic publishing in Irish Studies, Toby Barnard of Oxford University wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) …
20.05.2009
In a recent article giving an overview of academic publishing in Irish Studies, Toby Barnard of Oxford University wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) …
Yet only one Irish University, Cork maintained its own press...it favoured studies that were innovative in methodology and bold in crossing disciplinary boundaries. These attributes showed most tellingly in the series of Field Day monographs, "Critical Conditions", where musicology, celtic studies, literature and history met. It was here, for example, that the exciting exercises in comparative literature of Joep Leersen were brought to proper notice in Britain and Ireland.
At the same time, Cork University Press devoted considerable care to the appearance of its publications. Its ability to combine fine cartography and many illustrations made it the local equivalent of Yale. Furthermore some of its titles, such as the sumptuous and illuminating Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape and Willie Smyth's Map-making, Landscape and Memory, were commercial successes-deservedly so. The arts and crafts ensemble of the Honan Chapel, sited among the university buildings in Cork, and the planned and planted landscapes of eighteenth-century Ireland, have also received similar generous treatment.
The TLS which began publishing in 1902 is acknowledged as the leading world-wide literary journal offering comprehensive coverage not just of the latest and most important publications, in every subject, in several languages - but also current theatre, opera, exhibitions and film.
Toby Barnard, Textual healing; Ireland, land of scholars and publisher saints, Times Literary Supplement, May 8, 2009
Picture: Mike Collins, Publications Director, CUP
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At the same time, Cork University Press devoted considerable care to the appearance of its publications. Its ability to combine fine cartography and many illustrations made it the local equivalent of Yale. Furthermore some of its titles, such as the sumptuous and illuminating Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape and Willie Smyth's Map-making, Landscape and Memory, were commercial successes-deservedly so. The arts and crafts ensemble of the Honan Chapel, sited among the university buildings in Cork, and the planned and planted landscapes of eighteenth-century Ireland, have also received similar generous treatment.
The TLS which began publishing in 1902 is acknowledged as the leading world-wide literary journal offering comprehensive coverage not just of the latest and most important publications, in every subject, in several languages - but also current theatre, opera, exhibitions and film.
Toby Barnard, Textual healing; Ireland, land of scholars and publisher saints, Times Literary Supplement, May 8, 2009
Picture: Mike Collins, Publications Director, CUP
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