“It’s more of a reader” – The Other Irish Tradition, ed. Rob Doyle

"Now, I’m very much on board with this: out with the staid! Down with conservatism! I’m not, however, without my doubts. For a start, Doyle says he’s out not to create a new canon but to give an ‘alternative, refracted’ view of the existing landscape – but surely that’s something of an obfuscation? No volume of this type can distance itself from the agenda of canonisation: what is any list-making enterprise, if not a claim towards ongoing significance? And I’m guessing that this attempted distancing is linked to the editor’s claim that he ‘tried to seek out as many female writers as possible’, but only managed seven out of twenty-three" - Valerie O'Riordan reviews The Other Irish Tradition, ed. by Rob Doyle

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