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 | Derek Hand (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. Manchester : Manchester University Press. 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 | Hand, D (2019) 'John Banville and the idea of the precursor: Some meditations' In: JOHN BANVILLE AND HIS PRECURSORS. NEW YORK : BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC. | |
| 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. [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Hand D. (2016) ''Bid me strike a match and blow': The Silence in the Garden' In: William Trevor: Revaluations. | |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Hand, Derek (2013) ''Bid me strike a match and blow': The Silence in the Garden'. WILLIAM TREVOR: REVALUATIONS, . | |
| 2022 | Derek Hand (2022) 'Small World: Ireland, 1798–2018'. English Studies, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 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 . | |
| 2000 | Hand, Derek (2000) 'Being Ordinary: Ireland from Elsewhere: A Reading of Eil\'\is N\'\i Dhuibhne's The Bray House'. 30 (1):103-116. | |
| 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 | Scopus - Elsevier (2008) 'Introduction: Benedict Kiely and the persona of the Irish writer'. Irish University Review, . [Link] | |
| 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 | Scopus - Elsevier (2006) 'Introduction: John Banville's quixotic humanity'. Irish University Review, . [Link] | |
| 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] |
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] |
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Honors and Awards
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