Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study

This volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009-2015.

David McKinney completed his PhD in 2016 in University College Dublin. Since 2016, he has taught Irish Studies and English Literature in the Schools of Irish and English in University College Dublin, and teaches research practice, cultural theory, and creativity in the British and Irish Institute of Modern Music.