Academic articles and chapters
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2025
“Blessing or Curse? Divine Inspiration in Charles Baudelaire’s and Arthur Rimbaud’s Poetry”, Furor Poeticus in the Renaissance and its Reception, Palgrave Macmillan (UK)
2025
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“‘An old-fashioned American” with a ‘British tempo’: Sylvia Plath, England and her Transnational Identity",
The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath, Routledge (UK)
2025
“Translation as a Way to ‘feel virtuous’: Sylvia Plath’s Translations from French”, Sylvia Plath among Strangers around the World, (publisher TBC)
2025
“'We’re Strangers Here’: Sylvia Plath and Transnationalism”, The New Plath Studies, Cambridge University Press (UK)
2024
“Accessibility in the Poetry World: How the Pandemic Transformed the Contemporary British Poetry Scene”, TIES: Revue de literature Textes, Images et Sons (France)
2024
“‘An English Totem’: Constructions of Englishness in Max Porter’s Lanny” in David Rudrum, Pawel Wojtas and Wojciech DrÄ…g (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Max Porter, Routledge (UK)
2023
“‘I felt I’d come home’: Sylvia Plath and France” in Nicolas Pierre Boileau and Carmen Bonasera (eds.), “The ‘Edge’ of Sylvia Plath’s Critical History: A Reappraisal of Plath’s Work, 60 years after”, Revue Electronique d’Etudes sur le Monde Anglophone (France)
2021
“Invenzione e ‘atlantismo’ nella poesia contemporanea in lingua inglese: Julie Irigaray”. Five of my poems were translated by Professor Paolo Luca Bernardini, with an introduction by Professor Laura Orsi, Expressio: Rivista di Linguistica, Letteratura e Comunicazione, Mimesis Edizioni, vol.5 (Italy), pp.273-294
REVIEW
2021
Amanda Golden’s Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020) for The Modernist Review, 26th February 2021
Non-academic articles
“Writing about Place as an Outsider”
I discuss the benefits of writing about place as an outsider.
05/24
The Alchemy Spoon (UK)
10/12/23
The Alchemy Spoon (UK)
“Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Swarm’”
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A short analysis of Sylvia Plath's less-known bee poem.
04/07/23
The Poetry Foundation (US)
“Poem Guide: Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Applicant’”
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A hymn to female independence in the form of a withering critique of marriage.
14/09/17
Mslexia (UK)
"Book Review: You Sad Feminist by Megan Beech"
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Megan Beech is known for her reputation as a feminist poet, and though this second collection returns to her primary interest, it also tackles the belittled theme of mental health issues.
A Crucible of Cultures, the Basque Country Offers Art, Culture and Colour
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Julie Irigaray reviews her homeland’s best experiences, from sport’s strong sensations to châteaux with character, festive nights and gourmet ideas.
04/04/2017
The University Times (Ireland)
Nepotism, Populism and Conservatism: the Real Challenges of the French Presidential Elections - (in print)
As populism rises around the world, the French presidential elections crystallise the fear of another success for the far-right. With the spectre of radical Islamism in the background, Julie Irigaray gathers testimonies, questioning whether this is not just a smokescreen hiding what has been dividing French society for 15 years.
15/03/2017
The University Times (Ireland)
An Evening of Musical Translation at Trinity’s Centre for Literary Translation
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Yesterday the centre played host to a memorable evening of songs in translation, with traditional Russian ballads performed alongside a Spanish opera and the Rolling Stones in German.
05/03/2017
College Green (Ireland)
Reflections of A Citizen of Nowhere (in print)
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The title of this article was inspired by Theresa May’s extreme claim at the October 2016 Conservative Party conference: “If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere.” The question of identity is one I ponder frequently without being able to answer it in relation to myself.
23/12/16
The University Times (Ireland)
Not the Biggest Fan of Christmas? Take Inspiration from the French
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For someone who was born in a country where Christmas isn’t universally celebrated, our attitude to the holiday is flawed.
04/11/2016
The University Times (Ireland)
Bringing Poetry to the People, Patti Smith Speaks to the Hist
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Smith spoke of her love of Oscar Wilde, as well as her belief in the power of people to effect social change.
01/11/2016
The University Times (Ireland)
Why You Have (Almost) Never Heard of the Nobel Prize Before
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The 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature caused a significant deal of commotion. Going by some of the responses around the world, the least one can say is that the legitimacy – and even credibility – of the Nobel Prize committee is once again being questioned.