David Pierce is the author of sixteen books including Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader (Cork University Press, 1999), Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing (Yale University Press, 2005), and six books on James Joyce and three on W.B. Yeats. His recent books are The Long Apprenticeship: A Memoir (Troubador, 2012), The Joyce Country: Literary Scholarship and Irish Culture (EER, 2018) and James Joyce’s Portrait: A New Reading (EER, 2019). An enlarged paperback version of The Joyce Country: Literary Scholarship and Irish Culture will be published in May 2021. For the first five years of its existence Pierce was the literature editor of books in English for Estudios Irlandeses. His memoir contains a chapter on his Irish background, which is reprinted in
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