Reviews and Criticism
Allen Randolph, Jody. "Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry." Women's Review of Books 17:8 (May 2000). [End Page 281]
———. "Irish Engagements with the American Lyric." PN Review (Fall 2009).
———. "New Ireland Poetics: The Ecocritical Turn in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry." Nordic Irish Studies 8:1 (Spring 2009).
———. "Paula Meehan: A Selected Bibliography." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009).
———. "The Problem with Paradigms: From the Postcolonial to the Planetary in Irish, South African and Caribbean Literature." Poetic Ecologies: Nature as Text, Text as Nature in English Language Verse. Ed. Franca Bellarsi. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2009.
———. "Text and Context: Paula Meehan." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 5-16.
Amiot, Pascale. "Les Paradoxes de l'Intime dans la Poésie de Paula Meehan." Regards sur l'intime en Irlande. Ed. Thierry Dubost. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2008.
Andrews, Rachel. "More to It than Fairy Stories." Sunday Tribune [Ireland] 4 Jan. 2004.
Auge, Andrew J. "The Apparitions of 'Our Lady of the Facts of Life': Paula Meehan and the Visionary Quotidian." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 50-64.
Boland, Eavan. "Foreword." The Man Who Was Marked by Winter. Cheney, WA: Eastern Washington UP, 1994. xiii.
———. "Introduction." Three Irish Poets: Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan and Mary O'Malley. Manchester: Carcanet, 2003. ix-xviii.
———. "Paula Meehan: "The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks." Irish Writers on Irish Writing. San Antonio: Trinity UP, 2007. 277-78.
———. "Unfinished Business: The Communal Art of Paula Meehan." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 17-24.
Brain, Tracy. "Dry Socks and Floating Signifiers: Paula Meehan's Poems." Critical Survey 8:1 (1996): 110-17.
Brennan, Patrick. "Addiction Heroine." Archive. Calypso Productions. Dublin.
———. "Fairytale in Wolf's Clothing." Irish Examiner 30 Dec. 2003.
———. "Fiction Comes Alive—O." The Tribune [Ireland] 16 May 1997.
———. "The Wolf of Winter. The Peacock, Dublin." Irish Examiner 1 Jan. 2004.
Browne, Harry. "First Trip Proves Ark Floats." Review of Kirkle. Irish Times 3 Oct. 1995: 12.
Buckley, Karina. "The Wolf of Winter." Culture Ireland: The Sunday Times [Ireland] 4 Jan. 2004, 31. [End Page 282]
Burns, Jim. Review of Dharmakaya. Ambit 166 (Autumn 2001).
Carr, Mary. "Keeping it in the Family." Time Out 6 Mar. 1997.
Carson, Ciarán. "Painting Rain For Paula Meehan." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 140-41.
Clarke, Jocelyn. "Mrs Sweeney." The Tribune Magazine [Ireland] 18 May 1997.
Clutterbuck, Catriona. "The Artistry of Freefall." Review of Dharmakaya. Metre 10 (Autumn 2001): 110-14.
Colgan, Gerry. "Highlights." Weekend: The Week Ahead: Irish Times 3 May 1997.
———. "The Wolf of Winter. Peacock Theatre, Dublin." Irish Times 16 Dec. 2003.
Collins, Lucy. "A Way of Going Back: Memory and Estrangement in the Poetry of Paula Meehan." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 127-39.
Conboy, Katie. "Cutting a Pattern: Paula Meehan's Poetry." Verse 16:2 (1999): 60-63.
Conley, Susan. "Questions & Answers: Andrea Ainsworth." Wow! 15 Dec. 2003.
———. "The Wolf of Winter." Wow! 21 Dec. 2003.
Corcoran, Neil. After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. 10, 123.
Denman, Peter. "Three Poets to Adorn any Gallery." Review of Pillow Talk. Sunday Tribune 14 Aug. 1994: B10.
Donovan, Katie. "All at Sea." Review of The Voyage. Irish Times 22 Mar. 1997: 40.
———. "Art of Darkness." Graph 11 (1992): 17.
———. "Hag Mothers and New Horizons." Southern Review 31:3 (Summer 1995): 503-14.
———. "Mother of All Tragedies." Arts: Irish Times 6 May 1997.
Dwyer, Ciara. "No Place in the Sun for Theatre" [Review of Mrs Sweeney]. Irish Independent 1 June 1997.
East, Louise. Review of The Voyage. Irish Times 27 Mar. 1997: 14.
Eliass, Dörte. "Die Dublin-Karte eines Kindes. Paula Meehan im Porträt." Irland Journal. Moers, 2001.
———. "Introduction." Paula Meehan: Die Dublin-Karte eines Kindes. Rüsselsheim: Göttert, 2001.
Evans, Eibhlín. "Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers." Critical Survey 8:2 (1996): 198-209. [End Page 283]
Falci, Eric. "Meehan's Stanzas and the Irish Lyric After Yeats." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 226-38.
Fennell, Desmond. "Poetry With Vision." Review of The Man Who Was Marked by Winter. Irish Independent 20 July 1991: 12.
Fogarty, Anne. "'Hear Me and Have Pity': Rewriting Elegy in the Poetry of Paula Meehan." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 213-25.
Fricker, Karen. Review of The Wolf of Winter. Dir. Andrea Ainsworth. Peacock Theatre, Dublin. Guardian 7 Jan. 2004.
Fuyuji, Tanigawa. "Paula Meehan: Konnichi no Shijin / Paula Meehan: Our Contemporary Poet." Yeats Studies 28 (1997): 85-94.
———. "Paula Meehan: Shihou no Igi to Sono Haikei / Paula Meehan: The Significance of Her Poetics and Its Background." Keruto no Nagori to Ireland Bunka / Remains of the Celts and Irish Culture. Ed. Furomoto Taketoshi. Hiroshima: Keisuisha (1999): 218-39.
Gonzalez, Alexander G. Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.
González-Arias, Luz Mar. "Acts of Union: El discurso del amor en el texto poético de autoras irlandesas (1980-2005)." Postcolonial and Gender Perspectives in Irish Studies. Ed. Marisol Morales Ladrón. Coruña, Netbiblo, 2007. 65-82.
———. Cuerpo, mito y teoría feminista: Revisiones de Eva en autoras irlandesas contemporáneas / Body, Myth and Feminist Theory: Contemporary Revisions of the Myth of Eve by Irish Women Writers. Oviedo: Ediciones KRK, 1998.
———. "'In Dublin's Fair City': Citified Embodiments in Paula Meehan's Urban Landscapes." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 34-49.
———. "Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill y Paula Meehan: reposesiones corporales y textuales de la identidad nacional." Otra Irlanda: La Estética Postnacionalista de Poetas y Artistas Irlandesas Contemporáneas / Another Ireland: The Postnationalist Aesthetics of Contemporary Irish Women Poets and Visual Artists. Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo, 2000. 103-284.
———. "Mapas Urbanos, Cartografías de Poder: Espacio, Clase, y Género en la Poesía Dublinesa Reciente." Arenal 9:1 (Jan.-Feb. 2002): 29-58.
———. "Más allá del mito de la belleza: El cuerpo anoréxico como significante plural del texto literario irlandés." I+D+F. Ed. Esther Álvarez López and María del Carmen Rodríguez Fernández. Oviedo: Ediciones KRK, 2005. 155-71. [End Page 284]
———. "Nacionalismo y Feminismo: La Conceptualización del Cuerpo Femenino en la Literatura Irlandesa Contemporánea." Exilios Femeninos. Huelva, Spain: Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer; Universidad de Huelva, 2000. 35-43.
———. "Postcolonial Locations: Ireland." The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies. Ed. John McLeod. London-New York: Routledge, 2007. 108-19.
Gorman, Sophie. "When a Cell is not a Joyless Prison." The Irish Independent 14 Sept. 1999.
Guerin, Karine. "Three Women and a Living Room." The Buzz: The Big Issues [Ireland] 6 June 1997: 70.
Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle. "Dharmakaya Dublin." Review of Dharmakaya. Irish Literary Supplement 21:1 (Spring 2002): 5.
———. "New Directions in Irish Women's Poetry." Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets. Dublin: Attic, 1995; Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1996. 197-221.
———. "Prologue: Not Your Muse." My Self, My Muse: Irish Women Poets Reflect on Life and Art. Ed. Patricia Boyle Haberstroh. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 2001. 1-2.
Harmon, Maurice. "A Note on Paula Meehan." ABEI Journal—The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 1 (June 1999).
———. "To Draw Conclusions . . ." Review of Dharmakaya, by Paula Meehan; Selected and New Poems, by Eamon Grennan; Floods, by Maurice Riordan. Poetry Ireland Review 68 (Spring 2001): 42-45.
Hirsiaho, Anu. "Cobwebby States, Chilled Vaults?: The Nation State in Contemporary Irish Feminist Poetry." Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture. Ed. Fran Lloyd and Catherine O'Brien. New York: Berghahn, 2000. 155-68.
Holdridge, Jefferson. "The Wolf Tree: Culture and Nature in Paula Meehan's Dharmakaya and Panting Rain." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 156-68.
Howard, Ben. "The Pressure of Humanity." Shenandoah 46:1 (Spring 1996): 109-23.
———. "Why Did the Buddhadharma Come to Ireland? Buddhist Themes in Recent Irish Poetry." An Sionnach 1:2 (Fall 2005): 65-75.
Jackson, Eileen Denn. "The Lyricism of Abjection in Paula Meehan's Drama of Imprisonment." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 169-79.
Karhio, Anne. "The City in a Raindrop: The Urban Ecology of Paula Meehan." Urban and Rural Landscapes: Language, Literature and Culture in [End Page 285] Modern Ireland. Eds. Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Carmen Zamorano Llena, and Una Cunningham. 2010 (forthcoming).
Kawai, Rie. "Hands as a Reflection of the Human Soul in Dharmakaya." Journal of Irish Studies—IASIL Japan 22 (2007): 96-104.
Kelly, Connor. "On Michael Hartnett and Paula Meehan." Poetry Review: The Poetry Map 85:4 (Winter 1995): 31-32.
Kennelly, Brendan. Journey Into Joy: Selected Prose. Ed. Åke Persson. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1994. 63-65.
Kirkpatrick, Kathryn. "'Between Breath and No Breath': Witnessing Class Trauma in Paula Meehan's Dharmakaya." An Sionnach 1:2 (Fall 2005): 47-64.
———. "Between Country and City: Paul Meehan's Eco-Feminist Poetics." Out of the Earth: Eco-Critical Readings of Irish Texts. Ed. Christine Cusick. Cork: Cork UP, 2009 (forthcoming).
———. "Class Matters." Review of Dharmakaya. Irish Literary Supplement 21:2 (Fall 2002): 5.
———. "A Murmuration of Starlings in a Rowan Tree": Finding Gary Snyder in Paula Meehan's Eco-Political Poetics." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 195-207.
———. Review of Paula Meehan's Dharmakaya. Shenandoah 51:2-3 (Summer/Fall 2001): 193-95.
KJ. "Poetry." Review of Pillow Talk. Times Literary Supplement 3 Mar. 1995.
Kurdi, Maria. "Updating Male Texts, Humour and Theatricality: The Representation of Marginalised Irish Womanhood in Paula Meehan's Mrs Sweeney." EPONA: E-journal of Ancient and Modern Celtic Studies 1:2 (2007): 1-9.
Lojo, Laura. "The Poetics of Motherhood in Contemporary Irish Women's Verse." Writing Bonds: Irish and Galician Contemporary Women Poets. Eds. M. Palacios and L. Lojo. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009 (forthcoming).
Lojo-Rodríguez, Laura M. "Corporeidad y lenguaje en la poesía irlandesa actual." Palabras extremas: Escritoras gallegas e irlandesas de hoy. Ed. M. Palacios and H. González. A Coruña: Netbiblo, 2008: 49-63.
Lowery, Elizabeth. "On Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan." Poetry Review: Beyond the Bell Jar 86:4 (Winter 1996).
MacReamoinn, Seona. "Street Talk Takes to the Stage." Tribune Magazine 4 May 1997.
Maguire, Moira J. "The Changing Face of Catholic Ireland: Conservatism and Liberalism in the Ann Lovett and Kerry Babies Scandals." Feminist Studies 27:2 (Summer 2001): 335-58. [End Page 286]
Mahaffey, Vicki. "Heirs of Yeats: Éire as Female Poets Revise Her." The Future of Modernism. Ed. Hugh Witemeyer. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997. 101-18.
Mahoney, Elizabeth. "Citizens of its Hiding Place: Gender and Urban Space in Irish Women's Poetry." Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender and Space. Ed. David Alderson, et al. New York: Routledge, 1999. 145-56.
———. Review of Pillow Talk, by Paula Meehan; The Prince of the Quotidian, by Paul Muldoon. Krino 18 (1995): 125-27.
Mahony, Christina Hunt. Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition. New York: St Martin's, 1998; London: Macmillan, 1999. 6, 11, 56.
Maxton, Hugh. "The Elusiveness of Thomas Kinsella." Review of Her Vertical Smile and Songs of the Psyche, by Thomas Kinsella; Return and No Blame, by Paula Meehan; The Wishbone, by Paul Muldoon. Books Ireland 97 (1985): 153.
McBreen, Joan, ed. "Paula Meehan." The White Page/An Bhileog Bhan—Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets. Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon, 1999. 162.
McCarthy, Patricia. "Loanwords." Review of The Ghost Train, by Frank Ormsby; Rosa Mundi, by Theo Dorgan; Pillow Talk, by Paula Meehan; Where the Rocks Float, by Mary O'Malley. Agenda 33:3-4 (1996): 286-302.
McCarthy, Thomas. "'None of us well fixed'—Empathy and its Aesthetic Power in Paula Meehan's Poetry." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 65-74.
McCormack, W. J. Review of Return and No Blame. Books Ireland (Oct. 1985): 153.
McKenna, Bernard. "Battle Dressed to Survive: The Poetry of Paula Meehan." Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Some Male Perspectives. Ed. Alexander G. Gonzalez. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 79-102.
McMullan, Anna. "Unhomely Stages: Women Taking (a) Place in Irish Theatre." Druids, Dudes and Beauty Queens. Ed. Dermot Bolger. Dublin: New Island, 2001. 72-90.
McMullen, Kim. "'Snatch a song from a stranger's mouth': The Stage Plays and Radio Dramas of Paula Meehan." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 90-113.
Merriman, Victor. "Songs of Possible Worlds: Nation, Representation and Citizenship in the Work of Calypso Productions." Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre. Ed. Eamonn Jordan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2000: 280-91.
Miko. "Mrs Sweeney." Sunday Times [Ireland] 11 May 1997. [End Page 287]
Mills, L. "I Won't Go Back to It: Irish Women Poets and the Iconic Feminine." Feminist Review 50 (1995): 69-88.
Moroney, Mic. "Wake-up Jabs." Review of Cell. Dir. Garrett Keogh. Calypso Productions. City Arts Centre, Dublin. Guardian 25 Sep. 1999.
Morris, Meaghan. "Humanities for Taxpayers: Some Problems." New Literary History 36:1 (Winter 2005): 111-29.
Mulhall, Anne. "Memory, Poetry and Recovery: Paula Meehan's Transformational Aesthetics." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 142-55.
Murphy, Trish. "InsideOut." The Event Guide [Ireland] 8 Sept. 1999.
———. "Mrs Sweeney." The Event Guide [Ireland] 14-27 May 1997.
Myers, Kimberley. "The Sexual Dialectic of Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill." South Carolina Review 32:1 (Fall 1999): 51-58.
Napier, Taura S. "'Companions of the Cheshire Cheese': Epistolary Lives of Contemporary Irish Poets." Journal of European Studies 32:2-3 (June/Sep. 2002): 177-92.
Newmann, Kate. "All Sorts of Untils." Review of Marconi's Cottage, by Medbh McGuckian; The Man Who Was Marked by Winter, by Paula Meehan. Irish Review 12 (Spring/Summer 1992): 173-74.
Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan. Review of The Fly and the Bedbug, by Leland Bardwell; Return and No Blame, by Paula Meehan; Edible Anecdotes, by Julie O'Callaghan. Poetry Ireland Review 11 (Autumn 1984): 19-23.
———. Review of The Man Who Was Marked by Winter. Poetry Ireland Review 34 (Spring 1992): 112-15.
Nobuaki, Tochigi. "Paula Meehan: An Introduction." Contemporary Irish Poetry: Voice as Alternative, Tokyo: Shicho-sha, 2001. 59-68.
Nowlan, David. "Life Driven to Its Literal Extremes." Review of Mrs Sweeney. Irish Times 8 May 1997: 12.
O'Grady, Thomas. "Akhmatova on the Liffey: Paula Meehan's Lyrical Craft." Colby Quarterly 35:3 (September 1999): 173-83. Homemaking: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home. Ed. Catherine Wiley and Fiona R. Barnes. New York: Garland, 1996. 312-33.
———. "Review of Contemporary Irish Women Poets." Verse 14:3 (Spring 1998): 147-55.
O'Kelly, Emer. "Children's Theatre With Teeth." Sunday Independent [Ireland] 21 Dec. 2003.
———. "The Troubles of Lil." The Guide of the Sunday Independent [Ireland] 11 May 1997. [End Page 288]
O'Malley, Mary. "City Centre." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 27-33.
O'Reilly, Anne F. "Mrs Sweeney, Paula Meehan (1997)." Sacred Play: Soul Journeys in Contemporary Irish Theatre. Dublin: Carysfort, 2004. 241-47.
O'Reilly, Catriona. "Elegies With a Sense of Humour." Review of Dharmakaya. Irish Times 16 Sep. 2000: 48.
O'Toole, Fintan. "A Slice of Life On a Decorated Platter." Second Opinion [Review of Mrs. Sweeney] Irish Times 20 May 1997: 10.
———. Critical Moments: Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2003.
Ohno, Mitsuko. "Hokusai, Basho, Zen and More: Japanese Influences on Irish Poets." Journal of Irish Studies (IASIL Japan) 17 (2002): 15-31.
———. Yamada, K., K. Mase, R. Hara, K. Ito, M. Yokoseki, T. Imai, and Y. Tanaka. "Imawo kataru Ireland josei shijintachi: Tynan kara Boland, Ní Dhomhnaill soshite Meehan he / Voices of Contemporary Irish Women Poets: From Tynan, to Boland, Ní Dhomhnaill and Meehan." Evergreen (Aichi Shukutoku University) 18 (1996): 49-105.
Onkey, Lauren. "Paula Meehan (1955-)." Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Alexander G. Gonzalez. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 219-22.
Palacios-González, Manuela. "Contemporary Irish and Galician Women Poets: An Ecocritical Perspective." CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture. Special Issue: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Galician Overview 11:2 (2009).
———. "La luna en el cristal: Poetas irlandesas y naturaleza." Palabras extremas: Escritoras gallegas e irlandesas de hoy. Ed. M. Palacios and H. González. A Coruña: Netbiblo, 2008: 15-28.
"Paula Meehan." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2003.
Pierce, David. Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing. Yale UP, 2005: 275-76.
Poloczek, Katarzyna. "'Against Love Poetry?' Contemporary Irish Women's Love Poems." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Anglica 7. Ed. Maria Edelson. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007: 111-24.
———. "Beyond the Borders of Body and Language. Moving On, Shapeshifting. Irish Women's Location in Paula Meehan's Poetry." Dissolving the Boundaries. Ed. D. Filipczak. Łódź:: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2001. 51-56.
———. "Identity as Becoming: Polymorphic Female Identities in the Poetry of Boland, Meehan and Ní Dhomhnaill." Liminal Borderlands in Irish [End Page 289] Literature and Culture. Ed. Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Elin Holmsten. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. 131-50.
———. "Integrating the Split Irish Female Selves in the Poetry of Paula Meehan, Mary O'Donoghue, Moya Cannon and Mary O'Malley." The Cultural and Literary Representations of Mental Illness. Ed. Katarzyna Szmigiero. Piotrków: Naukowe Wydawnictwo Piotrkowskie, 2009 (forthcoming).
———. "Ironies of Language and Signs of Existence in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey's Between Here and There, Paula Meehan'sDharmakaya and Eavan Boland's Code." Ironies of Art/Tragedies of Life. Ed. Liliana Sikorska. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005. 275-300.
———. "Paula Meehan's Pillow Talk - the Chronicles of Shapechanging." Studies and Monographs, From the Peripheries to the Centre: Essays in (Anglo-) Irish Literature. Ed. J. Burzynska and D. Stanulewicz. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2001. 113-29.
———. "Sharing Our Differences: Individuality and Community in the Early Work of Paula Meehan." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 75-89.
Praga Terente, Inés. "Una voz por opia: mujer y poesía en Irlanda." Una belleza terrible: La poesía irlandesa contemporánea (1940-95). Barcelona: PPU, 1996: 241-70.
Pugh, Sheenagh. Review of Mysteries of the Home, by Paula Meehan; The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück; Captive Audience, by Paul Henry. The North 20 (1997): 39-41.
Quinn, Antoinette. "Pilgrim Soul." Review of The Man Who was Marked by Winter. Irish Literary Supplement 11:2 (Fall 1992): 20.
Roche, Anthony. Review of The Prince of the Quotidian, Paul Muldoon; Pillow Talk, Paula Meehan; Selected and New Poems, Michael Hartnett. Poetry Ireland Review 45 (Spring 1995): 63-68.
Sale, James. "The Write Design Club." Review of Mysteries of the Home, by Paula Meehan; Dream City Cinema, by Stephen Knight; Kissing a Bone, by Maura Dooley; Blizzard, by Matthew Francis. PN Review 23:6 [116] (July/August 1997): 61-62.
Schrage-Früh, Michaela. "'My Being Cries Out to be Incarnate': The Virgin Mary and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry." The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry. Ed. Irene Gilsenan Nordin. Dublin: Irish Academic, 2006. 123-43.
———. "'Transforming that Past': The Healing Power of Dreams in Paula Meehan's Poetry." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 114-26. [End Page 290]
Sedlmayr, Gerold. "Sexuality, Monstrosity and Mythology in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry." The Body and the Book. Writings on Poetry and Sexuality. Ed. Glennis Byron and Andrew J. Sneddon. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008.
Shields, Kathleen. "New and Old Styles." Review of The Man Who Was Marked by Winter. Connacht Tribune 6 Sep. 1991: 20.
Shouldice, Frank. "Dubliners: Family Affair for Anto and Mick." Review of Mrs Sweeney. Irish Independent 13 May 1997: 41.
Sirr, Peter. "Power, Anger and the Ordinary." Review of Selected and New Poems, by Michael Hartnett; Pillow Talk, by Paula Meehan." Irish Times 8 Oct. 1994: 36.
Smith, Michael. "The World Pictures in Words." Review of As If It Matters, by Eamon Grennan; The Man Who Was Marked by Winter, by Paula Meehan; Sunday School, by Gerald Dawe. Irish Times 14 Sep. 1991: 31.
Smyth, Ailbhe. "Declining Identities." Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Ed. David Pierce. Cork: Cork UP. 1118-28. Reprinted from Critical Survey 8:2 (1996).
———. "Dodging Around the Grand Piano: Sex, Politics and Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry." Kicking Daffodils: Essays on 20th Century Women Poets. Ed. Vicki Bertram. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997. 57-83.
Steele, Karen. "Refusing the Poisoned Chalice: The Sexual Politics of Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan." Homemaking: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home. Ed. Catherine Wiley and Fiona R. Barnes. New York: Garland, 1996. 313-34.
Tanikawa, Fuyuji. "On Paula Meehan." Yeats Studies: The Bulletin of the Yeats Society of Japan 28 (1997): 87-94.
Tillinghast, Richard. "St Francis in Finglas." Reviews of Painting Rain, by Paula Meehan and Downstate, by David Gardiner. Irish Times 16 May 2009.
Tinley, Bill. "The Limitations of the Self as a Poetic Subject." Review of Pillow Talk. Irish Literary Supplement 14:1 (Spring 1995): 33.
Tochigi, Nobuaki. "Paula Meehan: A Brief Introduction." Gendaishitecho 42:5 (1999); 151-55. [In Japanese.]
Trotter, Mary. "A Sort of Nationcoming: Invasion, Exile, and the Politics of Home in Modern Irish Drama." Theatre Symposium 9 (2001): 95-106.
Villar-Argáiz, Pilar. "'Act Locally, Think Globally': Paula Meehan's Local Commitment and Global Consciousness." Special Issue: Paula Meehan. An Sionnach 5:1&2 (Spring/Fall 2009): 180-93. [End Page 291]
———. "Between Tradition and Modernity: Twenty-First Century Ireland in Recent Work by Irish Women Poets." Nordic Irish Studies 7:2 (Fall 2008): 117-34.
Welch, Robert. "Meehan, Paula." The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. 362.
Welsch, Camille-Yvette. "New Irish Poets." Review of Dharmakaya, by Paula Meehan; Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow, by Mary Dorcey; The Soldiers of Year II, by Medbh McGuckian; The Girl Who Married the Reindeer, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Women's Review of Books 20:9 (June 2003): 17.
West, Derek. "Cell." Irish Times 9 Sept. 1999.
Zamorano Llena, Carmen. "Overcoming Double Exile: (Re)Construction of 'Inner-Scapes' in Contemporary Irish Poetry." Nordic Irish Studies 3:1 (2004): 157-67.