The Professor in Erin

– The latest in Tramp Press’s popular and influential Recovered Voices

Series: ‘a literary past is being salvaged’ – The Irish Times

– Follows the success of earlier titles including The Uninvited by Doro-

thy Macardle, and It Rose Up and Your Own Dark Shadow edited by Jack

Fennell

– A landmark early Irish science fiction novel, anticipating modern

alternate-history narratives

– Strong appeal to readers of speculative fiction, Irish history and literary

revival writing

– Introduction by leading scholar Joachim Fischer

– To be launched at the Dublin Book Festival 2026

– Ideal for bundling with previous Recovere

Originally serialised in the early twentieth century and first published in 1918, The Professor in Erin is a pioneering work of speculative fiction and an early example of the ‘alternative history’ novel. Much sought-after by science-fiction diehards, the book has been hard for modern readers to find – until now.

This Ireland I find myself in is unlike the Ireland

I was taught about when I was at school ...

A German scholar exploring ruins in Dungannon hits his head in a fall. He

wakes to find himself in a parallel universe: an Ireland that never was, free of

English rule since winning the Battle of Kinsale. In this powerful, independent

nation, Irish language and culture are flourishing.

As Professor Schliemann struggles to make sense of this

unfamiliar world and to try to find his way home, he becomes entangled in

political intrigue, espionage, and a long-standing feud over stolen vellums

feeding dynastic tensions on the brink of war. Worse than that: no one in this

version of Ireland has read his book.

Originally serialised in the early twentieth century and first published

in 1918, The Professor in Erin is a pioneering work of speculative fiction and an

early example of the ‘alternative history’ novel. Much sought-after by

science-fiction diehards, the book, like the ones fought over in the story, has

been hard for modern readers to find, until now.

Blending satire with nationalism and imaginative world-building,

Charlotte Elizabeth McManus’s novel offers a rich and witty vision of an

alternative Ireland.

This lost classic has been edited and introduced by Joachim Fischer

with detailed historical context for new readers.