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ix Acknowledgments Icontinue to be grateful to a number of people whose support for this project has been most valuable. My colleagues in the English Department at the National University of Ireland Maynooth provide much intellectual stimulus as well as lovely company. Particularly over the last year, as I coped with a newborn while lecturing and trying to write, their kindnesses and conversation have been much appreciated. Many thanks in this regard to Amanda Bent, Íde Corley, Luke Gibbons, Colin Graham, Sinéad Kennedy, Conor McCarthy, Chris Morash, and Moynagh Sullivan. Beyond Maynooth, Anne Fogarty and Declan Kiberd have provided continued inspiration, encouragment , and practical support, for which I am deeply grateful. I hope that this project goes some way toward an acknowledgment of how much their wideranging work has inspired my own. My involvement with an Irish-Australian research project that saw Irish academics travel to Sydney and Canberra for a series of intensive workshops on memory was extraordinarily useful to the development of this volume and my thinking about diasporic memory. Many thanks to Stuart Ward for the invitation to join a wonderful group of thinkers, and to Katie Holmes for her efforts in organizing the Irish end of the project. Thanks, too, to the staff at Syracuse University Press for their continued professionalism and attention to detail: Jim MacKillop, Mary Selden Evans, Jennika Baines, and Lisa Renee Kuerbis have been most helpful, and their commitment to this project has been much appreciated. A particular thanks to D. J. Whyte, whom I feel privileged to be working with once again. The contributors to this volume have been patient and always responsive to my queries and suggestions, and to all of them I owe thanks for their commitment and intellectual verve. x Acknowledgments I am grateful to Katherine O’Callaghan and Malcolm Sen for their friendship but also for numerous discussions about all matters memory, for crucial advice about phrasing, and for general encouragement. I am also thoroughly indebted to my mother, Maureen Frawley, whose delight in playing with Oscar and Caelin helped no end in urging this volume toward completion, as did her enthusiasm through long discussions about books short and long. Helen and Tony Lenehan have been similarly unstintingly generous in their help throughout the year, and I count myself fortunate to have such a wonderful family. None of my work would be possible without my husband, Donal, and to him I owe the deepest debt of gratitude and love—and also the cover image! This volume is dedicated to him and to our small wonders. ...

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