Contributors
- Contributors
James S. Donnelly, Jr., is professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught modern Irish and British history from 1972 to 2008. He authored The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and the Land Question (1975) and The Great Irish Potato Famine (2001). He co-edited (with Samuel Clark) Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest, 1780–1914 (1983) and (with Kerby Miller) Irish Popular Culture, 1650–1850 (1998). His latest book Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821–1824 was published in the fall of 2009. He serves as co-editor (with Thomas Archdeacon) of the book series “The History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora” at the University of Wisconsin Press (14 volumes published to date). He has been co-editor of Éire-Ireland since 2001.
Laurence M. Geary is senior lecturer in history at University College Cork, where he teaches modern Irish history. He has published extensively on the social, political, and medical history of nineteenth-century Ireland and on the history of the Irish in Australia. He is the author of The Plan of Campaign, 1886–1891 (1986) and Medicine and Charity in Ireland, 1718–1851 (2004). He is the editor or joint editor of Rebellion and Remembrance in Modern Ireland (2001); Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Guide to Recent Research (2005); History and the Public Sphere: Essays in Honour of John A. Murphy (2005); and Ireland, [End Page 325] Australia, and New Zealand: History, Politics, and Culture (2008). Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, which he edited jointly with Oonagh Walsh, will be published by Four Courts Press in 2014.
Nikhil Gupta teaches in the English department at Boston College, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2012. His current book project, “Rough Crossings: Transatlantic Revisions to Imperial Narratives,” looks at Irish and American authors who rewrite scenes of imperial domination from the other side of the Atlantic. In an essay forthcoming in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, he recuperates F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” as a modern retelling of Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” that opposes the control of mercantile imperialism over rigid codes of commodification and desire.
Seán Kennedy is associate dean of arts and co-director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Culture at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he also coordinates the Irish Studies program. He has edited Historicising Beckett (2005), Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive (with Katherine Weiss, 2009), Beckett and Ireland (2010), Queering Ireland: a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2010), and Queering the Issue: a special issue of the Irish University Review (2013). He is the founder and co-host of the biennial Queering Ireland conference and has published articles on the work of Samuel Beckett.
Timothy G. McMahon is associate professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He is the author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893–1910 (2008) and editor of Pádraig Ó Fathaigh’s War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer (2000). He has contributed articles and reviews to Éire-Ireland, History Compass, Irish Historical Studies, Victorian Studies, New Hibernia Review, and the Irish Literary Supplement. In 2011 he was the Rev. William B. Neenan, S.J., Visiting Fellow at Boston College-Ireland. He is currently engaged in research on the part played by Irish men and women in the British empire.
Willa Murphy is lecturer in Irish Writing in English at the University [End Page 326] of Ulster and was the 2011 Keough-Naughton/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. She has published on Maria Edgeworth and John or Michael Banim in Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (1998), Acts of Union (2001), and Was Ireland a Colony? (2005). “Satisfied with Marrow and Fatness: The Epicurean Theology of Frederick Hervey” appears in Field Day Review, 2013. Her recent research explores the eighteenth-century bishop of Derry, Frederick Hervey, and she convened the inaugural Bishop Hervey Summer School in County Derry in August 2013.
Helen O’Connell is lecturer in English at Durham University...
