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  • Contributors

BENJAMIN BANKHURST is an assistant professor of history at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, where he lectures on early American, Appalachian, and Atlantic history. His research focuses on the Atlantic history of Ireland and North America in the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on the social and cultural worlds constructed by Irish migrants on the mid-Atlantic and southern frontiers. The American Conference for Irish Studies awarded his first monograph, Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora, 1750–1764 (2013), the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book in 2014. He has also published articles on early Irish American history in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies.

DANIEL GOMES is completing his Ph.D. in English literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His article on W. B. Yeats’s conflicted use of Irish mythology was published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and he has been awarded a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship and the Opler-Doubrava Fellowship during his study at Buffalo. His dissertation, “Songs of the People: Ballads, Media, and the Irish Left, 1922–1972,” examines the cultural and political history of the Irish literary left during the twentieth century.

MARGUERITE HELMERS is Robert McN. Rosebush Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She is the coeditor of [End Page 223] Defining Visual Rhetorics (2004) and series editor for Parlor Press’s Visual Rhetoric Series. Her recent publications include articles on the First World War and visual culture, and her book Harry Clarke’s War: Illustrations for Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918, will be published by Irish Academic Press in 2015. A past fellow at the Center for Twentieth-Century Studies and the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she is currently a fellow at the Humanities Institute of University College Dublin.

EOIN MAGENNIS is the current president of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, the editor of Seanchas Ard Mhacha, and former editor of Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an Dá Chultúr. His publications include The Irish Political System, 1740–1765 (2000), and a number of articles on eighteenth-century Ireland, modern-day cross-border cooperation, and the local history of Ulster. He has also coedited several volumes, including (with Peter Jupp) Crowds in Ireland, 1720–1921 (2000) and (with John Bergin, Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, and Patrick Walsh) New Perspectives on the Penal Laws (2011). He is currently completing a history of County Armagh and the Irish revolution (1912–23).

PATRICK MAUME, a researcher with the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography, is a graduate of University College Cork and Queen’s University Belfast. His publications include “Life That Is Exile”: Daniel Corkery and the Search for Irish Ireland (1993), D. P. Moran (1995), and The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Political Culture, 1891–1918 (1999), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish history. He is currently working on several projects, including an article on coverage of the Great Famine in the Catholic weekly The Tablet and a short life of Arthur Griffith.

MARTYN J. POWELL is a professor of modern Irish history at Aberystwyth University and a specialist in Irish political and social history. His books include Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Empire (2003), The Politics of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2005), and, with James Kelly, Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2010). He is currently working on a study of the [End Page 224] maiming of British soldiers by Ireland’s urban “houghers” and on an edition of the political works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan for Oxford University Press. He has been awarded a fellowship for the summer of 2016 by Marsh’s Library in Dublin to work on the history of debtors in Irish marshalseas.

MARION QUIRICI is a Ph.D. candidate at the State University of New York at Buffalo, a fellow of the American Association of University Women, and the graduate assistant of the International Yeats Society. She has published in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (2015), the Irish...

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