Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS MICHAEL de NIE is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is presently working on his Ph.D. dissertation , which examines the role of stereotypes and prejudice in British newspaper reporting on Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. PETER GRAY is Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton, England. He has written numerous articles and chapters on the Great Famine as well as The Irish Famine (1995) and the forthcoming Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society 1843–1850. MARGARET KELLEHER lectures in the English Department at the National University, Maynooth. She has published widely on the topic of famine literature and Irish women’s writings. Her most recent publication is The Feminization of Famine (1997). In addition, she co-edited, with James H. Murphy, Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public and Private Spheres (1997). CHRISTOPHER MORASH lectures in the National University of Ireland , Maynooth. His publications include The Hungry Voice (1989), Writing the Irish Famine (1995), and ‘Fearful Realities’: New Perspectives on the Famine, co-edited with Richard Hayes (1996). He is currently writing a history of the Irish Theater for Cambridge University Press. MICHAEL O’MALLEY is a doctoral candidate in history at Loyola University , Chicago. He has presented two papers on the Great Famine and its impact on County Mayo at regional meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies. He currently lives in Ireland where he is finishing his dissertation entitled “Local Relief During the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1850: The Case of County Mayo.” MICHAEL QUIGLEY is an independent Irish historian, writer, and editor based in Hamilton, Ontario. He has written two local histories: One CONTRIBUTORS 158 Hundred Years of Music: The Centenary of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (1984) and On the Market (1987), an illustrated history of the Hamilton Farmers’ Market. Winner of first prize in the Toronto Star Short Story contest (1990), he has also contributed to the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and is a founding member and historian on the Executive Committee of the Toronto-based Action Grosse Ile. His Ph.D. dissertation at McMaster University is entitled “Farmers, Merchants and Priests: The Rise of the Agrarian Petty Bourgeoisie in Ireland, 1850–85.” PETER QUINN, formerly chief speech writer of Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo, is now Corporate Editorial Director for Time Warner. His novel, Banished Children of Eve, won a 1995 American Book Award. SALLY SOMMERS SMITH received a Ph.D. in anatomy and cellular biology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed postdoctoral training in lung cell biology and endocrinology at Harvard Medical School. She now teaches introductory physics at Boston University’s College of General Studies and, for the past five years, has been studying music history . She has studied the fiddle with Laurel Martin and Kevin Bourke and recently completed a sabbatical at the Irish World Music Center under Dr. Mícheál O Súilleabháin. KEVIN WHELAN is Director of Notre Dame’s Dublin Center of the Keough Institute of Irish Studies. His recent publications include Tree of Liberty: Radicalism, Catholicism and the Construction of Irish Identity, 1760–1830 (1996) and the co-edited Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape (1997). In addition, he edited or co-edited Wexford: History and Society (1987), The United Irishmen: Republicanism, Radicalism and Rebellion (1993), and Kilkenny: History and Society (1990). He has been a Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College (1995–96) and Visiting Professor at Notre Dame (1996–97). CONTRIBUTORS 159 ...