Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS MARC CABALL is Director of Ireland Literary Exchange/Iarmhalartan Litríocht Éireann. He recently published Poets and Politics: Reaction and Continuity in Irish Poetry, 1558–1625 (1999), the eighth volume in the series Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays and Monographs. SEAMUS HEANEY, Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard University, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Heaney’s most recent publications include Open Ground: Poems 1966–96 (1998) and an acclaimed translation of Beowulf (1999). JAMES LEONARD is Assistant Editor for Éire-Ireland. He has published poetry and scholarly work in Irish Studies journals and recently contributed short biographies to the Encyclopedia of the Irish in America (1999). CAOIMHÍN MAC GIOLLA LÉITH is Lecturer in Modern Irish at University College Dublin and was a Fulbright Scholar at Boston College in 1999. He has published extensively on various aspects of both medieval and modern Irish literature and culture, as well as contemporary art. ALF MacLOCHLAINN served as Director of the National Library of Ireland and Librarian at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His most recent publication is “Fiáin na Bocs a Bhí Ann and t-Am Sin” (1999). Mac Lochlainn is also the author of two novels, Out of Focus (1978) and The Corpus in the Library (1966). P.J. MATHEWS is currently completing his Ph.D. at Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches. Mathews recently edited New Voices in Irish Criticism, a collection of essays published this year. LUCY McDIARMID, is Professor of Irish Studies and English Literature at Villanova University. Former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), McDiarmid is the author of Saving Civilization: CONTRIBUTORS 247 Yeats, Eliot, and Auden between the Wars (1984) and co-editor of Selected Writings of Lady Gregory (1995) and High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture 1889–1939 (1996). McDiarmid’s essay on Michael O’Hickey, published in this issue, forms a part of her forthcoming The Irish Art of Controversy , supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship. PAUL MULDOON is Howard Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Muldoon is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Hay and The Annals of Chile, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 1994. His New Selected Poems 1968–94 won the 1997 Irish Times Prize for Poetry. NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL was recently visiting Burns Scholar at Boston College (1998–99). Her most recent volumes of poetry include The Water Horse (1999) and Cead Aighnis (1998), for which she won the prize for poetry at the Oireachtas in 1998. Ní Dhomhnaill co-edited Jumping Off Shadows: Selected Contemporary Irish Poets (1995) and has also authored children’s plays, a libretto, and screenplays. In 1995, Ní Dhomhnaill was awarded the American Ireland Fund Literature Prize and the Gulbankian Foundation’s New Horizons Bursary. BRIAN Ó CONCHUBHAIR is a Ph.D. student in Modern Irish at the National University of Ireland, Galway. While a visiting student at Boston College (1998–99), he taught courses in beginning and continuing Irish. Ó Conchubhair is a regular book reviewer for the Irish-language weekly Foinse. GEARÓID Ó CRUALAOICH is Senior Lecturer in Béaloideas/Folklore at National University of Ireland, Cork, and has taught Irish Studies at Cornell University and at Boston College. Ó Crualaoich has published widely in both Irish and English on aspects of Irish cultural tradition, including “Léann an Bhéaloidis agus Critic na Litríochta,” in Ní Annracháin, et al., Téacs agus Comhthéacs: Gnéithe de Chritic na Gaeilge (1998); Critic agus Téacs (1999); and “The ‘Merry Wake’” in Donnolly, et al., Irish Popular Culture: 1650–1850 (1999). BREANDÁN Ó DOIBHLIN is a novelist, playwright, critic, and translator . He recently retired as Professor of French at Saint Patrick’s College Maynooth and was a long-time editor of Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad, a seminal CONTRIBUTORS 248 critical journal of the Irish language. His most recent volume of translations is Fabhalscéalta La Fontaine (1997). HANS-CHRISTIAN OESER, literary translator, travel author, and German teacher, is a native of Wiesbaden, Germany, and lives in Dublin. Among the authors he has translated into German are...