Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS BRUCE ARNOLD is Literary Editor of the Irish Independent. He has published biographies of three major twentieth-century Irish painters: Jack Yeats (1998), William Orpen (1995), and Mainie Jellet (1992), as well as A Concise History of Irish Art (1985). He has also written The Scandal of Ulysses (1993), a history of the novel since its publication, and political studies of Margaret Thatcher and Charles Haughey. His life of Jonathan Swift appears in 1999. SÍGHLE BHREATHNACH-LYNCH is Curator of Irish Paintings at the National Gallery of Ireland. She has published widely on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Irish painting, including “Framing the Irish: Victorian Paintings of the Irish Peasant” in The Journal of Victorian Culture (Autumn 1997) and “Framing the Irish: Art, History and Representation 1914–1929,” in “When Time Began to Rant and Rage”: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland (1998). ALSTON CONLEY is Curator of the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College and a painter who teaches in the university’s Fine Arts Department. He co-curated the 1997 exhibition Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists and co-authored six interviews included in the exhibit catalogue. He has received grants or fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the Ballinglen Artists Foundation in Ireland, the FulbrightHayes to Italy, and The Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA). FINTAN CULLEN is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Nottingham . In 1997 he published Visual Politics. The Representation of Ireland 1750–1930, and his Sources in Irish Art: A Reader is forthcoming with Cork University Press. In 1997 he acted as an Independent Assessor to the British Government’s Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art. PERRY CURTIS has taught modern Irish and British history at Brown University since 1973, specializing in social and cultural issues and repreCONTRIBUTORS 315 sentations of not only the Irish but also of murder. Among his publications are Coercion and Conciliation in Ireland (1963), Anglo-Saxons and Celts (1968), and Apes and Angels (1971; rev. ed., 1997). He has received ACLS and Guggenheim grants and is currently working on a book dealing with the reporting of the Ripper murders in the London press. ADELE DALSIMER is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Irish Studies Program at Boston College. She has contributed essays on Irish literature and art to various collections and has written The Unappeasable Shadow: Shelly’s Influence on Yeats (1988) and Kate O’Brien: A Critical Study (1993). In addition, she edited Visualizing Ireland: Images and Identity (1993) and co-edited America’s Eye: Irish Painting from the Collection of Brian P. Burns (1996). BARBARA DAWSON has been Director of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin, since 1991. Formerly a member of the curatorial staff at the National Gallery of Ireland, she has published Turner in the National Gallery of Ireland (1994) and articles on Irish art and the Municipal Gallery’s collections. Currently she is coordinating the removal of the Francis Bacon studio from London for reconstruction at the Municipal Gallery in Dublin. SHEILA DICKINSON recently received a Master of Philosophy in Irish Studies from the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she wrote her thesis on Kathy Prendergast. She has contributed to the Review of Postgraduate Study (March 1998) on the topic of contemporary Irish art. BARBARA FREITAG is Lecturer in German and Irish Studies, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, at Dublin City University. She has published Keltische Identitaet als Fiktion (1989); co-edited die horen, Irland: Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung-Armut, Qual und Busse (1988); and has written numerous articles on Anglo-Irish literature. VONA GROARKE has won the Sunday Tribune “New Irish Writer of the Year” Award and the Hennessy Cognac Award for Poetry. Her first collection, Shale (1994), won the Brendan Behan Memorial Award in 1995. Her second collection, Other People’s Houses, was published in April 1999. She has been Writer-in-Residence at University College, Galway (1997), and at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (1998). In 1999 she won the Strokestown International Poetry Prize. CONTRIBUTORS 316 SEAMUS HEANEY, currently Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard University...