Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS EAVAN BOLAND is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. Her recent books include An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967-87 (1996) and Object Lessons: The Life of The Woman and The Poet in Our Time (1995). She is the recipient of a Lannan Award, the Irish-American Literature Award for poetry, and more recently , the O’Shaugnessy Poetry Prize and the Charity Randall Hume Citation from the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh. STEVEN CURRAN is currently Assistant Master at Westminster School, London, where he teaches English and Irish literature. His article originated in work supervised by Karl Miller at University College, London, as part of Ph.D. work on Brian O’Nolan’s literary journalism in the 1940s. 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 journals and has written The Unappeasable Shadow: Shelly’s Influence on Yeats (1988) and Kate O’Brien: A Critical Study (1990). In addition, she has edited Visualizing Ireland: Images and Identity (1993) and co-edited America’s Eye: The Irish Art of Brian P. Burns (1996). SEAN FARRELL is Assistant Professor of History at Newberry College, Newberry, SC. He is now revising a manuscript entitled “Conflicting Visions: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster, 1784–1886.” DESMOND FENNELL has taught history and politics at University College , Galway, and English at the Dublin Institute of Technology. His latest books include Uncertain Dawn: Hiroshima and the Beginning of PostWestern Civilization (1996) and Dreams of Oranges: An Eyewitness Account of the Fall of Communist East Germany (1996). CONTRIBUTORS 218 DAVID GRIFFITHS came to the academic world after a varied career in farming, music, and tourism. His interest in historical research led him to the uncharted territory of the history of the Belfast Asylum. He has recently returned to farming in southern Wales. PHILIP HOBSBAUM successively chaired writers groups in London, Belfast, and Glasgow. In 1997 he retired as Chair in English Literature at Glasgow University but remains a Professorial Research Fellow. His publications include four collections of verse and seven critical books, including A Theory of Communication (1970), Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry (1979), Essentials of Literary Criticism (1983), and Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form (1996). GLENN HOOPER is Lecturer in the Department of English, St. Mary’s College, Belfast. He has published articles in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Mosaic, Literature & History, and the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. He is currently editing an anthology of British travel writing for Cork University Press. KEIKO INOUE is a doctoral student at Trinity College, Dublin. She is a graduate of University College, Dublin, where she was awarded an M.A. for a thesis on the propaganda produced by Sinn Féin and Dáil Éireann (1919–21). GARETH IVORY is Senior Tutor for the Department of Politics, University College, Dublin, and is presently completing research for “The Political Parties of the Republic of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Question , 1980–1995.” DECLAN KIBERD chairs the Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama department at University College, Dublin. He has been awarded the Irish Times Literature Prize for Nonfiction, the ACIS Michael Durkan Award, and the Oscar Wilde Literary Award. His most recent book is Inventing Ireland : The Literature of the Modern Nation (1996). VERA KREILKAMP is Co-Editor of ÉIRE-IRELAND and Abercrombie Professor of English at Pine Manor College. She has contributed essays on Irish art and literature to collections and journals and co-edited America ’s Eye: The Irish Art of Brian P. Burns (1996). The Anglo-Irish Novel and CONTRIBUTORS 219 CONTRIBUTORS 220 the Big House will be published by Syracuse University Press this summer. PAULINE PRIOR is Lecturer in Social Policy at Queen’s University, Belfast. Her recent publications include an article in History of Psychiatry (1997) and a chapter on gender crime and mental disorder in nineteenthcentury Ireland in Women and Irish Society (1997). MEGAN SULLIVAN is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Rhetoric at Boston University and has published articles and review essays in Irish Review, New Hibernia Review, the Canadian Journal of...