Contributors
- Contributors
GUY BEINER is professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and specializes in the study of remembering and forgetting in the late-modern era. He is the author of the award-winning books Remembering theYear of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (2007) and Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (2018), and editor of Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten Flu of 1918–1919 (forthcoming). He has been an Irish Research Council fellow at Trinity College Dublin, a Keough-NEH fellow at the University of Notre Dame, a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Burns Scholar at Boston College.
ELIZABETH BUTLER CULLINGFORD holds the Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair in English Literature and is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas at Austin. She served as the chair of the English department from 2006 to 2019. Her books include Ireland's Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular Culture (2001); Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry (1993); and Yeats, Ireland, and Fascism (1981). She is currently completing The Only Child in a Crowded World: Narrative, Character, and the Environment, a feminist and environmentalist project analysing literary depictions of the only child.
D. M. LEESON is an associate professor of history at Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada. His publications include the article "Death in the Afternoon: The Croke Park Massacre, 21 November 1920" in the Canadian Journal of History (2003), the book The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920–21 (2011), and the chapter on "The Royal Irish Constabulary, Black and Tans, and Auxiliaries" in the Atlas of the Irish Revolution (2017). His current research concentrates on other aspects of the War of Independence, including the influence of conspiracy theories on both sides of this conflict.
PATRICK J. MAHONEY, OR PÁDRAIG FHIA Ó MATHÚNA, is a Caspersen Doctoral Research Fellow at Drew University and a former Fulbright Scholar (2019–20) at the National University of Ireland Galway. He has published widely in both Irish and English. His edited and translated volume, Recovering an IrishVoice from the American Frontier: The ProseWritings of Eoin Ua Cathail, was recently published by the University of North Texas Press (May 2021).
CIAN T. McMAHON is an associate professor in the department of history and Honors College at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written two books and over half-a-dozen scholarly articles on migration and identity in the nineteenth century. His latest book, The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine (2021), uses the letters and diaries of the emigrants themselves to show how, at every step of the journey—including the treacherous weeks at sea—migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora.
MARC MULHOLLAND was born in County Fermanagh in 1971 and raised in Portglenone, Co. Antrim. He is currently professor of modern history at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. His publications include Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism (2012), Terence O'Neill (2013), The Murderer of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary (2018), and Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction (2000). He is currently writing a book on the social psychology of the laboring classes in the era of industrialization and editing the Routledge Historical Resources volumes on the Irish long nineteenth-century.
PÁDRAIG Ó LIATHÁIN is an assistant professor in Fiontar and Scoil na Gaeilge, Dublin City University. He is a former editor of the interdisciplinary journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland and a coeditor of the two-volume proceedings Litríocht na Gaeilge ar fud an Domhain (2016). He recently completed the critical edition Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin (2018) and is currently editing the diaries of the twentiethcentury poet Seán Ó Ríordáin. Volume 1 has been completed and his work on volume 2 was funded by the Royal Irish Academy. He was awarded a Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship (2020) to further explore the Irish-language manuscript tradition in North America.
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