Brian Earls is a diplomat. He has served in the Embassy of Ireland in Athens, Moscow, Warsaw and Ankara. His published work focuses on the relationship between oral tradition and printed literature, principally in the nineteenth century.
Brian Earls: Reflections on the History of Homosexuality in Ireland
Brian Earls: Excavating Ireland's Oral History
Brian Earls: Varieties of Reading: Poets, Pedlars, Street Reciters, Storytellers, Biblemen and Solitary Readers
Brian Earls: Poland Through Irish Eyes
Brian Earls: William Carleton and Ireland's Victorian Improvers