Contributors

Contributors: Issue Number 6, Summer 2008

Richard Tillinghast has recently published his eighth book of poems, The New Life. His third book of essays, Finding Ireland: a Poet’s Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture, will be published later this year by the University of Notre Dame Press in the US.

Colin Murphy is a journalist in Dublin. He conducted research in Angola in late 2002 for a Masters thesis at the University of the Witwatersrand, with the support of the university’s Oppenheimer Fellowship of Portuguese Studies.

John-Paul McCarthy is a DPhil student in modern history at Exeter College, Oxford.

Catriona Crowe is a senior archivist at the National Archives of Ireland. She is a former president of the Women’s History Association.

Martin McGarry is an Irish journalist and translator, based in Brussels.

Barra Ó Seaghdha has contributed essays, reviews and interviews in the areas of literature, cultural politics and music to publications ranging from Graph, which he co-edited, and Reinventing Ireland (Pluto Press) to the JMI (Journal of Music in Ireland). He works in the Teaching English as a Foreign Language sector.

Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Cormac Ó Grada is Professor of Economics at University College Dublin. His latest book is Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (Princeton 2007).

Paul Daly holds a National University of Ireland Travelling Studentship at the Faculty of Law and Queens’ College, University of Cambridge and is researching in administrative law. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and University College Cork.

Maria Johnston recently received her doctorate in English from Trinity College Dublin, where she has taught part-time for the past three years. She is a regular reviewer for Poetry Ireland Review and Contemporary Poetry Review. She is currently editing a collection of essays on poetry and politics and co-editing a collection on the poetry of Pearse Hutchinson.

Antony Tatlow is currently Honorary Professor in the TCD Drama Department, was Professor of Comparative Literature and Coordinator of the Graduate Centre for Arts Research there from 1996 to 2006 and before that Professor and Head of Comparative Literature in the University of Hong Kong. He has written about the relationship between East Asian and Western cultures mostly in respect of drama and poetry

Contributors: Issue Number 5, Spring 2008-09

James Moran lectures in English at the University of Nottingham, and is the author of Staging the Easter Rising: 1916 as Theatre, published by Cork University Press.

Franz Walter teaches political science at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen in Germany. His published work focuses on the historical development of political parties and their current activity. His most recent book is Die Linkspartei (Wiesbaden 2007, together with Tim Spier, Felix Butzlaff and Matthias Micus).

Patrick Lynch studied at Liverpool and Cambridge Universities. He is a director of Lynch architects in London and in Dublin. He taught at the Architectural Association, Kingston and London Metropolitan Universities and is currently a studio tutor at University College Dublin and a review tutor at Dublin Institute of Technology. Lynch architects won the British Young Architect of the Year Award in 2005.

Tony Brown was an adviser to the Oireachtas Delegation to the European Convention and represents the Irish Labour Party on the Steering Committee of the National Forum on Europe. He is a founding member of the Institute of International and European Affairs.

Maurice Earls is a bookseller and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic is a journalist. His interests include early twentieth century French cultural history, and his MPhil thesis focused on Henri Barbusse’s Le Feu and artistic responses to the First World War.

Barra Ó Seaghdha has contributed essays, reviews and interviews in the areas of literature, cultural politics and music to publications ranging from Graph, which he co-edited, and Reinventing Ireland (Pluto Press) to the JMI (Journal of Music in Ireland). He works in the Teaching English as a Foreign Language sector.

Angela Long is a journalist and reviewer. She has written for newspapers and magazines in Ireland, Britain and Australia, including The Irish Times, The Sunday Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. She has also worked for the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a novelist, short story writer and literary critic. Her latest novel is Fox Swallow Scarecrow (Blackstaff Press, 2007).

Brendan O’Leary was born in Cork but grew up in Nigeria, Northern Ireland and Sudan. His university education was at Oxford and the LSE, where he was a professor of political science. He holds the Lauder Chair of Political Science and directs the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. Details of his publications and career may be found at: http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/ppec/PPEC%20People/Brendan%20O'Leary/Brendan%20O'Leary.html

Rosita Sweetman is a writer and journalist. She has published three books, On Our Knees, a look at Ireland in the 1970s, Fathers Come First, a novel, and On Our Backs, a look at sexual attitudes in 1980s Ireland. Her new novel will be ready for publication in the autumn.

Contributors: Issue Number 4, Winter 2007-08

Richard Tillinghast’s The New Life will appear from Copper Beach in the US in the spring of 2008. A collection of essays, Finding Ireland, is also due out next year from the University of Notre Dame Press.

John-Paul McCarthy holds the Usher-Cunningham doctoral studentship in modern history at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where he also tutors in Irish history. His biography of cabinet secretary Maurice Moynihan is forthcoming with Cork University Press.

William Kenefick teaches Scottish and British history at the University of Dundee. His most recent book is Red Scotland! The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, c.1872-1932 (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

Philip O’Connor is director of the Dublin Employment Pact, an independent body supported by government and the social partners which pilots solutions to employment issues in Dublin. He previously worked at various occupations, including technical and historical translation and teaching German and Russian history at Trinity College Dublin.

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.

Enda O’Doherty is an editor of the Dublin Review of Books and a journalist.

John Gibney is a Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellow at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, NUI Galway.

John Minahane is the author of The Contention of the Poets: an essay in intellectual history (Samas Press, Bratislava 2000)

Terence Killeen is a journalist and author of Ulysses Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Brian Lynch is a poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and art critic. His latest novel, The Winner of Sorrow, based on the life of William Cowper, was published in 2005.

Contributors: Issue Number 3 Autumn 2007

Judith Devlin teaches in the Department of History at University College Dublin. While her first research interests lay in nineteenth century France, she now concentrates on Russia. She has worked on contemporary history (political culture) and most recently on the Stalin era. Her current research focuses on the Stalin cult.

John Bradley was for many years a Research Professor at the ESRI and now works as an international consultant in the area of economic and industrial strategy. He regularly advises the European Commission, the World Bank and other international organisations and governments on policy issues related to promoting long-term economic growth and development.

Nicholas Birch, a freelance reporter, has been based in Turkey for the past five years. His work has appeared in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and the Times Literary Supplement.

Peter Brooke is the author of Ulster Presbyterianism, The Historical Perspective, 1610-1970, Athol Books, Belfast, and of an account of the life and thought of the French Cubist painter Albert Gleizes, For and Against the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, London and New Haven.

Angela Long is a journalist and reviewer. She has written for newspapers and magazines in Ireland, Britain and Australia, including The Irish Times, The Sunday Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. She has also worked for the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Paul O’Brien works as a parliamentary reporter in the Houses of the Oireachtas. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the National University of Ireland, Galway and has completed a postgraduate dissertation on British travel writing on Ireland in the eighteenth century.

Donncha Ó Muirithe is a journalist. He is a former associate editor of the Art Abstracts database and has contributed articles to the Oxford Companion to the Photograph and the History of Photography journal.

Kristen Anderson is a doctoral student at Exeter College, Oxford, where she tutors in modern English literature. Her doctoral research focuses on literary, historical and aesthetic representations of London during the Blitz. She is a contributing editor with the Oxonian Review of Books.

Susan Lanigan is a full-time programmer and a writer. She completed a Masters in Writing at NUI Galway in 2003. Since then she has won several prizes for her short stories and was shortlisted for the Hennessy Irish Writing Emerging Writer of the Year award in 2005.

John McAuliffe’s second book, Next Door,is just out from Gallery Press. He grew up in Listowel, Co Kerry and now lives in Manchester, where he co-directs the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester (www.manchester.ac.uk/arts/newwriting).

Evelyn Conlon was born in Monaghan in 1952. Her collections of short stories are My Head is Opening (Attic Press 1987), Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour (Attic Press 1989) and Telling, New and Selected Stories (Blackstaff Press 2000). Her novels are Stars in the Daytime (Blackstaff Press 1993), A Glassful of Letters (Blackstaff Press 1998) and Skin of Dreams (Brandon 2003). She is a regular commentator on the arts and a member of Aosdana.

Contributors: Issue Number 2 Summer 2007

Belinda McKeon is a journalist and reviewer. She has written on arts and books for The Irish Times since 2000 and is currently based in New York, where she is taking an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in fiction and teaching in the undergraduate writing programme at Columbia University. At present she is at work on an interview with John Banville for the Paris Review Art of Fiction series.

James Ryan teaches in the School of English and Drama at University College Dublin, and the School of English at NUI Galway, where he is currently writer in residence. His most recent novel is Seeds of Doubt (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2001)

John-Paul McCarthy holds the Usher-Cunningham doctoral studentship in Irish history at Exeter College, Oxford, where he tutors in Irish history. He is currently finishing a biography of Maurice Moynihan, to be published by Cork University Press.

Peter Mackay is a Research Fellow in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast, and is also a poet and filmmaker. He is currently working on a book on the poet Sorley MacLean.

Michael D Langan is a retired US Treasury Department official. He was a Senior Expert with the United Nations Taliban and al-Qaeda Monitoring Group. He writes book reviews for the Boston Globe and has had fiction produced by the BBC.

Manus O’Riordan is head of research at Ireland’s largest trade union, SIPTU (Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union). He has written extensively on the history of Ireland’s War of Independence and the Spanish Civil War, as well as on Irish and Irish-American labour history. A member of the National Economic and Social Council, he also serves on the Economic and Employment Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation.

Ana Paula Arnaut teaches Portuguese literature at the University of Coimbra. She is the author of Memorial do Convento. História, ficção e ideologia (1996) and Post-Modernismo no romance português contemporâneo. Fios de Ariadne – Máscaras de Proteu (2002). Her new study of Saramago, Cânone – José Saramago will appear this year.

Pádraig Lenihan teaches history at the University of Limerick. His survey of early modern Irish history, Consolidating Conquest 1603-1727, will be published by Longman this year.

Maurice Earls is a bookseller and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Barra Ó Seaghdha has contributed essays, reviews and interviews in the areas of literature, cultural politics and music to publications ranging from Graph, which he co-edited, and Reinventing Ireland (Pluto Press) to the JMI (Journal of Music in Ireland). He works in the Teaching English as a Foreign Language sector.

Contributors: Issue Number 1 Spring 2007

Angela Long is a journalist and reviewer. She has written for newspapers and magazines in Ireland, Britain and Australia, including The Irish Times, The Sunday Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. She has also worked for the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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.

Enda O’Doherty is an editor of the Dublin Review of Books and a journalist.

Leon Marc is a Slovenian diplomat who served at the Dublin embassy from 2002 to 2006. He is currently director of the South-East Europe Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, Ljubljana.

Paddy Gillan is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design and has worked as a journalist and graphic designer.

Peter Brooke is the author of Ulster Presbyterianism, The Historical Perspective, 1610-1970, Athol Books, Belfast, and of an account of the life and thought of the French Cubist painter Albert Gleizes, For and Against the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, London and New Haven.

Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007) was one of the most respected foreign correspondents of the 20th century. Western readers knew him through such extraordinary books as The Emperor, which described the decline of Haile Selassie's Ethiopia. Shah of Shahs, on the fall the last Shah of Iran, and Imperium, about the last days of the Soviet Union.

Stephen Wilson, who studied at the University of Ulster and Trinity College Dublin, teaches American literature at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is currently working on a book on Ezra Pound and American history.

Tom Inglis teaches sociology at University College Dublin. His book Global Ireland will be published later this year.

Wiktor Osiatynski is a professor of comparative constitutionalism and human rights at Central European University. He is the author of twenty books, including Contrasts: Soviet and American Thinkers Discuss the Future, Rehab and Citizen's Republic. In the 1970s, he worked with Ryszard Kapuściński for the Kultura weekly in Warsaw.