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Issue Number 20 Winter 2011-12

Denis Sampson is the author of 'Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist' to be published early in 2012 by Oxford University Press. Earlier books are 'Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist' and 'Outstaring Nature's Eye: The Fiction of John McGahern'.

Paul Gillespie is a columnist and writer on international affairs for The Irish Times, from which he retired as foreign policy editor in 2009. He lectures in European politics and comparative regionalism at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. In 2010 he was a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. His current research is on political identities in Europe, Irish foreign policy and regions in a multi-polar world. This essay draws on a paper to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Asia Europe Journal on Ireland's experience of the EU IMF bailout deal

John Minahane John Minahane’s books include "The Christian Druids: on the filid or philosopher-poets of Ireland "(1993; repr Howth Free Press, Dublin 2008) and "The Poems of Geoffrey O’Donoghue / Dánta Shéafraidh Uí Dhonnchadha an Ghleanna" (ed and transl; Aubane Historical Society, Aubane 2008). Most recently he has translated and introduced "An Argument Defending the Right of the Kingdom of Ireland by Conor O’Mahony" (Aubane Historical Society 2010).

Sean OHuiginn retired from the Irish diplomatic service in 2009. His most recent foreign postings included service as Ireland's Ambassador to Washington, Berlin and Rome. He also served in various capacities in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin, including as head of the Department's Anglo-Irish Division between 1991 and 1997.

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

Eoin O’Malley teaches politics at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. He is author of "Contemporary Ireland" (Palgrave 2011) and co-editor of the forthcoming "Governing Ireland: From Cabinet Government to Delegated Governance" (IPA 2012). He has previously reviewed the autobiographies of Bertie Ahern and Albert Reynolds for the Dublin Review of Books.

Richard O’Brien - a UCD graduate - retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2010 having served as Ambassador in Warsaw, Canberra - where he now lives - Cairo and Singapore. He also served in London and Washington and was Head of the Press and Information Section of the Department from 1985 to 1990.

Guy Beiner is a senior lecturer of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the author of Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, paperback ed. 2009) and is currently writing a book on social forgetting in Ulster.

David Wheatley is a poet and critic. His most recent book is "A Nest on the Waves" (Gallery Press).

Issue Number 19 Autumn 2011

Michael O’Sullivan is author of Ireland and the Global Question (Cork University Press 2006), and 'What did we do right?' (Blackhall Publishing 2010) with Rory Miller.

Fergal Lenehan teaches at the Department of Intercultural Studies and Business Communications at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. His book 'Europe of the Regions - The History of an Idea in Germany, Britain and Ireland' will be published shortly.

Carol Taaffe is the author of Ireland Through the Looking-Glass: Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate (Cork, 2008). She teaches in the School of English, TCD and Boston University (Dublin).

Manus Charleton lectures in Ethics in the Institute of Technology, Sligo. His book, Ethics for Social Care in Ireland: Philosophy and Practice, was published by Gill & MacMillan in 2007. He has also been published in Irish Pages and Studies.

Mary Jones is a documentary maker and director of Arkhive productions. Her book The Other Ireland: Changing Times 1870-1920 will be published this autumn.

Tim Groenland , a graduate of University College Dublin, recently completed a Masters thesis on Raymond Carver’s Beginners.

David Blake Knox is a former Director of Production with RTÉ, and Executive Editor with BBC Television. His independent production company, Blueprint Pictures, was founded in 2002, and has produced a range of TV programmes and films – including Imagining Ulysses, a feature documentary about James Joyce’s novel. He is currently producing a feature documentary about Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

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

Maurice Earls is a bookseller and joint editor of the drb

Tom Hennigan is the South America correspondent of The Irish Times and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Anthony Roche Anthony Roche is an Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD. His Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Eoin Bourke Eoin Bourke is Emeritus Professor of German Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway. His book publications include Stilbruch als Stilmittel (1980), The Austrian Anschluss in History and Literature (2000), as well as the forthcoming “Poor Green Erin” – German and Austrian Travel Writers' Narratives on Ireland from before the 1798 Rebellion to after the Great Famine (2011).

Issue Number 18 Summer 2011

David Askew is an Associate Professor of Law at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. Recent works include David Askew (with P Close and X Xin), The Beijing Olympiad: The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event (Routledge, 2006), and chapters in BT Wakabayashi ed, The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-8: Complicating the Picture (Berghahn, 2007).

Niamh Cullen is an IRCHSS postdoctoral fellow at UCD, where she specialises in the social and cultural history of modern Italy. Her book Piero Gobetti’s Turin: Modernity, myth and memory (Oxford, Peter Lang) was published this year. She is also editor of an arts and culture blog, The Little Review (http://thelittlereview.wordpress.com/), which discusses all aspects of European culture.

Michael Lillis was diplomatic adviser to the Taoiseach (1981), head of the Anglo-Irish Relations division of the Department of Foreign Affairs (1982-85), Irish head of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Secretariat, Maryfield, Belfast (1985-86), Ambassador to the UN in Geneva (1986-88), managing director for Latin America for GPA (1988-90) and for GE Capital Aviation (1990-96), board member VivaAeobus Airlines Mexico 2007 to date. His Scandal and Courage: the Lives of Eliza Lynch, co-authored with Ronan Fanning, was published in 2009.

David Ralph is a freelance journalist, and had recently completed a PhD in Human Geography at the Univeristy of Edinburgh. He writes on social affairs for the Irish press.

Michael Hennigan is founder and editor of the financial website Finfacts www.finfacts.ie

Marianne Elliott is Blair Chair and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University. Her most recent book is When God Took Sides. Religion and Identity in Ireland. Unfinished History (Oxford, 2009). A second edition of her acclaimed biography of Wolfe Tone will be published in October 2011.

Joschka Fischer was foreign minister and vice-chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1998 to 2005. His involvement in politics began with the German student movement. Since 1982 he has been a member of the Green Party. From 2006 until 2007, he was a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. He is a member of the boards of the International Crisis Group and the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Seamus Deane is currently editor of Field Day Review and is Keogh Emeritus Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Pádraig Murphy a graduate of UCC, is a retired official of the Department of Foreign Affairs. His career saw him posted in Berne, Brussels, Moscow, Bonn – the longest of his postings - Madrid and Tokyo. He also served as Political Director of the Department.

Norman White wrote Hopkins in Ireland (UCD Press), Hopkins in Wales (Poetry Wales Press) and Hopkins: A Literary Biography (Oxford UP), which won prizes in the USA and UK. Recently he exhibited a collection of his photographs, and artwork at the Venice Biennale; and completed a novel and novellae on Hopkins.

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)

Niall Meehan is Head of the Journalism and Media Faculty in Griffith College Dublin. He is researching attempts to re-frame the War of Independence as a pre-enactment of the Northern Ireland conflict post 1968.

issue Number 17 spring 2011

George O’Brien is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington. His publications include the noted memoir The Village of Longing.

David Fitzpatrick is Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written extensively on the Irish Revolution, emigration, Irish social history, and (recently) literary biography. His next book, ‘Solitary and Wild’: Frederick MacNeice and the Salvation of Ireland, will be published by the Lilliput Press later this year.

Angus Mitchell is currently curating an exhibition entitled 'Rubber, Rights and the Atlantic World 1880-1916', which is touring different South American countries.

Ciarán Benson is Emeritus Professor of Psychology in University College Dublin where he held the Chair of Psychology (1992-2009). He also held the Royden Davis Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgetown University in 2007. He was the first Chairman of the Irish Film Institute, and Chairman of An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council of Ireland (1993-1998). Amongst his publications are The Place of the Arts in Irish Education (1979), The Absorbed Self: Pragmatism, Psychology and Aesthetic Experience (1993), and The Cultural Psychology of Self: Place, Morality and Art in Human Worlds (2001). He is a member of AICA, The International Association of Art Critics.

Michael Casey is former Chief Economist at the Central Bank of Ireland and member of the Executive Board of the IMF in Washington DC. His recent book, ‘Ireland’s Malaise: The Troubled Personality of the Irish Economy’ was published by the Liffey Press last October

Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the drb.

Lillis Ó Laoire is Head of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at NUI Galway. He teaches courses in language, literature and especially folklore in the Irish Department. A Donegal native, he has won awards for sean-nós singing and has published a book on the singing traditions of Tory: On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island (CIC 2007). In 2009-10, he held an IRCHSS senior fellowship, during which he completed a book on the renowned sean-nós singer Joe Heaney, cowriting with Professor Sean Williams, of The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man, will be published by OUP in April 2011. IRCHSS also funded the construction of a website of materials from The Joe Heaney Collection at the University of Washington, Seattle. It is available at www.joeheaney.org

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

Pádraig Lenihan lectures in history at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests include the Confederate Catholic regime of the 1640s.

Issue Number 16 Winter 2010 - 11

Paul O’Mahony is author of The Irish War on Drugs: The Seductive Folly of Prohibition, Manchester University Press, 2009.

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.

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.

James Moran is Head of Drama at the University of Nottingham. His book Irish Birmingham: A History was published in 2010 by Liverpool University Press.

Brian Earls is a former diplomat. His published work focuses on the relationship between oral tradition and printed literature, principally in the nineteenth century.

Margaret Kelleher is Director of An Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions, at NUI Maynooth. She is the author of The Feminization of Famine (published by Duke UP and Cork UP, 1997) and co-editor (with Philip O'Leary) of The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (2006). She has published widely in the areas of nineteenth-century Irish writing, Irish literary history, and women's writings. She is the national representative for Ireland on the European Science Foundation's Standing Committee for the Humanities, and is chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL). Her current research project is a study of bilingual culture in nineteenth-century Ireland.

John Montague poet, short-story writer, memoirist and “friend of France”, was this year made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

Sakis Gekas is Assistant Professor in Modern Greek History at York University, Toronto. He has published on Mediterranean economic and social history, and is currently completing a history of the Ionian Islands State under British rule. http://www.yorku.ca/uhistory/faculty/cv/gekas.htm

David McNeill teaches at Sophia University in Tokyo and writes for The Irish Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and other publications. He has lived in Japan since 2000.

Fin Keegan has had work appear in the Las Vegas Fringe Festival (The Last of the Vegas Magicians, a play). His short story, "The Brown Envelope", came second in the 2010 Jonathan Swift Satire Contest. He lives in Westport. Follow his work at finkeegan.com

Issue Number 15 Autumn 2010

Robert Looby teaches English and translation at the Catholic University of Lublin. His research interests include translation and censorship.

Tadhg Foley taught in the English Department of NUI Galway until his retirement last year. He is a graduate of NUI Galway and of the University of Oxford (DPhil). His doctoral work was on the concept of taste in the eighteenth century and his main research interest has been in cultural history and the history of ideas in nineteenth century Ireland

Tom Hennigan is the South America correspondent of The Irish Times and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic is the Paris Correspondent of The Irish Times

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

Michael G Cronin teaches in the School of English, Media and Theatre Studies at NUI Maynooth. His primary research interests are the Irish Catholic bildungsroman in the twentieth century, sexuality and Irish writing and contemporary Irish gay fiction.

Michael Hinds is Head of English and Co-Ordinator of the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies at the Mater Dei Institute, Drumcondra. He has published widely on American poetry and culture, and manages the website http://americanstudiesinireland.materdei.ie. He is also co-editor of POST: A Review of Poetry Studies, downloadable free at http://post.materdei.ie. His essay on ottava rima, “Quietly Facetious about Everything”, will appear later this year in Poetic Genres (Blackwell).

Eoghan Smith teaches English at Carlow College and NUI Maynooth.

Issue Number 14 Summer 2010

Brian Donnelly lectures in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film. His research interest is in Irish literature from the 18th to the 20th century and in modern American literature

Brian Earls is a former diplomat. His published work focuses on the relationship between oral tradition and printed literature, principally in the nineteenth century.

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

Frank Callanan is a Dublin-based barrister. He is author of The Parnell Split 1890-91, and is currently working on a book on the politics of James Joyce.

Dara McHugh is a Dublin-based writer and freelance journalist.

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

Fergal Lenehan is originally from Ballinasloe; he received a PhD from the University of Leipzig in 2009 and recently co-edited the cultural studies volume Language and the Moulding of Space.

Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the drb.

Issue Number 13 Spring 2010

Eoghan Smith teaches English at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His interests are in Irish writing, Irish philosophical aesthetics, modernism and postmodernism. He is currently writing a book on John Banville and the politics of authenticity

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.

George O’Brien is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington. His publications include the noted memoir The Village of Longing.

Eckhard Jesse was born in 1948 in Wurzen, East Germany, and is professor and head of the Department of Political Systems and Political Institutions at Chemnitz University of Technology. His research focus includes German political parties, political extremism and totalitarianism, elections and voting systems, comparative research on democracies and dictatorships and the historical roots of contemporary politics. His most recent books are Diktaturen in Deutschland: Diagnosen und Analysen (Baden-Baden, 2008) and Demokratie in Deutschland: Diagnosen und Analysen (Cologne 2008).

Adrian Paterson is IRCHSS Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Writing widely on modernism and nineteenth and twentieth century literature (http://thebicyclops.wordpress.com) his book Words for Music Perhaps: Yeats and Musical Sense is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Michael Lillis Michael Lillis was diplomatic adviser to the Taoiseach (1981), head of the Anglo-Irish Relations division of the Department of Foreign Affairs (1982-85), Irish head of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Secretariat, Maryfield, Belfast (1985-86), Ambassador to the UN in Geneva (1986-88), managing director for Latin America for GPA (1988-90) and for GE Capital Aviation (1990-96), board member VivaAeobus Airlines Mexico 2007 to date. His Scandal and Courage: the Lives of Eliza Lynch, co-authored with Ronan Fanning, was published last Autumn. Sir David Goodall, a retired British diplomat, was British High Commissioner to India from 1987 to 1991. A former Chairman of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation, Britain’s largest disability charity, and of the British-Irish Association, he is a Visiting Professor at Liverpool University’s Institute of Irish Studies and a Fellow of the Irish Genealogical Research Society. A regular contributor to the The Tablet, he has published two books: Remembering India (1997) and Ryedale Pilgrimage (2000).

David Goodall David Goodall

Mark Wallace is a native of Galway, an arts graduate of NUIG and an aspirant journalist.

Paul Larkin was born in Salford, England. After school he spent five years in the Danish merchant navy before taking a degree in Scandinavian and Celtic Studies at University College London. He is a winner of the European Journalist of the Year award and last year made a new translation of Ibsen's Et dukkehjem (A Doll's House) for the Secondage theatre company and (director) Alan Stanford.

Carol Taaffe is a former IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of 'Ireland Through the Looking-Glass: Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate' (Cork University Press, 2008) and co-editor, with Edwina Keown, of 'Irish Modernism: Origins, Contexts, Publics', forthcoming from Peter Lang in 2009.

John-Paul McCarthy is completing a PhD on William Gladstone’s intellectual life at Exeter College, Oxford.

Rachel Andrews is a writer and critic based in Cork city. She writes about arts and culture for publications including The Sunday Business Post and Irish Theatre Magazine, and is a regular contributor to RTE Radio 1's Arts Show. She lectures in Literature and Journalism at University College Cork and Griffith College Cork.

Issue Number 12 Winter 2009 - 10

Eva McGuire is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where she studied physics. She is currently studying for a PhD in biophysics at Imperial College London.

Tom Hennigan is the South America correspondent for The Irish Times and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Eoin O’Malley lectures in Irish politics at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. His main research interests are the power of prime ministers, Irish government and Irish parties. He is editing a book entitled Governing Ireland, to be published by the IPA in late 2010.

Siobhán Parkinson is a novelist, translator and publisher who works mainly in the field of children’s literature (www.siobhanparkinson.com)

Shane McCorristine was a doctoral scholar at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College, Dublin and was awarded a PhD in history in 2007. He also has an MA in cultural history from UCD. His research focused on ideas about ghost-seeing in Victorian and Edwardian culture and his monograph, Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-seeing in England, c.1750-1920, is forthcoming in 2010 with Cambridge University Press. His current research interests include the history of science, children’s literature, and the history of Arctic exploration.

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

Angus Mitchell has written extensively on the life and legacy of Roger Casement. He has lectured in both the US and Ireland.

Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the drb.

Ion Ionita is senior editor with Adevarul newspaper in Bucharest. He writes on both domestic and foreign politics and also contributes to public and private television and radio in Romania.

Padraig Yeates joined the republican movement at seventeen, serving as national organiser for Clann na hEireann in 1971-2 and for Repsol subsequently. He edited Irish People 1977-1982 and served on the national executive of SFWP and of the WP from 1978-1983. He worked as a journalist with The Irish Times from 1983-1989 and with Coalition des Gauches in the European Parliament from 1989-90 for Proinsias De Rossa, returning to The Irish Times 1990-2002. He took early retirement in 2002 and has worked since as media adviser to various organisations, mainly trade unions.

Robert Looby teaches English and translation at the Catholic University of Lublin. His research interests include translation and censorship.

Issue Number 11 Autumn 2009

Brian Earls is a former diplomat. His published work focuses on the relationship between oral tradition and printed literature, principally in the nineteenth century.

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

Niall Meehan Niall Meehan is Head of the Journalism and Media Faculty in Griffith College Dublin. He is researching attempts to re-frame the War of Independence as a pre-enactment of the Northern Ireland conflict post 1968.

Philip Coleman is a Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where he is Director of the MPhil in Literatures of the Americas and Head of Sophisters. With Maria Johnston he is editing Reading Pearse Hutchinson, a collection of essays and reflections on the poet, for the Irish Academic Press. He has edited collections of essays on literature and science and on the poetry of John Berryman. His book John Berryman and the Public Sphere: Reception and Redress will be published by UCD Press in 2010.

Enda McDonagh Enda McDonagh was Professor of Moral Theology and Canon Law at the Pontifical University at Maynooth until his retirement in 1995. He is the author of sixteen books, including, most recently, Immersed in Mystery and An Irish Reader in Moral Theology. In 2007 he was appointed an Ecumenical Canon at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

Philip O’Connor and Pat Muldowney are authors of Coolacrease:the true story of the Pearson executions –an incident in the Irish War of Independence

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

Thomas Boylan is Professor of Economics at NUI Galway. His research interests are mainly in the areas of economic methodology, the history of economics ideas and in growth and development. Amongst his current projects are the compilation (with T.P. Foley) of a four-volume anthology on Irish Political Economy in the 19th Century, acting as guest editor for a special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie on the theme 'The Philosophy of Economics', and papers on pragmatism in economic methodology and a critical assessment of Hahn on economic methodology.

Majella Cullinane Majella Cullinane, originally from Limerick, teaches creative writing and lives in Wellington, NZ. Poetry, short stories and reviews have been published in Ireland, the UK, the US and New Zealand. She has won a Sean Dunne Young Writer's Award, an Irish Arts Council Award, and The Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry. Her first poetry collection was accepted for publication in Ireland early this year. She is also currently working on her first novel. www.majellacullinane.com

Issue Number 10 Summer 2009

Enda Delaney teaches history at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book is The Irish in Post-war Britain (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Conor O'Clery is a journalist and author. He is currently working on a new account of the fall of the Soviet Union, to be published on the twentieth anniversary in 2011.

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

Charles Lysaght is the author of Brendan Bracken, A biography(1979) and editor of Great Irish Lives(2008)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent book is On Eloquence (Yale University Press, 2008).

Ronán M Conroy teaches evidence-based health at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. His main research areas are low-cost health solutions for developing countries and mental health research. http://rcsi.academia.edu/RonanConroy

Antoin E Murphy is an associate professor of economics in Trinity College Dublin. His most recent book, The Genesis of Macroeconomics: New Ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton, was published by Oxford University Press in December 2008.

John Paul McCarthy is completing a DPhil on Gladstone's intellectual life at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where he also tutors in modern Irish history.

George O' Brien is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington. His publications include the noted memoir The Village of Longing.

Issue 9

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

Kevin Cullen is a columnist with The Boston Globe. He is also an occasional contributor to The Irish Times.

Niamh Cullen is a recent PhD graduate of University College Dublin, where she now lectures in modern European history. Her research focuses on the cultural history of modern Italy and she is currently preparing a book on antifascism in Turin in the 1920s.

Tom Inglis teaches sociology at University College Dublin. His book Global Ireland was published in 2007.

Colin Murphy is a journalist in Dublin. His website is www.colinmurphy.info.

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

John McAuliffe second book of poems is Next Door (Gallery, 2007). He lives in Manchester where he co-directs the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing and edits The Manchester Review.

Fintan Vallely is a musician and writer on traditional music. His major written and edited works are The Blooming Meadows - the World of Irish Traditional Musicians (1998), The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (1999, 2009), John Kennedy - Together in Time (2001), Sing Up, Comic Songs and Satires of Modern Ireland (2008) and Tuned Out - Traditional Music and Identity in Modern Ireland (2008). His doctoral thesis (UCD, 2004) concerned the flute in Ireland and his continuing work is on music, movement, place and identity.

Tom Wall is a former assistant general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was born in inner city Dublin, the son of a farmer’s son from Co Meath. He is an avid reader of modern Irish history.

Issue Number 8 Winter 2008-09

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

Terence Killeen Terence Killeen is the author of Ulysses Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to Ulysses. He is a former trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and a member of the board of the James Joyce Centre, Dublin.

Paul Bew and Patrick Maume Paul Bew is Professor of Irish Politics at Queen’s University Belfast and the author of The Politics Of Enmity: Ireland 1782-2006 (Oxford University Press, 2007). Patrick Maume is a researcher with the Dictionary of Irish Biography. He has published numerous books and articles on nineteenth and twentieth century Irish history and has edited eleven titles in the UCD Press Classics of Irish History series, several of which concern Daniel O’Connell and his times.

George O’Brien George O’Brien is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington. His publications include the noted memoir The Village of Longing. He will spend the spring term teaching in the Trinity College Creative Writing Programme.

James Moran 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.

Patrick Comerford The Revd Canon Patrick Comerford is Director of Spiritual Formation at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, and a canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. He is a former Foreign Desk Editor of The Irish Times, and has contributed to numerous books and journals. His latest publication is Reflections of the Bible in the Qur’an (Dublin: National Bible Society of Ireland, 2008), published in the Bedell Boyle Lecture series. Blog: http://revpatrickcomerford.blogspot.com

Manus Charleton Manus Charleton lectures in Ethics in the Institute of Technology, Sligo. His book, Ethics for Social Care in Ireland: Philosophy and Practice, was published by Gill & MacMillan in 2007. He has also been published in Irish Pages and Studies.

Kevin Stevens Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

John Sweeney John Sweeney is an economist. He lives in Dublin.

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

Brian Earls 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.

Eunan O'Halpin Eunan O’Halpin is Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin. His most recent work is Spying on Ireland: British intelligence and Irish neutrality during the Second World War (Oxford, 2008)

Issue7

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

Hugh O'Shaughnessy has been writing and broadcasting on Latin America and the Caribbean for 46 years for the Financial Times, the Observer, The Irish Times, the BBC and other media.

Pól Ó Muiri is Irish Language Editor of The Irish Times.

Jeffrey Dudgeon lives in Belfast and was the winning plaintiff in 1981 at the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg in a case against the British government. This resulted in the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland and was the first successful gay human rights case in Europe. His book on Roger Casement is available at amazon.co.uk

Lara Marlowe studied French literature at the Sorbonne and at UCLA. She has been France correspondent for The Irish Times since 1996.

Kris 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.

Pádraig McAuliffe is a PhD finalist and IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar at the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights in University College Cork (padraig1@gmail.com)

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

Helen Lahert is Manager of Advocacy and Accessibility with the Citizens Information Board. She has responsibility for the development of advocacy services for people with disabilities nationally.

Issue Number 6 Summer 2008

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Issue Number 5 Spring 2008

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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

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.

Issue Number 4 Winter 2007-08

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)

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

Issue Number 3 Autumn 2007

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.

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.

John McAuliffe 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).

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.

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.

Kristin 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.

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.

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.

Issue Number 2 Summer 2007

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

Issue Number 1 Spring 2007

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.

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

Wiktor Osiatyński 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.

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.

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