Life
Cultural critic; Chair of Media Studies, DCU [Dublin City University];
assistant director of Keough Centre for Irish Studies, Notre Dame Univ.,
South Bend, Illinois, from 2000; author of Transformations in Irish
Culture (1996) and other leading works of cultural commentary.
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Works
Selected Articles: ‘Identity Without A Centre: Allegory, History
and Irish Nationalism’, Cultural Studies, Vol. VI, No. 3 (1992),
pp.358-75, rep. in Gibbons, Transformations in Irish Culture (Cork
UP 1996), pp.134-47; ‘Challenging the Canon: Revisionism and Cultural
Criticism’ [editorial essay], in Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology
of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day Co. 1991), Vol. III, pp.561-68;
‘Some Hysterical Hatred”: History, Hysteria and the Literary
Revival’, in Irish University Review, Spring/Summer 1997,
pp.7-23; ‘Race against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History’,
in Robert Young, ed., Oxford Literary Review, 12, 1-2, 1991, p.95-117;
‘The Shadowy Narrator”: History, Art and Romantic Nationalism
in Ireland 1750-1850’, in Ciaran Brady, ed., Ideology and the
Historians (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1991) [q.pp.].
Monographs, Transformations in Irish Culture (Cork UP 1996); with Peadar Kirby, & Michael Cronin, ed., Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and The Global Economy (London: Pluto Press 2002), 232pp.; Edmund Burke and Ireland (Cambridge UP 2003), 303pp. [see quotations under Burke, Commentary.]
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)