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Aurelia Annat completed her D.Phil. with the History Faculty, University of Oxford, on Imaginable Nations: Constructions of History and Identity and the Contribution of Selected Irish Women Writers 18911945. Subsequently she was research assistant for Dr Michael Biggs at the Department of Sociology (Oxford), investigating Irish republican and British suffragette hunger-strikers in the early twentieth century. She currently teaches modern British history at Trinity College, Oxford.
Lauren Arrington is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Irish Studies. She studied in the United States, Ireland, and the UK. Her monograph, W. B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State: Adding the Half-Pence to the Pence, was published in 2010. Recent publications include essays on Irish Modernism and anti-imperialist discourse. Her most recent book is the biography Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz (2015).
Naomi Doak completed her Ph.D. in the Faculty of Languages and Literature at the University of Ulster in 2006. She has published several articles and chapters on Ulster Protestant women writers, including Assessing an Absence: Ulster Protestant Women Authors, 190060, in M. Busteed, F. Neal, and J. Tonge (eds), Irish Protestant Identities (2008). She is currently employed as a tourism, culture, heritage, and arts development officer at Belfast City Council.
Heidi Hansson is Professor of English Literature at Ume University, Sweden. Her main research interest is womens literature, and she has previously published in the fields of postmodern romance, nineteenth-century womens cross-gendered writing, Irish womens literature, and northern studies. Among her works on Irish topics are the study Emily Lawless 18451913: Writing the Interspace (2007), the edited collection New Contexts: Re-framing Nineteenth-Century Irish Womens Prose (2008), and Fictions of the Irish Land War (2014), edited together with Professor James H. Murphy.
Margaret Kelleher is Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. She has published widely in the areas of nineteenth-century literature, Famine studies, womens writings, and cultural studies. Professor Kelleher is President of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Chair of the Irish Film Institute, and a member of Science Europes Humanities Committee. Her current project is a cultural history of the 1882 Maamtrasna episode from the perspective of nineteenth-century language change.
Jane Mahony is a Ph.D. student in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Her thesis draws on the perspectives of book and publishing history, aligned to archival research, to offer a fresh contribution to Irish literary history in the period 18851922, placing Irish literary actors of the period within a more global sense of the field of book production and distribution. She was previously Marketing Controller at Cambridge University Press and Managing Director of Pickering & Chatto Publishers Ltd., London.
Patrick Maume is a native of Cork and a researcher with the Royal Irish Academys Dictionary of Irish Biography. He is a graduate of University College Cork and Queens University Belfast, lived in Belfast for many years, and takes an interest in Ulster history and culture. He has published many papers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish political, media, and literary history as well as a monograph on early twentieth-century nationalist political culture and biographies of Daniel Corkery and D. P. Moran.
Lia Mills writes novels, short stories, essays, and reviews. She has worked on several public art commissions and as an arts consultant. Her third novel, Fallen, was published in 2014. She teaches aspects of writing, most recently at the Irish Writers Centre and at University College Dublin, where she was previously a teaching and research fellow with a particular focus on the work of Irish women writers. She lives in Dublin.
James H. Murphy is Professor of English at DePaul University, Chicago. He is both a literary and political historian of nineteenth-century Ireland. His political studies include Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland during the Reign of Queen Victoria (2001) and Irelands Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl of Spencer, 18681886 (2014). His literary work includes Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age (2011) and the editing of The Oxford History of the Irish Book, vol. IV: The Irish Book in English, 18001891 (2011).
Ciaran ONeill is Ussher Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century History at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests focus on elites and elite education, Ireland and the transnational, and public history. He has also developed an interest in literary history and has published articles on the Irish schoolboy novel. ONeill is the author of Catholics of Consequence: Transnational Education, Social Mobility and the Irish Catholic Elite, 18501900 (2014) for which he won the James S. Donnelly Prize in 2015. Since 2014, he has been President of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
Eve Patten is Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, where she lectures in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Irish literature. Her publications include Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth Century Ireland (2004), Imperial Refugee: Olivia Mannings Fictions of War (2012), and Ireland, West to East: Irish Cultural Connections with Central and Eastern Europe (2014, co-edited with Aidan OMalley). She is currently working on a study of English writers and Ireland, 191045.
