Publications

If you would like to read anything I’ve written but do not have access to it, please get in touch — I’m more than happy to share!

Books:

• [In progress] Love Across the Divide: desire and colonial culture in Northern Ireland, 1970-present.
• [Forthcoming 2024] Mixed Marriages and Mixed Relationships in Ireland and its Diaspora, c.1880-present. Co-edited with Ruth Duffy. Palgrave Macmillan.
• The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016, Liverpool University Press, 2020.

Edited Special Issues:

• [Forthcoming 2023] ‘Brian Moore at 100’, special issue of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 44.2 (2023). Co-edited with Sinéad Moynihan.
• ‘Rethinking the 1981 Hunger Strike: 35 Years On’, special issue of The Irish Review, 55 (Spring 2020). Co-edited with Maggie Scull.
• ‘The Irish Atlantic’, special issue of Symbiosis: a Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 19.2 (October 2015). Co-edited with Muireann Crowley.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:

• [Forthcoming 2023] ‘“War was freedom, freedom from futures”: Brian Moore, Lucy Caldwell and the Belfast Blitz Bildungsroman’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 44.2 (2023), 65–91.
• ‘“like a bee’s sting or a bullet”: eroticism, violence and the afterlives of colonial romance in Medbh McGuckian’s The Flower Master’. Textual Practice 36.8 (2022), 1351–1373.
• ‘Queering the Poetics of race and nationalism: Yeats, Roger Casement, and Paul Muldoon’s “A Clear Signal” (1992)’. New Hibernia Review 22.4 (2018), 78–96.
• ‘Girlhood, desire, memory and Northern Ireland in Lucy Caldwell’s short fiction’. Contemporary Women’s Writing 12.3 (2018), 306–321.
• ‘“Leaving hardly a sign — and no memories”: Roger Casement and the Metamodernist Archive’. Modernism/modernity, Print +, Volume 2.4 (2017).
• ‘“We listen for what the waves intone”: intertextuality and the circum-Atlantic poetics of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey and Kwame Dawes’. Comparative American Studies 14.2 (2016), 91-108.
• ‘Authorship, orality and print modernity: representing the Roma in Colum McCann’s Zoli’. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature 57.3 (2016), 348-357.
• ‘Making it up to tell the Truth’-Interview with Colum McCann’. Symbiosis: a Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations 18.1 (2014), 1-19. Subsequently republished in Conversations with Colum McCann ed. Earl G. Ingersoll and Mary C. Ingersoll, University of Mississippi Press (2017), 193-206.

 Peer-reviewed Book Chapters:

• [Forthcoming 2023] ‘“you: are you complicit?”: shame, trauma and gender in Susannah Dickey’s Tennis Lessons (2020)’, in Irish Shame, edited by Seán Kennedy, Joseph Valente and Sara Martín-Ruiz. Forthcoming Edinburgh University Press.
• ‘“Our uneasy mixed community”: cross-community romance, magic realism and Northern Ireland’, Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit, ed. Sarah Upstone & Peter Ely, Bloomsbury Academic (2022), pp.45-66.
• ‘Troubled love: the North and writing romance across the divide’ in Northern Ireland 1921–2021: Centenary Historical Perspectives ed. Paul Bew, Marie Coleman & Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid. Ulster Historical Foundation, (2022), pp.129-134.
• ‘“Intertextual quotation”: Troubled Irish bodies and Jewish textual memory in Colum McCann’s “Cathal’s Lake” and “Hunger Strike”’, in The Body In Pain in Irish Literature and Culture, ed. Emilie Pine, Naomi McAreavey and Fionnula Dillane. Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 167-182.
• ‘Proving their Virility?: Transgressive Masculinity and Steve McQueen’s Hunger’, in Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body, ed. Joel Gwynne. Columbia University Press (2016), 57-71.

Other Journal Articles:

• ‘“The Rude March of History”: Rethinking the 1980/81 Hunger Strikes and their Afterlives’, co-authored with Maggie Scull, The Irish Review, 55 (Spring 2020), 7-20.
• ‘The Irish Atlantic and Transatlantic Literary Studies’, co-authored with Muireann Crowley, Symbiosis: a Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 19.2 (October 2015), 117-135.

Newspaper articles, interviews and blog posts:

• ‘Using oral history to tell stories of Irish “mixed marriage”’, co-authored with Ruth Coon, the Oral History Society blog, 27 July 2022.
• ‘Why a play about Ireland’s native language finds new resonance in Anglo-Irish relations today‘, The Conversation, 10 June 2022.
• ‘Derry Girls: the riotous show that shifted the experiences of teenage girls to centre stage‘, The Conversation, 25 May 2022.
• ‘Mixed Marriages in Irish Culture‘, co-authored with Ruth Coon, The Honest Ulsterman, 25 February 2022.
• ‘The Complex History Behind Belfast—and Its Echoes in Present-Day Northern Ireland’, TIME, 12 November 2021. (For a Twitter thread with a list of sources consulted while writing this, please click here).
• ‘This is no love story: when England met Ireland‘, Aeon, 5 November 2021. (For a Twitter thread with a list of sources consulted while writing this, please click here).
• ‘An Interview with Mariah Garnett by Alison Garden’, The Tangerine 10, June 2021, 89–94.
• ‘Bridgerton and Normal People expose romance’s colonial hangover‘, Al Jazeera, 20 April 2021. (For a Twitter thread with a list of sources consulted while writing this, please click here).
• ‘Normal people: Kevin and Sadie’s teenage love story‘, RTÉ Brainstorm, 11 August 2020.
• ‘St Patrick’s Day parade homophobia protest: Paul Muldoon, Roger Casement and the AOH‘, The Irish Times, 14 March 2019.
• ‘Dangerous, always dangerous’: love and desire in Anna Burns’s Milkman‘, The Irish Times, 15 October 2018.
• ‘Black ’47: the cowboys of the western world‘, RTÉ Brainstorm, 14 September 2018.
• ‘Travelling Texts: Irish diaspora history, the North Atlantic and contemporary literature‘, Irish Diaspora Histories Network, 30 July 2018.
• ‘Remembering the Hunger Strikes in a Decade of Commemorations’, with Maggie Scull, Irish Times, 3 October 2016 (published in print and online).
• ‘GIS and literature: a report for the Irish Association of American Studies’, Irish Association for American Studies website, 13 September 2016.
• ‘“An extraordinary secretary bird”: writing, history and Roger Casement’, Irish Historians in Britain website, 26 March 2016.
• ‘Rethinking the 1980/1981 hunger strikes’, with Maggie Scull, Irish Times, 27 October 2015.
• ‘Fulbright Grants and Research Awards: Tips for Applicants’, MyAmericanStudies.com, 14 June 2015.
• ‘Students: don’t rate me on my appearance but on my teaching’, The Guardian, 21 April 2015.
• ‘Northern Ireland and the British Army: thinking about Yann Demange’s ’71 through a four nations approach’, Four Nations History Network, 2 March 2015.
• ‘How to Make the Most of your PhD’, The Guardian, 28 November 2014.