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Teaching Caxton's Prologue to Eneydos as an introduction to Renaissance literary culture
(Michael Boecherer, Ed. & Pub, 2015-06)
Over the past few decades, contemporary scholarship on Renaissance literature has increasingly come to intersect with the concerns of book history and material culture. This has been reflected in the classroom, for instance, ...
The on and off-stage roles of Abbey Theatre actresses of the 1930s
(2016-05-11)
Building on the work of Maggie Gale and John Stokes in The Cambridge Companion to the Actress, this doctoral thesis exposes ‘the construction of the actress’ in the context of the Irish Free State (1922 – 1937). (2) It ...
The ethics of narrative form in Gaskell, Dickens, and Eliot
(2016-05-03)
This thesis explores Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend, and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda through the lens of rhetorical narratology to offer conclusions for realism, metafiction, and ...
I Love You (as they say)
(The Irish Times, 1998-10-31)
The Dublin Group: Irish mezzotint printmakers and the Dublin print trade c. 1740 to 1750
(2015-05-25)
This thesis explores the unique cultural and historical conditions leading to mezzotint portrait reproduction in Dublin during the 1740s. Arguably, the experiences and activity of the Dublin Group at Cork Hill facilitated ...
Virtual History Lessons
(The Irish Times, 2003-02-15)
Tales that Ripple in Time
(The Irish Times, 2007-12-08)
Ferociously-Paced Magical Surrealism
(The Irish Times, 2000-03-04)
“Certaine Amorous Sonnets, Betweene Venus and Adonis”: fictive acts of writing in The Passionate Pilgrime of 1612
(Etudes Epistémè, 2012)
In c. 1599, the London stationer William Jaggard produced
two editions of The Passionate
Pilgrime, a collection of twenty poems best known for its inclusion of
five sonnets by William Shakespeare. Having been lengthened ...
Paperback review of 'Utterly Monkey'
(The Irish Times, 2006-04-15)