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Eamon Maher
Director,
National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies,
ITT Dublin,
Tallaght,
Dublin 24.
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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
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1997: PhD in French Literature, NUI Galway, Ireland:
“Roman et christianisme en France. Le thème de la marginalité dans la vie et
l’œuvre de Jean Sulivan (1913-1980).”
1990: M.A. in French, NUI Maynooth.
1982: H.Dip. Ed., NUI Maynooth.
1981: B.A. in French and History, NUI Maynooth.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC AWARDS
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Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway (2011-2012). This
allowed me to spend 3 weeks researching the McGahern Archive in the Hardiman
Library and to produce a scholarly article on my findings.
2011-2012: President of ALFIT (Association of Lecturers of French in the Institutes
of Technology).
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2008). Honour bestowed by the
French Government for contribution to Franco-Irish Studies.
2004-present: Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies (NCFIS), ITT
Dublin.
http://www.it-tallaght.ie/ncfis/
Series Editor of Studies in Franco-Irish Relations (Peter Lang/Frankfurt am Main).
Series Editor of Reimagining Ireland (Peter Lang/Oxford) – details below.
President and founding member of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies).
2010-2013: Chairperson, Board of Management, Moyle Park secondary school,
Clondalkin.
2005-2008: Associate Editor, The Irish Book Review (The Liffey Press).
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2000-present: Head of Humanities Research Committee, ITT Dublin.
2003-2004: President of ALFIT.
2003-2004: Recipient of an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and the
Social Sciences Small Research Grant for a second monograph on John McGahern.
1996: Winner of the Prix de l’Ambassade, Translation Bursary Scholarship.
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
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May 2014: Co-organiser of the 10th annual AFIS conference in the National Concert
Hall, Dublin.
May 2012: Organiser of the PhD seminar “Esthétique et Spiritualité”. The
workshops are usually hosted by the Université Catholique de Louvain, the
Université Libre de Bruxelles or the Université Charles de Gaulle Lille3, so the
request to hold a meeting in ITTD was an indication of the esteem in which the
Centre for Franco-Irish Studies is held.
June 2012: Co-organised the first Dublin Gastronomy Symposium in DIT (Cathal
Brugha Street).
April 2012: Organised annual ALFIT seminar in ITT Dublin.
May 2009: Organised with Professor Grace Neville the fifth conference of NCFIS in
UCC: France, Ireland and Rebellion/La France, l’Irlande et la rébellion.
May 2007: Organised the third conference of NCFIS in ITT Dublin – Modernity and
Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context.
March 2006: Was responsible, with Professor Grace Neville, for the second
conference of NCFIS in UCC: France-Ireland: Interlinks, Interference,
Intertextuality/France-Irlande: Interfaces, Intervention, Intertextualité.
June 2005: Arranged with Rev. John Littleton the conference: Irish and Catholic?
Towards an Understanding of Identity.
April 2004: Organised ALFIT (Association of Lecturers of French in the Institutes of
Technology) conference in ITT Dublin: La France et la langue française face à la
mondialisation.
March 2003: Initiated the first Franco-Irish Conference in ITT Dublin entitled Ireland
and France: Cultural, Literary and Spiritual Bonds.
February 2000: Was responsible for a conference on 20th-Century French Literature
in ITT Dublin: Regard en arrière vers la littérature d’expression française du XXe
siècle: Questions de marginalité et d’identité.
July 1994: Co-organised with Professor Pádraig Ó Gormaile the 1994 Conference of
the Association Européenne François Mauriac in Clongowes Wood College.
POSTGRADUATE RECRUITMENT AND SUPERVISION
I have secured 4 funded TSRI postgraduate fellowships (cumulatively worth more than
€150,000) to work on the following areas:
 2005 - The French Connection: The Influence of Camus and Proust on the Fictions of
John McGahern. (Raymond Mullen). Graduated with research Masters in 2007.
 2006 – ‘As Mirrors are Lonely’: A Lacanian Reading of Three Irish Novelists. (Peter
Guy). Graduated with PhD in 2009.
 2006 – Goodbye to the Power and the Glory? From Modernity to Ultramodernity – A
Socio-historical Analysis of Secularisation as the Restructuration of Catholic and
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Political Belief in France and in Ireland. (Jean-Christophe Penet). Graduated with
PhD in 2010.
2007 – Crossing Borders: The Role of City and Woman in the Poetry of Charles
Baudelaire and Peter Sirr. (Sarah Balen). Expected to submit in December 2013.
Self-funded PhDs
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Jeanne Lakatos, ‘The Wild Irish Girl': Iconic Realism and Revolutionary Rhetoric in
the Work of Sydney Owenson. Graduated in November 2012.
Brian Murphy, Changing Identities in a Homogenised World: The Role of Place and
Story in Modern Perceptions of French Wine Culture. Graduated in November 2013.
President’s Award
 2012 – Writing the Great War: Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Blaise Cendrars and Jean
Giono (Gerard Connolly). Internal postgraduate Fellowship worth approximately
€30,000.
External Examiner for the following PhDs
 L’Église catholique face aux défis contemporains en République : Redéfinition
d’une institution désacralisée (Déborah Vandewoude – Université Lille 3 Charles-deGaulle, 2010)
 Love and Ethics in the Fiction of John McGahern (Mary J. Doyle – University College
Dublin, 2013)
 John McGahern and the American Connection: Intertextuality and Masculinity
(Adam Bargroff – Queen’s University Belfast, 2013)
 Sécularisation et polémique autour de l’avortement en Irlande (1983-2013) (Edwige
Nault - Université Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle, 2014).
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE (Book series)
Click on series title to view outline description and various works in print.
Series editor of REIMAGINING IRELAND (to date over 50 books published).
Series editor of STUDIES IN FRANCO-IRISH RELATIONS.
GUEST/KEYNOTE LECTURES
2014:
“Faith of our Fathers: A Lost Legacy?”
The Catholic Church in Ireland Today
Loras College Dubuque conference on contemporary Irish Catholicism, 28-29 March.
2013:
“A Voice from the Margins: Albert Camus at 100.”
Outside the Frame: Challenging Representations of France and Ireland.
9th annual conference of AFIS, Université de Rennes 2, May 23-24.
2013:
“Sins of the Flesh: Problematic Sexuality in Mauriac and McGahern.”
A Way of Seeing: 50 Years of John McGahern in Print.
Queen’s University Belfast, 15-16 March.
2011:
“Tracing the Imprint of Catholicism on the 20 th century Irish Novel.”
The Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 7 December.
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2011:
“Where to Now for the Catholic Novel?”
Central Catholic Library, 1 November.
2011:
‘“The Church and its Spire”: John McGahern and the Catholic Question’.
Liverpool Hope Irish Studies Lecture series, 24 January.
2009:
“John Broderick and the French Connection”.
Athlone Literary Festival, 25-27 September.
2007:
“‘No Surrender!’ War and the Death of Innocence in the Fictions of John
McGahern.”
Ireland at War and Peace. Fifth annual conference of the North East Irish Network,
University of Sunderland, 9-11 November.
2007:
“Pondering Eternity in a stifling Rural Setting: François Mauriac’s Thérèse
Desqueyroux and John McGahern’s The Dark.”
Encounters/La Rencontre. First International Postgraduate Conference of NCFIS,
Tallaght, 5-6 October.
2007:
“John McGahern and Religion.”
First International John McGahern Seminar organised by NUI Galway and Leitrim
Co. Council, 26-28 July.
2006:
“Interpreting Rural Ireland Through the Prism of John McGahern’s Memoir.”
“Autour de Memoir de John McGahern.”
Commemorative Research Day on John McGahern, Université de Reims, June 2.
2005:
“Sulivan et l’actualité : Un regard depuis les marges.”
2005 Année Jean Sulivan, Table Ronde.
Conseil Municipal de Rennes, 23 November.
2005:
“Representations of Catholicism in the 20th-century Irish Novel.”
Irish and Catholic? Towards an Understanding of Identity
The Priory Institute, Tallaght (23-24 June).
2005:
“Catholicism at the Crossroads: Towards an Evaluation of Religion in the Novels of
Kate O’Brien and John McGahern.”
Central Catholic Library, Dublin, (3 March).
2005:
“Towards a Theory of the Irish Novel: The Example of John McGahern.”
Plenary paper at New Voices in Irish Criticism conference: Ireland and Theory.
MIC/University of Limerick, 28-30 January.
2004:
“The Current State of Irish Fiction: The Example of John McGahern.”
Université de Bourgogne (Dijon) (6 March)
2004:
“Death as envisioned by the French priest-writer, Jean Sulivan.”
University Church, Dublin (19 March)
2001:
“The Joys of Literature.”
Lecture series organised by the Priory Institute, Tallaght. Series covered works by
Jean Sulivan, François Mauriac, Georges Bernanos, Kate O’Brien and John McGahern
(November/December).
2001:
“Sexuality in the Novels of John Broderick.”
Second John Broderick Weekend, Project Theatre, Athlone (June).
2000:
“Love and Loss of Faith in the Novels of Kate O’Brien.”
Kate O’Brien Annual Weekend, The Hunt Museum, Limerick (February).
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1998:
“John McGahern: Irish Novelist in Tune with his Time.”
Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (April).
MEDIA APPEARANCES
In addition to publishing regular opinion pieces and reviews in The Irish Times, I have also appeared on
the following programmes:
The Living Word – RTÉ Radio 1. A week of reflections on the work of John McGahern (June 2011), on
beginning a new year (January 2012), on the centenary of the birth of Albert Camus (January 2013) and
of Jean Sulivan (November 2013).
Tonight with Vincent Browne – TV3. Was invited as a panellist for a discussion on the findings of the
Murphy Report (October 2011)
News at One – RTÉ Radio 1. Interviewed on the day my book, The Murphy Report: A Watershed for Irish
Catholicism?, was published (29 March, 2010)
RESEARCH PROFILE
SINGLE AUTHOR BOOKS
2011:
Maher, Eamon, ‘The Church and its Spire’: John McGahern and the Catholic Question (Dublin:
The Columba Press).
2008:
Maher, Eamon, Jean Sulivan : La Marginalité dans la vie et l’œuvre (Paris: L’Harmattan).
2003:
Maher, Eamon, John McGahern: From the Local to the Universal (Dublin: The Liffey Press).
2000:
Maher, Eamon, Crosscurrents and Confluences: Echoes of Religion in 20th-century Fiction (Dublin:
Veritas).
2000:
Maher, Eamon, Anticipate Every Goodbye (trans.) (Dublin: Veritas).
BOOKS AS EDITOR OR CO-EDITOR
2014:
Maher, Eamon and O’Brien, Eugene (eds), From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural
Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
2014:
Mac Con Iomaire, Máirtin and Maher, Eamon (eds), ‘Tickling the Palate’: Gastronomy in Irish
Literature and Culture (Oxford: Peter Lang).
2014:
Littleton, John and Maher, Eamon (eds), The Francis Factor: A New Departure (Dublin: The
Columba Press).
2012:
Maher, Eamon and Maignant, Catherine (eds), Franco-Irish Connections in Space and Time:
Peregrinations and Ruminations (Oxford: Peter Lang).
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2012:
Littleton, John and Maher, Eamon (eds), Catholicism and Me (Dublin: The Columba Press).
2011:
Maher, Eamon and O’Brien, Eugene (eds), Breaking the Mould: Literary Representations of Irish
Catholicism (Oxford: Peter Lang).
2010:
Maher, Eamon and O’Brien, Eugene (eds), War of the Words: Literary Rebellion in France and
Ireland (Rennes: TIR).
2010:
Littleton, John and Maher, Eamon (eds), The Dublin/Murphy Report: A Watershed for Irish
Catholicism? (Dublin: The Columba Press).
2009:
Littleton, John and Maher, Eamon (eds), What Being Catholic Means to Me (Dublin: The
Columba Press).
2009:
Maher, Eamon (ed.), Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland (Oxford: Peter Lang).
2009:
Bévant, Yann, Maher, Eamon, Neville, Grace and O’Brien, Eugene (eds), Issues of Globalisation
and Secularisation in France and Ireland (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang).
2008:
Maher, Eamon, Neville, Grace and O’Brien, Eugene (eds), Modernity and Postmodernity in a
Franco-Irish Context (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang)
2008:
Littleton, John, Maher, Eamon (eds), Contemporary Catholicism in Ireland: A Critical Appraisal
(Dublin: The Columba Press)
2007:
Maher, Eamon, O’Brien, Eugene and Neville, Grace (eds), Reinventing Ireland Through a French
Prism (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang)
2007:
Maher, Eamon, O’Brien, Eugene (eds), La France face à la mondialisation/France and the
Struggle Against Globalization (Lewiston/New York: The Edwin Mellen Press).
2006:
Fuller, Louise, Littleton, John, Maher, Eamon (eds), Irish and Catholic? Towards an
Understanding of Identity (Dublin: The Columba Press).
2005:
Maher, Eamon (ed.), Un Regard en arrière sur la littérature d’expression française du 20e
siècle: Questions de Marginalité et d’Identité (Besançon: Presses Universitaires de FrancheComté).
2004:
Maher, Eamon, Neville, Grace (eds), Ireland-France: Anatomy of a Relationship (Frankfurt am
Main: Peter Lang).
2003:
Böss, Michael, Maher, Eamon (eds), Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and
Literature at the Turn of the Century (Dublin: Veritas).
NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
2014:
“’Home is where the Heart is’: Arrivals and Departures in John McGahern’s Short Stories.”
Doctrine & Life, Vol. 64, no.3 (March), pp.27-35.
2014:
“French Writer’s Voice Retains all the Hallmarks of a True Prophet.” (On Jean Sulivan).
RITE AND REASON, The Irish Times, 25 February.
2013:
“An Irishman’s Diary”. Piece to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Albert Camus. The
Irish Times, 5 November.
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2013:
“The Legacy of Broken Faith”.
Doctrine and Life, vol. 63, No. 9 (November), pp.44-52
2013:
“Albert Camus at 100: A Mediterranean Son of France”.
Doctrine & Life, Vol. 63, N0. 8 (October), pp.43-53.
2013:
“An Irishman’s Diary”. On the work of the Irish writer, Walter Macken. The Irish Times, 24
August.
2013:
“Evil Literature”. Review article of Michael Cronin’s Impure Thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism
and Literature in Twentieth-century Ireland (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013).
Dublin Review of Books, Issue 40 (September 9) http://www.drb.ie/essays/-incategory/categories/back-issues/issue-40-september-9th-2013
2013:
“The Barracks at 50”.
Spirituality, Vol. 19, No. 109 (August), pp.247-251.
2013:
“An Irishman’s Diary”. Article marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of John
McGahern’s first novel, The Barracks. The Irish Times, 12 March.
2012:
“An Irishman’s Diary”. Article marking the 60th anniversary of the publication of Gilbert
Cesbron’s Les Saints vont en enfer. The Irish Times, 27 November.
2012:
“An Irishman’s Diary.” Piece celebrating the publication of the French art historian Françoise
Henry’s Inishkea Journals (Four Courts Press). The Irish Times, 24 September
2012:
“An Irishman’s Diary.” This entry was on the Prix Goncourt winning novel by Michel
Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory. The Irish Times, 2 August.
2012:
“An Irishman’s Diary.” Article on the latest biography on Albert Camus. The Irish Times, 8
June.
2012:
“An Irishman’s Diary.” Piece dealing with Sorj Chalandon’s award-winning novel about the
Northern Ireland conflict. The Irish Times, 26 March.
2012:
“Irish Sexuality in the 1960s and 70s.”
Doctrine & Life, vol.62, No. 2 (February), pp.48-56.
2012:
“An Irishman’s Diary.” Article dealing with the second volume of Jean-Luc Barré’s biography of
François Mauriac. The Irish Times, 6 January.
2012:
“Irish Writers and the Eucharist.”
Spirituality, Vol. 18, January-February, No.100, pp.46-50.
2011:
“Tracing the Imprint: Catholicism in some Twentieth Century Irish Fiction.”
A Century of Studies. Special centenary issue of Studies, Winter, Vol. 100, No.400, pp.489-500.
2011:
“Where to for Irish Catholicism in 2012?”
The Irish Catholic, December 29.
2011:
“François Mauriac (1885-1970) and the Catholic Novel.”
Doctrine and Life, Vol.61, No. 10 (December), pp.36-44.
2011:
“Tackling the Ultimate Mystery of Grace: Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited.
Doctrine and Life, Vol.61 , No.7, pp.40-48.
2011:
“A Literary Vocation” (on John McGahern).
The Irish Catholic, 7 April, p.12.
2011:
“‘Hell, Flames and Damnation’: Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock.”
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Spirituality, Vol. 17, May-June, pp.183-5.
2011:
“‘No Surrender!’ War and the Death of Innocence in the Death in the Fictions of John
McGahern.”
Doctrine and Life, Vol.61, No. 2 (February), pp.36-46.
2011:
“An Irishman’s Diary”. Article dealing with the first biography of the French
philosopher/theorist, Jacques Derrida. The Irish Times, 25 March.
2011:
“Everything’s a Sin.” Essay dealing with certain manifestations of the Catholic Novel.
Dublin Review of Books, Issue 21 Spring 2012 - http://www.drb.ie/essays/everything-s-a-sin
2010:
“What can Post-Catholic Ireland Learn from France?”
Doctrine and Life, Vol.60, No. 6 (July-August), pp.35-43.
2010:
“What Future? Irish Catholicism Post-Murphy.”
Reality (July-August), pp.16-17.
2010:
Littleton, John and Maher, Eamon, “New Approaches are Vital if Irish Catholicism is to have a
Future”. The Irish Times, Rite and Reason, April 13.
2010:
“An Irishman’s Diary”. Article to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Jean
Sulivan. The Irish Times, 30 March.
2010:
“Faith Alive?” (Article dealing with the current state of Irish Catholicism).
Reality (January), pp.36-7.
2010:
“An Irishman’s Diary”. Article to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of the writer
John Broderick. The Irish Times, 5 January.
2010:
“Setting a Spiritual Example” (on the figure of the priest in Georges Bernanos).
Doctrine and Life, Vol. 60 No. 1 (January), pp.43-51.
2009:
“Exploring what it Means to be a Catholic in Ireland Today”.
The Irish Times, Rite and Reason, 17 November.
2009:
“Cohen’s Songs of Suffering Move Us with Power of Prayer”.
The Irish Times, Rite and Reason, 22 September.
2009:
“An Irishman’s Diary”. Article on a controversial new biography of François Mauriac by Jean-Luc
Barré. The Irish Times, 13 August.
2009:
“Coping with Crisis in the Church”.
Doctrine and Life. Vol. 59, May-June, pp.3-13.
2009:
“Irlande : du catholicisme au capitalisme”.
Etudes (mai), pp.583-92.
2009:
“McGahern’s Appreciation for the Rituals of Death lives on.”
The Irish Times, 24 March.
2009:
“Suffering, a Path to Happiness: A Tribute to Jean Sulivan (1913-1980).”
The Irish Catholic, 5 March.
2009:
“’A Price on your Head’: The Hunted priest in Graham Greene and Shusaku Endo.”
Doctrine&Life, Vol.59, No. 1 (January), pp.17-26.
2009:
“What is the Future of Irish Catholicism?”
Reality, (January), pp.36-7.
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2008:
“Island Culture: The Role of the Blasket Autobiographies in the Preservation of a Traditional
Way of Life.”
Studies, Vol.97, No.387 (Autumn), pp.263-274.
2008:
“Albert Camus’ The Outsider.”
The Irish Catholic, 4 September, pp.28-9.
2008:
“In a changing world are we losing the positive aspects of religion?”
The Irish Times, RITE AND REASON, May 20.
2008:
“Pondering Eternity in a Stifling Rural Setting: François Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux and
John McGahern’s The Barracks”, in Jean-Christophe Penet (ed.), JOFIS, E-journal in FrancoIrish Studies:
http://www.it-tallaght.ie/ncfis/jofis/, pp.76-89.
2008:
“Spirituality on the Margins - The Writings of Jean Sulivan.”
French Nottingham Studies, Volume 47, No.1, Spring, pp.32-42.
2008:
“McGahern’s Reflections on Death.”
The Irish Catholic, 17 April.
2008:
“Can the Irish Learn Something from the French?”
The Irish Catholic, 10 April.
2007:
“A Most Discerning Clown” (on Heinrich Böll).
The Irish Catholic, 9 August.
2007:
“Lough Derg plays Important Spiritual Role.”
The Irish Times, RITE AND REASON, 31 July.
2007:
“A Saint in Lawless Mexico: Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory.”
The Irish Catholic, July 5.
2007:
“Blaming it on the Poor” (on Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes).
Writers on Catholicism 8, Reality, Vol. 72, No. 6, pp.14-16.
2007:
“Heinrich Böll’s The Clown.”
Writers on Catholicism 7. Reality, Vol. 72, No. 5, pp.16-18.
2007:
“Carrying The Cross: Jean Sulivan’s Mais il y a la mer.”
Writers on Catholicism 6. Reality, Vol. 72, No. 4 (April), pp.16-18.
2007:
“The Struggle to be Christian: Julien Green’s Each Man in His Darkness.”
Writers on Catholicism 5, Reality, Vol. 72, No.3 (March), pp.17-18.
2007:
“A Franco-Irish View of the Great War: Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Sebastian
Barry.” Doctrine & Life, Vol.57 No. 3 (March), pp.27-35.
2007:
“Brian Moore’s The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne.”
Writers on Catholicism 4. Reality, Vol. 72 No.2 (February), pp.11-13.
2007:
“The Peace of Saving Grace: Julien Green’s Each Man in His Darkness.”
The Irish Catholic, February 1.
2007:
“Faith and Mystery in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room.”
Writers on Catholicism 3. Reality, Vol. 72, No.1 (January), pp.12-13.
2006:
“A Prophetic Witness from the Church of Ireland.”
The Irish Times, December 4 (RITE AND REASON).
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2006:
“A Lost Soul in Search of the Light – François Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux.”
Writers on Catholicism 2. Reality, Vol. 71 No.11 (December), pp.16-17.
2006:
“A look at Ireland Through a Number of Decades: John McGahern’s Memoir.”
Hallel, Volume 31, No. 2, pp.7-13.
2006:
“The Transforming Power of Grace: Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory.”
Writers on Catholicism 1. Reality, Vol. 71, No. 10 (November), pp.15-16.
2006:
“McGahern’s Light Shining more brightly than ever before.”
The Irish Times, November 6 (RITE AND REASON).
2006:
“The Triumph of Grace: The Vision of Georges Bernanos.”
The Irish Catholic, October 12.
2006:
“John McGahern and the Commemoration of Traditional Rural Ireland.”
Studies, Vol. 95, No.379 (Autumn), pp.279-290.
2006:
“The Catholic Novel in Ireland.”
The Irish Catholic, September 18.
2006:
“The Spirituality of John McGahern.”
Reality, Vol.7, No. 6, June, pp.13-14.
2006:
“A Long Way From the Celtic Tiger” (on Dermot Bolger),
Dotrine&Life, Vol. 56, No. 5, May-June, pp.14-23.
2006:
“John McGahern and the Issue of Irish Catholicism.”
The Irish Catholic, April 6.
2006:
“Religion question of following Path to Self-Discovery.” (On Jean Sulivan)
The Irish Times, RITE AND REASON (20 February).
2006:
“Critic from the Inside – Catholicism in Two Novels by John Broderick.”
Reality, Vol. 71, No.2, February, pp.17-19.
2005:
“Drawing from a Life of Fugitive Days.” Interview with John McGahern.
Irish Book Review, Vol.1, No.2 (Autumn), pp.12-13.
2005:
“Shifting environments of Reception of the Work of John McGahern
(1934- ).”
New Hibernia Review. Vol. 9, No. 2, (Summer), pp.125-36.
2005:
“Being a Writer in Ireland in the 1970s and Today.” Interview between Eamon Maher
and Dermot Bolger.
Doctrine&Life, Vol. 55, No. 8 (October), pp.28-38.
2005:
“The Irish Novel in Crisis? The Example of John McGahern.” Irish University Review,
Vol.35, No.1, pp.58-71. Special John McGahern Issue.
2005:
“Writing on the Margins of Life.” Interview with Dermot Bolger.
The Irish Book Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.22-24.
2005:
“Circles and Circularity in the Writings of John McGahern.”
Nordic Irish Studies, Vol. 4, pp.156-66.
2005:
“John McGahern’s Fictions – A Chronicle of Four Decades of Change in Ireland.”
Doctrine&Life Vol.55, No. 4 (April), pp.22-30.
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2005:
“Loving what we cannot understand” (on Camus).
Reality, Vol. 7, No. 4 (April) pp.9-11.
2005:
“Masterpiece portrays Angst of a Priest’s Spiritual Struggle” (on Bernanos).
The Irish Times (RITE AND REASON), March 28.
2005:
“Jean Sulivan (1913-1980): A Marginal Writer.”
The Word, Vol. 54, No. 2 (February), pp.20-21.
2005:
“Irish Catholicism at the Beginning of the Third Millennium.”
Doctrine & Life, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January), pp.42-50.
2004:
“Preaching the Gospel in a de-Christianised Parish” (2).
Reality, Vol.68, No.10 (November), pp.27-29.
2004:
“Preaching the Gospel in a de-Christianised Parish” (1). (On Georges Bernanos)
Reality, Vol. 69, No.10 (October), pp.22-24.
2004:
“A Glimpse at Death and the Transcendent in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Jean Sulivan.”
Spirituality, Vol. 10, No. 56 (September-October), pp.310-14.
2004:
“Reducing yourself to Zero.” (On Jean Sulivan).
The Way, Vol. 43, No. 3, (July), pp.95-105.
2004:
“Assuming Responsibility.”
Doctrine and Life, Vol.54, No. 2, (February), pp.46-51.
2003:
“An Introduction to the Life and Works of Jean Sulivan (1913-1980).”
Studies, Vol. 92, No.368 (Winter), pp.387-95.
2003:
“War and the Death of Innocence” (On Camus and Sulivan).
Doctrine and Life, Vol. 53, No. 8 (October), pp.477-84.
2003:
“The Role of Tradition in Contemporary Ireland.”
The Irish Times, (June 9).
2003:
“Indian Spirituality as Experienced by the French priest-writer, Jean Sulivan (1913-1980)”.
Spirituality, Vol. 9, No.47, March-April, pp.123-6.
2003:
“An Outsider’s View of Modern Ireland: Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised”.
Studies, Vol. 92, Number 365 (Spring), pp.27-33.
2003:
“Spirituality in John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun”.
Reality, Volume 68 No. 2, February, pp.26-8.
2003:
“Spiritual Revolt: Learning from Albert Camus”.
Doctrine & Life, Vol. 53, No. 1 (January), pp.7-17.
2002:
“Un entretien avec John McGahern.”
Intervoix: Bulletin de l’Association Européenne François Mauriac, No. 10 (June), pp.2-5
2002:
“L’intériorité chez les personnages de Quelque temps de la vie de Jude et Compagnie”.
Rencontres avec Jean Sulivan 13, Association des Amis de Jean Sulivan, pp.44-52.
2002:
“A Priesthood of the Pen” (On Jean Sulivan and Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Doctrine&Life, Vol. 52, No. 7 (September), pp.412-9.
2002:
“Lost Souls in Search of the Light: Two Novels of François Mauriac”.
Doctrine&Life, Vol. 52, No.4 (April), pp.219-32.
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2002:
“John McGahern: Writer, Stylist, Seeker of a Lost World”. Tapescript of October 2001 interview
between Eamon Maher and Professor Declan Kiberd.
Doctrine&Life, Vol. 52, No.2 (February), pp.82-97.
2002:
“The Bleak Universe of Bernanos’ Monsieur Ouine”.
REA: A Journal of Religion, Education and the Arts, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Issue 2,
2001/2002, pp.17-25.
2001:
“Coping with Death alongside Jean Sulivan”.
Reality (November), pp.23-4.
2001:
“Belfast: the far from Sublime City in Brian Moore’s early Novels”.
Studies, Vol. 90, No. 360 (Winter), pp.422-31.
2001:
“Sexuality in the Novels of John Broderick”.
Seminar Proceedings of the 2001 John Broderick Weekend (ed.) Gearoid O’Brien, John Broderick
Committee, pp.9-13.
2001:
“A Glimpse at Irish Catholicism in John McGahern’s Amongst Women”.
Doctrine&Life, Vol. 51, No.6 (July/August 2001), pp.346-55.
2001:
“Grace in Graham Greene”.
Spirituality (May/June), pp.144-8.
2001:
“Catholicism and National Identity in the Works of John McGahern”.
Studies, Vol. 90, No.357 (Spring), pp.70-83. Tapescript of an interview between Eamon Maher and
John McGahern.
2001:
“Disintegration and Despair in the early Fiction of John McGahern”.
Studies, Vol. 90, No.357 (Spring), pp.84-91.
2001:
“Is there a role for a Catholic ‘Intellectual’ in Ireland anymore?”
Reality (April), pp.14-5.
2001:
“A German view of Irish Catholicism” (On Heinrich Böll).
Doctrine & Life, Vol. 51, No.3 (March), pp.148-56.
2001:
“A Case for reading Jean Sulivan in Translation”.
The Month (February), pp.76-9.
2000:
“Rite and Reason” (Dealt with the theme of death and eternity in Anticipate Every Goodbye.)
The Irish Times (November 21).
2000:
“Squinting Windows in Millenium Light” (on Brinsley McNamara).
Doctrine & Life, Vol.50, No. 7 (September), pp.424-32.
2000:
“Literary Translation – a Case Study”.
Translation Ireland (July), Vol.14, No.2, pp.14-5.
2000:
“John Broderick: Irish Novelist in the European Tradition”.
The Month (March), pp.101-6.
2000:
“On the Road to Somewhere with Jack Kerouac”.
Doctrine & Life, Vol. 50, No.3 (March), pp.144-9.
2000:
“Jean Sulivan: prêtre-écrivain des marges”.
Rencontres avec Jean Sulivan 12, Association des Amis de Jean Sulivan, pp.38-47.
1999:
“Religious Practice Bereft of Faith” (On Brian Moore).
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Doctrine & Life (September) Vol. 47, No.7, pp.386-97.
1999:
“Jean Sulivan (1913-1980): a Marginal Writer”.
Irish Theological Quarterly (Autumn), Vol. 64, No.3, pp. 277-84.
1999:
“Albert Camus: an Existentialist with a Sense of the Absolute.”
The Month (June),” pp.234-9.
1999:
“Love, Loss of Faith and Kate O’Brien”.
Doctrine & Life (February) Vol.49. No.2, pp.87-97.
1998:
“No Church for the Poor - Angela’s Ashes”.
Doctrine & Life, (July/August) Vol.48, No.6 pp.329-36.
1998:
“The figure of the priest in the writings of Jean Sulivan (1913-1980)”.
Modern Believing, Vol.XXXIX (April), pp.23-9.
1998:
“Camus’ Meursault: the only Christ that modern civilisation deserves”.
Studies, Vol.87, No.347 (Autumn), pp.276-81.
1998:
“Julien Green, marginal dans le contexte littéraire français”.
Bulletin de la Société Internationale d’Etudes Greeniennes, No. 4, pp.11-7.
1998:
“Sex and Religion in a Midlands Town” (On John Broderick).
Doctrine & Life, Vol.2, No.2 (February), pp.73-81.
1997:
“Julien Green: a life full of paradoxes”.
Doctrine & Life, Vol.47, No.8 (October), pp.466-73.
1997:
“La figure du prêtre chez Bernanos et Graham Greene”.
Catholica, No. 55, pp.78-87.
1997:
“The Search for Authenticity in François Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux”.
The Month (June), pp.239-43.
1996:
“Regards de romanciers sur l’Irlande”. (Deals with the Irish novelists Brian Moore, John McGahern
and John Broderick).
Esprit, No. 225 (Octobre), pp.194-201.
1996:
“Grace is Everywhere.” (On Georges Bernanos’ Diary of a Country Priest)
The Month (July), pp.255-9.
1996:
“La joie insolite chez Jean Sulivan: l'exemple de Joie errante”.
Lumière et Vie, No. 226, pp.75-8
1996:
“War and migration: the example of An Ordinary Exodus by Roger Bichelberger”.
The Month (March 1996): pp.110-3.
1996:
“L'itinéraire mystique de Jean Sulivan”.
Christus, No. 196 (Janvier), pp.106-16.
1995:
“Jean Sulivan, champion of the marginalised”.
The Month (June), pp.249-52.
1994:
“Le personnage marginal chez Jean Sulivan”.
Études (Juillet-Août), pp.91-9.
1994:
“Le prêtre rebelle chez Sulivan: inamical envers les pouvoirs”.
Rencontres avec Jean Sulivan (8), Association des Amis de Jean Sulivan, pp.86-91.
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1993:
“The Christian Novelist in an Age of Transition – A Case Study”.
Studies, Vol.82, No.326 (Summer), pp.140-7.
1993:
“The Rebel Novelist who liked to buck Tradition” (On Jean Sulivan).
The Irish Times (4 April).
1993:
“Faith on the Margins: the Example of Jean Sulivan”.
Doctrine & Life, Vol. 43, No.3 (March), pp.147-55.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2012:
“John Broderick and the French Catholic Novel”, in Werner Huber, Sandra Mayer and Julia
Novak (eds), Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges (Trier: Verlag Trier),
pp.117-126.
2012:
“‘Beware the Hypocrites and the Pharisees!’ François Mauriac’s Impact on some TwentiethCentury Irish Novelists”, in Eamon Maher and Catherine Maignant (eds), Franco-Irish
Connections in Space and time: Peregrinations and Ruminations (Oxford: Peter Lang), pp.249270.
2012:
“Esthétique et Spiritualité dans les écrits de Jean Sulivan”, in Baudouin Decharneux, Catherine
Maignant and Myriam Watthee-Delmotte (eds), Esthétique et Spiritualité II: Circulation des
modèles en Europe (Fernelmont: Éditions Modulaires Européennes (EME)), pp.277-87.
2011:
“Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999)”, in Eamon Maher and Eugene
O’Brien (eds), Breaking the Mould: Literary Representations of Irish Catholicism (Oxford: Peter
Lang), pp.125-39.
2010:
“Holding a Mirror Up to a Society in Evolution: John McGahern”, in Julia Wright (ed.), A
Companion to Irish Literature, Volume 2 (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp.248-262.
2010:
“War and Rebellion in the Work of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Sebastian Barry”, in Maher,
Eamon and O’Brien, Eugene (eds), War of the Words: Literary Rebellion in France and Ireland
(Rennes: TIR), pp.199-213.
2010:
“An Irish Catholic Novel? The Example of Brian Moore and John McGahern”, in Mary Reichardt
(ed.), Between Human and Divine: The Catholic Vision in Contemporary Literature (Washington
D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press), pp.69-85.
2009:
“Contemporary Irish Catholicism: Revolution or Evolution”, in Strachan, John and O’MalleyYounger, Alison (eds), Ireland: Revolution and Evolution (Oxford: Peter Lang), pp.211-227.
2009:
“‘The Local is the Universal Without Walls’: John McGahern and the Global Project”, in Eamon
Maher (ed.), Global Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland (Oxford: Peter Lang), pp.211231.
2009:
“Irish Catholicism as seen Through the Lens of Kate O’Brien and John McGahern”, in Bévant,
Yann and Goarzin, Anne, Bretagne et Irlande : Pérégrinations (Rennes: TIR), pp.95-112.
2009:
“‘Ma paroisse est dévorée par l’ennui’: Secularisation in Georges Bernanos’ Journal d’un curé
de campagne and John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun”, in Bévant, Maher,
Neville and O’Brien (eds), Issues of Globalisation and Secularisation in France and Ireland
(Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang), pp.15-29.
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2009:
“L’approche du spirituel dans l’univers romanesque de Jean Sulivan et de Julien Green”, in
Véronique Grollier (ed.), Julien Green : Littérature et spiritualité (Paris : L’Harmattan),
pp.51-59).
2008:
“Catholicism at a Crossroads: Jean Sulivan’s Message for post-Catholic Ireland.”
John Littleton and Eamon Maher (eds), Contemporary Catholicism in Ireland: A Critical
Appraisal (Dublin: The Columba Press), pp.259-274.
2008:
“A Message from France: Jean Sulivan and post-Catholic Ireland”, in Maher, Neville, O’Brien
(eds), Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang),
pp.239-251.
2008:
“Religion and Art”, in John Kenny (ed.), The John McGahern Yearbook, Volume 1 (Galway:
National University of Ireland Galway), pp.116-125.
2007:
“Lecture intertextuelle des premiers essais de Julien Green et Jean Sulivan : remise en
question de l’hypocrisie et de la tiédeur”, in Michael O’Dwyer (ed.), Julien Green, Diariste et
Essayiste (Oxford: Peter Lang), pp.167-76.
2007:
“Social and Cultural Change in Ireland as seen in Roddy Doyle’s Paula Spencer Novels”, in John
Strachan and Alison O’Malley-Younger (eds), Essays on Modern Irish Literature (Sunderland:
University of Sunderland Press), pp. 157-168.
2007:
“Sulivan aujourd’hui: Un regard depuis les marges”, in Yvon Tranvouez (ed.), Jean
Sulivan:L’écriture insurgée (Rennes: Editions Apogée), pp.235-41.
2007:
“John Broderick (1924-89) and the French ‘Roman Catholique’’’, in Maher, Neville and O’Brien
(eds), Reinventing Ireland Through a French Prism (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang), pp.245-61.
2007:
“An Irish writer’s debt to Flaubert and Proust: The Example of John McGahern”, in Maher and
O’Brien (eds), La France face à la mondialisation/France and the Struggle Against
Globalization (Lewiston/New York: The Edwin Mellen Press), pp.129-141.
2006:
“La marginalité dans l’œuvre romanesque de Catherine Paysan”, in Michèle Raclot
(ed.), Catherine Paysan : Une marginalité flamboyante (Paris: L’Harmattan),
pp.101-111.
2006:
“John McGahern”, in David Scott Kastan (Editor in Chief), The Oxford Encyclopedia of British
Literature, Vol 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp.440-2.
2006:
“Representations of Catholicism in the Twentieth-Century Irish Novel”, in Littleton
and Maher (eds), Irish and Catholic? Towards an Understanding of Identity (Dublin:
The Columba Press), pp.103-19.
2005:
“Introduction”, in Eamon Maher (ed.), Regard en arrière vers la littérature d’expression française
du XXe siècle: Questions de marginalité et d’identité (Besancon: Presses Universitaires de
Franche-Comté), pp.7-14.
2005:
“La Marginalité dans la vie et l’oeuvre de Julien Green”, in Maher (ed.), Regard en arrière vers la
littérature d’expression française du XXe siècle: Questions de marginalité et d’identité
(Besancon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté), pp.143-54.
2004:
“L’enfance inspiratrice de Jean Sulivan (1913-1980)”, in Toby Garfitt and Claude Herly (eds),
L’enfance inspiratrice: Éclat et Blessures (Paris: L’Harmattan), pp.93-102.
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2004:
“Death in the Country: An intertextual Analysis of Jean Sulivan’s Anticipate Every Goodbye and
John McGahern’s The Leavetaking”, in Maher and Neville (eds), France and Ireland: Anatomy of
a Relationship. (Frankfurt: Peter Lang), pp.111-121.
2003:
“Catholicism in the writings of John McGaherrn”, Böss, Michael and Eamon Maher (eds),
Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and Literature at the Turn of the
Century (Dublin: Veritas), pp. 85-96.
2002:
“John Broderick: romancier irlandais dans la tradition européenne”.
La Rencontre des Cultures, AEFM, pp.149-56.
2001:
“Léviathan: roman existentialiste?”
Autour de Julien Green au coeur de Léviathan (Besançon: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises),
pp.249-56.
1999:
“Jean Sulivan: écrivain marginal”, in Patrick Gormally (ed.), Actes du Colloque d’Irlande.
Rencontres avec Jean Sulivan 11, Association des Amis de Jean Sulivan, pp. 51-8.
1998:
“La joie insolite dans deux romans greeniens: Moïra et Chaque homme dans sa nuit”. Julien
Green et l’Insolite, Société Internationale d’Etudes Greeniennes, pp.101-10.
1998:
“Le bonheur impossible chez Luc Estang”.
Le Bonheur dans la littérature européenne contemporaine, Association Européenne François
Mauriac, pp.80-5.
1996:
“La mort et le dépassement chez Jean Sulivan: Devance tout Adieu”.
Enracinement et Dépassement, Association Européenne François Mauriac, Edituri TIMPUL, pp.132137.
REVIEW ARTICLES
2011:
“Seeking Redemption Through Art: The Example of Colum McCann.”
Review article on Eóin Flannery’s Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption (Dublin:
Irish Academic Press, 2011).
Irish Studies Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, February 2012, pp.87-90.
2010:
“Assessing a Literary Legacy: The Case of John McGahern”.
Irish Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 4 (November), pp.453-57.
2005:
“A Cardinal’s Voice of Protest.” Review article of Cathal Daly, The Making of Planet Earth
(Dublin: Veritas, 2004).
Reality, Vol.70, No.1 (January), pp.10-12.
2002:
“Ireland in the Eye of the Tiger”. Review article on Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and
the Global Economy (ed.s) Peadar Kirby, Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin,
(London: Pluto Press, 2002).
Reality, Vol.67, No.10 (November), pp.25-7.
BOOK REVIEWS
2013:
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“A Fond View of our Capital Attractions”. Review of Pierre Joannon’s Il était une fois Dublin
(Paris : Librairie Académique Perrin).
The Irish Times, June 8.
2013:
“Robust Questioning of a Loyal Opponent of the Church”. Review of Joseph Dunn’s No Lions in the
Hierarchy: An Anthology of Sorts (Dublin: The Columba Press).
The Irish Times, 23 February.
2012:
“Staying on Board the Ship.” Review of Mary McAleese’s Quo Vadis? Collegiality in the Code of
Canon Law (Dublin: The Columba Press, 2012).
The Irish Times, October 20.
2012:
“John McGahern: How Language Made Life More Real.” Review of Denis Sampson’s Young John
McGahern: Becoming a Novelist (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
The Irish Times, 3 March.
2011:
Maguy Pernot-Deschamps, The Fictional Imagination of Neil Jordan, Irish Novelist and Film Maker:
A Study of Literary Style Lewiston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009).
Irish Studies Review, Vol. 19, No. 2 (May), pp.236-8).
2010:
“Why Greene had Faith in his Writing.” Review of Michael G. Brennan’s Graham Greene: Fictions,
Faith and Authorship (New York: Continuum, 2010).
The Irish Times, 28 August.
2009:
Nolan, Emer, Catholic Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce (Syracuse:
Syracuse university Press, 2007).
Irish Studies Review, Vol. 17, No. 4 (November), pp.528-31.
2009:
“Coherent account of danger and heroism in ‘one of the greatest times to be alive’”. Review of
Matthew Cobb’s The Resistance: The French Fight against the Nazis (Simon & Schuster, 2009).
The Irish Times, June 9.
2009:
Mary O’Donnell, Storm over Belfast (Dublin: New Island, 2008).
Irish Studies Review, Vol.17, No.1 (February) pp.128-130.
2009:
“Hawking religion in the west.” Review of Jack Harte’s Reflections in a Tar-Barrel (Dublin: Scotus
Press, 2007).
The Irish Times, January 17.
2008:
“The passions and politics of culture in wartime France.” Review of Frederic Spotts’ The Shameful
Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation (Yale: Yale University
Press, 2008).
The Irish Times, Book of the Day, November 27.
2008:
David Pierce, Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing (New Haven
and London: Yale University Press, 2006).
Irish Studies Review, Vol. 16, No.4 (November) pp.523-525.
2008:
“Sex, Lies and the Catholic Church.” Review of Malachi O’Doherty’s Empty Pulpits: Ireland’s
Retreat from Religion (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan)
Irish Independent, September 20.
2008:
Madeline Kingston (ed.), Stimulus of Sin: Selected Writings of John Broderick (Dublin: The Lilliput
Press, 2007).
Irish University Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring/Summer, pp.160-62.
2008:
“A Portrait of Beckett as a Young Lecturer.” Review of Brigitte Le Juez’s Beckett Before Beckett
(London: Souvenir Press).
The Irish Times, June 6.
2008:
Michael Cronin, The Barrytown Trilogy (Cork: Cork University Press, 2006).
Irish Studies Review, Vol. 16, No.1 (February), pp.105-107.
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2008:
“From Sexual Repression to being Globally Sexy.” Review of Tom Inglis’ Global Ireland: Same
Difference (London: Routledge, 2008).
Irish Independent, 19 January.
2007:
“Reassessing the Emerald Isle.” Review of Eóin Flannery’s Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity
and Resistance in Irish Culture (Cambridge Scholars Press)
The Irish Book Review (Autumn), Vol.2, No.4, pp.11-12.
2007:
Eóin Flannery and Angus Mitchell (eds), Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism,
Literature and Historiography (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).
Irish Studies Review (August) Vol.15. No. 3, pp.383-5.
2007:
Fabienne Garcier, Jaqueline Genet and Sylvie Mikowski (eds), Le livre en Irlande : l’imprimé en
contexte (Presses Universitaires de Caen).
Irish University Review, Vol. 37, No. 1, Spring/Summer, pp.257-61.
2007:
“Between the Lines.” Review of Adrian Millar’s Socio-Ideological Fantasy and the Northern Ireland
Conflict: The Other Side (Manchester: Mancherster University Press, 2006)
The Irish Book Review (Spring), Vol.2, No.3, pp.55-6.
2007:
“Men of Letters.” Review of John Killen (ed.), Dear Mr. McLaverty: The Literary Correspondence
of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty 1959-1980 (Belfast: The Linen Hall Library).
Village (March), pp.84-6.
2006:
“Mind Your Language.” Review of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin’s The Irish Language, Ideology and
Power in 20th-century Ireland: Language from Below (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006).
Village (14-20 December), pp.49-51.
2006:
McDonagh, John, Newman, Stephen (eds), Remembering Michael Hartnett (Dublin: Four Courts
Press, 2006).
The Irish University Review (Autumn/Winter), pp.459-463.
2006:
“Romani Songs.” Review of Colum McCann’s Zoli (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2006).
The Irish Book Review, Vol. 2, No.2 (Autumn/Winter), pp.40-1.
2006:
“No Woman, No Cry.” Review of Roddy Doyle’s Paula Spencer (London: Vintage, 2006).
Village (9-15 November), pp.47-8.
2006:
“Lost in Translation.” Review of Michael Cronin’s Translation and Identity (London: Routledge,
2006).
Village (19-25 October), pp.49-51.
2006:
“No Truth Without Translation?” Review of Michael Cronin’s Translation and Identity (London:
Routledge, 2006).
The Irish Book Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.5-6.
2006:
“Steward of a Repressed Class”. Review of Christina Hunt Mahony (ed.), Out of History: Essays on
the Writings of Sebastian Barry (Dublin: Carysford Press/Washington: Catholic University of
America Press, 2006).
The Irish Book Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.17-8.
2006:
McDonagh, John, Newman, Stephen (eds), Remembering Michael Hartnett (Dublin: Four Courts
Press, 2006).
Village (30 March-5 April), pp.57-8.
2006:
Brady, Conor, Up With The Times (Dublin: Gill&Macmillan, 2005).
Hallel, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.56-8.
2006:
Hederman, Marc Patrick, Walkabout: Life as Holy Spirit (Dublin: The Columba Press, 2005)
Hallel, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.61-2.
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2005:
Brennan, Paul and O’Dea, Michael (eds), Entrelacs franco-irlandais: langue, mémoire, imaginaire
(Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen)
Irish Journal of French Studies, Vol. 5, pp.130-2.
2005:
Mikowski, Sylvie, Le roman irlandais contemporain (Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004).
Irish University Review, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Autumn/Winter), pp.473-7.
2005:
“The Irish Writer, Changing the World.” Review of Declan Kiberd’s The Irish Writer and the World
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Village (1-7 December 2005), pp.53-4.
2005:
“Not a well Man.” Review of Brian O’Rourke’s An Island Heart (Galway: Wynkin de Worde, 2005).
The Irish Book Review, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Winter), p.30.
2005:
“Signposts at The Crossroads”. Review of Colum Kenny’s Moments That Changed Us (Dublin: Gill
and Macmillan, 2005).
The Irish Book Review, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Winter), pp.44-5.
2005:
“Between Two Lanes.” Review of John McGahern’s Memoir (Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2005).
The Irish Book Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Autumn), pp.10-2.
2005:
O’Brien, Kate, As Music and Splendour (Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2005).
Village (29 September-5 October), p.56.
2005:
“The Circular Path of a Leitrim Life.” Review of John McGahern’s Memoir (London: Faber&Faber,
2005).
Village (8-14 September), pp.55-6.
2005:
“A Family Portrait.” Review of Dermot Bolger’s The Family on Paradise Pier (London: Fourth
Estate, 2005).
The Irish Book Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Summer), pp.20-1.
2005:
“A Sea of Memories.” Review of Dermot Bolger’s The Family on Paradise Pier (London: Fourth
Estate, 2005).
Village (2-7 April), pp.55-6.
2005:
Kingston, Madeline, Something in the Head: The Life and Work of John Broderick (Dublin: The
Lilliput Press, 2004).
Studies (Spring).
2004:
Imhof, Rüdiger, The Modern Irish Novel: Irish Novelists after 1945 (Dublin: Wolfhound Press,
2002).
Studies (Spring).
2004:
Fennell, Desmond, Cutting to the Point: Essays and Objections 1994-2003 (Dublin: The Liffey
Press, 2003).
The Irish Times, (24 January).
2003:
Whyte, James, History, Myth, and Ritual in the Fiction of John McGahern (New York: The
Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Irish University Review (Autumn/Winter).
2003:
Twomey, Vincent, The End of Irish Catholicism? (Dublin: Veritas, 2003).
Doctrine&Life (May/June).
2002:
Goarzin, Anne, John McGahern: Reflets d’Irlande (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes,
2002).
Studies (Autumn).
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2002:
McGahern, John, That They May Face the Rising Sun (London: Faber&Faber, 2001).
The Irish Literary Supplement (Fall).
2002:
O’Brien, Eugene, Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind (Dublin: Liffey Press,
Contemporary Irish Writers Series, 2002).
Studies (Summer).
2002:
Quinn, Toner (ed.) Desmond Fennell: His Life and Work (Dublin: Veritas, 2001).
Doctrine&Life (March).
2002:
Costello, Stephen, The Irish Soul in Dialogue (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2001).
Reality (March).
2001:
White, Caramine, Reading Roddy Doyle (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001). Studies
(Winter).
2000:
O’Donnell, Mary, The Elysium Testament (London: Trident, 1999).
The Month (July).
1999:
Sulivan, Jean, Eternity My Beloved (Trans. Ellen Riordan) (River Boat Books, 1999).
The Tablet (14 August).
1999:
St John, Madeleine, A Stairway to Paradise (London: 4th Estate, 1999).
The Sunday Tribune (4 April).
1999:
Fallon, Brian, An Age of Innocence. Irish Culture 1930-1960 (Dublin: Gill&Macmillan, 1999).
The Month (April).
1998:
Sinclair, Andrew, The Discovery of the Grail (London: Century, 1998).
The Irish Times (29 April).
1998:
Whitehouse, J.C. (ed.), Catholics on Literature (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997).
The Month (March).
1997:
O’ Dwyer, Michael, Julien Green: a Critical Study (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997). Studies
(Summer).
1994:
Lane, Dermot (ed.) Culture and Religion in Dialogue: a Challenge for the next Millennium (Dublin:
Columba Press, 1993).
Doctrine & Life (March).
SELECTION OF RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2013:
“The Barracks at 50: The Merging of an Old and New Ireland.”
Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands, EFACIS conference, NUI Galway, 5-8 June.
2013:
“Jean Sulivan and the Mystical Moment.”
Mystical Theology: Irruptions from France. All Hallows College, 11-12 January.
2012:
“Michel Houellebecq: The ‘enfant terrible’ of 20th century French letters.”
France and Ireland in the Public Imagination/La France et l'Irlande dans
l'imaginaire collectif. AFIS conference, Mary Immaculate College Limerick, 22-23
May.
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2011:
“‘Home is where the Hearth is’: Arrivals and Departures in John McGahern’s Short
Stories.
EFACIS (University of Salford): “Ireland: Arrivals and Departures”. 1-4 September
2011:
“Esthétique et Spiritualité dans l’oeuvre de Jean Sulivan’.
ESTHÉTIQUE ET SPIRITUALITÉ Circulation des modèles en Europe
Séminaire transfrontalier co-organisé par l’École doctorale en Langues et Lettres de
la Communauté française de Belgique (ED3) et l’École doctorale SHS-Lille-Nord de
France. 25 May.
2010:
“Victims or Survivors? Towards an Understanding of Abuse in the Light of the Ryan
and Murphy Reports.”
(Université Rennes 2): “Ireland and Victims: Recognition, Reparation,
Reconciliation? ” 9-11 September.
2010:
“Looking at the Belfast of his Youth Through ‘New’ Eyes: The Example of Brian
Moore (1921-1999).”
IASIL (NUI Maynooth): “Irish Literatures and Culture: New and Old Knowledges.” 2630 July.
2010:
“History and memory in John McGahern’s Memoir and Jean Sulivan’s Devance tout
adieu.”
AFIS 6th annual conference (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne: “Histoire et
mémoire en France et en Irlande/History and Memory in France and Ireland”. 28-29
May.
2009:
“Catholicism in the 20th century Irish Novel: The French Influence.”
EFACIS (Vienna): “Ireland in/and Europe: Crosscurrents and Exchanges.” 3-6
September.
2009:
“George Moore and the Catholic Novel”.
Royal Irish Academy: “Ireland and the Fin de Siècle”, 3-4 September.
2009:
“Marginality in the Work of the French priest-writer Jean Sulivan (1913-1980)”.
IADT (Centre for Public Culture): “Catholicism and Public Culture”, 17-19 June.
2009:
“‘Exiled in your own Place’: The Figure of the Outsider in the Fiction of John
McGahern”.
American Conference of Irish Studies (NUI Galway): “New Irish, old Ireland”, 10-13
June.
2009:
“War and Rebellion in the Work of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Sebastian Barry”.
5th annual conference of AFIS (UCC): “La France, l’Irlande et la Rébellion/France,
Ireland and Rebellion.” 22-23 May.
2008:
“Reimagining the Belfast of his Youth: Brian Moore (1921-1999)”
“Re-Imagining Ireland”, 6th annual conference of NEICN, University of Sunderland,
14-16 November.
2008:
“Secularisation in George Bernanos’ Journal d’un curé de campagne and John
McGahern’s That They May face the Rising Sun.”
Université de Rennes 2, “Mondialisation et laîcité en France et en
Irlande/Globalisation and Secularisation in France and Ireland”, 4th annual
conference of AFIS, 23-24 May.
2007:
“Island Culture: The Role of the Blasket Autobiographies in the Preservation of a
Traditional Way of Life.”
Université Rennes 2, “Cultures, Langues et Imaginaires de l’Arc Atlantique”, 6-8
September
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2007:
“John McGahern’s Ireland as immortalised in Memoir.”
IASIL Conference, UCD, “Varieties of Irishness”, 16-20 July.
2007:
“Jean Sulivan and post-Catholic Ireland.”
“Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context.”
3rd Conference of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies.
ITT Dublin, 10-11 May.
2006:
“A Look at Ireland Through a Number of Decades: John McGahern’s Memoir.”
American Conference for Irish Studies.
University of Saint-Louis Missouri, 19-22 April.
2006:
“John Broderick and the ‘Roman Catholique’. ”
“France-Ireland: Interlinks, Interference, Intertextuality.”
Second Conference of National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies.
University College Cork, 10-12 March.
2005:
“La Marginalité dans l’univers romanesque de Catherine Paysan.”
Colloque International Catherine Paysan, 3-5 June.
2004:
“Spirituality on the Margins: The Writings of Jean Sulivan and Nicolas Bokov.”
6th Annual Conference of the Association des Études Françaises et Francophones
d’Irlande, University of Limerick, 1-2 October.
2004:
“John McGahern’s Fictions – A Chronicle of Four Decades of Change in Ireland.”
Annual Meeting of International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, NUI
Galway, 20-23 July.
2004:
Irish Catholicism as seen through the Lens of John McGahern and Kate O’Brien.”
American Conference for Irish Studies, Institute of Irish Studies, University of
Liverpool, 12-16 July.
2004:
“An Irish Writer’s debt to Flaubert and Proust.”
Annual General Meeting of ALFIT (Association of Lecturers of French in the
Institutes of Technology). La France et la langue française face à la mondialisation,
Institute of Technology, Tallaght, 22-23 April.
2004:
“L’approche du spirituel dans quelques romans de GREEN et SULIVAN.”
Colloque organisé par le Centre “Culture et Spiritualité” de l’Institut Catholique
d’Etudes Supérieures (La Roche-sur-Yon): La Spiritualité de Julien Green, ICES, La
Roche-sur-Yon, 19-20 March.
2004:
“John McGahern and the Commemoration of traditional rural Ireland.”
International conference at the ACADEMY FOR IRISH CULTURAL HERITAGES: Ireland
Space Text Time, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Derry, 26-28 March.
2003:
“The Irish Novel in Crisis? The Example of John McGahern.”
4TH BIANNUAL CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS AND
CENTRES OF IRISH STUDIES (EFACIS): Representation and Responsibility. University
of Minho, Braga (Portugal), 11-13 December.
2003:
“Jean Sulivan’s Experience of Marginality”.
30TH ANNUAL ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (MODERN LANGUAGE
STUDIES): Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity. Dublin City University,
7-8 November.
2003:
“War and the Death of Innocence: Camus’s The First Man and Jean Sulivan’s
Anticipate Every Goodbye.”
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5TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION DES ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES ET
FRANCOPHONES D’IRLANDE (ADEFFI): War and Peace. Queen’s University Belfast, 34 October.
2003:
“The Transcendent in the Work of Jean Sulivan”.
THE GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL: Hopkins
and the Transcendent. Monasterevin, July 23.
2003:
“L’enfance inspiratrice de Jean Sulivan.”
ASSOCIATION EUROPÉENNE FRANCOIS MAURIAC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
L’enfance inspiratrice, éclat et blessures, dans la littérature européenne de 1940 à
nos jours. French Senate (Paris), 3-7 July.
2003:
“Shifting environments of Reception of the Work of John McGahern
(1934- ).”
AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF IRISH STUDIES NATIONAL CONFERENCE: Irish
Environments. 3-8 June, University of Saint Thomas, Minneapolis, USA.
2003:
“Lecture intertextuelle des premiers essais de Julien Green et Jean Sulivan: remise
en question de la tiédeur et de l’hypocrisie.”
COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL DE LA SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE D’ÉTUDES
GREENIENNES (SIEG): Julien Green Diariste et Essayiste. 24-26 April, NUI Maynooth.
2003:
“Death in the Country: An intertextual Analysis of Jean Sulivan’s Anticipate Every
Goodbye and John McGahern’s The Leavetaking.”
FRANCO-IRISH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: France and Ireland: Cultural, Literary
and Spiritual Bonds. 27-28 March, Institute of Technology, Tallaght.
2002:
“Towards an Understanding of Spiritual Revolt in The Outsider and The Plague.”
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE CONFERENCE: Camus and Revolt/Camus
et la Révolte. 9-11 September, University of Ulster, Coleraine.
2002:
“Hopkins and Jean Sulivan: A Priesthood of the Pen.”
THE GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL: Hopkins
and Others. July 25, Monasterevin.
2002:
“Circles and Circularity in the Fiction of John McGahern.”
CROSS-CURRENTS IN LITERATURE AND FILM CONFERENCE: Hemispheres. May,
University College Cork.
2001:
“Catholicism in the Writings of John McGahern.”
EUROPEAN FEDERATIONS OF ASSOCIATIONS AND CENTRES FOR IRISH STUDIES
CONFERENCE: Ireland and Europe in Times of Re-Orienting and Re-Imagining.
December, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
2000:
“La marginalité dans la vie et l’œuvre de Julien Green.”
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE 20TH-CENTURY FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE:
Regard en arrière vers la littérature d’expression française du 20e siècle:
Questions de marginalité et d’identité. February, Institute of Technology, Tallaght.
2000:
“Belfast, the far from Sublime City in the Fiction of Brian Moore.”
CROSS-CURRENTS IN LITERATURE AND FILM CONFERENCE: The Sublime and the City.
April, University College, Cork.
1999:
“Julien Green: témoin spirituel d’un monde désenchanté.”
COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL DE LA SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE D’ÉTUDES
GREENIENNES (SIEG): Le désenchantement dans l’oeuvre de Julien Green.
November, University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
1999:
“Disintegration and Despair in the Early Fiction of John McGahern.”
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CROSS-CURRENTS IN LITERATURE AND FILM CONFERENCE: Apocalypse. April,
University College Cork.
1998:
“John Broderick: Irish Writer in the European Tradition.”
ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY 25TH RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES),
Europe Unfolding. November, Queen’s University Belfast.
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
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President and founding member of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies)
2004-2005 Member of Executive Committee of the Association des Études Françaises et
Francophones en Irlande (ADEFFI)
2003-2004: President of ALFIT (Association of Lecturers of French in the Institutes of
Technology)
Association des Amis de Jean Sulivan.
Irish Representative of the Association Européenne François Mauriac.
2009-2012: Member of the Steering Committee of European Federation of Associations
and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)
American Conference of Irish Studies. (ACIS)
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)
REFEREES
1. Professor Margaret Kelleher
Department of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama
UCD
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01-7167777
2. Dr Eugene O’Brien
Head of Department of English Language Literature and Language
Mary Immaculate College
South Circular Road
Limerick
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 061-204989
3. Anne Goarzin
Professeur de littérature irlandaise, Département d’anglais, UFR Langues
Directrice EA 4451-CRBC Rennes
Université Rennes 2-UEB, Place du Recteur Henri Le Moal
CS 24307 - 35043 RENNES Cedex - FRANCE
Email: [email protected]
Phone : 00 33 2 99141621
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