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Issue Number 14 Summer 2010

Brian Donnelly lectures in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film. His research interest is in Irish literature from the 18th to the 20th century and in modern American literature

David Askew is an Associate Professor of Law at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. Recent works include David Askew (with P Close and X Xin), The Beijing Olympiad: The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event (Routledge, 2006), and chapters in BT Wakabayashi ed, The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-8: Complicating the Picture (Berghahn, 2007).

Brian Earls is a former diplomat. His published work focuses on the relationship between oral tradition and printed literature, principally in the nineteenth century.

Maurice Earls is a bookseller and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Frank Callanan is a Dublin-based barrister. He is author of The Parnell Split 1890-91, and is currently working on a book on the politics of James Joyce.

Dara McHugh is a Dublin-based writer and freelance journalist.

Peter Brooke is the author of Ulster Presbyterianism, The Historical Perspective, 1610-1970, Athol Books, Belfast, and of an account of the life and thought of the French Cubist painter Albert Gleizes, For and Against the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, London and New Haven.

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

Fergal Lenehan is originally from Ballinasloe; he received a PhD from the University of Leipzig in 2009 and recently co-edited the cultural studies volume Language and the Moulding of Space.

Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the drb.

Niall Meehan is Head of the Journalism and Media Faculty in Griffith College Dublin. He is researching attempts to re-frame the War of Independence as a pre-enactment of the Northern Ireland conflict post 1968.

Issue Number 13 Spring 2010

Eoghan Smith teaches English at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His interests are in Irish writing, Irish philosophical aesthetics, modernism and postmodernism. He is currently writing a book on John Banville and the politics of authenticity

Paul Daly holds a National University of Ireland Travelling Studentship at the Faculty of Law and Queens’ College, University of Cambridge and is researching in administrative law. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and University College Cork.

George O’Brien is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington. His publications include the noted memoir The Village of Longing.

Eckhard Jesse was born in 1948 in Wurzen, East Germany, and is professor and head of the Department of Political Systems and Political Institutions at Chemnitz University of Technology. His research focus includes German political parties, political extremism and totalitarianism, elections and voting systems, comparative research on democracies and dictatorships and the historical roots of contemporary politics. His most recent books are Diktaturen in Deutschland: Diagnosen und Analysen (Baden-Baden, 2008) and Demokratie in Deutschland: Diagnosen und Analysen (Cologne 2008).

Adrian Paterson is IRCHSS Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Writing widely on modernism and nineteenth and twentieth century literature (http://thebicyclops.wordpress.com) his book Words for Music Perhaps: Yeats and Musical Sense is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Michael Lillis and David Goodall Michael Lillis was diplomatic adviser to the Taoiseach (1981), head of the Anglo-Irish Relations division of the Department of Foreign Affairs (1982-85), Irish head of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Secretariat, Maryfield, Belfast (1985-86), Ambassador to the UN in Geneva (1986-88), managing director for Latin America for GPA (1988-90) and for GE Capital Aviation (1990-96), board member VivaAeobus Airlines Mexico 2007 to date. His Scandal and Courage: the Lives of Eliza Lynch, co-authored with Ronan Fanning, was published last Autumn. Sir David Goodall, a retired British diplomat, was British High Commissioner to India from 1987 to 1991. A former Chairman of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation, Britain’s largest disability charity, and of the British-Irish Association, he is a Visiting Professor at Liverpool University’s Institute of Irish Studies and a Fellow of the Irish Genealogical Research Society. A regular contributor to the The Tablet, he has published two books: Remembering India (1997) and Ryedale Pilgrimage (2000).

Mark Wallace is a native of Galway, an arts graduate of NUIG and an aspirant journalist.

Paul Larkin was born in Salford, England. After school he spent five years in the Danish merchant navy before taking a degree in Scandinavian and Celtic Studies at University College London. He is a winner of the European Journalist of the Year award and last year made a new translation of Ibsen's Et dukkehjem (A Doll's House) for the Secondage theatre company and (director) Alan Stanford.

Carol Taaffe is a former IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of 'Ireland Through the Looking-Glass: Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate' (Cork University Press, 2008) and co-editor, with Edwina Keown, of 'Irish Modernism: Origins, Contexts, Publics', forthcoming from Peter Lang in 2009.

John-Paul McCarthy is completing a PhD on William Gladstone’s intellectual life at Exeter College, Oxford.

Rachel Andrews is a writer and critic based in Cork city. She writes about arts and culture for publications including The Sunday Business Post and Irish Theatre Magazine, and is a regular contributor to RTE Radio 1's Arts Show. She lectures in Literature and Journalism at University College Cork and Griffith College Cork.

Issue Number 12 Winter 2009 - 10

Eva McGuire is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where she studied physics. She is currently studying for a PhD in biophysics at Imperial College London.

Tom Hennigan is the South America correspondent for The Irish Times and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Eoin O’Malley lectures in Irish politics at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. His main research interests are the power of prime ministers, Irish government and Irish parties. He is editing a book entitled Governing Ireland, to be published by the IPA in late 2010.

Siobhán Parkinson is a novelist, translator and publisher who works mainly in the field of children’s literature (www.siobhanparkinson.com)

Shane McCorristine was a doctoral scholar at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College, Dublin and was awarded a PhD in history in 2007. He also has an MA in cultural history from UCD. His research focused on ideas about ghost-seeing in Victorian and Edwardian culture and his monograph, Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-seeing in England, c.1750-1920, is forthcoming in 2010 with Cambridge University Press. His current research interests include the history of science, children’s literature, and the history of Arctic exploration.

Barra Ó Seaghdha has contributed essays, reviews and interviews in the areas of literature, cultural politics and music to publications ranging from Graph, which he co-edited, and Reinventing Ireland (Pluto Press) to the JMI (Journal of Music in Ireland).

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

Angus Mitchell has written extensively on the life and legacy of Roger Casement. He has lectured in both the US and Ireland.

Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the drb.

Ion Ionita is senior editor with Adevarul newspaper in Bucharest. He writes on both domestic and foreign politics and also contributes to public and private television and radio in Romania.

Padraig Yeates joined the republican movement at seventeen, serving as national organiser for Clann na hEireann in 1971-2 and for Repsol subsequently. He edited Irish People 1977-1982 and served on the national executive of SFWP and of the WP from 1978-1983. He worked as a journalist with The Irish Times from 1983-1989 and with Coalition des Gauches in the European Parliament from 1989-90 for Proinsias De Rossa, returning to The Irish Times 1990-2002. He took early retirement in 2002 and has worked since as media adviser to various organisations, mainly trade unions.

Robert Looby teaches English and translation at the Catholic University of Lublin. His research interests include translation and censorship.

Issue Number 11 Autumn 2009

Brian Earls is a former diplomat. His published work focuses on the relationship between oral tradition and printed literature, principally in the nineteenth century.

Maurice Earls is a bookseller and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Niall Meehan Niall Meehan is Head of the Journalism and Media Faculty in Griffith College Dublin. He is researching attempts to re-frame the War of Independence as a pre-enactment of the Northern Ireland conflict post 1968.

Philip Coleman is a Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where he is Director of the MPhil in Literatures of the Americas and Head of Sophisters. With Maria Johnston he is editing Reading Pearse Hutchinson, a collection of essays and reflections on the poet, for the Irish Academic Press. He has edited collections of essays on literature and science and on the poetry of John Berryman. His book John Berryman and the Public Sphere: Reception and Redress will be published by UCD Press in 2010.

Enda McDonagh Enda McDonagh was Professor of Moral Theology and Canon Law at the Pontifical University at Maynooth until his retirement in 1995. He is the author of sixteen books, including, most recently, Immersed in Mystery and An Irish Reader in Moral Theology. In 2007 he was appointed an Ecumenical Canon at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

Philip O’Connor and Pat Muldowney are authors of Coolacrease:the true story of the Pearson executions –an incident in the Irish War of Independence

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

Thomas Boylan is Professor of Economics at NUI Galway. His research interests are mainly in the areas of economic methodology, the history of economics ideas and in growth and development. Amongst his current projects are the compilation (with T.P. Foley) of a four-volume anthology on Irish Political Economy in the 19th Century, acting as guest editor for a special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie on the theme 'The Philosophy of Economics', and papers on pragmatism in economic methodology and a critical assessment of Hahn on economic methodology.

Majella Cullinane Majella Cullinane, originally from Limerick, teaches creative writing and lives in Wellington, NZ. Poetry, short stories and reviews have been published in Ireland, the UK, the US and New Zealand. She has won a Sean Dunne Young Writer's Award, an Irish Arts Council Award, and The Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry. Her first poetry collection was accepted for publication in Ireland early this year. She is also currently working on her first novel. www.majellacullinane.com

Judith Devlin teaches in the Department of History at University College Dublin. While her first research interests lay in nineteenth century France, she now concentrates on Russia. She has worked on contemporary history (political culture) and most recently on the Stalin era. Her current research focuses on the Stalin cult.

Issue Number 10 Summer 2009

Enda Delaney teaches history at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book is The Irish in Post-war Britain (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Conor O'Clery is a journalist and author. He is currently working on a new account of the fall of the Soviet Union, to be published on the twentieth anniversary in 2011.

Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Charles Lysaght is the author of Brendan Bracken, A biography(1979) and editor of Great Irish Lives(2008)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent book is On Eloquence (Yale University Press, 2008).

Ronán M Conroy teaches evidence-based health at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. His main research areas are low-cost health solutions for developing countries and mental health research. http://rcsi.academia.edu/RonanConroy

Antoin E Murphy is an associate professor of economics in Trinity College Dublin. His most recent book, The Genesis of Macroeconomics: New Ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton, was published by Oxford University Press in December 2008.

John Paul McCarthy is completing a DPhil on Gladstone's intellectual life at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where he also tutors in modern Irish history.

George O' Brien is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington. His publications include the noted memoir The Village of Longing.

Issue 9

Maurice Earls is a bookseller and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Kevin Cullen is a columnist with The Boston Globe. He is also an occasional contributor to The Irish Times.

Niamh Cullen is a recent PhD graduate of University College Dublin, where she now lectures in modern European history. Her research focuses on the cultural history of modern Italy and she is currently preparing a book on antifascism in Turin in the 1920s.

Tom Inglis teaches sociology at University College Dublin. His book Global Ireland was published in 2007.

Colin Murphy is a journalist in Dublin. His website is www.colinmurphy.info.

Cormac Ó Gráda is Professor of Economics at University College Dublin. His latest book is Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (Princeton 2007).

John McAuliffe second book of poems is Next Door (Gallery, 2007). He lives in Manchester where he co-directs the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing and edits The Manchester Review.

Fintan Vallely is a musician and writer on traditional music. His major written and edited works are The Blooming Meadows - the World of Irish Traditional Musicians (1998), The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (1999, 2009), John Kennedy - Together in Time (2001), Sing Up, Comic Songs and Satires of Modern Ireland (2008) and Tuned Out - Traditional Music and Identity in Modern Ireland (2008). His doctoral thesis (UCD, 2004) concerned the flute in Ireland and his continuing work is on music, movement, place and identity.

Tom Wall is a former assistant general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was born in inner city Dublin, the son of a farmer’s son from Co Meath. He is an avid reader of modern Irish history.

Michael Lillis was diplomatic adviser to the Taoiseach (1981), head of the Anglo-Irish Relations division of the Department of Foreign Affairs (1982-85), Irish head of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Secretariat, Maryfield, Belfast (1985-86), Ambassador to the UN in Geneva (1986-88), managing director for Latin America for GPA (1988-90) and for GE Capital Aviation (1990-96), board member VivaAeobus Airlines Mexico 2007 to date. His Scandal and Courage: the Lives of Eliza Lynch, co-authored with Ronan Fanning, will be published this autumn, as will Spanish and Portuguese editions.

Issue Number 8 Winter 2008-09

Enda O’Doherty Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Terence Killeen Terence Killeen is the author of Ulysses Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to Ulysses. He is a former trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and a member of the board of the James Joyce Centre, Dublin.

Paul Bew and Patrick Maume Paul Bew is Professor of Irish Politics at Queen’s University Belfast and the author of The Politics Of Enmity: Ireland 1782-2006 (Oxford University Press, 2007). Patrick Maume is a researcher with the Dictionary of Irish Biography. He has published numerous books and articles on nineteenth and twentieth century Irish history and has edited eleven titles in the UCD Press Classics of Irish History series, several of which concern Daniel O’Connell and his times.

George O’Brien George O’Brien is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington. His publications include the noted memoir The Village of Longing. He will spend the spring term teaching in the Trinity College Creative Writing Programme.

James Moran James Moran lectures in English at the University of Nottingham, and is the author of Staging the Easter Rising: 1916 as Theatre, published by Cork University Press.

Patrick Comerford The Revd Canon Patrick Comerford is Director of Spiritual Formation at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, and a canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. He is a former Foreign Desk Editor of The Irish Times, and has contributed to numerous books and journals. His latest publication is Reflections of the Bible in the Qur’an (Dublin: National Bible Society of Ireland, 2008), published in the Bedell Boyle Lecture series. Blog: http://revpatrickcomerford.blogspot.com

Manus Charleton Manus Charleton lectures in Ethics in the Institute of Technology, Sligo. His book, Ethics for Social Care in Ireland: Philosophy and Practice, was published by Gill & MacMillan in 2007. He has also been published in Irish Pages and Studies.

Kevin Stevens Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

John Sweeney John Sweeney is an economist. He lives in Dublin.

Martin McGarry Martin McGarry is an Irish journalist and translator, based in Brussels.

Brian Earls Brian Earls is a diplomat. He has served in the Embassy of Ireland in Athens, Moscow, Warsaw and Ankara. His published work focuses on the relationship between oral tradition and printed literature, principally in the nineteenth century.

Eunan O'Halpin Eunan O’Halpin is Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin. His most recent work is Spying on Ireland: British intelligence and Irish neutrality during the Second World War (Oxford, 2008)

Issue7

Maurice Earls is a bookseller and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Hugh O'Shaughnessy has been writing and broadcasting on Latin America and the Caribbean for 46 years for the Financial Times, the Observer, The Irish Times, the BBC and other media.

Pól Ó Muiri is Irish Language Editor of The Irish Times.

Jeffrey Dudgeon lives in Belfast and was the winning plaintiff in 1981 at the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg in a case against the British government. This resulted in the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland and was the first successful gay human rights case in Europe. His book on Roger Casement is available at amazon.co.uk

Lara Marlowe studied French literature at the Sorbonne and at UCLA. She has been France correspondent for The Irish Times since 1996.

Kris Anderson is a doctoral student at Exeter College, Oxford, where she tutors in modern English literature. Her doctoral research focuses on literary, historical and aesthetic representations of London during the Blitz. She is a contributing editor with the Oxonian Review of Books.

Pádraig McAuliffe is a PhD finalist and IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar at the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights in University College Cork (padraig1@gmail.com)

Kevin Stevens is a Dublin-based novelist and writer on literature, history and jazz.

Helen Lahert is Manager of Advocacy and Accessibility with the Citizens Information Board. She has responsibility for the development of advocacy services for people with disabilities nationally.

Issue Number 6 Summer 2008

Antony Tatlow is currently Honorary Professor in the TCD Drama Department, was Professor of Comparative Literature and Coordinator of the Graduate Centre for Arts Research there from 1996 to 2006 and before that Professor and Head of Comparative Literature in the University of Hong Kong. He has written about the relationship between East Asian and Western cultures mostly in respect of drama and poetry

Martin McGarry is an Irish journalist and translator, based in Brussels.

Richard Tillinghast has recently published his eighth book of poems, The New Life. His third book of essays, Finding Ireland: a Poet’s Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture, will be published later this year by the University of Notre Dame Press in the US.

Cormac Ó Gráda is Professor of Economics at University College Dublin. His latest book is Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (Princeton 2007).

John-Paul McCarthy holds the Usher-Cunningham doctoral studentship in Irish history at Exeter College, Oxford, where he tutors in Irish history. He is currently finishing a biography of Maurice Moynihan, to be published by Cork University Press.

Catriona Crowe is a senior archivist at the National Archives of Ireland. She is a former president of the Women’s History Association.

Colin Murphy is a journalist in Dublin. He conducted research in Angola in late 2002 for a Masters thesis at the University of the Witwatersrand, with the support of the university’s Oppenheimer Fellowship of Portuguese Studies.

Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Maria Johnston recently received her doctorate in English from Trinity College Dublin, where she has taught part-time for the past three years. She is a regular reviewer for Poetry Ireland Review and Contemporary Poetry Review. She is currently editing a collection of essays on poetry and politics and co-editing a collection on the poetry of Pearse Hutchinson.

Stephen Wilson ,who studied at the University of Ulster and Trinity College Dublin, teaches American literature at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is currently working on a book on Ezra Pound and American history.

Issue Number 5 Spring 2008

Patrick Lynch studied at Liverpool and Cambridge Universities. He is a director of Lynch architects in London and in Dublin. He taught at the Architectural Association, Kingston and London Metropolitan Universities and is currently a studio tutor at University College Dublin and a review tutor at Dublin Institute of Technology. Lynch architects won the British Young Architect of the Year Award in 2005.

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic is a journalist. His interests include early twentieth century French cultural history, and his MPhil thesis focused on Henri Barbusse’s Le Feu and artistic responses to the First World War.

James Moran lectures in English at the University of Nottingham, and is the author of Staging the Easter Rising: 1916 as Theatre, published by Cork University Press.

Rosita Sweetman is a writer and journalist. She has published three books, On Our Knees, a look at Ireland in the 1970s, Fathers Come First, a novel, and On Our Backs, a look at sexual attitudes in 1980s Ireland. Her new novel will be ready for publication in the autumn.

Maurice Earls is a bookseller and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Franz Walter teaches political science at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen in Germany. His published work focuses on the historical development of political parties and their current activity. His most recent book is Die Linkspartei (Wiesbaden 2007, together with Tim Spier, Felix Butzlaff and Matthias Micus).

Angela Long is a journalist and reviewer. She has written for newspapers and magazines in Ireland, Britain and Australia, including The Irish Times, The Sunday Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. She has also worked for the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Éilís ní Dhuibhne is a novelist, short story writer and literary critic. Her latest novel is Fox Swallow Scarecrow (Blackstaff Press, 2007).

Brendan O’Leary was born in Cork but grew up in Nigeria, Northern Ireland and Sudan. His university education was at Oxford and the LSE, where he was a professor of political science. He holds the Lauder Chair of Political Science and directs the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. Details of his publications and career may be found at: http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/ppec/PPEC%20People/Brendan%20O'Leary/Brendan%20O'Leary.html

Tony Brown was an adviser to the Oireachtas Delegation to the European Convention and represents the Irish Labour Party on the Steering Committee of the National Forum on Europe. He is a founding member of the Institute of International and European Affairs.

Issue Number 4 Winter 2007-08

William Kenefick teaches Scottish and British history at the University of Dundee. His most recent book is Red Scotland! The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, c.1872-1932 (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

John Gibney is a Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellow at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, NUI Galway.

Brian Earls is a diplomat. He has served in the Embassy of Ireland in Athens, Moscow, Warsaw and Ankara. His published work focuses on the relationship between oral tradition and printed literature, principally in the nineteenth century.

Brian Lynch is a poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and art critic. His latest novel, The Winner of Sorrow, based on the life of William Cowper, was published in 2005.

John Minahane is the author of The Contention of the Poets: an essay in intellectual history (Samas Press, Bratislava 2000)

Philip O’Connor is director of the Dublin Employment Pact, an independent body supported by government and the social partners which pilots solutions to employment issues in Dublin. He previously worked at various occupations, including technical and historical translation and teaching German and Russian history at Trinity College Dublin.

Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Terence Killeen is a journalist and author of Ulysses Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Issue Number 3 Autumn 2007

Nicholas Birch , a freelance reporter, has been based in Turkey for the past five years. His work has appeared in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and the Times Literary Supplement.

John Bradley was for many years a Research Professor at the ESRI and now works as an international consultant in the area of economic and industrial strategy. He regularly advises the European Commission, the World Bank and other international organisations and governments on policy issues related to promoting long-term economic growth and development.

John McAuliffe second book, Next Door,is just out from Gallery Press. He grew up in Listowel, Co Kerry and now lives in Manchester, where he co-directs the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester (www.manchester.ac.uk/arts/newwriting).

Susan Lanigan is a full-time programmer and a writer. She completed a Masters in Writing at NUI Galway in 2003. Since then she has won several prizes for her short stories and was shortlisted for the Hennessy Irish Writing Emerging Writer of the Year award in 2005.

Paul O'Brien works as a parliamentary reporter in the Houses of the Oireachtas. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the National University of Ireland, Galway and has completed a postgraduate dissertation on British travel writing on Ireland in the eighteenth century.

Kristin Anderson is a doctoral student at Exeter College, Oxford, where she tutors in modern English literature. Her doctoral research focuses on literary, historical and aesthetic representations of London during the Blitz. She is a contributing editor with the Oxonian Review of Books.

Donncha Ó Muirithe is a journalist. He is a former associate editor of the Art Abstracts database and has contributed articles to the Oxford Companion to the Photograph and the History of Photography journal.

Evelyn Conlon was born in Monaghan in 1952. Her collections of short stories are My Head is Opening (Attic Press 1987), Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour (Attic Press 1989) and Telling, New and Selected Stories (Blackstaff Press 2000). Her novels are Stars in the Daytime (Blackstaff Press 1993), A Glassful of Letters (Blackstaff Press 1998) and Skin of Dreams (Brandon 2003). She is a regular commentator on the arts and a member of Aosdana.

Issue Number 2 Summer 2007

Pádraig Lenihan teaches history at the University of Limerick. His survey of early modern Irish history, Consolidating Conquest 1603-1727, will be published by Longman this year.

Maurice Earls is a bookseller and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

Ana Paula Arnaut teaches Portuguese literature at the University of Coimbra. She is the author of Memorial do Convento. História, ficção e ideologia (1996) and Post-Modernismo no romance português contemporâneo. Fios de Ariadne – Máscaras de Proteu (2002). Her new study of Saramago, Cânone – José Saramago will appear this year.

Michael D Langan is a retired US Treasury Department official. He was a Senior Expert with the United Nations Taliban and al-Qaeda Monitoring Group. He writes book reviews for the Boston Globe and has had fiction produced by the BBC.

Manus O'Riordan is head of research at Ireland’s largest trade union, SIPTU (Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union). He has written extensively on the history of Ireland’s War of Independence and the Spanish Civil War, as well as on Irish and Irish-American labour history. A member of the National Economic and Social Council, he also serves on the Economic and Employment Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation.

James Ryan teaches in the School of English and Drama at University College Dublin, and the School of English at NUI Galway, where he is currently writer in residence. His most recent novel is Seeds of Doubt (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2001)

Peter Mackay is a Research Fellow in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast, and is also a poet and filmmaker. He is currently working on a book on the poet Sorley MacLean.

Belinda McKeon is a journalist and reviewer. She has written on arts and books for The Irish Times since 2000 and is currently based in New York, where she is taking an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in fiction and teaching in the undergraduate writing programme at Columbia University. At present she is at work on an interview with John Banville for the Paris Review Art of Fiction series.

Issue Number 1 Spring 2007

Enda O'Doherty is an editor of the Dublin Review of Books and a journalist.

Leon Marc is a Slovenian diplomat who served at the Dublin embassy from 2002 to 2006. He is currently director of the South-East Europe Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, Ljubljana.

Paddy Gillan is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design and has worked as a journalist and graphic designer.

Tom Inglis teaches sociology at University College Dublin. His book Global Ireland will be published later this year.

Wiktor Osiatyński a professor of comparative constitutionalism and human rights at Central European University. He is the author of twenty books, including Contrasts: Soviet and American Thinkers Discuss the Future, Rehab and Citizen's Republic. In the 1970s, he worked with Ryszard Kapuściński for the Kultura weekly in Warsaw.

Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007) was one of the most respected foreign correspondents of the 20th century. Western readers knew him through such extraordinary books as The Emperor, which described the decline of Haile Selassie's Ethiopia. Shah of Shahs, on the fall the last Shah of Iran, and Imperium, about the last days of the Soviet Union.

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Enda O’Doherty is a journalist and joint editor of the Dublin Review of Books.

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