English Language & Literature

Introduction to the skills needed for responding to poetry, drama and prose fiction with pleasure and insight.

Expansion and deepening of the knowledge of poetry, drama and fiction developed in EH4711.

A study of the emergence of modern drama; innovatory trends and developments in 20th century theatre; Theatre of Realism; Theatre of the Absurd; modern tragicomedy and Irish dramatists.

A study of the development of different aspects of the modernist and postmodernist novel form in the 20th century. Selections from Irish, European and American authors.

This module will introduce students to a range of historical and contemporary issues, including gender and sexuality; race; imperialism; memory; technology; globalization and environmentalism. Such an approach will foreground the processes of literary creation but will also enjoin students to self-reflect on their own implication in debates around (i) the politics of language and (ii) latter-day forms of cultural imperialism.

In Second Year, BA students have the option of taking two elective modules to enable them to gain knowledge in teaching the English language to non-native speakers.

Students can choose to do their undergraduate dissertation in a topic related to English Language & Literature in consultation with department staff.

An investigation into the nature of the major formal technical innovations in the twentieth century literature through an analysis of some notable primary texts: Modernism and the form of the novel; the gender of Modernism; Modernism and the poetic voice.

The practice of literary criticism and the principal features of literary theory from classical to modern times; the classical debate; renaissance neo-platonism and neo-classicism: the Enlightenment; European romanticism; New Criticism; Structuralism; Marxism; Feminism; Post-Structuralism and after. Applications of theoretical models to different texts and generic structures.

Drawing on selected texts, attention will be given to a range of the following: drama and society in the 16th and 17th centuries; Shakespeare as an Elizabethan-Jacobean playwright; Shakespeare and tragedy; dynamics of the comic form; presenting the female; patriarchal structures; political Shakespeare; power, ideology and theatrical representations; critical approaches, readings and interpretations of the plays and the formal properties of Shakespeare’s dramatic art.

Selections from the literary and critical works of the principal writers of the Romantic movement e.g. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Shelley, etc.

I began my undergraduate career as a vocal performance major at the University of Central Arkansas, though a guest lecture from an Art History professor quickly changed my trajectory. Within a semester, I shifted my focus to Art History and began researching graduate programmes in the field. I went directly from my undergraduate degree to a Master of Arts programme at the University of Virginia, where I studied contemporary public art and Byzantine and early Christian art. Even as an undergraduate, I found that I was primarily interested in artwork that was made for the public rather than for a gallery or private commission. My research focused on public art and its impact on a non-art audience emphasising temporality and artists working outside mainstream fine art institutions. After over two decades of primarily focusing on teaching and community arts, I found a research topic that would satisfy all my interests: public art, self-taught artists, and Irish Studies. As I began to look at PhD programmes, MIC quickly rose to the top of my list because of its emphasis on the importance of teaching, the supportive environment, and the extremely accomplished faculty with whom I would have the opportunity to collaborate. While I complete my PhD at MIC, I continue to work full-time as a professor of Art History in the Centre of Excellence for Media, Visual, and Performing Arts at Houston Community College in the United States. 

My research focuses on the artistic impact that sectarian political murals in Belfast have on artists working today. I evaluate the murals as examples of public art, rather than solely political propaganda, to determine their role in the visual culture of Belfast. In much of the research, these murals are examined for their impact on sectarianism, identity, and the ongoing peace process. However, I am interested in how these pieces of public art may have influenced the contemporary Street Art movement in the city. Viewing the murals within their place in the history of public art gives a fuller understanding of the images and their impact. The city is in a visual arts transitional period. Political murals, cultural murals, historical murals, community murals, and Street Art have all become a part of the visual landscape. With a focus on artists’ inspiration and training, my research evaluates the current creative identity and artistic output of the city and the connections with the political mural tradition.

The most exciting aspect of my research is communicating with artists and the arts professionals who facilitate an extraordinary outdoor gallery of mural painting in Belfast. Working directly with artists, seeing their studios, and touring their murals alongside them has given my research a depth of understanding of the context of the images and the influence artists have in their communities. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed spending time in Belfast, experiencing the murals and contemporary Street Art as a part of a dynamic urban landscape rather than just symbols of the city’s past conflict. I’ve also found the process of writing and presenting my research at conferences extremely rewarding. I feel remarkably fortunate to have the opportunity to travel for my research, meet Irish Studies scholars from around the world, and collaborate on our shared interests.

I would encourage anyone considering a postgraduate research programme to choose an academic environment where they feel supported by their supervisor and the postgraduate research administration and staff. Having the opportunity to pursue a research degree is an extraordinary gift, and it should not make you miserable. A positive academic environment can make all the difference in the world! At MIC, I found that the Research & Graduate School information sessions, guidance for funding applications, and financial support allowed me to spend my energy on my research and thesis rather than navigating administrative tasks. With the right support and a topic that you are excited about every day, completing postgraduate research can be one of the most fulfilling experiences of your life.

I did a BA Liberal Arts in the University of Galway. Due to a subject choice malfunction on my part, I graduated with a degree in English and Maths. The following year I completed a Higher Diploma in Education. I quickly discovered that secondary school teaching wasn’t for me, and after some time scratching my head in Berlin, I registered for a Graduate Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) in UL. This was quickly followed by an MA in Applied Linguistics, also in UL. I taught English for a while in a range of different settings before signing up for a PhD in Applied Linguistics in MIC, which I completed in 2010.

I’m very interested in spoken language, particularly in how family members speak to one another. One of the most important areas that we sometimes think about least but that matters the most, is politeness. Politeness, for a linguist, is not about speaking with your mouth full or using the right fork at dinner, it’s about the language we use to build and maintain harmonious relationships with one another. I’ve found that family members are polite to one another in a very different way to, say, how they might be polite to people from outside the family group such as friends, classmates or work colleagues. So, one of the things I do is examine the language that characterises politeness in the family. The language of politeness is very different in private settings than it is in public ones, but it is the public settings that we worry most about as the consequences of being impolite to our boss, for example, can be serious. My research shows that we pay a lot of attention to being polite to family members also, even though we mightn’t always think this is the case!

I’m also interested in initial encounters between people and the language we use when we meet each other for the first time as strangers and how this language changes as we become friends (or more than friends). This interest has led me to the reality TV show First Dates (Ireland). At the moment, I’m looking at people on first dates to see if there are linguistic clues as to why people might like to either meet one another again for another date, or not. There are a lot of interesting linguistic aspects to this, including the point in the date when it comes to paying the bill! My most recent work is focussed on how daters create an ‘intimate space’ to talk. This is often done using certain topics of conversation. Same sex couples often share coming out stories, older couples talk about past relationships (daters sometimes call this ‘baggage’ but research shows that baggage is a positive thing in the dating world), and there are also many instances where couples discuss their tattoos. The study of people’s tattoos, referred to as ‘skinscapes’ in applied linguistic research, has shown how sharing tattoo stories is a playful and empowering act for people.

Finally, I do a lot of research on the small linguistic items that appear to make Irish English different to other Englishes, such as British or American English. My primary interests are why Irish people use items such as shur (Shur I don’t know), now (Careful now!) or there (Just missed a call from you there) differently and more frequently than in a lot of other Englishes. I use electronic collections of spoken language, called ‘corpora’, and specifically designed computer software, called ‘concordancers’, that analyses these collections.

I do a lot of collaborative research with colleagues from other universities around the world. When you work with others, it involves looking at the same thing, say First Dates, from a number of different perspectives. I really enjoy the process of bringing all these perspectives together. This is especially important during the writing process, where working with two or more authors can result in a piece of writing that looks like it was copied and pasted together. The exciting challenge is to create a piece of writing that looks like it was written by one person!

I have PhD students doing a variety of research projects (e.g. the language of newspapers, protest slogans, first year university students) in a number of different countries. What I like most about this is these students consistently challenge my assumptions about how language functions in the real world.

The reality of postgraduate study is that when many people begin a postgraduate programme, there are significant time demands in other areas of their lives. You may have a full-time job or a family, for example, depending on your life stage. My advice is to think very carefully about how you will integrate postgraduate study into your everyday life. MIC offers a range of supports to postgraduate students to help with time management, stress etc., and it’s good to familiarise yourself with these before committing to a programme.

John McDonagh (2019) ‘Electric Gates in the Celtic Tiger’, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 105-108.

John McDonagh (2015) ‘Let Ireland Weep: Poetry of Loss in the First World War,’ Journal of Franco-Irish Studies, volume 4, number 1, Article 3.

John McDonagh, (2009), ‘Scattered and Diverse: Irish Poetry Since 1990’ in Irish Literature Since 1990 – Diverse Voices, eds. Scott Brewster and Michael Parker (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 121-141.

Eóin Flannery (2019) ‘Debt’, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 91-92.

Eóin Flannery (2019) ‘Poetry’, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 249-252.

Eóin Flannery (2019) ‘‘the incorrigible Irishman’: Roger Casement and the ‘greening’ of Irish Studies’, Journal of Scottish and Irish Studies.

Eóin Flannery (2019’The Possibilities of Shame in Dermot Bolger’s Tanglewood,’ Critical Survey, 31.4, 2019.

Eóin Flannery (2019) ‘Debt as Inheritance’, in Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019, 35-55.

Eóin Flannery (2019) ‘Reading late McGahern: Time, Scale and the Anthropocene’, in Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a Literary Legacy, edited by Eamon Maher and Derek Hand Cork: Cork University Press, 94-111.

Eóin Flannery (2019) ‘The Dispossessed Image,’ in The Ontology of the Artefact, edited by Aoife Banks, Nathan Cahill, and Kate Friedeberg.

Eóin Flannery (2018) ‘Resisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish Eco Poetry’, in Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn and Eugene O’Brien, London: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2018, 133-154.

Eóin Flannery (2018) ‘Scale, Deep Time and the Politics of Representation in Derek Mahon’s Life on Earth’, in Irish University Review 48.2, 2018, 281-298.

Eóin Flannery (2017) ‘‘Burning from the inside out’: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin’, in 9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed edited by Svenja Frank, London: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2017, 83-101.

Eóin Flannery (2017) ‘‘Ill Fares the Land’: Ecology, Capitalism and Literature in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland’, in The Postcolonial World, edited by David D. Kim and Jyotsna Singh, London: Routledge.

Eóin Flannery (2016) ‘Essayist of Place: Postcolonialism and Ecology in the work of Tim Robinson’, in Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture, and Environment, edited by Christine Cusick and Derek Gladwin, Manchester University Press.

Eóin Flannery (2016) ‘Ecocriticism’, in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Oxford University Press, Autumn 2016, 419-438.

Eóin Flannery (2016) ‘‘Listen to the Leaves’: Derek Mahon’s Evolving Ecologies,’ Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. 57.3, 377-401.

Eóin Flannery (2016) ‘Crocodiles and Obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the work of Jamie McKendrick and W.G. Sebald,’ Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies – Special Issue on Roger Casement 4.

Eóin Flannery (2015) ‘Embracing the Other in Colum McCann’s Zoli (2006)’, in The Leaving of Ireland: Literature, Migration and Belonging, edited by John Lynch and Katherina Dodou, Oxford: Peter Lang.

Eóin Flannery (2015) ‘Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin’, in Ireland: Arrivals and Departures – Irish Studies in Europe, edited by Scott Brewster and Werner Huber, 99-108.

Eóin Flannery (2015) ‘‘Decline and Fall’: Empire, Land and the Twentieth-Century Irish ‘Big House’ Novel’, in Ecocriticism of the Global South, edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran, Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 161-179.

Eugene O'Brien (2024) ‘Introduction: Coming to Poetic terms with Himself and Others’ (with Ian Hickey) in 'The Frontier of Writing’: A Study of Seamus Heaney's Prose, with Ian Hickey, London: Routledge, 1-13

Eugene O'Brien (2024) ‘”Things Founded Clean on Their Own Shapes”: Seamus Heaney and the Shape of Poetry in 'The Frontier of Writing’: A Study of Seamus Heaney's Prose, with Ian Hickey, London: Routledge, 14-34

Eugene O'Brien (2024) ‘Introduction’ (with Grace Neville and Sarah Nolan), in Getting the Words Right’: A Festschrift for Eamon Maher, with Grace Neville and Sarah Nolan, Oxford: Peter Lang, 1-4

Eugene O'Brien (2024) ‘“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric […]”: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Gossamer Wall, in Getting the Words Right’: A Festschrift for Eamon Maher, edited by Grace Neville Sarah Nolan and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 243-262

Eugene O'Brien (2024) ‘“Ave atque vale, pater”: The Heaney-Steele Letters’, Studies, 113, (45 Autumn 2024), 10 pages 17-25

Eugene O'Brien (2024) ‘Introduction’ (with Eoin Flannery), Études Irlandaises – The French Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetics, 49 (1), 7-13

Eugene O'Brien (2024) ‘“Our world is interwoven”: Micheal O’Siadhail and The Five Quintets’, Études Irlandaises – The French Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetics, 49 (1), 115-129

Eugene O'Brien (2023) ‘“The Age of Ghosts” and “The Age of Births”: Seamus Heaney’s “Route 110” and Tesserae’, in Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking, edited by Ian Hickey and Ellen Howley, London: Routledge, 38-57

Eugene O'Brien (2023) ‘“Welcoming the Difference”: Michael O’Siadhail and the Gift of Tongues’, in New Beginnings: Perspectives from France and Ireland, edited by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Eamon Maher Oxford: Peter Lang, 105-134

Eugene O'Brien (2023) ‘Writing in Theory: An Intellectual Journey’, in Leaders in English Language Arts Educational Studies: Intellectual Self Portraits (a volume in Brill’s Leaders in Educational Studies series), edited by JuliAnna Ávila, Leiden (The Netherlands): Brill, 189-203

Eugene O'Brien (2023) ‘That’s because of the trauma’: Repetition, Reflection and Refraction in Social Media in Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It, Journal of Franco-Irish Studies, 7 (1), 95-112 https://arrow. tudublin.ie/jofis/vol7/iss1/9 

Eugene O'Brien (2023) ‘“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall”: Female Subjective Dialectics in Paul Howard, Louise O’Neill and Naoise Dolan’, Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 6 (1), 41-64 https://doi.org/ 10.32803/rise.v6i1.3166 

Eugene O'Brien (2022) ‘Paul Howard and the Celtic Tiger: A Voice from the “Morgins”’, in Margins and Marginalities in Ireland and France, edited by Sarah Balen and Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 134-154

Eugene O'Brien (2022) ‘Critiquing Crisis and Commemoration’ (with Eóin Flannery), Irish Studies Review Special Edition, 30 (4), 375-386

Eugene O'Brien (2022) ‘Rereading the Rising: Towards an Understanding of the Influence of “Easter 1916”’ on Contemporary Ireland’, Irish Studies Review Special Edition, (30) 4, 405-422

Eugene O'Brien (2021) ‘“A stain from the sky was descending”: The Poetics of Climate Change in Irish Poetry’, in Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis, edited by Andrew J. Auge and Eugene O’Brien, London: Routledge, 178-197

Eugene O'Brien (2021) ‘Introduction’, with Andrew Auge in Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis, edited by Andrew J. Auge and Eugene O’Brien, London: Routledge, 1-15

Eugene O'Brien (2021) ‘James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)’, in Handbuch Familienroman. Der Generationenroman in Moderne und Gegenwart (Handbook of the Family Novel. The Generational Novel in the Age of Modernism and Today), edited by Helmut Grugger and Johann Holzner, Berlin: De Gruyter, volume 2, 179-192

Eugene O'Brien (2021) ‘The Dawning of Difference: Literary and Cultural Theory in Irish Studies’, in Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford Peter Lang, 283-300

Eugene O'Brien (2021) ‘“Confounding Lethe in the Moyola”: Heaney, Virgil and the Cultural Unconscious’, Ilha do Desterro: a Journal of English Language, Literature in English and Cultural Studies, 74 (2), 39-57

Eugene O'Brien (2020) '“A Pause for Po-Ethics”: Seamus Heaney and the Ethics of Aesthetics’, in Ethics and Literary Practice, edited by Adam Zachary Newton, Basel MDPI, 121-137

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘Vincent Browne’, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 51-54.

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘Fianna Fáil’, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 121-124.

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘Fine Gael – Labour Government 2011–16’, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 133-136.

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘Paul Howard’, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 159-162.

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘Mobile Technology’, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 199-200.

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘U2’, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 323-326.

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘The Rhetoric of Grammar and the Grammar of Rhetoric: An Apophantic Reading of Seamus Heaney’s North’, in Ireland and the North, edited by Fionna Barber, Heidi Hansson and Sara Dybris McQuaid, Oxford: Peter Lang, 201-222.

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘Introduction: Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland’, with Eamon Maher, in France, Ireland and Patrimony, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 1-10.

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘Metanoia and Reflexive Thinking: Towards a Deconstruction of Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage’, in France, Ireland and Patrimony, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 13-34.

Eugene O’Brien (2019) ‘A pause for po-ethics’: Seamus Heaney and the Ethics of Aesthetics’, Humanities: Ethics and Literary Practice (special edition), Volume 8, number 3, 8,488 words.

Eugene O’Brien (2018) ‘‘Sunk past its gleam in the meal bin’: The Kitchen in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Volume 41, 270-289.

Eugene O’Brien (2018) ‘Introduction: Defining Representations of Loss’, with Deirdre Flynn, in Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn and Eugene O’Brien, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-17.

Eugene O’Brien (2018) ‘‘A Pure Change Happened’: Seamus Heaney and the Poetry of Loss’, in Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn and Eugene O’Brien, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 97-114.

Eugene O’Brien (2018) ‘‘Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse’: Catholicism, Deconstruction and Postmodernity in Contemporary Irish Culture’, in The Reimagining Ireland Reader: Examining our Past, Shaping our Future, edited by Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 135-156.

Eugene O’Brien (2017) ‘Introduction’ in Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1-20.

Eugene O’Brien (2017) ‘‘Belief shifts’: Ireland’s referendum and the journey from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft’, in Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 145-160.

Eugene O’Brien (2017) ‘Jacques Lacan’, in Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, edited by Eugene O’Brien. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 19,520 words. Visit Oxford Bibliographies here.

Eugene O’Brien (2016) ‘Introduction’ in The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney, edited by Eugene O’Brien, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1-29.

Eugene O’Brien (2016) ‘‘The Door’ Stands Open: Liminal Spaces in the Later Heaney’, in The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney, edited by Eugene O’Brien, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 386-411.

Eugene O’Brien (2016) ‘‘Desidero ergo sum (I desire therefore I am)’: Towards a Psychoanalytic Reading of the Advertising of Perfume’, Irish Communications Review, volume 15, issue 1, 201-236.

Eugene O’Brien (2016) ‘Re-membering the Rising: A Theoretical Reading of the Politics of Memory’, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings Special Easter 1916 Centenary Edition, volume 16, number 1, 3-16.

Eugene O’Brien (2015) ‘‘The Golden Calf’’: Irish Crime and the Deconstruction of Irish Society’, in The Leaving of Ireland: Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film, edited by John Lynch and Katherina Dodou, Oxford: Peter Lang, 253- 272.

Eugene O’Brien (2015) ‘The Subjective Real in William Trevor’s ‘Justina’s Priest’’, in The Journal of the Short Story in English, Les cahiers de la nouvelle, Autumn 2015, number 63, 195-210.

Eugene O’Brien (2015) ‘‘An Art that knows its Mind’: Prayer, Poetry and Post-Catholic Identity in Seamus Heaney’s ‘Squarings’’, in Études Irlandaises, volume 39, number 2, 127-143.

Anne O’Keeffe and Farr, F. (2019) ‘Using corpora to analyse language’, in the Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education, edited by S. Walsh and S. Mann, Abingdon: Routledge, 268-282.

Anne O’Keeffe and Amador-Moreno, C. P. (2018) He's after getting up a load of wind: a corpus-based exploration of be +after + V-ing constructions in spoken and written corpora, in Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context, in Villanueva-Romero, Diana, C. P. Amador Moreno and Manuel Sánchez García, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 47-73.

Anne O’Keeffe (2018) ‘Corpus-based function-to-form approaches’, in Methods in Pragmatics, edited by A. H. Jucker, K. P. Schneider and W. Bublitz, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 587 – 618.

Anne O’Keeffe and Mark, G. (2018) ‘The grammars of English’, in The Routledge Handbook of English Studies, edited by P. Seargeant and A. Hewings, Abingdon: Routledge, 136-149.

Anne O’Keeffe and Ní Mhocháin, R. (eds) (2018) Corpus Pragmatics 2(4).

Anne O’Keeffe and Ní Mhocháin, R. (2018) ‘Introduction’, Corpus Pragmatics 2(4), 217-219.

Anne O’Keeffe and Mark, G. (2017) ‘The English Grammar Profile of learner competence: Methodology and key findings’, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22: 4, 457-489.

Anne O’Keeffe, Becker Lopes Perna, C. (eds) (2017) Letras de Hoje: Estudos e debates em linguística, literature e língua portuguesa 52(3), special issue on ‘The Pragmatics of Interlanguage’.

Anne O’Keeffe and Becker Lopes Perna, C. (2017) ‘The Pragmatics of Interlanguage’. Letras de Hoje: Estudos e debates em linguística, literature e língua portuguesa 52(3), 284-285.

Anne O’Keeffe and Ní Mhocháin, R. (eds) (2017) Corpus Pragmatics 1(4), 293-295.

Anne O’Keeffe and Ní Mhocháin, R. (2017) ‘Introduction’, Corpus Pragmatics 1(4): 293–295.

Anne O’Keeffe, Ring, E., Mhic Mhathúna, M., Moloney, M., Hayes, N., Breathnach, D., Stafford, P., Carswell, D., Keegan, S., Kelleher, C., McCafferty, D., Leavy, A., Madden, R. and Ozonyia, M. (2017) An examination of concepts of school readiness among parents and educators in Ireland. Dublin: Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

Anne O’Keeffe, Caines, A and McCarthy, M. J. (2016) ‘Spoken language corpora and pedagogic applications’, in Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology, edited by F. Farr and L. Murray, London: Routledge, 348-361.

Anne O’Keeffe and Moloney, D. (2015) ‘Blended Learning: a case study in language teacher education’, in The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning, edited by D. Marsh and M. J. McCarthy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anne O’Keeffe and Clancy, B. (2015) ‘Pragmatics’, in The Cambridge Handbook on Corpus Linguistics, edited by D. Biber and R. Reppen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 235-251.

Anne O’Keeffe and Vaughan, E. (2015) ‘Corpus Analysis’, in The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, edited by K. Tracy, C. Ilie and T. Sandel, Denver, CO: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 252-268.

Anne O’Keeffe and Róisín Ní Mhocháin (eds) (2017) Corpus Pragmatics Journal, Springer, 2016-2017 (Special issue).

Anne O’Keeffe, Caines, A., and McCarthy, M. J. (2016) ‘Spoken language corpora and pedagogic applications’, in Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology, edited by F. Farr and L. Murray, London: Routledge, 348-361.

Anne O’Keeffe, and Moloney, D. (2015) ‘Blended Learning: a case study in language teacher education’ in The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning, edited by D. Marsh and M. J. McCarthy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anne O’Keeffe and Clancy, B. (2015) ‘Pragmatics’, in The Cambridge Handbook on Corpus Linguistics, eddied by D. Biber and R. Reppen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 235-251.

Anne O’Keeffe and Vaughan, E. (2015) ‘Corpus Analysis’, in The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, edited by K. Tracy, C. Ilie and T. Sandel, Denver, CO: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 252-268.

Anne O’Keeffe and Cheng, W. (2014) ‘Vague Language’, in Corpus Pragmatics: A Handbook, edited by K. Aijmer and C. Ruehlemann, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 686-869.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2014) ‘Spoken Grammar’, in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th ed.), edited by M. Celce-Murcia, D. M. Brinton, & M. A. Snow, Boston, MA: National Geographic/Cengage, 271 - 287.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2014) “Spoken Grammar”, in M. Celce-Murcia, D. M. Brinton, & M. A. Snow (eds) Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th ed.), Boston, MA: National Geographic/Cengage, pp. 271 - 287.

Amador Moreno, C. P., McCarthy, M. J. and O’Keeffe, A. (2013) ‘Can English Provide a Framework for Spanish Response Tokens?’, The Yearbook of Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics, 1(1):175-201.

Anne O’Keeffe and Walsh, S. (2012) ‘Applying corpus linguistics and conversation analysis in the investigation of small group teaching in higher education’, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 8(1): 159–181.

Anne O’Keeffe and Farr, F. (2012) ‘Using Language Corpora in Language Teacher Education: pedagogic, linguistic and cultural insights’, in D. Biber and R. Reppen, (eds) Corpus Linguistics (Volume 4): Methods and Applications. London: Sage, 335- 365.

Anne O’Keeffe and Clancy, B. (2012) ‘Using a corpus to enhance pragmatic awareness’, in M. D. García-Pastor (ed.) Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Proposals for the language classroom. Catarroja, València: Perifèric, pp. 27-60.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2012) ‘Analysing Speech Corpora’., in T. Cobb (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 104-112.

Anne O’Keeffe (2012) ‘Corpora and Media Studies’, in K. Hyland, M. H. Chau and M. Handford (eds) Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics. London: Continuum, pp. 117-131.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2012) ‘Competencies Explored and Exposed: Grammar, Lexis, Communication and the Notion of Levels’, in T. Summer and M. Eisenmann (eds) Basic Issues in EFL-Teaching and Learning. Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter, pp. 55-67.

Anne O’Keeffe (2012) ‘Vocabulary Instruction’, in A. Burns and J. Richards (eds) The Cambridge Guide to Pedagogy and Practice in Language Teaching, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 236-245.

Anne O’Keeffe (2011) ‘Media and Discourse Analysis’, in J. P. Gee and M. Handford (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis, London: Routledge, pp. 441-454.

Anne O’Keeffe (2011) ‘The Media’, in J. Simpson (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, London: Routledge, pp. 67-80.

Anne O’Keeffe (2011) ‘Teaching and Irish English’, English Today, 27(2), 57-63.

Anne O’Keeffe and Walsh, S., Morton, T. (2011) ‘Analyzing university spoken interaction: a corpus linguistics/conversation analysis approach’, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 16(3): 326-345.

Anne O’Keeffe and Walsh, S. (2010) ‘Investigating higher education seminar talk’, Novitas-ROYAL, 4 (2), 141-158.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2010) ‘Historical perspective: what are corpora and how have they evolved? , in A. O’Keeffe and M. J. McCarthy (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, London: Routledge, pp. 3-13.

Anne O’Keeffe and Amador Moreno, C. P. (2009) ‘The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English’, Intercultural Pragmatics, 6 (4): 517-534.

Anne O’Keeffe and Adolphs, S. (2008) ‘Response tokens in British and Irish English’, in K.P. Schneider and A. Barron (eds), Variational Pragmatics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 69-98.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2008) ‘Corpora and the Study of Spoken Language’ , in A, Ludeling, M. Kytö and T. McEnery (eds), Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1-16.

Anne O’Keeffe and Walsh, S., McCarthy, M. (2008) ‘ ‘…post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on so forth’ – vague language in academic discourse, a comparative analysis of form, function and context’, in R. Reppen and A. Ädel (eds), Corpora and Discourse (SCL31), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 9-29.

Anne O’Keeffe and Walsh, S. (2007) ‘Applying CA to a modes analysis of third-level spoken academic discourse’, in H. Bowles, and P. Seedhouse (eds) Conversation Analysis and Languages for Specific Purposes, Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 101-139.

Anne O’Keeffe and Evison , J., McCarthy, M. J. (2007). ‘ ‘Looking out for love and all the rest of it’: vague category markers as shared social space’, in J. Cutting (ed.) Vague Language Explored, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp.138-157.

Anne O’Keeffe and Breen, M. (2007) ‘ ‘At the hands of the Brothers: a corpus-based lexico-grammatical analysis of stance in newspaper reporting of child sexual abuse’, in J. Cotterill (ed.), The Language of Sex Crimes, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 217-236.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2006) ‘Second Language Speaking’, in K. Brown (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 95-101.

Anne O’Keeffe (2005) ‘”You’ve a daughter yourself?”: a corpus-based look at lexico-grammatical choices and pragmatic effects in question forms in an Irish radio phone-in’, in K.P. Schneider and A. Barron (eds), The Pragmatics of Irish English, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 339-366.

Anne O’Keeffe (2004) ‘‘Like the wise virgins and all that jazz’ – using a corpus to examine vague language and shared knowledge’, Language and Computers, 52(1), 1-20.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2004) ‘Research in the teaching of speaking’, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 24, 26-43.

Anne O’Keeffe and Farr, F., Murphy, B. (2004) ‘The Limerick Corpus of Irish English: design, description and application’ Teanga (Yearbook of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), 21: 5-29.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. (2003) ‘‘What's in a name?’ - vocatives in casual conversations and radio phone-in calls’, in P. Leistyna and C. Meyer (eds), Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 153-185.

 Anne O’Keeffe and Binchy, J. (2003) ‘Reading and writing at university – raising genre awareness as initiation into a discourse community’ , in G. Shiel and U. Ní Dhálaigh (eds), Other Ways of Seeing: Diversity in Language and Literacy. Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, pp. 220-228.

Anne O’Keeffe and Brosnan, G., Binchy, J. (2003) ‘Feeding back feedback - towards a cyclical model for learner support’ , in R. Tormey (ed.), Teaching Social Justice: Intercultural and Development Education Perspectives on Education’s Context, Content and Methods, Dublin and Limerick: Irish Aid and Centre for Educational Disadvantage Research, pp. 191-199.

Anne O’Keeffe and Farr, F. (2003) ‘Using Language Corpora in Language Teacher Education: pedagogic, linguistic and cultural insights’, TESOL Quarterly, 37(3), 389-418.

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. (2003) ‘‘What's in a name?’ - vocatives in casual conversations and radio phone-in calls’, Language and Computers, 46(1) 153-185.

Anne O’Keeffe and Farr, F. (2002). ‘Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: an intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction’ , in R. Reppen, S. Fitzmaurice and D. Biber, (eds), Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 25-48.

Anne O’Keeffe (2002) ‘Exploring indices of national identity in a corpus of radio phone-in data from Irish radio’ , in A. Sánchez Macarro (ed.), Windows on the World: Media Discourse in English, Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, pp. 91-113.

Anne O’Keeffe (2001) ‘Five ideas for using authentic television clips’, Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland), 3(3): 14-17.

Anne O’Keeffe (2001) ‘TEFL in Ireland - reflecting a profession?’, Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland), 3(2): 6-11.

Anne O’Keeffe and Barker, G. (1999) ‘A Corpus of Irish English – Past, Present, Future’. Teanga (Yearbook of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), 18, 1-11.

Anne O’Keeffe (2000) ‘Exploring television as an exponent of pragmatic and sociocultural information in foreign language learning’ , in T. Lewis and A. Rouxeville (eds), Technology and the Advanced Language Learner, London: CILT, pp. 23-52.

Anne O’Keeffe (2000) ‘Undergraduate Academic Writing: an analysis of errors and weaknesses in syntax, lexis, style and structure’, in G. Shiel, U. Ní Dhálaigh and E. Kennedy (eds), Language and Literacy for the New Millennium, Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, pp. 167-186.

Kathryn Laing (2019) ‘The Young Rebecca Revisited: 1911-1920’ in Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s­1920s: The Modernist Period, edited by Faith Binckes and Carey Snyder, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 169-182.

Kathryn Laing and Faith Binckes (2019) ‘Was this ‘the most gifted woman Ireland ever produced?’: Hannah Lynch (1859-1904) in the Irish Times Online: Fri, Jul 26, 2019.

Kathryn Laing and Sowon Park (2018) ‘Writing and Politics: Writing the Vote: Suffrage, Gender, and Politics’ in Vol 2 Futility and Anarchy? British Literature in Transition 1920-1940, edited by Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91-107.

Kathryn Laing (2018) ‘‘Only Connect’: Irish Women’s Voices, Latin America and the Irish Women’s Writing Network’ in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America volume 9, no. 1, pp. 57-71.

Kathryn Laing (2017) ‘Am I a Vorticist?’: Re-Reading Rebecca West’s ‘Indissoluble Matrimony’ in Blast at 100: Centenary Essays, edited by Philip Coleman et al, Leiden: Brill, 44-61.

Kathryn Laing (2017) ‘F. Mabel Robinson: The Aesthetics of Sympathy and Texts of Transition’, in Victorian into Modern: Suturing the Divide, 1875-1935, edited by Louise Kane and Deborah Mutch, London: Routledge.

Kathryn Laing (2016) ‘Hannah Lynch and Narratives of the Irish Literary Revival’, New Hibernia Review, Volume 20, no. 1 (Spring), 42-57.

Kathryn Laing (2015) ‘George Moore and F. Mabel Robinson: Paris and the Woman Artist’, in George Moore's Paris and his French Ongoing Connections, edited by Mary Pierse et al, Bern: Peter Lang, 133-152.

Joan O’Sullivan (2019) ‘Constructing identity in radio advertising in Ireland’ in Irish Identitities: Sociolinguistic Perspecives, edited by Raymond Hickey and Carolina Amador Moreno, London: De Gruyter Mouton, p. 220-251.

Joan O’Sullivan (2018) ‘Advanced Dublin English in Irish radio advertising: The ‘initiative’ role of advertising in the construction of identity’, English World-Wide, 2018, 39:1, 60-84.

Joan O’Sullivan and Helen Kelly-Holmes (2017) ‘Verncularization and authenticity in radio advertising in Ireland', World Englishes, 2017 36:2,: 154-299.

Joan O’Sullivan (2016) 'Advanced Dublin English in Irish radio advertising', World Englishes, 32 (3), 358-376, available: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111 /weng.12036/abstract.

Joan O’Sullivan (2016) 'Language change and ideology in Irish radio advertising', Irish Communications Review. 2016, 15:1, 75-112. 

Joan O’Sullivan (2016) 'Standard Southern British English as referee design in Irish radio advertising’, Linguistics, 2016, 55: 3, 525-551.

Joan O'Sullivan (2015) 'Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in Ireland' in Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, edited by Amador Moreno, C. P., McCafferty, K. and Vaughan, E., Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 318-347.

Deirdre Flynn (2019) ‘Rural Encroachment in Mary Lavin’s short stories’ in Irish University Review, Vol 49, November 2019.

Deirdre Flynn (2019) ‘The Uncanny City: Delving into the sewers and subconscious of Tokyo in Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World’, in Supernatural Cities, edited by Karl Bell, London: Boydell and Brewer.

Deirdre Flynn (2018) ‘Streets of Spectrality: Kevin Barry’s Dystopian City of Bohane’, in Worlds Gone Awry: Essays on Dystopian Fiction, edited by C. Clark Triplett, Ashley G. Anthony & John Han, London: McFarland.

Deirdre Flynn (2018) ‘Holding on to ‘rites, rhythms and rituals’: Mike McCormack’s homage to small-town Irish life and death’, in The Literature of Loss: Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn & Eugene O’Brien 70 – 95, London: Palgrave.

Deirdre Flynn & Eugene O’Brien (2018) ‘Defining Representations of Loss’, with Eugene O’Brien, in The Literature of Loss: Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn & Eugene O’Brien 14 – 43, London: Palgrave.

Deirdre Flynn & Maria Beville (2018) ‘Irish Urban Fictions: An Introduction’, in Irish Urban Fictions, edited by Maria Beville & Deirdre Flynn, pp 11 – 34, London: Palgrave.

Deirdre Flynn (2018) ‘Motherhood, Marriage, and Daughters in Anne Enright's The Green Road’, in Moving Worlds: Women Write Now: Reading the Contemporary, 18.1, 115-126.

Books as Author

Joan O’Sullivan: Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change, London: Routledge, 2019

Joan O’Sullivan: Talkin’ Different: Linguistic Diversity and the Irish Traveller Minority, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008

Kathryn Laing: Hannah Lynch (1859-1904): Irish Writer, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, with Faith Binckes, Cork: Cork University Press, 2019

Anne O’Keeffe: Introducing Pragmatics in Use, 2nd Ed., with Clancy, B. and Adolphs, S., Abingdon: Routledge, 2020

Anne O’Keeffe: English Grammar Today, with Carter, R.A., McCarthy, M. J., and Mark G., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Anne O’Keeffe: English Grammar Today – Workbook, with Carter, R.A., McCarthy, M. J., and Mark G., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Anne O’Keeffe: Introducing Pragmatics in Use.1st Ed., with Clancy, B. and Adolphs, S., Abingdon: Routledge, 2011

Anne O’Keeffe: The Vocabulary Matrix: Understanding, Learning, Teaching, with McCarthy, M. J., and Walsh, S., Boston, MA: National Geographic/Cengage, 2009

Anne O’Keeffe: From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching, with McCarthy, M. J. and R. A. Carter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Anne O’Keeffe: Investigating Media Discourse. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006

John McDonagh: The Art of the Caveman - The Poetry of Paul Durcan, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.

John McDonagh: A Fine Statement: An Irish Poets’ Anthology, Poolbeg Press, Dublin, 2008

John McDonagh: Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts, Liffey Press, Dublin, 2004

Eóin Flannery: Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and Environmental Justice New York: Routledge, 2016

Eóin Flannery: Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011

Eóin Flannery: Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia Basingstoke: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2009

Eóin Flannery: Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press 2006

Eugene O'Brien: Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly, London: Routledge, 2023

Eugene O’Brien: Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker: A Study of the Prose, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2016

Eugene O’Brien: ‘Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse’: Interlacing Texts and Contexts, New York: Peter Lang, 2009

Eugene O’Brien: Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind (Second enlarged and revised edition, first published 2002), Dublin: Liffey Press, 2007

Eugene O’Brien: Seamus Heaney: Searches for Answers, London: Pluto Press, 2004

Eugene O’Brien: Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003

Eugene O’Brien: Examining Irish Nationalism in the Context of Literature, Culture and Religion: A Study of the Epistemological Structure of Nationalism, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002

Eugene O’Brien: Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind, Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002

Eugene O’Brien: The Question of Irish Identity in the Writings of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998

Books as Editor

Kathryn Laing, Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives, co-edited with Sinéad Mooney, Brighton: EER, 2020

Kathryn Laing, ‘Hannah Lynch’s Irish Girl Rebels: ‘A Girl Revolutionist’ and ‘Marjorie Maurice’, Brighton: EER, 2020

Anne O’Keeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (eds) (2010) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, Abingdon: Routledge, 2010.

John McDonagh: Polish-Irish Encounters in the Old and New Europe, co-edited with Sabine Egger, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2011

John McDonagh, Remembering Michael Hartnett, co-edited with Stephen Newman Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2006

Eóin Flannery: The Journal of Ecocriticism: Special Issue on Ireland (editor) 5.2, 2013

Eóin Flannery: This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann, co-edited with Susan Cahill, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012

Eóin Flannery: Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture, co-edited with Michael Griffin, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 2009

Eóin Flannery: Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography, co-edited with Angus Mitchell, Dublin: Four Courts Press 2007

Eóin Flannery: Postcolonial Text: Special Issue on Ireland (editor) 3.3, 2007

Eugene O'Brien: Routledge Companion to 21st Century Irish Writing, with Anne Fogarty, London: Routledge, 2024

Eugene O'Brien: The Frontier of Writing’: A Study of Seamus Heaney's Prose, with Ian Hickey, London: Routledge, 2024

Eugene O'Brien: ‘Getting the Words Right’: A Festschrift for Eamon Maher, with Grace Neville and Sarah Nolan, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2024

Eugene O'Brien: Études Irlandaises – The French Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue on Memory and Contemporary Irish Culture, volume 48, number 2, co-edited with Eóin Flannery, 2024

Eugene O'Brien: Irish Studies Review: Special Issue on Crisis and Commemoration in Modern Ireland, volume 30, number 4, co-edited with Eóin Flannery, 2022 Irish Studies Review 30 (4)

Eugene O'Brien: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis, with Andrew Auge, London: Routledge, 2021

Eugene O'Brien: Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century, with Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021

Eugene O’Brien: Recalling the Celtic Tiger, co-edited with Brian Lucy and Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019

Eugene O’Brien: Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland, co-edited with Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019

Eugene O’Brien: Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, co-edited with Deirdre Flynn, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Eugene O’Brien: Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond (paperback 2nd edition), co-edited with Eamon Maher, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018

Eugene O’Brien: Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond (paperback 2nd edition), co-edited with Eamon Maher, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017

Eugene O’Brien: The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney, , Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016

Eugene O’Brien: From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath, co-edited with Eamon Maher, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014

Eugene O’Brien: Breaking the Mould: Literary Representations of Irish Catholicism and Ireland, co-edited with Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011

Eugene O’Brien: War of the Words: Literary Rebellion in France and Ireland, co-edited with Eamon Maher, Tir: Publication du CRBC Rennes 2, Université Européenne de Bretagne, 2010

Eugene O’Brien: Issues of Globalisation and Secularisation in France and Ireland, co-edited with Yann Bévant, Grace Neville and Eamon Maher, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2009

Eugene O’Brien: Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context, co-edited with Grace Neville and Eamon Maher, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008

Eugene O’Brien: Reinventing Ireland through a French Prism, co-edited with Grace Neville, and Eamon Maher, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007

Eugene O’Brien: La France et la Mondialisation: France and the Struggle against Globalization, co-edited with Eamon Maher, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007

Adele Hannon – “A Monster with Many Faces: Redefining the Gothic Villain in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights through a Postmodern Lens”, Guest Lecture, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, March 2018.

Adele Hannon – “An Anamorphic Look at the Irish ‘Other’ through the Lacanian Lens” 12th Conference of AFIS (Association of Franco‐Irish Studies), Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 19th-20th May 2017.

Adele Hannon – “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding: A Psychoanalytic Look at the Irish Traveller through the Anamorphic Lens”, Guest Lecture, Institute for Irish Studies Lunchtime Lecture Series, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 28th November 2017.

Adele Hannon – “The Untold Story of the Monster: A Psychoanalytic Look at the Monster through the Anamorphic Lens”, Department of English Language and Literature Postgraduate Seminar, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 1st December 2017.

Adele Hannon – “Transgression of the Gendered Body in areas of Maturity, Motherhood and Marriage in A Game of Thrones”, Performing Fantastika Interdisciplinary Conference, Lancaster University, UK, 28th- 29th April 2017.

Adele Hannon - “You Know Nothing Jon Snow: Voicing the Female Experience in 21st Century Fantasy Fiction”, Mum’s The Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture Conference, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 9th March 2017. 

Anne O’Keeffe - “Advanced Grammar Competencies: What can an advanced learner do with English grammar?”, keynote paper presented to the 3rd ELT Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 18th – 19th February, 2017.

Anne O’Keeffe - “An evolution of learner grammar: insights from the English Grammar Profile”, keynote paper presented to 5th Ministry of Education ELT Malta conference, Malta, 7th-8th October 2016.

Anne O’Keeffe - “An insight into learner grammar competency across the CEFR using the Cambridge Learner Corpus”, keynote paper presented to the 4th Annual Exams Catalunya ELT Conference, Esada Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain, 19th November, 2016.

Anne O’Keeffe - “Corpora of Spoken Language: what can they tell us about language learning”, keynote paper presented to the International conference on Bringing together research and practice, Lisbon, Portugal, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Anfiteatro III, 2nd – 3rd November 2017.

Anne O’Keeffe - “Investigating Learner Grammar Standards using Corpus Linguistics’”. Keynote paper read at the One-Day Symposium on English Language Use in Malta: Standards and Creativity, University of Malta, Malta, 8th May, 2014.

Anne O’Keeffe - “The Application of Corpus Linguistics”. Plenary paper at the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) Conference, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 30th May - 3rd June 2012.

Anne O’Keeffe - “The Cambridge Learner Corpus and what it tells us about the grammar of Spanish-speaking learners”. Keynote paper to mark the 70th anniversary of the Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Columbia, 20th September 2012.

Anne O’Keeffe - “The EFL Grammar Syllabus and Learner Grammar Competence”. Keynote paper at the MATSDA Creating Motivation with L2 Materials, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, June 20th-21st, 2015.

Anne O’Keeffe - “The Limerick Corpus of Irish English: what is it and what does it tell us about Irish English?”. Plenary paper read at the 12th International AEDEI Conference on Voice and Discourse in the Irish context, University of Extremadura, Spain, 30th May – 1st June, 2013.

Brian Clancy - ‘What’s in a name?’ 3rd Conference on Social Psychology in Ireland, Limerick, September 2013.

Brian Clancy – “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end (Seneca): Turn-final items in Irish English”. New Perspectives in Irish English 3, Limerick, June 2015.

Brian Clancy – “I flirt by insulting people’: Exploring the creation and performance of intimacy in First Dates (Ireland)’. Language in the Media, Cape Town, October 2017.

Brian Clancy – “Intimacy and identity in Irish English: A corpus approach”. Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, July 2016.

Brian Clancy – “Small words, big ideas: A corpus-based investigation of the use of that as a marker of empathetic deixis”. 14th International Pragmatics conference, Antwerp, July 2015.

Brian Clancy – “Small words, big ideas: A corpus-based investigation of emphatic that in the Limerick Corpus of Irish English”, IVACS Annual Symposium, Cambridge, January 2012.

Brian Clancy – Plenary speaker on “Using spoken corpora to investigate pragmatic variation”, New Trends in Spoken Corpora, Santiago de Compostela, September 2015.

Brian Clancy (& J. Binchy) - “The question of questions: Exploring questions in one-to-one academic support tutorials” 6th International IVACS Conference, Leeds, June 2012.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E) – “The devil is in the detail: Using corpora to investigate spoken language varieties”. American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Flagstaff, AZ, September 2014.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E) – “There is a there there: Further adventures in deictic marking in Irish English”. IVACS Annual Symposium, Limerick, February 2015.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E.) – “Community and identity in language: Small words, big ideas”. Sociolinguistics Symposium 20, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2014.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E.) – “It’s lunacy now: A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of the use of now in contemporary Irish English”. 1st Discourse and Pragmatic Variation Conference, Manchester, April 2012.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E.) “Communities of (mal)practice: Exploring the interface of corpus linguistics and social theory”, 7th IVACS International Conference, Newcastle, June 2014.

Clancy B (and E. Vaughan) “We can check it in the corpus shur: Framing the use of corpus and corpus methodologies through an investigation of the pragmatic marker shur in Irish English”. New Perspectives in Irish English 2, Dublin, April 2013.

Clancy, B (& M. McCarthy) - “Utterance co-construction: The evidence of corpora”. IVACS Annual Symposium, Limerick, January 2013.

Eoin Flannery - “‘Ill Fares the Land’: Ecology, Capitalism and Literature in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland”, European Federation of Irish Studies conference, University of Palermo, Sicily, 5 June 2015.

Eoin Flannery - “Crocodiles and Obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the works of WG Sebald and Jamie McKendrick,” Roger Casement: The Global Imperative conference, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Tralee, Ireland, 25-26 October, 2013.

Eoin Flannery - “Debt, Guilt and Literary Form in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland”, Debt in History conference, University of Toronto, 18-19 May 2018.

Eoin Flannery - “Listen to the Leaves: The Global Climate Crisis in the poetry of Derek Mahon,” at the Ireland and Ecocriticism conference, University College Cork, Ireland, 19-21 June 2014.

Eoin Flannery - “New Generation, New Environments in Contemporary Irish Poetry,” New Generation to Next Generation 2014: Three Decades of British and Irish Poetry, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 13-14 March 2015.

Eoin Flannery - “Profit and Loss: The Ecologies of post-Celtic Tiger Irish Poetry,” The Literature of Loss conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, 20 February 2015.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on “‘Listen to the Leaves’: Irony and Commitment in Contemporary Irish Ecopoetry,” Imaginaries of the Future: Politics and Poetics Symposium, Queen’s University, Belfast, 21 January 2016.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on “Crocodiles and Obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the works of WG Sebald and Jamie McKendrick,” Irish Afterlives symposium, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 8 September 2016.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on “Debt, Guilt and Literary Form in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland” Association of Franco-Irish Studies Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, May 2017.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on “Poetry and Justice: Art, Politics and the afterlife of Roger Casement in modern and contemporary writing,” at the Oxford Human Rights Arts Festival, 25 February 2014.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on “Time, Speed and Ecology in John McGahern’s fiction,” St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, 28-29 April 2016.

Eoin Flannery - Plenary speaker on “Ireland, Postcolonialism and the European Union”, In and Out of (Postcolonial) Europe: Portugal and Ireland conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, 5 July 2012.

Eoin Flannery - Plenary speaker on “Ireland, the Environmental Humanities and the Utopian Impulse,” at Waiting for Utopia: Ireland and the Utopian Impulse conference, University of Caen, France, 20 November, 2015.

Eoin Flannery - Plenary speaker on “Playing the Scales: Humanity, Non-Humanity and Ecocriticism”, Mapping the Self conference, Oxford Brookes University, 15 December 2012.

Eoin Flannery - Plenary speaker on “The Ecologies of Contemporary Irish Poetry”, Shifting Territories: Modern and Contemporary Poetics of Place conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 23 May 2013.

Eoin Flannery - Public interview with poet Jamie McKendrick at the Oxford Human Rights Arts Festival, 28 February 2014.

Eugene O’Brien – “Moriary, Mahon and the Messianic – A Deconstructive Reading of the Mentalitée of the Irish Republic”, Plenary speaker at the France, Ireland and the Public Imagination, 8th Annual Conference of the Association of Franco-Irish Studies conference, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 25th May 2012.

Eugene O’Brien – “Re-membering the Rising: A Theoretical Reading of the Politics of Memory”, Crisis and the Commemoration in Modern Ireland, 1916-2016, 14th October 2016.

Eugene O’Brien – “Stranger than Fiction: Towards a Fictive Understnading of the Celtic Tiger and the Crash”, Plenary papers at the Post-Crash Irish Literature and Culture: Its Emergence and Influence conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, 27th May 2016.

Eugene O’Brien – “The Door Stands Open: Heaney and the Poetry of Loss”, Plenary paper at The Literature of Loss conference, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 20th February 2015.

Hollie O’Farrell – “Revolutionary Female Characters Tackling the Gender Bias in the Comic Book Industry”, Sibéal Network Conference, 18th November 2016.

Hollie O’Farrell – “The Changing Role of Women in the 'Star Wars' Universe”, Mum's the Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture Conference, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 9th March 2017.

Hollie O’Farrell – “The Female Body as a Form of Resistance: Deconstructing the Stereotypes of Hyper-sexualization and Femininity in the Comic Book Industry”, Sibéal Network Conference, University College Dublin, 18th November 2017.

Ian Hickey – “Virgilian Hauntings in the Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney”, Department of English Language and Literature Postgraduate Seminar, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 13th February 2018.

Jade Dillon – “Analysing Children’s Literature through the Theoretical Lens”, Guest Lecture, Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK, 6th February 2018.

Jade Dillon – “Deconstructing Minds – A Psychoanalytical Deconstruction of the Brain as a Fantasy Island in Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out”, The European Society for the Studies of English (ESSE) Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, 22nd – 26th August 2016.

Jade Dillon - “Locating Alice: The Gendered Body of Identity within Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Tim Burton’s adaptation”, Performing Fantastika Interdisciplinary Conference, Lancaster University, UK, 28th – 29th April 2017.

Jade Dillon – “Mirror, Mirror: Establishing the Gendered Gaze in Irish Young Adult Fiction”, Guest Lecture, Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK, 7th February 2018.

Jade Dillon – “Mirror, Mirror: Establishing the Gendered Gaze in Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours”, Revisiting the Gaze Conference, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK, 28th – 29th June 2017.

Jade Dillon – “Once Upon a Stereotype… Fairy Tales and Feminist Retellings”, Guest Lecture, Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK, 8th February 2018.

Jade Dillon – “Reimagining Alice: Adaptation and Intertextuality of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Popular Culture”, Mum’s The Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture Conference, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 9th March 2017.

Jade Dillon – “The Mirror of Alice: Locating Lacan’s Mirror Stage and the Search for Female Identity in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, Association of Franco-Irish Studies, Conference, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 19th – 20th May 2017.

Jade Dillon – “The Politics of the Female Body in Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It”, Revolutionary Genders Sibéal Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, 18th & 19th November 2016.

Jade Dillon – “Voicing Gender: Gender Identity, Ideology, and Intertextuality associated with Victorian Children’s Fiction”, Department of English Language and Literature Postgraduate Seminar, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 26th September 2017.

John McDonagh – ‘Our Mutual Friend – The Life and Works of Charles Dickens’, invited lecture at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, February 2020.

 John McDonagh – ‘Madder than I am!’: Ginsberg, Durcan and Transatlantic Tremors’, Conference paper delivered at the American Literature Association annual conference, Boston, May, 2019.

John McDonagh – ‘The Irish Question’ – Nationalism and Literature’, Invited address delivered at the University of Huelva, Spain delivered as part of an Erasmus teaching mobility exchange, December, 2019.

John McDonagh – ‘Ireland-2018’, Invited lecture at Mohammed V University, Oujda, Morocco as part of an Erasmus+ exchange visit, March, 2018.

John McDonagh – ‘Around Ireland in an Astra’ – Paul Durcan’s ethno-geography’, Conference paper delivered at the annual AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) conference held in MIC. I co-hosted the conference with Dr Eugene O’Brien, May, 2017.

John McDonagh – ‘A Host of Ghosts: The life and work of poet Brendan Kennelly’, Public lecture delivered as part of the Limerick Writer’s Centre ‘Great Writers: Great Literature’ series in Nelly's Corner Cafe, Nicholas St, Limerick, September, 2017.

John McDonagh – ‘Let Ireland Weep’: Poetry of Loss in the First World War’, Invited address to the annual St. Luke’s Conference of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, October, 2016.

Kathryn Laing – ‘“I am an unexplained enigma. I live alone. I follow art’: Textual Traces, Literary Recoveries and the Irish writer, Hannah Lynch (1859-1904)” Invited Paper, Oxford Centre for Life-Writing seminar: ‘Reclamations: Writing on the Lives of Shirley Hazzard and Hannah Lynch’. Wolfson College, Oxford, 27 November 2014.

Kathryn Laing – “Am I a Vorticist: Rereading Rebecca West’s ‘Indissoluble Matrimony’”, Invited Paper, Blast at 100 Symposium at Trinity College Dublin, 2 July 2014

Kathryn Laing – “Creative Destruction: Blast and Rebecca West's 'Indissoluble Matrimony'”, Blast 2014: Interdisciplinary Conference, Bath Spa University, 24 -26 July, 2014

Kathryn Laing – “George Moore and Mabel Robinson: Women, Art, Writing and Sympathy”, Latitudes: Irish Studies in an international context, American and Canadian Conferences of Irish Studies, University College Dublin, Dublin 11-14 June 2014.

Kathryn Laing – “Girl Revolutionists and the Ladies’ Land League: Forging Literary and Publishing Networks”, The 12th Annual Conference of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies), Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 19-20 May 2017.

Kathryn Laing – “In the Footsteps of Miss Rosamond Merridew: Lives of the Obscure, Late Nineteenth-Century Irish Women’s Writing and Archives”, The 27th Annual International conference on Virginia Woolf, ‘Virginia Woolf and the World of Books’, University of Reading, 29 June – 2 July 2017.

Kathryn Laing – “Making it New: George Moore, F. Mabel Robinson and the Aesthetics of Sympathy”, Making it New: Victorian and Modernist Literature, 1875-1935, De Montfort University, 2 February 2015.

Kathryn Laing – “Revisiting Scenes of Salvage: Rebecca West’s ‘The Sentinel’ and its Suffrage and Modernist Contexts”, British Comparative Literature Association, Salvage 12-15 July, 2016.

Kathryn Laing (and Faith Binckes (Bath Spa U)) – “Hannah Lynch: Transnational Literary Networks and Vagabondage”, Occluded Narratives: Researching Irish Women’s Writing 1880-1910, Mary Immaculate College, 26 November 2016.

Margaret Healy - IVACS 8th Biennial International Conference, Bath Spa University, UK, 16-17 June 2016.

Margaret Healy - IVACS Annual Symposium, Queen’s University, Belfast, 23rd January 2014.

Margaret Healy – Paper given at ELTed Limerick 2016 (English Language Teacher Education & Development), Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 7 May 2016.

Margaret Healy – Paper given at IRAAL 40th Anniversary Conference (Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), Trinity College Dublin, 21 November 2015.

Margaret Healy – Paper given at IRMSS 6th Annual Conference (International Research Methods Summer School), Mary Immaculate College, 19-21 May 2017.

Margaret Healy – Paper given at IVACS 6th International Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, 21-22 June 2012.

Margaret Healy – Paper given at IVACS 7th International Conference, Newcastle University, UK, 19-21 June 2014.

Margaret Healy – Paper given at IVACS Annual Symposium, Cardiff University, Wales, 4th March 2017.

Margaret Healy – Paper given at IVACS Annual Symposium, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 17 January 2013.

Margaret Healy – Paper given at THRIC (Tourism & Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference) Annual Conference, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 11th June 2015.

Margaret Healy – Paper given at TTRA (Travel and Tourism Research Association) European Chapter Annual Conference, Shannon College of Hotel Management, Shannon, 22 April 2016.

Paul McNamara - ‘Disability and the Female Body; Identity and Representation of the Disabled Female Body in The Girl Without Hands from Grimm’s Fairy tales’, November 18th, National University of Ireland Galway, Sibéal Gender Studies Network Conference, 2016.

Paul McNamara – “Expectations and Frustrations; A Mother Dealing with her Son’s Disability in Me Before You by Jojo Moyes”, Mum’s the Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture Conference, Mary Immaculate College, 9th March 2017.

Paul McNamara – “How Performance Poetry in Ireland has Surged in Popularity”, Guest Lecture, Mary Immaculate College, Institute for Irish Studies Lunchtime Lecture Series, 10th May 2017.

Paul McNamara – “In Conversation with the Normate Author; Literary Disability Studies”, Limerick Postgraduate Research Conference, Limerick Institute of Technology, 24th May 2017.

Paul McNamara – “John Steinbeck Working Class Hero?”, Guest Lecture, Nelly’s Café, Limerick, Great Writers: Great Literature Public Lecture Series, Limerick Writers’ Centre, 27th November 2017.

Paul McNamara – “Perspectives on Inclusion from Research; Helping Children without Disabilities”, Guest Lecture, Education Department, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 21st February 2017.

Paul McNamara – “Representation of Disability in Literature: Past and Present”, Guest Lecture, Waterford Institute of Technology, 30th November 2016.

Paul McNamara - “Resisting Disability and Normalcy: The Independence of Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time”, Sibéal Gender Studies Network Conference, University College Dublin, 18th November 2017.

Paul McNamara – “Writing Performance Poetry”, Guest Lecture, Creative Writing Department, University of Limerick, 22nd November 2017.