Dr Eoin Flannery
Research interests
My primary research interests are in the Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial Studies and World Literatures. I have also published extensively on the fiction and poetry of the Celtic Tiger period in Ireland, work that is informed by the relationship between literature and economics, and I have also published on Irish gothic literature.
My current research projects include a book on contemporary Irish and British ecopoetics; an international research collaboration on the history of poetic forms; and a critical study of the life and works of Eugene McCabe.
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RESEARCH AWARDS AND FUNDING
The Peter O’Brien Visiting Scholar in Canadian Irish Studies, School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Autumn Semester, 2022.
Irish Research Council, New Foundations Scheme 2019/20 – Award to support STEAM project, Irish Studies and the Economic Humanities
Mary Immaculate College, Faculty of Arts Sabbatical Leave Award, September 2020-February 2021, towards completion of research monograph, Form, Affect and Debt in post-Celtic Tiger Fiction
Mary Immaculate College Research Award, February 2016 – Award to support collation of Visual and Verbal Bibliography of the Celtic Tiger
Irish Research Council, New Foundations Scheme 2015 – Award to support conference, Crisis and Commemoration: Towards a Critique of the Closed Cycle
Mary Immaculate College Research Award, December 2015 – Award to support Irish Poetics Workshops
Oxford Brookes People Award nominee, March 2015. University-wide peer recognition award for Directorship of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.
Higher Education Innovation Fund 5, Oxford Brookes University – February 2015 – Award to finance the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize
Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund – May 2014 – Award to support completion of monograph, Ireland and Ecocriticism
Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund – April 2014 – Award to support Irish Studies and the New Humanities research project
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, partner with the Archway Foundation, Time to Change award 2013-2015
Oxford Brookes University Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund – November 2013 – Award to support completion of monograph, Ireland and Ecocriticism
Higher Education Innovation Fund 5, Oxford Brookes University – March 2013 – Award to finance Poetry and Business project
Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund – June 2012. Award to finance Department of English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series 2012/13
Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund – December 2011. Award to finance Department of English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series 2011/12
Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund – Research Leave Award September 2010-September 2011 towards completion of research monograph, Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption
British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, July 2009
Institute for Historical and Cultural Research, Oxford Brookes University, January 2009 to host Ireland and Utopian Studies Workshop
Project Research Seed Funding Grant, College of Humanities, University of Limerick, 2006
Keough/Naughton Centre for Irish Studies/University of Notre Dame Irish Seminar Open Fellowship 2005
Keough/Naughton Centre for Irish Studies/University of Notre Dame Irish Seminar Open Fellowship 2004
Keough/Naughton Centre for Irish Studies/University of Notre Dame Irish Seminar Open Fellowship 2003
Byrne/Perry Summer School Sinnott Fellowship 2003
Parnell Summer School Postgraduate Scholarship 2003
College Doctoral Award, Mary Immaculate College, 2003-2004
Departmental Assistantship Award, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, 2001-2003
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS
Form, Affect and Debt in (post-) Celtic Tiger Fiction. Bloomsbury, 2022, 239pp.
Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and Environmental Justice Routledge, 2016. 278pp.
Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption Irish Academic Press, 2011. 244pp.
Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia Palgrave/MacMillan, 2009. 270pp.
Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture Cambridge Scholars Press 2006. 234pp.
EDITED BOOKS AND VOLUMES
Etudes Irlandaises, Special Issue on 'Contemporary Irish Poetics', (2024), co-edited with Eugene O'Brien.
Irish Studies Review, Special issue on 'Ireland, Crisis and Commemoration', 30. 4 (2022), co-edited with Eugene O'Brien.
The Journal of Ecocriticism: Special Issue on Ireland (editor) 5.2, 2013
This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann. Co-edited with Susan Cahill Peter Lang, 2012. 185pp.
Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture. Co-edited with Michael Griffin Syracuse University Press 2009. 232pp.
Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography. Co-edited with Angus Mitchell. Four Courts Press 2007. 230pp.
Postcolonial Text: Special Issue on Ireland (editor) 3.3, 2007.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Sounding the Anthropocene in the poetry of Ciaran Berry", Etudes Irlandaises, Special Issue on 'Contemporary Irish Poetics', 2024.
“Critiquing Crisis and Commemoration.” Co-authored with Eugene O’Brien, Irish Studies Review 30.4, 2022, 375-386
‘Re-Staging the Rising in Eugene McCabe’s Pull Down a Horseman (1966)’ Irish Studies Review 30.4, 2022, 441-452.
“Investing in Fictions: Faith, Abstraction and Materiality in Paul Murray’s The Mark and the Void.” Irish University Review 51.2, 2021, 263–281.
“Debt, Guilt and Form in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland.” Textual Practice 35.5, 2021, 829-853.
“Bildung and Temporality in Justin Quinn’s Mount Merrion.” Etudes Irlandaises – the French Journal of Irish Studies 45.2, 2020, 163-185.
“Finance and Fiction in Deirdre Madden’s Time Present and Time Past.” Irish Studies Review 28.3, 2020, 305-322.
“The Possibilities of Shame in Dermot Bolger’s Tanglewood,” Critical Survey, 31.4, 2019.
““the incorrigible Irishman”: Roger Casement and the ‘greening’ of Irish Studies”, Journal of Scottish and Irish Studies Summer 2019.
“Scale, Deep Time and the Politics of Representation in Derek Mahon’s Life on Earth,” in Irish University Review 48.2, 2018, 281-298.
“Ecocriticism,” in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press), Autumn 2016, 419-438.
“‘Listen to the Leaves’: Derek Mahon’s Evolving Ecologies,” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. 57.3, 2016, 377-401.
“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, 2016.
“Ecocriticism,” in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press), Autumn 2015, 134-161.
“Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil (2008) and Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin (2009)” English, Volume 62, no. 238, 2013, 294-315.
“‘A Land Poisoned’: Eugene McCabe and Irish Postcolonial Gothic”, Literature and History, 22.2, 2013, 91-112.
“Ireland and Ecocriticism,” The Journal of Ecocriticism – Special Issue on Ireland 5.2, 2013, 1-8.
“‘The Buried Life’: Ecological Criticism and the ‘Deep’ Past”, Critical Quarterly, 54.4, 2012, 93-109.
“Ecology, Memory and Speed in John McGahern’s Memoir”, Irish University Review, 42.2, 2012, 273-97.
“Postcolonial Passages: Migration and Cinematic Form in Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9”, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47.1, 2011, 65-77.
“‘The Hard Hunger’: Famine, Sexuality and Form in Eugene McCabe’s Tales from the Poorhouse”, New Hibernia Review, 14.2, 2010, 51-70.
“Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse”, Textual Practice, 24.3, 2010, 453-81. *Reprinted in Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology, Pramod Nayar (ed.) (Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell, 2015), 331-353.
‘So many destinations in one place’: Chris Arthur’s Words of the Grey Wind: Family and Epiphany in Ulster and Irish Elegies, Irish Studies Review, November, 19.4, 2010, 435-438.
“Troubling Bodies: Suffering, Resistance and Hope in Colum McCann’s ‘Troubles’ Short Fiction”, The Irish Review – Special Issue on Northern Ireland Aaron Kelly (ed.) 40, 2009, 33-51. *Reprinted in Short Story Criticism (Thomson Gale 2013).
“Rites of Passage: The liminal in Colum McCann’s Songdogs and This Side of Brightness.” Irish Studies Review, 16.1, 2008, 1-17.
“Irish Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Theory”, Postcolonial Text: Special Issue on Ireland, 3.3, 2007, 1-9.
“Ireland among Empires”, The Irish Book Review, Autumn 2007, 22-5.
“Gable-ends and Che Guevara: Political Murals and Postcolonial Ethics.” The Irish Review Number 34, Spring 2006, 74-90.
“Passion and Arrogance: Poetic craft and topographies of remembrance in the work of Michael Hartnett”, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. June 2006, 42-49.
“External Association: Ireland, Empire and Postcolonial Theory.” Third Text: Special Issue on Irish Culture. 19.5, September 2005, 449-459.
“Outside in the Theory Machine: Ireland and Postcolonial Studies.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 92 2003, pp. 359-369.
“Reading in the Light of Reading in the Dark.” Irish Studies Review, 11.1 2003, pp.71-80.
“Hopes and Impediments: Ken Wiwa’s In the shadow of a saint.” Postcolonial Studies. 6.3, 2003, 407-11.
“Postcolonial Borderlands.” English: The Journal of the English Association. 52, 2003, 193-7.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"The Uncertainty of Coming Times in Contemporary Irish Fiction", Irish Revivals Gregory Castle (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
"Sean O'Casey and Ecocriticism", Sean O'Casey in Context James Moran (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
"Irish Ecogothic", Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin (eds.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023, 114-134.
“When Species Meet: Time and Form in the poetry of Ciaran Berry and Moya Cannon”, Contemporary Irish Poetry and Climate Change Andrew Auge and Eugene O’Brien (eds.) London: Routledge, 2022, 144-161.
“Ecotheory and Ecocriticism”, Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century Eugene O’Brien and Eamon Maher (eds.) Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021, 110-123.
Two entries on “Debt” and “Poetry”, Recalling the Celtic Tiger Brian Lucey, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien (eds.) Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019.
“Debt as Inheritance,” Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien (eds.) Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019, 35-55.
“Reading late McGahern: Time, Scale and the Anthropocene”, Eamon Maher and Derek Hand (eds.) Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a Literary Legacy Cork: Cork University Press, 2019, 94-111.
“The Dispossessed Image,” The Ontology of the Artefact Aoife Banks, Nathan Cahill, and Kate Friedeberg (eds.) (2019).
“Resisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish Eco Poetry,” Representations of Loss in Irish Literature Deirdre Flynn and Eugene O’Brien (eds.) Palgrave/MacMillan, 2018, 133-154.
‘”Burning from the inside out’: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin” 9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed Svenja Frank (ed.) Palgrave/MacMillan, 2017, 83-101.
“‘Ill Fares the Land’: Ecology, Capitalism and Literature in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland”, The Postcolonial World David D. Kim and Jyotsna Singh (eds.) Routledge, 2017, 395-411.
“Essayist of Place: Postcolonialism and Ecology in the work of Tim Robinson”, Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture, and Environment. Christine Cusick and Derek Gladwin (eds.), Manchester University Press, 2016,
“‘Decline and Fall’: Empire, Land and the Twentieth-Century Irish ‘Big House’ Novel”, Ecocriticism of the Global South Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran (eds.) Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 161-179.
“Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin”, Ireland: Arrivals and Departures – Irish Studies in Europe, Scott Brewster and Werner Huber (eds.), 2015.
“Embracing the Other in Colum McCann’s Zoli (2006)”, The Leaving of Ireland: Literature, Migration and Belonging, John Lynch and Katherina Dodou (eds.) Peter Lang, 2015, 165-187.
"Ship of Fools: The Celtic Tiger and Poetry as Social Critique”, From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath Eugene O’Brien and Eamon Maher (eds.) Manchester University Press, 2014, 203-217.
“Troubles’ Trilogy: Everything in This Country Must”, This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann. Susan Cahill and Eoin Flannery (eds.) Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 57-74.
“Introduction: The Fiction of Colum McCann”, co-authored with Susan Cahill. This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann. Susan Cahill and Eoin Flannery (eds.) Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 1-8.
“Ireland of the Welcomes, or ‘Strange Country’: Tourism, Modernity and the Ruined Landscape.” Murmurs that Come out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts. Christine Cusick (ed.) Cork University Press, 2010, 85-107.
“The art of resistance: Visual iconography and the Northern Troubles.” Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture. Eóin Flannery and Michael Griffin (eds.) Syracuse University Press. 2009, 125-143.
“Sites of Worship, Sites of Desire: Catholicism and Dorothy Cross’ Stabat Mater”, Contemporary Catholicism in Ireland: A Critical Appraisal. Eamon Maher and John Littleton (eds.), Columba Press, 2008, 182-200.
“Terrorised Youths: Colum McCann’s Short Fiction – Fishing the Sloe-Black River and Everything in This Country Must”, Essays on Modern Irish Literature John Strachan and Alison Younger (eds.), University of Sunderland Press, 2007, 169-183.
“Empire, Literature and History”, co-authored with Angus Mitchell. Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography Eóin Flannery and Angus Mitchell (eds.) Four Courts Press, 2007, 11-18.
“Collateral Language: Empire, Theory and the Idioms of Power.” Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography Eóin Flannery and Angus Mitchell (eds.) Four Courts Press, 2007, 173-88.
“Morning Yet on Field Day? The Field Theatre Company and Postcolonial Theory” Having Our Own Field Day: Essays on the Irish Canon, Helen Thompson (ed.) Edwin Mellen Press. 2006, 37-57.
“Secular Prayers: Landscape, Language and Cultural Memory in the poetry of Michael Hartnett.” Remembering Michael Hartnett: a language seldom spoken. John McDonagh and Stiofáin Newman (eds.) Four Courts Press, 2006, 160-70.
“The People’s Front of Judea, or The Judea People’s Front: The Life of Irish Postcolonial Theory.’” New Voices in Irish Criticism 5. Anne Coughlan (ed.) Four Courts Press. 2005, 71-82.
