Dr Ailbhe McDaid
Research interests
Contemporary poetry; Conflict literature; Irish Studies; Migration literature; Women's writing
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Funded Research Projects:
- 2024-2028 SFI-IRC Pathways Fellowship: Pathologies of Violence: Inscriptions of Global Conflict in Irish Literature, 1922 - present (Principal Investigator)
- 2023 British Academy-Royal Irish Academy Seed Funding: Vocabularies of Time, with Daniel Abdalla, University of Liverpool & Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Queen Mary University of London
- 2023 British Academy-Royal Irish Academy Seed Funding: A Study of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities within Ireland and UK, with Elizabeth Faulkner, Keele Univ & Mary Robinson, Newcastle Univ
- 2023 British Academy-Royal Irish Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium - Futures (Selected Workshop Participant)
- 2022 Enterprise Ireland H2020 Co-ordinator Proposal Support Scheme: Pathologies of Conflict (PI)
- 2019 Irish Research Council New Foundations Award: Measuring Equality in the Arts Sector (Co-PI, with Kenneth Keating)
- 2018 - 2021 Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Domestic Disruptions: Women, Literature and Conflict 1914-1923.
- 2018 Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Award Excellence in Research, Scholarship & Knowledge Transfer, Liverpool John Moores University: War Widows’ Stories.
- 2017 Busteed Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Liverpool
- 2017 Moore Institute Research Fellowship, National University of Ireland, Galway
- 2013 Irish Seminar Scholarship, University of Notre Dame
- 2011 International Doctoral Scholarship, University of Otago
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters:
- '"Befitting emblems of adversity": temporality and disruption in Irish Civil War Poetry', inAtlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectivesedited by Helene O'Keeffe, John Crowley, Donal O Drisceoil, John Borgonovo and Mike Murphy (Cork:Cork University Press, forthcoming autumn 2024)
- '"not safe any / where anymore": biopolitical poetics and Irish migration poetry', in Handbook of European Literature and Migration edited by Corina Stan and Charlotte Sussman (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), pp. 567-583.
- '"Dubh": New Irish Poets', inRace in Irish Literature and Cultureed. by Malcolm Sen and Julie Weng (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 259-280.
- ‘”When we’ve licked the wounds of history”: literary representations of women’s experiences of the War of Independence and Civil War’, Women and the Irish Revolution, 1917-1923: Feminism, Activism, Violence ed. by Linda Connolly (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2020), pp. 183-197. LINK
- ‘Reconfigurations in Colette Bryce's Poetry', Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry, ed. by Jefferson Holdridge and Brian Ó Conchubhair (Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2017), pp. 159-176. LINK
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
- with Connolly, Claire and James L. Smith. "'Too Much Loose Sand': Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland." Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Autumn 2023), no. 23.
- '"It was a smoke dream": Affective Aesthetics in Women’s Literature of the Irish Civil War' Humanities 11, 2022. LINK
- '"What memory costs”: intergenerational inheritance of trauma in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love, William Trevor’s Fools of Fortune and Mary Leland’s The Killeen’, Journal of War and Culture Studies 14.1 (Spring 2021). LINK
- 'War & Conflict in Twentieth Century Ireland: Experience, Memory and Representation', Journal of War & Culture Studies, 14:1 (Spring 2021). LINK
- ‘“As large in my childhood as the Catholic Church and the fight for Irish freedom”: legacies of witnessed conflict in Maeve Brennan’s Cherryfield Avenue stories’, New Hibernia Review Volume 23, Number 4, Winter/Geimhreadh (2019), pp. 79-99. LINK
- “‘Laying holy miles between myself and home” The Poetry Ireland Review, no. 125, 2018, pp. 87–95. LINK
- ‘The technologies of distance: new migrations in Conor O’Callaghan’s The Sun King’, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 24, Issue 3 (2016), pp. 275-290. LIN
- ‘“Sure we export all our best stuff”: changing representations of emigration in Irish television advertising’, Journal of Nordic Irish Studies, Special Issue: Cultural Memory and the Remediation of Narratives of Irishness, Vol. 13 (2014), pp. 41-56. LINK
- ‘“I mean it as no ordinary return”: Poetic Migrancy in the works of Vona Groarke and Sara Berkeley,’ Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 13 (2013), pp. 45-63. LINK
- ‘“Breakfast-time back home”?: The New Irish poets in America,’ Journal of Franco-Irish Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (2013), pp. 11-26. LINK
Books:
The Poetics of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Edited Collections:
War Widows’ Stories: A Collection of Oral History Interviews, co-edited with Nadine Muller (Liverpool: LJMU, 2017).
Edited Special Issues:
"War, Conflict and Political Violence in Twentieth Century Ireland: Experience, Memory and Representation" Journal of War and Culture Studies 14.1 (Spring 2021), co-edited with Barry Hazley.
Print and Online Articles:
- McDaid, Ailbhe, with James L. Smith. ‘The towns and tides that link Wales and Ireland’, RTÉ Brainstorm (19th December 2022) LINK
- McDaid, Ailbhe. ‘“Our Wexford People”: Remembering the victims of the Wexford Container Tragedy’, Ports, Past and Present (8th December 2022) LINK
- McDaid, Ailbhe. ‘Irish poets tackle emigration: “Neither here nor there, and therefore home”’, The Irish Times (9th February 2017). LINK
