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Dr Ailbhe McDaid

Dr Ailbhe McDaid

BA (UCC); MPhil (Trinity College, Dublin); PhD (Otago)
Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature

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:

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