In 2021, Tara completed her thesis “Investigating the Irish New Woman: Journalists in Media and Fiction” at the University of Limerick. Tara is currently teaching various subjects at UL including Gothic Literature, English for Academic Purposes, Academic Writing, and Communications.
Writer and researcher based in Limerick, Ireland. Author of Irish Science Fiction (Liverpool University Press 2014) and Rough Beasts (LUP 2020); editor of the anthologies A Brilliant Void (Tramp Press, 2018) and It Rose Up (Tramp, 2021). Winner of the
Director of Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Co-editor of Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp (with Helen Lawlor), Four Courts Press, 2016. I established the Traditional Song as Cultural Heritage Research Cluster at UL,
Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin (Vaughan) is a Lecturer in Communications at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her current research focuses on Irish women’s writing and on intellectual, literary, diplomatic and creative networks between 1880 and 1940. Her work has appeared in
My research primarily focuses on the relationship between the Republican Movement in Ireland and the Irish American community during the recent Northern Ireland Troubles. I have published several articles on the topic, including a peer-reviewed journal article in Irish Studies
Dr. Aileen Dillane is an ethnomusicologist and musician based in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick (UL). She teaches and publishes on a variety of Irish vernacular and popular musics with particular emphasis on identity.
Professor of English and Irish Studies at the University of Limerick. Author of Enlightenment in Ruins: The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith (Bucknell University Press, 2013, pbk 2015). Editor of The Selected Works of Thomas Dermody (Field Day, 2012) and The
Longtime member of ACIS and IASIL. Research into many aspects of Irish Studies, especially Maria Edgeworth, Linguistic analysis of literature especially Hiberno-English/Irish-English, its role and function in Irish literature. Currently working on transcription and analysis of a set of pre-Famine