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Dr. Amy Mulligan (DPhil, Oxford) is Assistant Professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Irish Language and Literature. Her work puts medieval Irish literature and iconography into transnational North Atlantic contexts, past and present. She’s written the monograph _A landscape of

I first engaged in Irish Studies when earning my PH.D. in English at the University of Iowa (1975), where I wrote my dissertation on “The North American Novels of Edna O’Brien and Brian Moore.” After receipt of my J.D. from

My recent work attempts to read contemporary developments in American politics in the context of an evolving relationship between Ireland and America. That is to say, while I continue to write about nineteenth-century, modern, and modernist Irish literature, especially drama,

I am currently working on a book dealing with the 19th century American cowboy ballad, “The Streets of Laredo,” whose ancestry includes the Anglo-Irish ballads, “The Unfortunate Lad” and “The Bad Girl’s Lament.” I also examine the cowboy ballad’s influence

PhD candidate (ABD) in Ethnomusicology and Folklore at Indiana University Bloomington and an accomplished performer of Irish traditional music.