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Post-Master’s degree candidate in Liberal Arts. Primary research focus is the life and thought of Eva Gore-Booth.

I am the Director Emerita of the William J. Flynn Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. My research interests cover every aspect and time period of Irish and Northern Irish history and politics,

Margot Gayle Backus is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston. She was 2014-15 Queens University Fulbright Scholar of Anglophone Irish Writing, and 2015 James Joyce Scholar in residence at the University of Buffalo. Her

Violet has a B.A. from the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Houston, and an M.A. and PhD. in British and American literature from Texas A&M University. She wrote her master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation on the