Catriona Clutterbuck lectures in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, specializing in Irish literature. Recent output includes essays on the poetry of Michael Coady, Bernard O’Donoghue, the fiction of Deirdre Madden, Catholicism in Irish women’s poetry, and a comparison of Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland. She is currently working on a project on the representation of parental bereavement in Irish poetry. Her debut poetry collection, The Magpie and the Child, was published with Wake Forest University Press in 2021.