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 have turned most recently to Irish writing and culture of the past fifty years–and to the rise of Trumpism in America. My book on this topic, FROM THE TROUBLES TO TRUMPISM: IRELAND AND AMERICA, 1960-2023 was published in Fall, 2024..