Contributors continued

documents are John Bull's Famous Circus: Ulster History Through the Postcard: 1905-1985 (1985), The Famine Decade: Contemporary Accounts, 1841-1851 (1995); The Decade of the United Irishmen 1791-1801 (1997)

Gordon Brand

Educationalist and historian; lectures on Irish writers and writing; has contributed articles on Patrick Magill and Oscar Wilde to a range of literary journals

David Krause

American academic and critic; has published widely on Sean O Casey, including Sean O Casey: The Man and His Work (1960), A Self-portrait of the Artist as a Man: Sean O Casey's Letters (1968); editor of The Dolmen Boucicault (1964); writings on Carleton include the articles 'Carleton, Catholicism and the Comic Novel ' (1994) and ‘William Carleton, Demiurge of Irish Carnival' (1994) and a full-length study, William Carleton , the Novelist: His Carnival and Pastoral World of Tragi-Comedy (2000)

Martina Devlin

Novelist and journalist; winner of the Hennessy Cognac Literary Award for her short story, 'Confessions'; novels include Three Wise Men (2000); Be Careful What You Wish For (2001); Venus Reborn (2003)

Hazel Dolling

Chātelaine and custodian of Lissan House, a seventeenth century mansion - runner-up in BBC's 'Restoration' programme; has presented the story of Lissan on radio, television and to various groups throughout Ireland

Terence Dooley

Historian; NUI Fellow in the Humanities 2001-3; full-length studies include The Decline of Unionist politics in Monaghan (1988), Sources for the Study of Landed Estates in Ireland (2000), The Plight of Monaghan Protestants, 1912 -26 (2000), The Decline of the Big House in Ireland: A Study of Irish Landed Families (2001), The Greatest of the Fenians': John Devoy and Ireland (2003); has contributed to New Dictionary of National Biography and a wide range of learned journals

Norman Vance

Professor of English at the University of Sussex; Fellow of the English Association; his principal area of research is nineteenth century English and Irish prose writings and he has written on aspects of Protestant thought and culture in the North of Ireland; publications include The Sinews of the Spirit (1985), The Victorians and Ancient Rome (1997), Irish Literature: A Social History (1900 and 1999), Irish Literature Since 1800 (2002)

Maureen Boyle

Journalist, broadcaster and writer; theatre critic for the Sunday Times; regular contributor to the cultural and political journal, Fortnight; her early poems commemorating The Year of the Child won a UNESCO medal; prizewinner in 2002 Dun Laoghaire Poetry Competition