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English Language & Literature

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Welcome to the Department of English Language and Literature here at 91制片厂. In deciding to study this subject, you are joining a community of teachers, academics, scholars and researchers who are publishing to an international standard in their chosen areas of the discipline. There are a broad range of modules offered at undergraduate level and a variety of programmes available for those interested in pursuing postgraduate study.

Online Taught MA in English Literature

Our undergraduate degree teaches the development of the English Language and Literature from the time of Shakespeare to the present, and we teach a range of poems, plays, and novels from representative periods of history. We also offer modules that concentrate on the language of English in some detail, and our use of corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and the area of applied linguistics in general, allow students to see how words and meaning evolve in the context of normally used words in discourse. 

We also offer modules in English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and English for Academic Purposes. Students who take the TEFL elective modules receive a formal TEFL qualification.

At postgraduate level, we have graduated:

  • 63 PhD students over the last 16 years
  • 175 students in the Taught MA in English Language and Literature
  • 75 students in the Taught MA in Applied Linguistics

We have set up a Structured PhD in Applied Linguistics, which began in 2016, in which 19 students are currently enrolled.

Our Taught MA in Modern English Literature; Taught MA in Applied Linguistics and Structured PhD in Applied linguistics are now fully online.

Online MA in Modern English Literature Poster 2022-2023.

We are very research-active and members of staff are widely published in national and international journals and by prestigious academic presses internationally. 

Download the English Language & Literature Departmental Handbook 2021-2022 which contains information about modules, referencing conventions and research and publications done by Department members.

Download the departmental referencing guide, Cite It Right.

MA in Applied Linguistics at 91制片厂
MA in Applied Linguistics
This flexible programme offers a professional development opportunity for language professionals
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Contact
Head of Department
Professor Eugene O'Brien
+353 61 204989

Subject Overview

Undergraduate

See below for a list of modules in the Bachelor of Arts programme in descending order from First Year onwards:

Please note: Students who take the TEFL elective modules receive a formal TEFL qualification.

Please note: EH4728: Romantic Literature in English and EH4727: Interpreting Literature below are elective modules on Bachelor of Education programme.

 

Introduction to the skills needed for responding to poetry, drama and prose fiction with pleasure and insight.

Expansion and deepening of the knowledge of poetry, drama and fiction developed in EH4711.

A study of the emergence of modern drama; innovatory trends and developments in 20th century theatre; Theatre of Realism; Theatre of the Absurd; modern tragicomedy and Irish dramatists.

A study of the development of different aspects of the modernist and postmodernist novel form in the 20th century. Selections from Irish, European and American authors.

This module will introduce students to a range of historical and contemporary issues, including gender and sexuality; race; imperialism; memory; technology; globalization and environmentalism. Such an approach will foreground the processes of literary creation but will also enjoin students to self-reflect on their own implication in debates around (i) the politics of language and (ii) latter-day forms of cultural imperialism.

In Second Year, BA students have the option of taking two elective modules to enable them to gain knowledge in teaching the English language to non-native speakers.

Students can choose to do their undergraduate dissertation in a topic related to English Language & Literature in consultation with department staff.

An investigation into the nature of the major formal technical innovations in the twentieth century literature through an analysis of some notable primary texts: Modernism and the form of the novel; the gender of Modernism; Modernism and the poetic voice.

The practice of literary criticism and the principal features of literary theory from classical to modern times; the classical debate; renaissance neo-platonism and neo-classicism: the Enlightenment; European romanticism; New Criticism; Structuralism; Marxism; Feminism; Post-Structuralism and after. Applications of theoretical models to different texts and generic structures.

Drawing on selected texts, attention will be given to a range of the following: drama and society in the 16th and 17th centuries; Shakespeare as an Elizabethan-Jacobean playwright; Shakespeare and tragedy; dynamics of the comic form; presenting the female; patriarchal structures; political Shakespeare; power, ideology and theatrical representations; critical approaches, readings and interpretations of the plays and the formal properties of Shakespeare鈥檚 dramatic art.

Selections from the literary and critical works of the principal writers of the Romantic movement e.g. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Shelley, etc.

Postgraduate

See below for a list of modules in postgraduate programmes in the Department of English Language and Literature:

MA in English Language and Literature

EH5741: Modernism Texts and Contexts

EH5732: Postcolonial Literature and Theory

EH5721: The Value of Literary and Cultural Theory

EH5712: Poetics and Politics of Irish Identity

EH5742: Modern American Fiction

EH5792: World Literature

EH5761: Research Methodology 1 & 2
EH5751/EH5752: Dissertation

MA in Applied Linguistics

AL7711: Core Features of Language: Grammar, Vocabulary and Phonology

AL7712 Approaches to Language in Context

AL6721: Dissertation

AL7721: Research

AL7721: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

AL7722: Issues in Applied Linguistics

AL7731: Academic Writing: Lexiogrammar and Discourse

EH5782: Advanced Research Methodology

Elective Options (Choose one from list below):

AL7741: Introduction to Sociolinguistics

AL7751: Second Language Acquisition

AL7761: Classroom and Learner Discourse

AL7771: Introduction to Irish English

Elective Options (Choose one from list below):

AL7732: Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching

AL7742: Phonetics and Phonology

AL7752: Discourse and Pragmatics

AL7762: Analysing Media Discourse

Structured PhD in Applied Linguistics

The doctoral programme in Applied Linguistics, launched in September 2016, is a four-year full-time programme, which includes a combination of taught modules (in Year One of the programme) and individual research, the principal component being the doctoral thesis. The core educational principle of the programme is that it will be research-led and will entail engaging with cutting-edge research across a range of sub-fields of Applied Linguistics. A range of pedagogical strategies will be deployed to promote active research-led learning and scholarship.

Residential summer schools will also be a key component of the programme and will allow students to engage with high profile Applied Linguists and also to present their own research, with the aim of fostering their development as independent researchers.

Staff

Professor Eugene O'Brien

BEd (91制片厂); MA (UCC); PhD (UL)
Head of Department
  • Phone: +353 61 204989
  • Email: Eugene.OBrien@mic.ul.ie
  • Location: G65

Dr Brian Clancy

BA; HDipEd (NUIG); Grad Dip TEFL; MA (UL) & PhD (91制片厂)
Lecturer Applied Linguistics
  • Email: Brian.Clancy@mic.ul.ie
  • Location: G47

Ilona Costelloe

BA (91制片厂) and GDip (UL)
English Language Projects Coordinator
  • Phone: +353 61 204964
  • Email: Ilona.Costelloe@mic.ul.ie
  • Location: L110b

Dr Christopher Fitzgerald


Assistant Lecturer
Research & Graduate School
  • Phone: +353 863536842
  • Email: Christopher.Fitzgerald@mic.ul.ie

Dr Eoin Flannery

BA (NUIG), MA (NUIG) and PhD (91制片厂)
Associate Professor of English Literature
  • Phone: +353 61 204386
  • Email: Eoin.Flannery@mic.ul.ie
  • Location: L108

Dr Deirdre Flynn

BA, MA, PhD
Lecturer in 21st Century Literature
  • Email: Deirdre.Flynn@mic.ul.ie
  • Location: R121 (Res Block)

Research

Meet the Researcher - Geraldine Brassil

Dr Geraldine Brassil, Post Doctoral Researcher
Dr Geraldine Brassil, Post Doctoral Researcher

Dr Geraldine Brassil is a Post Doctoral Researcher in the Department of English Language and Literature at 91制片厂.

Having worked for many years in an unrelated career, I was made redundant in 2014. This was my opportunity to return to study as a mature student and to gain a degree. In 2015, I began a long-deferred journey back to education as an undergraduate BA student at 91制片厂, Limerick. I graduated with a first-class degree in English and History in 2019 and was awarded the college gold medal. I was keen to take my studies further, but I was interested in both English and History. I found a way of combining the two disciplines by focusing on nineteenth-century Irish women writers and their contributions to periodicals, magazines, and newspapers of the period. I applied for a departmental assistantship with the Department of English which enabled me to begin a Master鈥檚 degree by research before progressing to a PhD. In 2020 I was awarded a Government of Ireland Postgraduate scholarship, and I was also selected as the recipient of the Postgraduate Studentship at 91制片厂. I successfully completed my viva voce examination in 2022. Most recently, I was awarded a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 supporting my continued research. As part of my postdoctoral plan, I have two articles in preparation, and I have completed a book proposal based on archival research for my PhD thesis. I was also awarded a CLS INFRA (Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure) Transnational Access Fellowship, in partnership with the Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Germany, to work on a collaborative digital project with Kathryn Laing (January 2025). Our blog 鈥楻osa Mulholland, Digital Renaissance and Digital Humanities in Trier, Germany鈥 has recently been published on the , as well as on 91制片厂 Insights.

My research focuses on recovering and reconsidering nineteenth-century Irish women鈥檚 writing and thus their cultures. I examine the role played by nineteenth-century Irish periodicals and newspapers in the history of Irish women鈥檚 writing, showing the press of the time as a vibrant, enabling space for feminist networks and expression, for shaping public discourse and for women to develop modern female identities in areas such as literature, social reform, journalism and politics on both local and broader stages. Because the field of periodical studies is essentially archival in nature, much of my work involves exploring archives, both digital and traditional. To help me navigate, map, and visualise vast amounts of cultural metadata, I developed an excel dataset which records bibliographical information on Irish women writers. This dataset can be expanded or adapted to other projects depending on the direction of my research. My focus is on Irish writers such as Sarah Atkinson, Julia Kavanagh, Ellen Fitzsimon, Rosa Mulholland, Katharine Tynan, Mary Banim, and Jane Wilde. These women were significant nineteenth-century literary voices, yet many of them are now forgotten. I am particularly interested in what they were writing and how they integrated their own concerns in their work. A travel article, for example, could often transform into a forum for discussing social concerns. I am also very interested in the networks, connections, and collaborations that these women forged, often friendship-based, and how this enabled them to navigate a still male-dominated nineteenth-century publishing landscape. Recent articles include 鈥榃omen鈥檚 Collaborative Literary Processes and Networks: Mary and Matilda Banims鈥 Ireland鈥, English Studies, published online: 20 November 2023 and 鈥楩eminist Networks Connecting Dublin and London: Sarah Atkinson, Bessie Rayner Parkes, and the Power of the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press鈥, Victorian Periodicals Review (Spring 2022).

As a late comer to academia, I think what I enjoy most is the friendships I have made along the way and the collegiality I have encountered as a student, teaching fellow and postdoctoral fellow. Undertaking research projects has also opened up new experiences and opportunities for me. I am an assistant researcher with the Irish Women鈥檚 Writing Network, as well as being involved in its Early Career Researcher Forum. I have taken part in workshops and seminars participating in the EFACIS PhD seminar in Irish Studies, Leuven, Belgium in August 2022, for example. I have also presented my research at international conferences such as the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), 2024, 鈥楨mbracing Change, Navigating Uncertainty: Ireland and New Beginnings鈥, at 91制片厂, Limerick and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Annual Conference, 2023, 鈥楥urrents in the Periodical Press鈥, Caen Normandy. Most recently, through my CLS INFRA Fellowship, I had the opportunity to spend two weeks at the Trier Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Trier, Germany working on a collaborative digital project with Dr Kathryn Laing. The fellowship offered us the ideal opportunity to acquire new knowledge, skills and fluency in the digital methods necessary for us to develop a plan and a methodology critical for the advancement of what we describe as our 鈥楻osa Mulholland project鈥. Recovering nineteenth-century Irish women writers and exploring aspects of their lives, work and publishing practices is an exciting area of research, one I hope to continue to explore and to discover and promote lost Irish women writers鈥 voices.

As a mature student, my advice to anyone considering postgraduate study is to carefully explore the options that are available and to look at the various supports and funding opportunities that can be accessed or applied for. In my case, I count myself fortunate to have had the support, advice and encouragement of my PhD supervisor and now Postdoctoral mentor, Dr Kathryn Laing and Professor Eugene O鈥 Brien and the English department staff at 91制片厂, Limerick. Dr Richard Butler, Dr Julianne Stack and all at the RGSO have also been of immense help in making this educational journey possible for me.

Meet the Researcher - Jeryn Woodard Mayer

Jeryn Woodard Mayer, PhD candidate
Jeryn Woodard Mayer, PhD candidate

Jeryn Woodard Mayer is studying for her PhD in the Department of English Language and Literature at 91制片厂.

Jeryn discusses her research and its focus on the 鈥楢rtistic impact that sectarian political murals in Belfast have on artists working today'. She evaluates the murals as examples of public art, rather than solely political propaganda, to determine their role in the visual culture of Belfast. 

Jeryn is a distance-based student, based in Texas.

I began my undergraduate career as a vocal performance major at the University of Central Arkansas, though a guest lecture from an Art History professor quickly changed my trajectory. Within a semester, I shifted my focus to Art History and began researching graduate programmes in the field. I went directly from my undergraduate degree to a Master of Arts programme at the University of Virginia, where I studied contemporary public art and Byzantine and early Christian art. Even as an undergraduate, I found that I was primarily interested in artwork that was made for the public rather than for a gallery or private commission. My research focused on public art and its impact on a non-art audience emphasising temporality and artists working outside mainstream fine art institutions. After over two decades of primarily focusing on teaching and community arts, I found a research topic that would satisfy all my interests: public art, self-taught artists, and Irish Studies. As I began to look at PhD programmes, 91制片厂 quickly rose to the top of my list because of its emphasis on the importance of teaching, the supportive environment, and the extremely accomplished faculty with whom I would have the opportunity to collaborate. While I complete my PhD at 91制片厂, I continue to work full-time as a professor of Art History in the Centre of Excellence for Media, Visual, and Performing Arts at Houston Community College in the United States. 

My research focuses on the artistic impact that sectarian political murals in Belfast have on artists working today. I evaluate the murals as examples of public art, rather than solely political propaganda, to determine their role in the visual culture of Belfast. In much of the research, these murals are examined for their impact on sectarianism, identity, and the ongoing peace process. However, I am interested in how these pieces of public art may have influenced the contemporary Street Art movement in the city. Viewing the murals within their place in the history of public art gives a fuller understanding of the images and their impact. The city is in a visual arts transitional period. Political murals, cultural murals, historical murals, community murals, and Street Art have all become a part of the visual landscape. With a focus on artists鈥 inspiration and training, my research evaluates the current creative identity and artistic output of the city and the connections with the political mural tradition.

The most exciting aspect of my research is communicating with artists and the arts professionals who facilitate an extraordinary outdoor gallery of mural painting in Belfast. Working directly with artists, seeing their studios, and touring their murals alongside them has given my research a depth of understanding of the context of the images and the influence artists have in their communities. I鈥檝e thoroughly enjoyed spending time in Belfast, experiencing the murals and contemporary Street Art as a part of a dynamic urban landscape rather than just symbols of the city鈥檚 past conflict. I鈥檝e also found the process of writing and presenting my research at conferences extremely rewarding. I feel remarkably fortunate to have the opportunity to travel for my research, meet Irish Studies scholars from around the world, and collaborate on our shared interests.

I would encourage anyone considering a postgraduate research programme to choose an academic environment where they feel supported by their supervisor and the postgraduate research administration and staff. Having the opportunity to pursue a research degree is an extraordinary gift, and it should not make you miserable. A positive academic environment can make all the difference in the world! At 91制片厂, I found that the Research & Graduate School information sessions, guidance for funding applications, and financial support allowed me to spend my energy on my research and thesis rather than navigating administrative tasks. With the right support and a topic that you are excited about every day, completing postgraduate research can be one of the most fulfilling experiences of your life.

Meet the Researcher - Dr Brian Clancy

Dr Brian Clancy, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
Dr Brian Clancy, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics

Dr Brian Clancy lectures on the MA and Structured PhD programmes in Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature. He is the author of Investigating Intimate Discourse (Routledge, 2016) and Introducing Pragmatics in Use (Routledge, 2011, 2nd ed. 2020), with Prof. Anne O'Keeffe, 91制片厂 and Prof. Svenja Adolphs, University of Nottingham. He is the programme coordinator of 91制片厂's new BA in English Language and Literature.

I did a BA Liberal Arts in the University of Galway. Due to a subject choice malfunction on my part, I graduated with a degree in English and Maths. The following year I completed a Higher Diploma in Education. I quickly discovered that secondary school teaching wasn鈥檛 for me, and after some time scratching my head in Berlin, I registered for a Graduate Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) in UL. This was quickly followed by an MA in Applied Linguistics, also in UL. I taught English for a while in a range of different settings before signing up for a PhD in Applied Linguistics in 91制片厂, which I completed in 2010.

I鈥檓 very interested in spoken language, particularly in how family members speak to one another. One of the most important areas that we sometimes think about least but that matters the most, is politeness. Politeness, for a linguist, is not about speaking with your mouth full or using the right fork at dinner, it鈥檚 about the language we use to build and maintain harmonious relationships with one another. I鈥檝e found that family members are polite to one another in a very different way to, say, how they might be polite to people from outside the family group such as friends, classmates or work colleagues. So, one of the things I do is examine the language that characterises politeness in the family. The language of politeness is very different in private settings than it is in public ones, but it is the public settings that we worry most about as the consequences of being impolite to our boss, for example, can be serious. My research shows that we pay a lot of attention to being polite to family members also, even though we mightn鈥檛 always think this is the case!

I鈥檓 also interested in initial encounters between people and the language we use when we meet each other for the first time as strangers and how this language changes as we become friends (or more than friends). This interest has led me to the reality TV show . At the moment, I鈥檓 looking at people on first dates to see if there are linguistic clues as to why people might like to either meet one another again for another date, or not. There are a lot of interesting linguistic aspects to this, including the point in the date when it comes to paying the bill! My most recent work is focussed on how daters create an 鈥榠ntimate space鈥 to talk. This is often done using certain topics of conversation. Same sex couples often share coming out stories, older couples talk about past relationships (daters sometimes call this 鈥榖aggage鈥 but research shows that baggage is a positive thing in the dating world), and there are also many instances where couples discuss their tattoos. The study of people鈥檚 tattoos, referred to as 鈥榮kinscapes鈥 in applied linguistic research, has shown how sharing tattoo stories is a playful and empowering act for people.

Finally, I do a lot of research on the small linguistic items that appear to make Irish English different to other Englishes, such as British or American English. My primary interests are why Irish people use items such as shur (Shur I don鈥檛 know), now (Careful now!) or there (Just missed a call from you there) differently and more frequently than in a lot of other Englishes. I use electronic collections of spoken language, called 鈥榗orpora鈥, and specifically designed computer software, called 鈥榗oncordancers鈥, that analyses these collections.

I do a lot of collaborative research with colleagues from other universities around the world. When you work with others, it involves looking at the same thing, say First Dates, from a number of different perspectives. I really enjoy the process of bringing all these perspectives together. This is especially important during the writing process, where working with two or more authors can result in a piece of writing that looks like it was copied and pasted together. The exciting challenge is to create a piece of writing that looks like it was written by one person!

I have PhD students doing a variety of research projects (e.g. the language of newspapers, protest slogans, first year university students) in a number of different countries. What I like most about this is these students consistently challenge my assumptions about how language functions in the real world.

The reality of postgraduate study is that when many people begin a postgraduate programme, there are significant time demands in other areas of their lives. You may have a full-time job or a family, for example, depending on your life stage. My advice is to think very carefully about how you will integrate postgraduate study into your everyday life. 91制片厂 offers a range of supports to postgraduate students to help with time management, stress etc., and it鈥檚 good to familiarise yourself with these before committing to a programme.

惭滨颁鈥檚 Meet the Researcher series focuses on the breadth of research output from 91制片厂 academics and student researchers. 

Publications - Department of English Language & Literature

Please see below for a list of journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers from the staff and PhD students in the 91制片厂 Department of English Language and Literature from the years 2012-2018.

John McDonagh (2019) 鈥楨lectric Gates in the Celtic Tiger鈥, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 105-108.

John McDonagh (2015) 鈥,鈥 Journal of Franco-Irish Studies, volume 4, number 1, Article 3.

John McDonagh, (2009), 鈥楽cattered and Diverse: Irish Poetry Since 1990鈥 in Irish Literature Since 1990 鈥 Diverse Voices, eds. Scott Brewster and Michael Parker (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 121-141.

E贸in Flannery (2019) 鈥楧ebt鈥, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 91-92.

E贸in Flannery (2019) 鈥楶oetry鈥, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 249-252.

E贸in Flannery (2019) 鈥樷榯he incorrigible Irishman鈥: Roger Casement and the 鈥榞reening鈥 of Irish Studies鈥, Journal of Scottish and Irish Studies.

E贸in Flannery (2019鈥橳he Possibilities of Shame in Dermot Bolger鈥檚 Tanglewood,鈥 Critical Survey, 31.4, 2019.

E贸in Flannery (2019) 鈥楧ebt as Inheritance鈥, in Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019, 35-55.

E贸in Flannery (2019) 鈥楻eading late McGahern: Time, Scale and the Anthropocene鈥, in Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a Literary Legacy, edited by Eamon Maher and Derek Hand Cork: Cork University Press, 94-111.

E贸in Flannery (2019) 鈥楾he Dispossessed Image,鈥 in The Ontology of the Artefact, edited by Aoife Banks, Nathan Cahill, and Kate Friedeberg.

E贸in Flannery (2018) 鈥楻esisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish Eco Poetry鈥, in Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn and Eugene O鈥橞rien, London: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2018, 133-154.

E贸in Flannery (2018) 鈥楽cale, Deep Time and the Politics of Representation in Derek Mahon鈥檚 Life on Earth鈥, in Irish University Review 48.2, 2018, 281-298.

E贸in Flannery (2017) 鈥樷楤urning from the inside out鈥: Colum McCann鈥檚 Let the Great World Spin鈥, in 9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed edited by Svenja Frank, London: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2017, 83-101.

E贸in Flannery (2017) 鈥樷業ll Fares the Land鈥: Ecology, Capitalism and Literature in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland鈥, in The Postcolonial World, edited by David D. Kim and Jyotsna Singh, London: Routledge.

E贸in Flannery (2016) 鈥楨ssayist of Place: Postcolonialism and Ecology in the work of Tim Robinson鈥, in Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture, and Environment, edited by Christine Cusick and Derek Gladwin, Manchester University Press.

E贸in Flannery (2016) 鈥楨cocriticism鈥, in The Year鈥檚 Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Oxford University Press, Autumn 2016, 419-438.

E贸in Flannery (2016) 鈥樷楲isten to the Leaves鈥: Derek Mahon鈥檚 Evolving Ecologies,鈥 Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. 57.3, 377-401.

E贸in Flannery (2016) 鈥楥rocodiles and Obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the work of Jamie McKendrick and W.G. Sebald,鈥 Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies 鈥 Special Issue on Roger Casement 4.

E贸in Flannery (2015) 鈥楨mbracing the Other in Colum McCann鈥檚 Zoli (2006)鈥, in The Leaving of Ireland: Literature, Migration and Belonging, edited by John Lynch and Katherina Dodou, Oxford: Peter Lang.

E贸in Flannery (2015) 鈥業nternationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Colum McCann鈥檚 Let the Great World Spin鈥, in Ireland: Arrivals and Departures 鈥 Irish Studies in Europe, edited by Scott Brewster and Werner Huber, 99-108.

E贸in Flannery (2015) 鈥樷楧ecline and Fall鈥: Empire, Land and the Twentieth-Century Irish 鈥楤ig House鈥 Novel鈥, in Ecocriticism of the Global South, edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran, Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 161-179.

Eugene O'Brien (2024) 鈥業ntroduction: Coming to Poetic terms with Himself and Others鈥 (with Ian Hickey) in 'The Frontier of Writing鈥: A Study of Seamus Heaney's Prose, with Ian Hickey, London: Routledge, 1-13

Eugene O'Brien (2024) 鈥樷漈hings Founded Clean on Their Own Shapes鈥: Seamus Heaney and the Shape of Poetry in 'The Frontier of Writing鈥: A Study of Seamus Heaney's Prose, with Ian Hickey, London: Routledge, 14-34

Eugene O'Brien (2024) 鈥業ntroduction鈥 (with Grace Neville and Sarah Nolan), in Getting the Words Right鈥: A Festschrift for Eamon Maher, with Grace Neville and Sarah Nolan, Oxford: Peter Lang, 1-4

Eugene O'Brien (2024) 鈥樷淭o write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric [鈥鈥: Micheal O鈥橲iadhail鈥檚 The Gossamer Wall, in Getting the Words Right鈥: A Festschrift for Eamon Maher, edited by Grace Neville Sarah Nolan and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 243-262

Eugene O'Brien (2024) 鈥樷Ave atque vale, pater鈥: The Heaney-Steele Letters鈥, Studies, 113, (45 Autumn 2024), 10 pages 17-25

Eugene O'Brien (2024) 鈥業ntroduction鈥 (with Eoin Flannery), 脡tudes Irlandaises 鈥 The French Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetics, 49 (1), 7-13

Eugene O'Brien (2024) 鈥Our world is interwoven鈥: Micheal O鈥橲iadhail and The Five Quintets鈥,&苍产蝉辫;脡tudes Irlandaises 鈥 The French Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetics, 49 (1), 115-129

Eugene O'Brien (2023) 鈥樷淭he Age of Ghosts鈥 and 鈥淭he Age of Births鈥: Seamus Heaney鈥檚 鈥淩oute 110鈥 and Tesserae鈥, in Seamus Heaney鈥檚 Mythmaking, edited by Ian Hickey and Ellen Howley, London: Routledge, 38-57

Eugene O'Brien (2023) 鈥樷淲elcoming the Difference鈥: Michael O鈥橲iadhail and the Gift of Tongues鈥, in New Beginnings: Perspectives from France and Ireland, edited by M谩irt铆n Mac Con Iomaire and Eamon Maher Oxford: Peter Lang, 105-134

Eugene O'Brien (2023) 鈥榃riting in Theory: An Intellectual Journey鈥, in Leaders in English Language Arts Educational Studies: Intellectual Self Portraits (a volume in Brill鈥檚 Leaders in Educational Studies series), edited by JuliAnna 脕vila, Leiden (The Netherlands): Brill, 189-203

Eugene O'Brien (2023) 鈥楾hat鈥檚 because of the trauma鈥: Repetition, Reflection and Refraction in Social Media in Louise O鈥橬eill鈥檚 Asking For It, Journal of Franco-Irish Studies, 7 (1), 95-112 . tudublin.ie/jofis/vol7/iss1/9 

Eugene O'Brien (2023) 鈥鈥淢irror, Mirror on the Wall鈥: Female Subjective Dialectics in Paul Howard, Louise O鈥橬eill and Naoise Dolan鈥,&苍产蝉辫;Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 6 (1), 41-64  

Eugene O'Brien (2022) 鈥楶aul Howard and the Celtic Tiger: A Voice from the 鈥淢orgins鈥濃, in Margins and Marginalities in Ireland and France, edited by Sarah Balen and Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 134-154

Eugene O'Brien (2022) 鈥楥ritiquing Crisis and Commemoration鈥 (with E贸in Flannery), Irish Studies Review Special Edition, 30 (4), 375-386

Eugene O'Brien (2022) 鈥楻ereading the Rising: Towards an Understanding of the Influence of 鈥淓aster 1916鈥濃 on Contemporary Ireland鈥, Irish Studies Review Special Edition, (30) 4, 405-422

Eugene O'Brien (2021) 鈥樷淎 stain from the sky was descending鈥: The Poetics of Climate Change in Irish Poetry鈥, in Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis, edited by Andrew J. Auge and Eugene O鈥橞rien, London: Routledge, 178-197

Eugene O'Brien (2021) 鈥業ntroduction鈥, with Andrew Auge in Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis, edited by Andrew J. Auge and Eugene O鈥橞rien, London: Routledge, 1-15

Eugene O'Brien (2021) 鈥楯ames Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)鈥, in Handbuch Familienroman. Der Generationenroman in Moderne und Gegenwart (Handbook of the Family Novel. The Generational Novel in the Age of Modernism and Today), edited by Helmut Grugger and Johann Holzner, Berlin: De Gruyter, volume 2, 179-192

Eugene O'Brien (2021) 鈥楾he Dawning of Difference: Literary and Cultural Theory in Irish Studies鈥, in Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford Peter Lang, 283-300

Eugene O'Brien (2021) 鈥樷淐onfounding Lethe in the Moyola鈥: Heaney, Virgil and the Cultural Unconscious鈥,&苍产蝉辫;Ilha do Desterro: a Journal of English Language, Literature in English and Cultural Studies, 74 (2), 39-57

Eugene O'Brien (2020) '鈥淎 Pause for Po-Ethics鈥: Seamus Heaney and the Ethics of Aesthetics鈥, in Ethics and Literary Practice, edited by Adam Zachary Newton, Basel MDPI, 121-137

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥榁incent Browne鈥, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 51-54.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥楩ianna F谩il鈥, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 121-124.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥楩ine Gael 鈥 Labour Government 2011鈥16鈥, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 133-136.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥楶aul Howard鈥, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 159-162.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥楳obile Technology鈥, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 199-200.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥楿2鈥, in Recalling the Celtic Tiger, edited by Brian Lucy, Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 323-326.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥楾he Rhetoric of Grammar and the Grammar of Rhetoric: An Apophantic Reading of Seamus Heaney鈥檚 狈辞谤迟丑鈥, in Ireland and the North, edited by Fionna Barber, Heidi Hansson and Sara Dybris McQuaid, Oxford: Peter Lang, 201-222.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥業ntroduction: Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland鈥, with Eamon Maher, in France, Ireland and Patrimony, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 1-10.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥Metanoia and Reflexive Thinking: Towards a Deconstruction of Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage鈥, in France, Ireland and Patrimony, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Oxford: Peter Lang, 13-34.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2019) 鈥楢 pause for po-ethics鈥: Seamus Heaney and the Ethics of Aesthetics鈥, Humanities: Ethics and Literary Practice (special edition), Volume 8, number 3, 8,488 words.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2018) 鈥樷楽unk past its gleam in the meal bin鈥: The Kitchen in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney鈥, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Volume 41, 270-289.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2018) 鈥業ntroduction: Defining Representations of Loss鈥, with Deirdre Flynn, in Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn and Eugene O鈥橞rien, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-17.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2018) 鈥樷楢 Pure Change Happened鈥: Seamus Heaney and the Poetry of Loss鈥, in Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn and Eugene O鈥橞rien, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 97-114.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2018) 鈥樷楰icking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse鈥: Catholicism, Deconstruction and Postmodernity in Contemporary Irish Culture鈥, in The Reimagining Ireland Reader: Examining our Past, Shaping our Future, edited by Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 135-156.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2017) 鈥業ntroduction鈥 in Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1-20.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2017) 鈥樷楤elief shifts鈥: Ireland鈥檚 referendum and the journey from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft鈥, in Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond, edited by Eamon Maher and Eugene O鈥橞rien, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 145-160.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2017) 鈥楯acques Lacan鈥, in Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, edited by Eugene O鈥橞rien. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 19,520 words. Visit .

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2016) 鈥業ntroduction鈥 in The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney, edited by Eugene O鈥橞rien, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1-29.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2016) 鈥樷楾he Door鈥 Stands Open: Liminal Spaces in the Later Heaney鈥, in The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney, edited by Eugene O鈥橞rien, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 386-411.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2016) 鈥樷楧esidero ergo sum (I desire therefore I am)鈥: Towards a Psychoanalytic Reading of the Advertising of Perfume鈥, Irish Communications Review, volume 15, issue 1, 201-236.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2016) 鈥楻e-membering the Rising: A Theoretical Reading of the Politics of Memory鈥, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings Special Easter 1916 Centenary Edition, volume 16, number 1, 3-16.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2015) 鈥樷楾he Golden Calf鈥欌: Irish Crime and the Deconstruction of Irish Society鈥, in The Leaving of Ireland: Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film, edited by John Lynch and Katherina Dodou, Oxford: Peter Lang, 253- 272.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2015) 鈥楾he Subjective Real in William Trevor鈥檚 鈥楯ustina鈥檚 Priest鈥欌, in The Journal of the Short Story in English, Les cahiers de la nouvelle, Autumn 2015, number 63, 195-210.

Eugene O鈥橞rien (2015) 鈥樷楢n Art that knows its Mind鈥: Prayer, Poetry and Post-Catholic Identity in Seamus Heaney鈥檚 鈥楽quarings鈥欌, in 脡tudes Irlandaises, volume 39, number 2, 127-143.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Farr, F. (2019) 鈥楿sing corpora to analyse language鈥, in the Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education, edited by S. Walsh and S. Mann, Abingdon: Routledge, 268-282.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Amador-Moreno, C. P. (2018) He's after getting up a load of wind: a corpus-based exploration of be +after + V-ing constructions in spoken and written corpora, in Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context, in Villanueva-Romero, Diana, C. P. Amador Moreno and Manuel S谩nchez Garc铆a, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 47-73.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2018) 鈥楥orpus-based function-to-form approaches鈥, in Methods in Pragmatics, edited by A. H. Jucker, K. P. Schneider and W. Bublitz, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 587 鈥 618.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Mark, G. (2018) 鈥楾he grammars of English鈥, in The Routledge Handbook of English Studies, edited by P. Seargeant and A. Hewings, Abingdon: Routledge, 136-149.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and N铆 Mhoch谩in, R. (eds) (2018) Corpus Pragmatics 2(4).

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and N铆 Mhoch谩in, R. (2018) 鈥業ntroduction鈥, Corpus Pragmatics 2(4), 217-219.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Mark, G. (2017) 鈥楾he English Grammar Profile of learner competence: Methodology and key findings鈥, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22: 4, 457-489.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe, Becker Lopes Perna, C. (eds) (2017) Letras de Hoje: Estudos e debates em lingu铆stica, literature e l铆ngua portuguesa 52(3), special issue on 鈥楾he Pragmatics of Interlanguage鈥.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Becker Lopes Perna, C. (2017) 鈥楾he Pragmatics of Interlanguage鈥. Letras de Hoje: Estudos e debates em lingu铆stica, literature e l铆ngua portuguesa 52(3), 284-285.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and N铆 Mhoch谩in, R. (eds) (2017) Corpus Pragmatics 1(4), 293-295.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and N铆 Mhoch谩in, R. (2017) 鈥業ntroduction鈥, Corpus Pragmatics 1(4): 293鈥295.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe, Ring, E., Mhic Mhath煤na, M., Moloney, M., Hayes, N., Breathnach, D., Stafford, P., Carswell, D., Keegan, S., Kelleher, C., McCafferty, D., Leavy, A., Madden, R. and Ozonyia, M. (2017) An examination of concepts of school readiness among parents and educators in Ireland. Dublin: Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe, Caines, A and McCarthy, M. J. (2016) 鈥楽poken language corpora and pedagogic applications鈥, in Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology, edited by F. Farr and L. Murray, London: Routledge, 348-361.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Moloney, D. (2015) 鈥楤lended Learning: a case study in language teacher education鈥, in The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning, edited by D. Marsh and M. J. McCarthy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Clancy, B. (2015) 鈥楶ragmatics鈥, in The Cambridge Handbook on Corpus Linguistics, edited by D. Biber and R. Reppen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 235-251.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Vaughan, E. (2015) 鈥楥orpus Analysis鈥, in The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, edited by K. Tracy, C. Ilie and T. Sandel, Denver, CO: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 252-268.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and R贸is铆n N铆 Mhoch谩in (eds) (2017) Corpus Pragmatics Journal, Springer, 2016-2017 (Special issue).

Anne O鈥橩eeffe, Caines, A., and McCarthy, M. J. (2016) 鈥楽poken language corpora and pedagogic applications鈥, in Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology, edited by F. Farr and L. Murray, London: Routledge, 348-361.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe, and Moloney, D. (2015) 鈥楤lended Learning: a case study in language teacher education鈥 in The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning, edited by D. Marsh and M. J. McCarthy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Clancy, B. (2015) 鈥楶ragmatics鈥, in The Cambridge Handbook on Corpus Linguistics, eddied by D. Biber and R. Reppen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 235-251.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Vaughan, E. (2015) 鈥楥orpus Analysis鈥, in The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, edited by K. Tracy, C. Ilie and T. Sandel, Denver, CO: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 252-268.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Cheng, W. (2014) 鈥榁ague Language鈥, in Corpus Pragmatics: A Handbook, edited by K. Aijmer and C. Ruehlemann, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 686-869.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2014) 鈥楽poken Grammar鈥, in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th ed.), edited by M. Celce-Murcia, D. M. Brinton, & M. A. Snow, Boston, MA: National Geographic/Cengage, 271 - 287.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2014) 鈥淪poken Grammar鈥, in M. Celce-Murcia, D. M. Brinton, & M. A. Snow (eds) Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th ed.), Boston, MA: National Geographic/Cengage, pp. 271 - 287.

Amador Moreno, C. P., McCarthy, M. J. and O鈥橩eeffe, A. (2013) 鈥楥an English Provide a Framework for Spanish Response Tokens?鈥, The Yearbook of Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics, 1(1):175-201.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Walsh, S. (2012) 鈥楢pplying corpus linguistics and conversation analysis in the investigation of small group teaching in higher education鈥, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 8(1): 159鈥181.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Farr, F. (2012) 鈥楿sing Language Corpora in Language Teacher Education: pedagogic, linguistic and cultural insights鈥, in D. Biber and R. Reppen, (eds) Corpus Linguistics (Volume 4): Methods and Applications. London: Sage, 335- 365.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Clancy, B. (2012) 鈥楿sing a corpus to enhance pragmatic awareness鈥, in M. D. Garc铆a-Pastor (ed.) Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Proposals for the language classroom. Catarroja, Val猫ncia: Perif猫ric, pp. 27-60.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2012) 鈥楢nalysing Speech Corpora鈥., in T. Cobb (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 104-112.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2012) 鈥楥orpora and Media Studies鈥, in K. Hyland, M. H. Chau and M. Handford (eds) Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics. London: Continuum, pp. 117-131.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2012) 鈥楥ompetencies Explored and Exposed: Grammar, Lexis, Communication and the Notion of Levels鈥, in T. Summer and M. Eisenmann (eds) Basic Issues in EFL-Teaching and Learning. Heidelberg Universit盲tsverlag Winter, pp. 55-67.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2012) 鈥榁ocabulary Instruction鈥, in A. Burns and J. Richards (eds) The Cambridge Guide to Pedagogy and Practice in Language Teaching, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 236-245.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2011) 鈥楳edia and Discourse Analysis鈥, in J. P. Gee and M. Handford (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis, London: Routledge, pp. 441-454.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2011) 鈥楾he Media鈥, in J. Simpson (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, London: Routledge, pp. 67-80.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2011) 鈥楾eaching and Irish English鈥, English Today, 27(2), 57-63.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Walsh, S., Morton, T. (2011) 鈥楢nalyzing university spoken interaction: a corpus linguistics/conversation analysis approach鈥, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 16(3): 326-345.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Walsh, S. (2010) 鈥業nvestigating higher education seminar talk鈥, Novitas-ROYAL, 4 (2), 141-158.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2010) 鈥楬istorical perspective: what are corpora and how have they evolved? , in A. O鈥橩eeffe and M. J. McCarthy (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, London: Routledge, pp. 3-13.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Amador Moreno, C. P. (2009) 鈥楾he pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English鈥, Intercultural Pragmatics, 6 (4): 517-534.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Adolphs, S. (2008) 鈥楻esponse tokens in British and Irish English鈥, in K.P. Schneider and A. Barron (eds), Variational Pragmatics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 69-98.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2008) 鈥楥orpora and the Study of Spoken Language鈥 , in A, Ludeling, M. Kyt枚 and T. McEnery (eds), Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1-16.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Walsh, S., McCarthy, M. (2008) 鈥 鈥樷ost-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on so forth鈥 鈥 vague language in academic discourse, a comparative analysis of form, function and context鈥, in R. Reppen and A. 脛del (eds), Corpora and Discourse (SCL31), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 9-29.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Walsh, S. (2007) 鈥楢pplying CA to a modes analysis of third-level spoken academic discourse鈥, in H. Bowles, and P. Seedhouse (eds) Conversation Analysis and Languages for Specific Purposes, Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 101-139.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Evison , J., McCarthy, M. J. (2007). 鈥 鈥Looking out for love and all the rest of it鈥: vague category markers as shared social space鈥, in J. Cutting (ed.) Vague Language Explored, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp.138-157.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Breen, M. (2007) 鈥 鈥At the hands of the Brothers: a corpus-based lexico-grammatical analysis of stance in newspaper reporting of child sexual abuse鈥, in J. Cotterill (ed.), The Language of Sex Crimes, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 217-236.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2006) 鈥楽econd Language Speaking鈥, in K. Brown (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 95-101.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2005) 鈥樷You鈥檝e a daughter yourself?鈥: a corpus-based look at lexico-grammatical choices and pragmatic effects in question forms in an Irish radio phone-in鈥, in K.P. Schneider and A. Barron (eds), The Pragmatics of Irish English, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 339-366.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2004) 鈥樷楲ike the wise virgins and all that jazz鈥 鈥 using a corpus to examine vague language and shared knowledge鈥, Language and Computers, 52(1), 1-20.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (2004) 鈥楻esearch in the teaching of speaking鈥, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 24, 26-43.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Farr, F., Murphy, B. (2004) 鈥楾he Limerick Corpus of Irish English: design, description and application鈥 Teanga (Yearbook of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), 21: 5-29.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. (2003) 鈥樷榃hat's in a name?鈥 - vocatives in casual conversations and radio phone-in calls鈥, in P. Leistyna and C. Meyer (eds), Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 153-185.

 Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Binchy, J. (2003) 鈥楻eading and writing at university 鈥 raising genre awareness as initiation into a discourse community鈥 , in G. Shiel and U. N铆 Dh谩laigh (eds), Other Ways of Seeing: Diversity in Language and Literacy. Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, pp. 220-228.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Brosnan, G., Binchy, J. (2003) 鈥楩eeding back feedback - towards a cyclical model for learner support鈥 , in R. Tormey (ed.), Teaching Social Justice: Intercultural and Development Education Perspectives on Education鈥檚 Context, Content and Methods, Dublin and Limerick: Irish Aid and Centre for Educational Disadvantage Research, pp. 191-199.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Farr, F. (2003) 鈥楿sing Language Corpora in Language Teacher Education: pedagogic, linguistic and cultural insights鈥, TESOL Quarterly, 37(3), 389-418.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. (2003) 鈥樷榃hat's in a name?鈥 - vocatives in casual conversations and radio phone-in calls鈥, Language and Computers, 46(1) 153-185.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Farr, F. (2002). 鈥Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: an intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction鈥 , in R. Reppen, S. Fitzmaurice and D. Biber, (eds), Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 25-48.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2002) 鈥楨xploring indices of national identity in a corpus of radio phone-in data from Irish radio鈥 , in A. S谩nchez Macarro (ed.), Windows on the World: Media Discourse in English, Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, pp. 91-113.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2001) 鈥楩ive ideas for using authentic television clips鈥, Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland), 3(3): 14-17.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2001) 鈥楾EFL in Ireland - reflecting a profession?鈥, Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland), 3(2): 6-11.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and Barker, G. (1999) 鈥楢 Corpus of Irish English 鈥 Past, Present, Future鈥. Teanga (Yearbook of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), 18, 1-11.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2000) 鈥楨xploring television as an exponent of pragmatic and sociocultural information in foreign language learning鈥 , in T. Lewis and A. Rouxeville (eds), Technology and the Advanced Language Learner, London: CILT, pp. 23-52.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe (2000) 鈥楿ndergraduate Academic Writing: an analysis of errors and weaknesses in syntax, lexis, style and structure鈥, in G. Shiel, U. N铆 Dh谩laigh and E. Kennedy (eds), Language and Literacy for the New Millennium, Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, pp. 167-186.

Kathryn Laing (2019) 鈥楾he Young Rebecca Revisited: 1911-1920鈥 in Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s颅1920s: The Modernist Period, edited by Faith Binckes and Carey Snyder, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 169-182.

Kathryn Laing and Faith Binckes (2019) 鈥榃as this 鈥榯he most gifted woman Ireland ever produced?鈥: Hannah Lynch (1859-1904) in the Irish Times Online: Fri, Jul 26, 2019.

Kathryn Laing and Sowon Park (2018) 鈥榃riting and Politics: Writing the Vote: Suffrage, Gender, and Politics鈥 in Vol 2 Futility and Anarchy? British Literature in Transition 1920-1940, edited by Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91-107.

Kathryn Laing (2018) 鈥樷極nly Connect鈥: Irish Women鈥檚 Voices, Latin America and the Irish Women鈥檚 Writing Network鈥 in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America volume 9, no. 1, pp. 57-71.

Kathryn Laing (2017) 鈥楢m I a Vorticist?鈥: Re-Reading Rebecca West鈥檚 鈥業ndissoluble Matrimony鈥 in Blast at 100: Centenary Essays, edited by Philip Coleman et al, Leiden: Brill, 44-61.

Kathryn Laing (2017) 鈥楩. Mabel Robinson: The Aesthetics of Sympathy and Texts of Transition鈥, in Victorian into Modern: Suturing the Divide, 1875-1935, edited by Louise Kane and Deborah Mutch, London: Routledge.

Kathryn Laing (2016) 鈥楬annah Lynch and Narratives of the Irish Literary Revival鈥, New Hibernia Review, Volume 20, no. 1 (Spring), 42-57.

Kathryn Laing (2015) 鈥楪eorge Moore and F. Mabel Robinson: Paris and the Woman Artist鈥, in George Moore's Paris and his French Ongoing Connections, edited by Mary Pierse et al, Bern: Peter Lang, 133-152.

Joan O鈥橲ullivan (2019) 鈥楥onstructing identity in radio advertising in Ireland鈥 in Irish Identitities: Sociolinguistic Perspecives, edited by Raymond Hickey and Carolina Amador Moreno, London: De Gruyter Mouton, p. 220-251.

Joan O鈥橲ullivan (2018) 鈥楢dvanced Dublin English in Irish radio advertising: The 鈥榠nitiative鈥 role of advertising in the construction of identity鈥,&苍产蝉辫;English World-Wide, 2018, 39:1, 60-84.

Joan O鈥橲ullivan and Helen Kelly-Holmes (2017) 鈥榁erncularization and authenticity in radio advertising in Ireland', World Englishes, 2017 36:2,: 154-299.

Joan O鈥橲ullivan (2016) 'Advanced Dublin English in Irish radio advertising', World Englishes, 32 (3), 358-376, available: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111 /weng.12036/abstract.

Joan O鈥橲ullivan (2016) 'Language change and ideology in Irish radio advertising', Irish Communications Review. 2016, 15:1, 75-112. 

Joan O鈥橲ullivan (2016) 'Standard Southern British English as referee design in Irish radio advertising鈥, Linguistics, 2016, 55: 3, 525-551.

Joan O'Sullivan (2015) 'Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in Ireland' in Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, edited by Amador Moreno, C. P., McCafferty, K. and Vaughan, E., Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 318-347.

Deirdre Flynn (2019) 鈥楻ural Encroachment in Mary Lavin鈥檚 short stories鈥 in Irish University Review, Vol 49, November 2019.

Deirdre Flynn (2019) 鈥楾he Uncanny City: Delving into the sewers and subconscious of Tokyo in Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World鈥, in Supernatural Cities, edited by Karl Bell, London: Boydell and Brewer.

Deirdre Flynn (2018) 鈥楽treets of Spectrality: Kevin Barry鈥檚 Dystopian City of Bohane鈥, in Worlds Gone Awry: Essays on Dystopian Fiction, edited by C. Clark Triplett, Ashley G. Anthony & John Han, London: McFarland.

Deirdre Flynn (2018) 鈥楬olding on to 鈥榬ites, rhythms and rituals鈥: Mike McCormack鈥檚 homage to small-town Irish life and death鈥, in The Literature of Loss: Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn & Eugene O鈥橞rien 70 鈥 95, London: Palgrave.

Deirdre Flynn & Eugene O鈥橞rien (2018) 鈥楧efining Representations of Loss鈥, with Eugene O鈥橞rien, in The Literature of Loss: Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, edited by Deirdre Flynn & Eugene O鈥橞rien 14 鈥 43, London: Palgrave.

Deirdre Flynn & Maria Beville (2018) 鈥業rish Urban Fictions: An Introduction鈥, in Irish Urban Fictions, edited by Maria Beville & Deirdre Flynn, pp 11 鈥 34, London: Palgrave.

Deirdre Flynn (2018) 鈥楳otherhood, Marriage, and Daughters in Anne Enright's The Green Road鈥, in Moving Worlds: Women Write Now: Reading the Contemporary, 18.1, 115-126.

Books as Author

Joan O鈥橲ullivan: Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change, London: Routledge, 2019

Joan O鈥橲ullivan: Talkin鈥 Different: Linguistic Diversity and the Irish Traveller Minority, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008

Kathryn Laing: Hannah Lynch (1859-1904): Irish Writer, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, with Faith Binckes, Cork: Cork University Press, 2019

Anne O鈥橩eeffe: Introducing Pragmatics in Use, 2nd Ed., with Clancy, B. and Adolphs, S., Abingdon: Routledge, 2020

Anne O鈥橩eeffe: English Grammar Today, with Carter, R.A., McCarthy, M. J., and Mark G., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Anne O鈥橩eeffe: English Grammar Today 鈥 Workbook, with Carter, R.A., McCarthy, M. J., and Mark G., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Anne O鈥橩eeffe: Introducing Pragmatics in Use.1st Ed., with Clancy, B. and Adolphs, S., Abingdon: Routledge, 2011

Anne O鈥橩eeffe: The Vocabulary Matrix: Understanding, Learning, Teaching, with McCarthy, M. J., and Walsh, S., Boston, MA: National Geographic/Cengage, 2009

Anne O鈥橩eeffe: From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching, with McCarthy, M. J. and R. A. Carter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Anne O鈥橩eeffe: Investigating Media Discourse. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006

John McDonagh: The Art of the Caveman - The Poetry of Paul Durcan, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.

John McDonagh: A Fine Statement: An Irish Poets鈥 Anthology, Poolbeg Press, Dublin, 2008

John McDonagh: Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts, Liffey Press, Dublin, 2004

E贸in Flannery: Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and Environmental Justice New York: Routledge, 2016

E贸in Flannery: Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011

E贸in Flannery: Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia Basingstoke: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2009

E贸in Flannery: Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press 2006

Eugene O'Brien: Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O鈥機arroll Kelly, London: Routledge, 2023

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker: A Study of the Prose, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2016

Eugene O鈥橞rien: 鈥Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse鈥: Interlacing Texts and Contexts, New York: Peter Lang, 2009

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Seamus HeaneyCreating Irelands of the Mind (Second enlarged and revised edition, first published 2002), Dublin: Liffey Press, 2007

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Seamus Heaney: Searches for Answers, London: Pluto Press, 2004

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Examining Irish Nationalism in the Context of Literature, Culture and Religion: A Study of the Epistemological Structure of Nationalism, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Seamus HeaneyCreating Irelands of the Mind, Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002

Eugene O鈥橞rien: The Question of Irish Identity in the Writings of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998

Books as Editor

Kathryn Laing, Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives, co-edited with Sin茅ad Mooney, Brighton: EER, 2020

Kathryn Laing, 鈥楬annah Lynch鈥檚 Irish Girl Rebels: 鈥楢 Girl Revolutionist鈥 and 鈥楳arjorie Maurice鈥, Brighton: EER, 2020

Anne O鈥橩eeffe and McCarthy, M. J. (eds) (2010) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, Abingdon: Routledge, 2010.

John McDonagh: Polish-Irish Encounters in the Old and New Europe, co-edited with Sabine Egger, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2011

John McDonagh, Remembering Michael Hartnett, co-edited with Stephen Newman Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2006

E贸in Flannery: The Journal of Ecocriticism: Special Issue on Ireland (editor) 5.2, 2013

E贸in Flannery: This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann, co-edited with Susan Cahill, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012

E贸in Flannery: Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture, co-edited with Michael Griffin, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 2009

E贸in Flannery: Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography, co-edited with Angus Mitchell, Dublin: Four Courts Press 2007

E贸in Flannery: Postcolonial Text: Special Issue on Ireland (editor) 3.3, 2007

Eugene O'Brien: Routledge Companion to 21st Century Irish Writing, with Anne Fogarty, London: Routledge, 2024

Eugene O'Brien: The Frontier of Writing鈥: A Study of Seamus Heaney's Prose, with Ian Hickey, London: Routledge, 2024

Eugene O'Brien: 鈥楪etting the Words Right鈥: A Festschrift for Eamon Maher, with Grace Neville and Sarah Nolan, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2024

Eugene O'Brien: 脡tudes Irlandaises 鈥 The French Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue on Memory and Contemporary Irish Culture, volume 48, number 2, co-edited with E贸in Flannery, 2024

Eugene O'Brien: Irish Studies Review: Special Issue on Crisis and Commemoration in Modern Ireland, volume 30, number 4, co-edited with E贸in Flannery, 2022 

Eugene O'Brien: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis, with Andrew Auge, London: Routledge, 2021

Eugene O'Brien: Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century, with Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Recalling the Celtic Tiger, co-edited with Brian Lucy and Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland, co-edited with Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, co-edited with Deirdre Flynn, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond (paperback 2nd edition), co-edited with Eamon Maher, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond (paperback 2nd edition), co-edited with Eamon Maher, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017

Eugene O鈥橞rien: The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney, , Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016

Eugene O鈥橞rien: From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath, co-edited with Eamon Maher, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Breaking the Mould: Literary Representations of Irish Catholicism and Ireland, co-edited with Eamon Maher, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011

Eugene O鈥橞rien: War of the Words: Literary Rebellion in France and Ireland, co-edited with Eamon Maher, Tir: Publication du CRBC Rennes 2, Universit茅 Europ茅enne de Bretagne, 2010

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Issues of Globalisation and Secularisation in France and Ireland, co-edited with Yann B茅vant, Grace Neville and Eamon Maher, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2009

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context, co-edited with Grace Neville and Eamon Maher, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008

Eugene O鈥橞rien: Reinventing Ireland through a French Prism, co-edited with Grace Neville, and Eamon Maher, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007

Eugene O鈥橞rien: La France et la Mondialisation: France and the Struggle against Globalization, co-edited with Eamon Maher, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007

Adele Hannon 鈥 鈥淎 Monster with Many Faces: Redefining the Gothic Villain in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights through a Postmodern Lens鈥, Guest Lecture, Department of English Language and Literature, 91制片厂, March 2018.

Adele Hannon 鈥 鈥淎n Anamorphic Look at the Irish 鈥極ther鈥 through the Lacanian Lens鈥 12th Conference of AFIS (Association of Franco鈥怚rish Studies), 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 19th-20th May 2017.

Adele Hannon 鈥 鈥淢y Big Fat Gypsy Wedding: A Psychoanalytic Look at the Irish Traveller through the Anamorphic Lens鈥, Guest Lecture, Institute for Irish Studies Lunchtime Lecture Series, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 28th November 2017.

Adele Hannon 鈥 鈥淭he Untold Story of the Monster: A Psychoanalytic Look at the Monster through the Anamorphic Lens鈥, Department of English Language and Literature Postgraduate Seminar, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 1st December 2017.

Adele Hannon 鈥 鈥淭ransgression of the Gendered Body in areas of Maturity, Motherhood and Marriage in A Game of Thrones鈥, Performing Fantastika Interdisciplinary Conference, Lancaster University, UK, 28th- 29th April 2017.

Adele Hannon - You Know Nothing Jon Snow: Voicing the Female Experience in 21st Century Fantasy Fiction鈥, Mum鈥檚 The Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture Conference, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 9th March 2017. 

Anne O鈥橩eeffe - 鈥淎dvanced Grammar Competencies: What can an advanced learner do with English grammar?鈥, keynote paper presented to the 3rd ELT Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 18th 鈥 19th February, 2017.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe - 鈥淎n evolution of learner grammar: insights from the English Grammar Profile鈥, keynote paper presented to 5th Ministry of Education ELT Malta conference, Malta, 7th-8th October 2016.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe - 鈥淎n insight into learner grammar competency across the CEFR using the Cambridge Learner Corpus鈥, keynote paper presented to the 4th Annual Exams Catalunya ELT Conference, Esada Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain, 19th November, 2016.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe - 鈥淐orpora of Spoken Language: what can they tell us about language learning鈥, keynote paper presented to the International conference on Bringing together research and practice, Lisbon, Portugal, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Anfiteatro III, 2nd 鈥 3rd November 2017.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe - 鈥淚nvestigating Learner Grammar Standards using Corpus Linguistics鈥欌. Keynote paper read at the One-Day Symposium on English Language Use in Malta: Standards and Creativity, University of Malta, Malta, 8th May, 2014.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe - 鈥淭he Application of Corpus Linguistics鈥. Plenary paper at the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) Conference, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 30th May - 3rd June 2012.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe - 鈥淭he Cambridge Learner Corpus and what it tells us about the grammar of Spanish-speaking learners鈥. Keynote paper to mark the 70th anniversary of the Centro Colombo Americano, Bogot谩, Columbia, 20th September 2012.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe - 鈥淭he EFL Grammar Syllabus and Learner Grammar Competence鈥. Keynote paper at the MATSDA Creating Motivation with L2 Materials, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, June 20th-21st, 2015.

Anne O鈥橩eeffe - 鈥淭he Limerick Corpus of Irish English: what is it and what does it tell us about Irish English?鈥. Plenary paper read at the 12th International AEDEI Conference on Voice and Discourse in the Irish context, University of Extremadura, Spain, 30th May 鈥 1st June, 2013.

Brian Clancy - 鈥榃hat鈥檚 in a name?鈥 3rd Conference on Social Psychology in Ireland, Limerick, September 2013.

Brian Clancy 鈥 鈥淓very new beginning comes from some other beginning鈥檚 end (Seneca): Turn-final items in Irish English鈥. New Perspectives in Irish English 3, Limerick, June 2015.

Brian Clancy 鈥 鈥淚 flirt by insulting people鈥: Exploring the creation and performance of intimacy in First Dates (Ireland)鈥. Language in the Media, Cape Town, October 2017.

Brian Clancy 鈥 鈥淚ntimacy and identity in Irish English: A corpus approach鈥. Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, July 2016.

Brian Clancy 鈥 鈥淪mall words, big ideas: A corpus-based investigation of the use of that as a marker of empathetic deixis鈥. 14th International Pragmatics conference, Antwerp, July 2015.

Brian Clancy 鈥 鈥淪mall words, big ideas: A corpus-based investigation of emphatic that in the Limerick Corpus of Irish English鈥, IVACS Annual Symposium, Cambridge, January 2012.

Brian Clancy 鈥 Plenary speaker on 鈥淯sing spoken corpora to investigate pragmatic variation鈥, New Trends in Spoken Corpora, Santiago de Compostela, September 2015.

Brian Clancy (& J. Binchy) - 鈥淭he question of questions: Exploring questions in one-to-one academic support tutorials鈥 6th International IVACS Conference, Leeds, June 2012.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E) 鈥 鈥淭he devil is in the detail: Using corpora to investigate spoken language varieties鈥. American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Flagstaff, AZ, September 2014.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E) 鈥 鈥淭here is a there there: Further adventures in deictic marking in Irish English鈥. IVACS Annual Symposium, Limerick, February 2015.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E.) 鈥 鈥淐ommunity and identity in language: Small words, big ideas鈥. Sociolinguistics Symposium 20, Jyv盲skyl盲, Finland, June 2014.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E.) 鈥 鈥淚t鈥檚 lunacy now: A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of the use of now in contemporary Irish English鈥. 1st Discourse and Pragmatic Variation Conference, Manchester, April 2012.

Brian Clancy (& Vaughan, E.) 鈥淐ommunities of (mal)practice: Exploring the interface of corpus linguistics and social theory鈥, 7th IVACS International Conference, Newcastle, June 2014.

Clancy B (and E. Vaughan) 鈥淲e can check it in the corpus shur: Framing the use of corpus and corpus methodologies through an investigation of the pragmatic marker shur in Irish English鈥. New Perspectives in Irish English 2, Dublin, April 2013.

Clancy, B (& M. McCarthy) - 鈥淯tterance co-construction: The evidence of corpora鈥. IVACS Annual Symposium, Limerick, January 2013.

Eoin Flannery - 鈥溾業ll Fares the Land鈥: Ecology, Capitalism and Literature in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland鈥, European Federation of Irish Studies conference, University of Palermo, Sicily, 5 June 2015.

Eoin Flannery - 鈥淐rocodiles and Obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the works of WG Sebald and Jamie McKendrick,鈥 Roger Casement: The Global Imperative conference, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Tralee, Ireland, 25-26 October, 2013.

Eoin Flannery - 鈥淒ebt, Guilt and Literary Form in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland鈥, Debt in History conference, University of Toronto, 18-19 May 2018.

Eoin Flannery - 鈥淟isten to the Leaves: The Global Climate Crisis in the poetry of Derek Mahon,鈥 at the Ireland and Ecocriticism conference, University College Cork, Ireland, 19-21 June 2014.

Eoin Flannery - 鈥淣ew Generation, New Environments in Contemporary Irish Poetry,鈥 New Generation to Next Generation 2014: Three Decades of British and Irish Poetry, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 13-14 March 2015.

Eoin Flannery - 鈥淧rofit and Loss: The Ecologies of post-Celtic Tiger Irish Poetry,鈥 The Literature of Loss conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, 20 February 2015.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on 鈥溾楲isten to the Leaves鈥: Irony and Commitment in Contemporary Irish Ecopoetry,鈥 Imaginaries of the Future: Politics and Poetics Symposium, Queen鈥檚 University, Belfast, 21 January 2016.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on 鈥淐rocodiles and Obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the works of WG Sebald and Jamie McKendrick,鈥 Irish Afterlives symposium, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 8 September 2016.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on 鈥淒ebt, Guilt and Literary Form in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland鈥 Association of Franco-Irish Studies Conference, 91制片厂, Limerick, May 2017.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on 鈥淧oetry and Justice: Art, Politics and the afterlife of Roger Casement in modern and contemporary writing,鈥 at the Oxford Human Rights Arts Festival, 25 February 2014.

Eoin Flannery - Invited speaker on 鈥淭ime, Speed and Ecology in John McGahern鈥檚 fiction,鈥 St. Patrick鈥檚 College, Drumcondra, 28-29 April 2016.

Eoin Flannery - Plenary speaker on 鈥淚reland, Postcolonialism and the European Union鈥, In and Out of (Postcolonial) Europe: Portugal and Ireland conference, Queen鈥檚 University, Belfast, 5 July 2012.

Eoin Flannery - Plenary speaker on 鈥淚reland, the Environmental Humanities and the Utopian Impulse,鈥 at Waiting for Utopia: Ireland and the Utopian Impulse conference, University of Caen, France, 20 November, 2015.

Eoin Flannery - Plenary speaker on 鈥淧laying the Scales: Humanity, Non-Humanity and Ecocriticism鈥, Mapping the Self conference, Oxford Brookes University, 15 December 2012.

Eoin Flannery - Plenary speaker on 鈥淭he Ecologies of Contemporary Irish Poetry鈥, Shifting Territories: Modern and Contemporary Poetics of Place conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 23 May 2013.

Eoin Flannery - Public interview with poet Jamie McKendrick at the Oxford Human Rights Arts Festival, 28 February 2014.

Eugene O鈥橞rien 鈥 鈥淢oriary, Mahon and the Messianic 鈥 A Deconstructive Reading of the 惭别苍迟补濒颈迟茅别 of the Irish Republic鈥, Plenary speaker at the France, Ireland and the Public Imagination, 8th Annual Conference of the Association of Franco-Irish Studies conference, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 25th May 2012.

Eugene O鈥橞rien 鈥 鈥淩e-membering the Rising: A Theoretical Reading of the Politics of Memory鈥, Crisis and the Commemoration in Modern Ireland, 1916-2016, 14th October 2016.

Eugene O鈥橞rien 鈥 鈥淪tranger than Fiction: Towards a Fictive Understnading of the Celtic Tiger and the Crash鈥, Plenary papers at the Post-Crash Irish Literature and Culture: Its Emergence and Influence conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, 27th May 2016.

Eugene O鈥橞rien 鈥 鈥淭he Door Stands Open: Heaney and the Poetry of Loss鈥, Plenary paper at The Literature of Loss conference, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 20th February 2015.

Hollie O鈥橣arrell 鈥 鈥淩evolutionary Female Characters Tackling the Gender Bias in the Comic Book Industry鈥, Sib茅al Network Conference, 18th November 2016.

Hollie O鈥橣arrell 鈥 鈥淭he Changing Role of Women in the 'Star Wars' Universe鈥, Mum's the Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture Conference, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 9th March 2017.

Hollie O鈥橣arrell 鈥 鈥淭he Female Body as a Form of Resistance: Deconstructing the Stereotypes of Hyper-sexualization and Femininity in the Comic Book Industry鈥, Sib茅al Network Conference, University College Dublin, 18th November 2017.

Ian Hickey 鈥 鈥淰irgilian Hauntings in the Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney鈥, Department of English Language and Literature Postgraduate Seminar, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 13th February 2018.

Jade Dillon 鈥 鈥淎nalysing Children鈥檚 Literature through the Theoretical Lens鈥, Guest Lecture, Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK, 6th February 2018.

Jade Dillon 鈥 鈥淒econstructing Minds 鈥 A Psychoanalytical Deconstruction of the Brain as a Fantasy Island in Disney-Pixar鈥檚 Inside Out鈥, The European Society for the Studies of English (ESSE) Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, 22nd 鈥 26th August 2016.

Jade Dillon - 鈥淟ocating Alice: The Gendered Body of Identity within Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Alice鈥檚 Adventures in Wonderland and Tim Burton鈥檚 adaptation鈥, Performing Fantastika Interdisciplinary Conference, Lancaster University, UK, 28th 鈥 29th April 2017.

Jade Dillon 鈥 鈥淢irror, Mirror: Establishing the Gendered Gaze in Irish Young Adult Fiction鈥, Guest Lecture, Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK, 7th February 2018.

Jade Dillon 鈥 鈥淢irror, Mirror: Establishing the Gendered Gaze in Louise O鈥橬eill鈥檚 Only Ever Yours鈥, Revisiting the Gaze Conference, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK, 28th 鈥 29th June 2017.

Jade Dillon 鈥 鈥淥nce Upon a Stereotype鈥 Fairy Tales and Feminist Retellings鈥, Guest Lecture, Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK, 8th February 2018.

Jade Dillon 鈥 鈥淩eimagining Alice: Adaptation and Intertextuality of Alice鈥檚 Adventures in Wonderland in Popular Culture鈥, Mum鈥檚 The Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture Conference, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 9th March 2017.

Jade Dillon 鈥 鈥淭he Mirror of Alice: Locating Lacan鈥檚 Mirror Stage and the Search for Female Identity in Alice鈥檚 Adventures in Wonderland鈥, Association of Franco-Irish Studies, Conference, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 19th 鈥 20th May 2017.

Jade Dillon 鈥 鈥淭he Politics of the Female Body in Louise O鈥橬eill鈥檚 Asking For It鈥, Revolutionary Genders Sib茅al Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, 18th & 19th November 2016.

Jade Dillon 鈥 鈥淰oicing Gender: Gender Identity, Ideology, and Intertextuality associated with Victorian Children鈥檚 Fiction鈥, Department of English Language and Literature Postgraduate Seminar, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 26th September 2017.

John McDonagh 鈥 鈥極ur Mutual Friend 鈥 The Life and Works of Charles Dickens鈥, invited lecture at St. Mary鈥檚 Cathedral, Limerick, February 2020.

 John McDonagh 鈥 鈥楳adder than I am!鈥: Ginsberg, Durcan and Transatlantic Tremors鈥, Conference paper delivered at the American Literature Association annual conference, Boston, May, 2019.

John McDonagh 鈥 鈥楾he Irish Question鈥 鈥 Nationalism and Literature鈥, Invited address delivered at the University of Huelva, Spain delivered as part of an Erasmus teaching mobility exchange, December, 2019.

John McDonagh 鈥 鈥業reland-2018鈥, Invited lecture at Mohammed V University, Oujda, Morocco as part of an Erasmus+ exchange visit, March, 2018.

John McDonagh 鈥 鈥楢round Ireland in an Astra鈥 鈥 Paul Durcan鈥檚 ethno-geography鈥, Conference paper delivered at the annual AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) conference held in 91制片厂. I co-hosted the conference with Dr Eugene O鈥橞rien, May, 2017.

John McDonagh 鈥 鈥楢 Host of Ghosts: The life and work of poet Brendan Kennelly鈥, Public lecture delivered as part of the Limerick Writer鈥檚 Centre 鈥楪reat Writers: Great Literature鈥 series in Nelly's Corner Cafe, Nicholas St, Limerick, September, 2017.

John McDonagh 鈥 鈥楲et Ireland Weep鈥: Poetry of Loss in the First World War鈥, Invited address to the annual St. Luke鈥檚 Conference of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, October, 2016.

Kathryn Laing 鈥 鈥樷淚 am an unexplained enigma. I live alone. I follow art鈥: Textual Traces, Literary Recoveries and the Irish writer, Hannah Lynch (1859-1904)鈥 Invited Paper, Oxford Centre for Life-Writing seminar: 鈥楻eclamations: Writing on the Lives of Shirley Hazzard and Hannah Lynch鈥. Wolfson College, Oxford, 27 November 2014.

Kathryn Laing 鈥 鈥淎m I a Vorticist: Rereading Rebecca West鈥檚 鈥業ndissoluble Matrimony鈥欌, Invited Paper, Blast at 100 Symposium at Trinity College Dublin, 2 July 2014

Kathryn Laing 鈥 鈥淐reative Destruction: Blast and Rebecca West's 'Indissoluble Matrimony'鈥, Blast 2014: Interdisciplinary Conference, Bath Spa University, 24 -26 July, 2014

Kathryn Laing 鈥 鈥淕eorge Moore and Mabel Robinson: Women, Art, Writing and Sympathy鈥, Latitudes: Irish Studies in an international context, American and Canadian Conferences of Irish Studies, University College Dublin, Dublin 11-14 June 2014.

Kathryn Laing 鈥 鈥淕irl Revolutionists and the Ladies鈥 Land League: Forging Literary and Publishing Networks鈥, The 12th Annual Conference of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies), 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 19-20 May 2017.

Kathryn Laing 鈥 鈥淚n the Footsteps of Miss Rosamond Merridew: Lives of the Obscure, Late Nineteenth-Century Irish Women鈥檚 Writing and Archives鈥, The 27th Annual International conference on Virginia Woolf, 鈥榁irginia Woolf and the World of Books鈥,&苍产蝉辫;University of Reading, 29 June 鈥 2 July 2017.

Kathryn Laing 鈥 鈥淢aking it New: George Moore, F. Mabel Robinson and the Aesthetics of Sympathy鈥, Making it New: Victorian and Modernist Literature, 1875-1935, De Montfort University, 2 February 2015.

Kathryn Laing 鈥 鈥淩evisiting Scenes of Salvage: Rebecca West鈥檚 鈥楾he Sentinel鈥 and its Suffrage and Modernist Contexts鈥, British Comparative Literature Association, Salvage 12-15 July, 2016.

Kathryn Laing (and Faith Binckes (Bath Spa U)) 鈥 鈥淗annah Lynch: Transnational Literary Networks and Vagabondage鈥, Occluded Narratives: Researching Irish Women鈥檚 Writing 1880-1910, 91制片厂, 26 November 2016.

Margaret Healy - IVACS 8th Biennial International Conference, Bath Spa University, UK, 16-17 June 2016.

Margaret Healy - IVACS Annual Symposium, Queen鈥檚 University, Belfast, 23rd January 2014.

Margaret Healy 鈥 Paper given at ELTed Limerick 2016 (English Language Teacher Education & Development), 91制片厂, Limerick, 7 May 2016.

Margaret Healy 鈥 Paper given at IRAAL 40th Anniversary Conference (Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), Trinity College Dublin, 21 November 2015.

Margaret Healy 鈥 Paper given at IRMSS 6th Annual Conference (International Research Methods Summer School), 91制片厂, 19-21 May 2017.

Margaret Healy 鈥 Paper given at IVACS 6th International Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, 21-22 June 2012.

Margaret Healy 鈥 Paper given at IVACS 7th International Conference, Newcastle University, UK, 19-21 June 2014.

Margaret Healy 鈥 Paper given at IVACS Annual Symposium, Cardiff University, Wales, 4th March 2017.

Margaret Healy 鈥 Paper given at IVACS Annual Symposium, 91制片厂, Limerick, 17 January 2013.

Margaret Healy 鈥 Paper given at THRIC (Tourism & Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference) Annual Conference, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 11th June 2015.

Margaret Healy 鈥 Paper given at TTRA (Travel and Tourism Research Association) European Chapter Annual Conference, Shannon College of Hotel Management, Shannon, 22 April 2016.

Paul McNamara - 鈥楧isability and the Female Body; Identity and Representation of the Disabled Female Body in The Girl Without Hands from Grimm鈥檚 Fairy tales鈥, November 18th, National University of Ireland Galway, Sib茅al Gender Studies Network Conference, 2016.

Paul McNamara 鈥 鈥淓xpectations and Frustrations; A Mother Dealing with her Son鈥檚 Disability in Me Before You by Jojo Moyes鈥, Mum鈥檚 the Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture Conference, 91制片厂, 9th March 2017.

Paul McNamara 鈥 鈥淗ow Performance Poetry in Ireland has Surged in Popularity鈥, Guest Lecture, 91制片厂, Institute for Irish Studies Lunchtime Lecture Series, 10th May 2017.

Paul McNamara 鈥 鈥淚n Conversation with the Normate Author; Literary Disability Studies鈥, Limerick Postgraduate Research Conference, Limerick Institute of Technology, 24th May 2017.

Paul McNamara 鈥 鈥淛ohn Steinbeck Working Class Hero?鈥, Guest Lecture, Nelly鈥檚 Caf茅, Limerick, Great Writers: Great Literature Public Lecture Series, Limerick Writers鈥 Centre, 27th November 2017.

Paul McNamara 鈥 鈥淧erspectives on Inclusion from Research; Helping Children without Disabilities鈥, Guest Lecture, Education Department, 91制片厂, University of Limerick, 21st February 2017.

Paul McNamara 鈥 鈥淩epresentation of Disability in Literature: Past and Present鈥, Guest Lecture, Waterford Institute of Technology, 30th November 2016.

Paul McNamara - 鈥淩esisting Disability and Normalcy: The Independence of Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time鈥, Sib茅al Gender Studies Network Conference, University College Dublin, 18th November 2017.

Paul McNamara 鈥 鈥淲riting Performance Poetry鈥, Guest Lecture, Creative Writing Department, University of Limerick, 22nd November 2017.

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Postgraduate Studies: MA and PhD

The department is very active on the postgraduate area having graduated 53 PhD students since 2004.

Our Taught MA in Literature programme has graduated over 161 students and we have graduated a further 10 research MA students.

This year, the programme is going online and will be delivered through a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous modes in the virtual learning environment, with content provided via a range of interactive online options. These include discussion forums, reflection journals, wikis, blogs, vlogs and audio recordings and online seminars. Content will be delivered live, with asynchronous options available so you can engage around your own work/home schedule. 

The aims of the programme are:

  • To widen and deepen students' knowledge and appreciation of English literature and contemporary critical theory
  • To familiarize students with traditional and modern technological sources for research in English literature
  • To equip students with the knowledge and skills required for doctoral studies
  • To familiarize students with the latest online technology as it pertains to the study of English
  • To enhance students' career opportunities

Numbers each year are capped so that individual attention is guaranteed. All students are required to take six modules and submit a thesis. 

Modules will be delivered on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the academic year from 3-6pm, with presentations and discussions recorded so that students can access them at their own time.

Seminars, presentations, round-table discussions and individual question and answer sessions form the core of the instructional paradigm in the course. Blogs, vlogs, wikis and recorded presentations are also central. Seminars and discussions are undertaken through Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Assessments are by research essay, portfolio design, discussion forum, critical reading assignments and thesis.

The essays range from 2,000-2,500 words and each module is assessed by a single essay. The titles and topics of these essays are negotiated between the student and the course lecturer, with the parameters of choice being set by the lecturer. The other element of assessment is a 15,000-20,000-word research thesis. Students are free to choose their own topic and their supervisor without restriction.

The two research methodology modules are designed to steer the student through all stages of the thesis-writing process from the initial conceptualization, to the design of a research question, to working with a supervisor and setting up a coherent intellectual structure to the thesis, to working out a coherent critical and theoretical bibliography to the design and implementation of a timetable, to the submission and editing of drafts.

All modules are taught by faculty who have published in the area, and all faculty are research active in a number of areas across the MA so that research perspectives are contemporary and current.

Please note that thesis selection is mandatory in Semester 1, and work on the thesis begins at that stage.

Semester 1

EH5712 Poetics and Politics of Irish Identity

EH5742 Modern American Fiction

EH5781 Crisis Points: Writing Witness and Resistance

EH5761 Research Methodology 1 

Semester 2

EH5741 Modernism Texts and Contexts

EH5792 World Literature

EH5732 Contemporary Postcolonial Literature and Theory

EH5782 Research Methodology 2 

For the outline of each of these modules, please click here: Taught MA Module Outlines

We also offer a Taught MA in Applied Linguistics (33 students graduated since 2015) as well as a Structured PhD in Applied Linguistics, which began in 2016, in which 16 students are currently enrolled.

Graduated Doctoral English Literature and Applied Linguistics Students 2004-2022.

Postgraduate Research Scholarships

Department of English Language and Literature Postgraduate Research Scholarship

Applications are now open for a Postgraduate Scholarship in English at the Department of English Language and Literature, 91制片厂, Limerick.

The scholarship is for an award titled the 鈥楶ATHOS鈥 Postgraduate Scholarship, to work on a defined PhD Project entitled 鈥楳apping Elsewhere in Irish Periodical Publishing鈥, funded by an SFI-IRC Pathways Fellowship led by Principal Investigator Dr Ailbhe McDaid.

Award: Fees + 鈧22,000 annual stipend

Scholarships are confined to Doctoral (PhD) projects, with funding provided for up to four years. There will be no financial support beyond the fourth year.

The deadline for applications is 21 August 2024

Download the PATHOS PhD Scholarship Information here (.pdf)

Download the PATHOS PhD Application Form here (.docx)

THE PATHOS PROJECT: 

Pathologies of Violence: Inscriptions of Global Conflict in Irish Literature, 1922-present. (PATHOS)

PATHOS documents the development of global ethical citizenship in recent Irish writing, situating Irish literature in a global context by considering how international crises reach Irish shores. Funded by an SFI-IRC Pathways Fellowship, PATHOS will run from 2024-2028, and will employ a Postdoctoral Fellow and a PhD student to work on aspects of the research programme. The project involves collaborations with key cultural organisations including the eminent literary magazine The Stinging Fly and award-winning art gallery The Glucksman. Planned activities include interdisciplinary creative workshops, a publicly-available digital repository, exhibitions, international conferences and multi-media dissemination. 

PhD Project: 鈥楳apping Elsewhere in Irish Periodical Publishing鈥.

The PhD student will work on a defined research project entitled 鈥楳apping Elsewhere in Irish Periodical Publishing鈥. The PhD project will document the manifestation of 鈥榚lsewhere鈥 in periodical publishing since 1922, with a mixed-methodology approach underpinned by Digital Humanities techniques. The student will use critical analysis to produce a survey of recent and emerging trends in Irish periodical publishing. The PhD project is positioned at the cutting-edge of current cultural, creative and critical debates on diversity and inclusion in the Irish arts sector. The student will undertake a deep engagement with these questions at the frontier of knowledge, culminating in a comprehensive survey of the iterations of internationalism in literary journals.

Enquiries about this post are welcome - please contact Dr Ailbhe McDaid (PATHOS PI) at Ailbhe.McDaid@mic.ul.ie.

 

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