ACADEMIA

Peer-reviewed academic publications

Sudden Flashes: Vision in John McGahern’s The Barracks. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies [Forthcoming].

Real/Unreal: The Crisis of the Adolescent in John McGahern’s The Dark. Liverpool Postgraduate Journal of Irish Studies 4.1 (Summer 2020). 55-83. Read Here

The “Production” of “Reflection”: Adolescent choices in John McGahern’s The Dark. Estudios Irlandeses 14 (March 2020): 62-72.                                 Read Here

‘Silent Noise: Narrative and Style in John McGahern’s The Dark’. New Hibernia Review 23.4 (Winter 2019): 59-71.

‘Waiting for the Arrival of the Text: Poetics in John McGahern’s The Dark’.  Journal of Franco-Irish Studies 5.1.(March 2019).                                           Read Here

Academic presentations

‘Waiting for the Text: Poetics in John McGahern’s The Dark’. Time and Place: A Taste of John McGahern’s Leitrim Conference, Ballinamore Library, Co. Leitrim (May 2018).

‘Waiting for the Text: Poetics in John McGahern’s The Dark’. Early Doctoral Exchange Network All Island Disciplinary Conference, NUIG (April 2018).

‘Predicting the Future: The creative process in Chapter 8 of John McGahern’s The Dark’. English Drama Exchange Network All Island Disciplinary Conference, NUIG (May 2017).

‘Creative revision in John McGahern’s The Dark: The conflict of convention and the individual in Chapter 4’. EDEN Seminar Series, NUIG (January 2017).

‘Idiom and Revision in John McGahern’s The Dark: Reflections on Chapter 3’. European Society for the Study of English Annual Conference, NUIG (August 2016).

‘The Process of John McGahern: Reflections on Chapter 3’. Sparanacht Ui Eithir Seminar, NUIG (May 2016).

‘The Process of John McGahern’. Postgraduate Seminar, Trinity College (November 2015).