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Eileen Reilly
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Irish Studies; Associate Director Glucksman Ireland House
Ph.D. Oxford University, 1997; M.A. Maynooth University College, 1992; B.A. Maynooth College, 1990

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Research Interests:

Irish History (c. 1800-1945); The politics of popular culture, in particular popular literature; The history of readership and publishing; the development of, and relationship between, political and cultural identities

Affiliations:

Grian Association

Fellowships/Honors:

Rhodes Scholar (1993-1996) Glucksman Fellow in History and Irish Studies (1997-2000)

Selected Works:

"Modern Ireland: An Introductory Survey," Making the Irish American: The History and Hertiage of the Irish in the United States, Marion R. Casey and JJ Lee, eds, NYU Press, 2006

"JA Froude's Use of History and His Irish Prescription," Reading Irish Histories: Texts, Contexts, and Memory in Modern Ireland, Lawrence W. McBride, ed, Four Courts Press, 2003.

"Irish Women and the War," Ireland and the Great War: 'A War to Unite Us All'? Adrain and Senia Paseta, eds, Manchester University Press, 2002.

"Rebel, Muse, and Spouse: the Female in 1798 Fiction," in Eire-Ireland 34, no. 2 (Spring 2000).

"Beyond Gilt Shamrock: Symbolism and Realism in the Cover Art of Irish Historyical and Political Fiction, 1880-1914," in Images, Icons, and the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1875-1925, Lawrence W. McBride, ed, Four Courts Press, 1999.

" 'The Very Best Kind of Fiction': James Own Hanney ('George A. Birmingham') and the Gaelic League" in Encountering Ireland: Poetry, Politics and Prose Since 1880, Alan Marshall and Neil Sammells, eds, Sulis Press, 1998.

" ' Who Feas to Speak of '98?': The Rebellion in Fiction" in Eighteenth Century Life: Ireland 1798-1998 From Revolution to Revisionism and Beyond, Mitzi Myers and Robert Maccubbin, eds, 22, no. 3 (November 1998).

"Cavan in the Era of the Great War, 1914-1918" in Cavan: Essays in the History of an Irish County, Raymond Gillespie, ed, Irish Academic Press, 1995.

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