English

Contact Details

Title	Senior Lecturer
Address	English English Department University College Cork
Telephone:	+353 21 490 2584
Email:	ei.ccu@ehslaW.E
Title	Senior Lecturer
Address	English University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353-21-490-3000
Fax:	+353 21 490 3000
Email:	ei.ccu@ehslaW.E
Homepage:	Web Page

Biography:

Dr Eibhear Walshe is a senior lecturer in the School of English at University College Cork.  His biography Kate O'Brien A Writing Life was published by Irish Academic Press in 2006 and he edited Elizabeth Bowen:Visions and Revisions for  Irish Academic Press in 2008 He was a section editor for The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Volume 4 (Cork University Press, 2002); a contributor to the New Dictionary of Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) and guest edited The Irish Review in 2000. His other publications include the edited collections, Ordinary People Dancing: Essays on Kate O'Brien (Cork University Press 1993), Sex, Nation and Dissent,  (Cork University Press:1997) Elizabeth Bowen Remembered (Four Courts Press: 1999) and The Plays of Teresa Deevy ( Mellen Press: 2003.)  He co-edited, with Brian Cliff Representing the Troubles (Four Courts: 2004) and Molly Keane: Centenary Essays.  (Four Courts: 2006) with Gwenda Young. His memoir, Cissie's Abattoir was published by Collins Press in 2009, and read on RTE Radio 1 on the Book On One  and his new study, Oscar's Shadow was published in 2011 by Cork University Press. He edited Elizabeth Bowen's Selected Irish Writings for Cork University Press in 2011 and he has just completed his first novel, grant-aided by the Arts Council of Ireland.