About the Author

Eugene O'Brien teaches at the University of Limerick and at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He also works as a tutor for Oscail, the Irish distance learning project. He has published two books, The Question of Irish Identity in the Writings of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce and The Epistemology of Nationalism. He has published over twenty articles in various international academic journals. He is also the commissioning editor of a series of Irish Studies monographs entitled Ireland in Theory.