The Reimagining Ireland Reader Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future

Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in IT Tallaght. His main areas of interest are the twentieth-century novel in Ireland and France, representations of Catholicism in literature and Franco-Irish relations. He has written, edited and co-edited a number of books, the most recent of which are Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond (with Eugene O’Brien, 2017) and Assessing a Literary Legacy: Essays on John McGahern (1934–2006) (with Derek Hand, forthcoming). He is currently working on a pictorial exploration of image and text in John McGahern’s representation of Leitrim with photographer Paul Butler.