France – Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship

Biographical notes

Eamon Maher (Volume editor) Grace Neville (Volume editor)

The Editors: Eamon Maher is a Lecturer in Humanities at the Institute of Technology, Dublin. He won the Prix de I’Ambassade for the translation of the memoir of the French writer, Jean Sulivan, Anticipate Every Goodbye (2000), and co-edited the book of essays, Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and Literature at the Turn of the Century (2003). His most recent book is John McGahern: From the Local to the Universal (2003). Grace Neville is currently Senior Lecturer in French at University College Cork where she is an elected member of the Governing Body and Chair of the Board of Women’s Studies. Her research interests and publications include medieval French literature, the history of the French language, the literature of emigration, and women’s studies. She has presented research papers at numerous venues such as the French Senate, the Collège de France, the Sorbonne and Harvard.