EÓIN FLANNERY is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His other publications include:
Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture (2006);
Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography (2007);
Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture (2009); and
This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann (2009).