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My research -
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My research in brief:-

The impact of partition on northern irish writing
Critical approaches to the 'protestant' imagination; or
"Isn't it strange that Protestants can't dance?"

Poet John Hewitt Cover by Lucy Turner

I have published a monograph on

Poet John Hewitt, 1907-1987, and Criticism of Northern Irish Protestant Writing

(Wales: Edwin-Mellen),  (2001). ISBN: 0-7734-7274-6.

Book Precis and more publications.

I am currently editing Roy McFadden's Letters, and working on a critical text on his literary life.

I have catalogued the papers of Thomas Carnduff and Roy McFadden. My catalogues The Collected Papers of Roy McFadden (2003) and The Thomas Carnduff Archive (1999) are available at Queen's University of Belfast Special Collections Library. The Carnduff catalogue is also available in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.

Stewart Parker Festival at Queen's Belfast : 27/10/08 - 2/11/08

Irish Specialist, Second hand, Manuscript

Roy McFadden: Last Poems
Roy McFadden : 1921-1999
About John Hewitt
John Hewitt : 1907 - 1987
About Carnduff
Thomas Carnduff 1886 - 1956