Academic History

Senior Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University (Belfast)
Ph.D., New York University
M.A., University College (Dublin) 
A.B., Tufts University
At St. Thomas since 1971

Expertise/Specialties

Modern and Contemporary Irish Literature
British Literature Between the Wars

Selected Publications

Books:
Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague. Ed. Thomas Dillon Redshaw.  Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2004.

Hill Field: Poems and Memoirs for John Montague on His Sixtieth Birthday, February 1989. Ed. Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press; Loughcrew, Ireland: Gallery Books, February, 1989.

Thomas Mac Greevy: The Collected Poems. Ed. Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Dublin: New Writers' Press, 1971. Second printing, 1972.

Journals:
Edited New Hibernia Review, 1: 1-10:2 (1995-2006). Four 160-page issues per year. Published by the Center for Irish Studies, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul

Edited Eire-Ireland (1973-1996). Four 160-page issues per year. Published by the Irish-American Cultural Institute.

Articles:
''When Done Our Best When We Were Let': James Liddy's Arena," The South Carolina Review, 38, 1 (Fall, 2005), 97-117.

"By James Liddy: A Descriptive Checklist, 1962-2004," An Sionnach, 1, 1 (Spring, 2005), 98-139.

"'The Water There': John Montague and His Readers," in Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague (2004), pp. 1-28.

"L'Exil et le Royaume-Uni: John Monatgue's Death of a Chieftain (1964)," in Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague (2004), pp. 127-46.

"Books by John Montague: A Descriptive Checklist," in Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague (2004), pp. 393-433.

"Printing a Second Revival: Liam Miller's Dolmen Editions, 1966," The South Carolina Review, 34, 2 (Spring, 2002), 91-107.

"Antiquarian and Archival Icons," in The Dolmen Press: A Celebration, ed. Maurice Harmon (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2001), pp. 105-20.

"Abstracting Icons: The Graphic Ornamentation of John Montague's The Rough Field (1972) and The Dead Kingdom (1984)," The South Carolina Review, 32, 1 (Fall, 1999), 100-15.

"'Unificator': George Reavey and the Europa Poets of the 1930s," in Irish Poets and Modernism, ed. Patricia Coughlan, Alex Davis (Cork: Cork University Press, 1995), pp. 249-75.

Selected Presentations

"Liam Miller's Crane Bag: The Dolmen Archive," Opening of the Dolmen Archive Lecture, March 6, 2006, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

"Liam Miller's Noble Labor," American Conference for Irish Studies, Annual Meeting, April 19-22, 2006, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

"The Making of Thomas Kinsella's Tain (1969)," An Dara Chomhdhail ar an Ruraiocht: The Second Ulster Cycle Conference, June 24-27, 2005, National University of Maynooth, Ireland.

"Undertow: John Montague's Sea Changes (1981)," Canadian Association for Irish Studies, Annual Meeting, June 20-24, 2005, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

"Undertow: The Unpublished Dolmen Edition of John Montague's Sea Changes," Southern Regional Meeting, American Conference for Irish Studies, February 24-26, 2005.

"Liam Miller and the Making of The Tain," International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literatures, National University of Ireland, Galway (July, 2004).