Liam Harte is Lecturer in Irish and Modern Literature at the University of Manchester. He has published widely on twentieth-century Irish literature and is the editor of Modern Irish Autobiography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and co-editor of Ireland: Space, Text, Time (Liffey, 2005) and Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). Yvonne Whelan is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity (UCD Press, 2003) and co-editor of Ireland: Space, Text, Time (Liffey, 2005).