Franco-Irish Connections in Space and Time Peregrinations and Ruminations

Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght (Dublin), where he also lectures in Humanities. His most recent monograph is ‘The Church and its Spire’: John McGahern and the Catholic Question (2011) and he is currently co-editing (with Eugene O’Brien) a book of essays entitled From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath.
Catherine Maignant is Professor of Irish Studies and director of CECILLE, the Centre for the Study of Foreign Cultures at the University of Lille 3 (France). She is currently editing La France et l’Irlande : destins croisés (16e–21e siècles).