Thomas O'Grady

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Thomas O’Grady was born and grew up on Prince Edward Island. He is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he has been Director of Irish Studies since 1984. Over the decades he has taught a wide variety of Irish-centered courses: survey courses like the Irish Literary Revival and Recent Irish Writing; genre courses like the Modern Irish Novel and the Irish Short Story; and single-author courses on James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, and Seamus Heaney. His writing on Irish literary and cultural matters has been published in scholarly journals on both sides of the Atlantic, including: Éire-Ireland, Irish University Review, Études Irlandaises, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, New Hibernia Review, Joyce Studies Annual, and James Joyce Quarterly. His second book of poems, Delivering the News, has just been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.