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Declan Kiberd Books
Synge and the Irish Language, Men and Feminism in Modern Literature, Idir Dhá Chultúr (Essays on Interaction of Gaelic and English-language culture), Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation Irish Classics, The Irish Writer And The World,Cambridge University Press 2005
(Presently working on book about Joyce the businessman - am sure it will be more of the usual from Declan)
Declan Kiberd Links
An Interview with Declan Kiberd
Site http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/ireland/kiberd.htm
This page is the product of a conversation held in Dublin on 7 May, 1998. The interview was conducted by Andrew Morrison and Aidan Fadden -- two postgraduate students at the Queen’s University of Belfast. The impetus for the meeting was that we were following a course of study in post-colonial literatures and theories, similar to a course taught by Declan Kiberd at University College, Dublin. Kiberd holds the chair of Anglo-Irish Literature at UCD. He is the author of a number of literary and cultural studies including the hotly debated Inventing Ireland. Published in 1996, Inventing Ireland incorporates a number of ideas proposed by post-colonial theories, in an attempt to place modern Irish literature (late 18th century to late 20th century) within a socio-political and historical textual analysis. "Because we were the first English speaking people to decolonise this century", explains Kiberd, "it seemed wise to draw on postcolonial theories which are genuinely illuminating".
Granta: Declan Kiberd
Site http://www.granta.com/authors/792
Declan Kiberd was born in Dublin in May 1951. He was sent to Belgrove Primary School, where he was taught by the novelist John McGahern, before moving to St Paul's College, in Raheny. In 1969 he won an award to study Irish and English at Trinity College, Dublin where he secured a double first. He then went to Oxford where he studied under the late Richard Ellmann. Declan Kiberd currently holds the chair in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College, Dublin. He has frequently worked in other universities, including Yale, as a visiting professor, and he has lectured on Irish Literature in over 25 countries.
UCD - Declan Kiberd
Site http://www.ucd.ie/englishanddrama/staff/kiberd.htm
Declan Kiberd joined UCD as lecturer in Anglo-Irish literature in 1979, having taught English previously in the University of Kent at Canterbury (1976-7), and Irish in Trinity College Dublin (1977-9). He was appointed Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD in 1997. He has also been Director of the Yeats International Summer School (1985-7), Patron of the Dublin Shaw Society (1995-2000), a columnist with the Irish Times (1985-7) and the Irish Press (1987-93), the presenter of the RTE Arts programme, Exhibit A (1984-6), and a regular essayist and reviewer in the Irish Times, TLS, London Review of Books and the New York Times.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925
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