ACIS Featured Presenters
Peter Quinn
Peter Quinn is the author of two novels, Banished Children of Eve and Hour of the Cat. He has worked as a speechwriter for two New York governors, and as the editorial director for Time Warner. A third generation New Yorker whose grandparents were born in Ireland, he now lives and writes in Hastings, New York.
Louis de Paor
Louis de Paor directs the Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. De Paor is considered a key figure of the Irish language poetry renaissance of the 1970-80’s, as he helped to heighten the popularity of the Irish language. In 1995, he won an Australia Council Writer’s Fellowship, and in 2000 he became the first Irish-language poet to receive University of St. Thomas’s Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. His most recent book is Ag Greadadh Bas sa Relig—Clapping in the Cemetery (2005).
Margaret Mills Harper
Margaret Mills Harper is professor of English at Georgia State University. She is the 2006 author of Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W.B. Yeats, which received Honorable Mention for the ACIS Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature. In 1990, she published The Aristocracy of Art in Joyce and Wolfe. She also is the co-editor of several editions of W.B. Yeats’ “Vision” papers. Margaret’s parents, George and Mary Jane, were leading Yeats scholars, and Margaret has built upon their legacy.
Kevin Rockett
Kevin Rockett is associate professor of Film Studies and head of the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin, where he is a Fellow. He is also director of Trinity College’s Irish Film and TV Research online project. A former chairman of the Irish Film Institute, he was awarded the 2001 Irish Film Institute award for Contribution to Irish Film, and he received an “Outstanding Academic Title” award from the American Library Association for the volume Irish Film Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography (2004). He is also author or co-author of the following books: Cinema and Ireland, (1987); Still Irish: A Century of the Irish in Film (1995); The Companion to British and Irish Cinema (1996); The Irish Filmography: Fiction Films 1896-1996 (1996); Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries (2003); and Ten Years After: The Irish Film Board 1993–2003 (2003); and co-editor of four volumes in the Studies in Irish Film series (2003-07).
Elizabeth Malcolm
Elizabeth Malcolm, MA, PhD, FRHistS, FASSA, is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and worked for many years in the Institutes of Irish Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, and the University of Liverpool. Since 2000 she has been Gerry Higgins Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published extensively on modern Irish social history, especially on the topics of violence, gender, policing, drink, mental illness and migration. Her latest book is: The Irish Policeman, 1822-1922: a Life, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006.
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