Margaret Kelleher

Margaret Kelleher is Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. Her book The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (UCD Press, 2018) was awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books in Language and Culture and was shortlisted for the Michel Déon Prize. She was UCD’s academic lead for the creation of the Museum of Literature Ireland, a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library (2022–3) and Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge (2023–4).