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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The book was completed in Pembroke College, Cambridge, thanks to the good offices of Dr Mark Wormald, to whom kind acknowledgement is made for his hospitality and the opportunity to think things over in the serene environment of Pembroke College Library; and to the staff there, particularly Ms Patricia Aske, and for the home from home at Botolph Lane. Acknowledgements also to the organisers of several academic conferences/literary gatherings where many of the issues and subjects explored in The Wrong Country were first aired: Paul Delaney, School of English, Trinity College Dublin for a symposium on ‘Identity and Cultural Diversity’ (Hugo Hamilton); ‘Reading the Fifties’, with Darryl Jones, School of English and Trinity Long Room Hub, as well as lectures given to the John McGahern Conference, Carrick-on-Shannon (John Kenny); Stewart Parker Commemorative Conference, School of Drama, Queen’s University Belfast (Mark Phelan); Trinity College Samuel Beckett Summer School (Sam Slote); ‘Imagination in the Classroom’, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin (Anne Fogarty, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and Eibhear Walshe); Goldsmith Literary Weekend, Longford (Seamus McCormack and Clare Butler); ‘One City One Book: Strumpet City’, Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Libraries (Marian Keyes and Jane Alger); John Hewitt Summer School, Armagh (Cathal Dallat and Anthony Kennedy); ‘From Dusty Bluebells to Parallax: reading and writing poetry from Northern Ireland’, Ulster Poetry Project, Ulster University (Kathryn White and Frank Ferguson), ‘George Reavey Commemoration’ Trinity College Dublin (Sandra O’Connell); ‘The North Began? Ulster and the Irish Revolution, 1900–1925’, Trinity College Dublin (Marnie Hay and Eunan O’Halpin). ‘History Lessons’ is based upon two lectures on Derek Mahon delivered at ISAIL Japan and on Seamus Deane at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

I would particularly like to thank Dorothea Melvin for her advice and insight into much of the social and cultural background covered in this book and also to my late friend Gerard Fanning, and to Seona Mac Réamoinn, who answered queries about UCD and Dublin during the 1970s. To Conor Linnie, who helped out when the formatting was beyond me, and Jonathan Williams, first responder, many and lasting thanks. Earlier versions of some of the chapters appeared in the following publications, to whom kind acknowledgement is made: Paul Delaney (ed.), Reading Colm Toíbín (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2008); Gerald Dawe, Darryl Jones and Nora Pellazi (eds), Beautiful Strangers: Ireland and the World of the 1950s (Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2012); Anne Fogarty, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and Eibhear Walshe (eds), Imagination in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning Creative Writing in Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013); Siobhan Campbell and Nessa O’Mahony (eds), Eavan Boland: Inside History (Dublin: Arlen House, 2016); Aileen Douglas (ed.), Trinity Writers Portal (School of English, Trinity College Dublin, 2016); and Eamon Maher (ed.), The Reimagining Ireland Reader: Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018). Extracts appeared in The Irish Times (Dublin), Irish Pages (Belfast), Journal of Irish Studies (Tokyo), Irish University Review (Dublin), Poetry Ireland Review (Dublin) and online in the Dublin Review of Books and RTÉ.