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Angela Bourke

Angela Bourke is the author of The Burning of Bridget Clearly , winner of the Irish Times Nonfiction Prize, and By Salt Water , a collection of short stores. She is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish at University College, Dublin, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Boston College, and the University of Minnesota, and the University of Notre Dame. A Dublin native, she once lived on Cherryfield Avenue, the street that Maeve Brennan made famous in her fiction.