Seamus Deane

Seamus Deane was a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company, editor of the annual journal Field Day Review, the general editor of the Penguin Joyce, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the author of several books, including A Short History of Irish Literature; Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature; The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, and Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790. Deane also edited the monumental Field Day...See more

Seamus Deane was a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company, editor of the annual journal Field Day Review, the general editor of the Penguin Joyce, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the author of several books, including A Short History of Irish Literature; Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature; The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, and Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790. Deane also edited the monumental Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in three volumes, and wrote four books of poetry and a novel, Reading in the Dark, which has been translated into more than twenty languages and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. After a lengthy career at University College Dublin, he was Professor of English and Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. See less