John McCourt was born and educated in Dublin. He has lived and worked in Italy for over twenty years. He has published widely in the field of Irish Studies, focussing on both nineteenth and twentieth century literature. John is currently an associate Professor of English at Università Roma Tre. He holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Ireland (University College Dublin) and is a specialist in Joyce Studies and in nineteenth and twentieth century Irish literature. The co-founder of the Trieste Joyce School (1997), he is widely published and best known for The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920, (University of Wisconsin Press/Lilliput Press).

John McCourt's Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland and Mark Ford's Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner both achieve genuinely far-reaching new perspectives on their respective authors.

• Introduction: Anthony Trollope Between Britain And Ireland Questions Of Justice In The Early Irish Novels Trollope And The Famine A Question Of Character - The Many Lives Of Phineas Finn Gentleman Priests And Rebellious Curates: Trollope's Irish Catholic Clergy Problems Of Form: The Irish Short Stories Trollope's Irish English Countering Rebellion Conclusion: Irish Letters

John McCourt was born and educated in Dublin. He has lived and worked in Italy for over twenty years. He has published widely in the field of Irish Studies, focussing on both nineteenth and twentieth century literature. John is currently an associate Professor of English at Università Roma Tre. He holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Ireland (University College Dublin) and is a specialist in Joyce Studies and in nineteenth and twentieth century Irish literature. The co-founder of the Trieste Joyce School (1997), he is widely published and best known for The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920, (University of Wisconsin Press/Lilliput Press).

John McCourt's Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland and Mark Ford's Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner both achieve genuinely far-reaching new perspectives on their respective authors.

• Introduction: Anthony Trollope Between Britain And Ireland Questions Of Justice In The Early Irish Novels Trollope And The Famine A Question Of Character - The Many Lives Of Phineas Finn Gentleman Priests And Rebellious Curates: Trollope's Irish Catholic Clergy Problems Of Form: The Irish Short Stories Trollope's Irish English Countering Rebellion Conclusion: Irish Letters

John McCourt was born and educated in Dublin. He has lived and worked in Italy for over twenty years. He has published widely in the field of Irish Studies, focussing on both nineteenth and twentieth century literature. John is currently an associate Professor of English at Università Roma Tre. He holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Ireland (University College Dublin) and is a specialist in Joyce Studies and in nineteenth and twentieth century Irish literature. The co-founder of the Trieste Joyce School (1997), he is widely published and best known for The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920, (University of Wisconsin Press/Lilliput Press).

John McCourt's Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland and Mark Ford's Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner both achieve genuinely far-reaching new perspectives on their respective authors.

• Introduction: Anthony Trollope Between Britain And Ireland Questions Of Justice In The Early Irish Novels Trollope And The Famine A Question Of Character - The Many Lives Of Phineas Finn Gentleman Priests And Rebellious Curates: Trollope's Irish Catholic Clergy Problems Of Form: The Irish Short Stories Trollope's Irish English Countering Rebellion Conclusion: Irish Letters