Contributors
Editor
Aileen Douglas sspecializes in the writing of the long eighteenth century. Her publications include a co-edition of The Vicar of Wakefield (2024), part of the Cambridge Edition of the Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith.
Contributors
Gerald Dawe
Gerald Dawe was an Irish poet, literary critic, and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He published many volumes of poetry with Gallery Press, the last being Another Time: Poems 1978-2023 published the year before his death. He received many awards and was in 2023 the 28th recipient of the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry.
Heather Ingman
Heather Ingman's major areas of research are in Irish women's writing, modernism and the Irish short story. Her publications include A History of the Irish Short Story (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Irish Women's Fiction: From Edgeworth to Enright (Irish Academic Press, 2013).
David O’Shaughnessy
David O’Shaughnessy’s research is on eighteenth-century literature, particularly theatre. He is the author of William Godwin and the Theatre (2010) and his articles have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Life, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and History of European Ideas. He is the co-editor of Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London (2022), and editor of The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre (2023).
Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the collaboration of Jane Maxwell, Principal Curator in the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library, TCD, and her expert guidance and advice in relation to library holdings.

