RECENT & SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PAPERS
“Remembering the saints of Munster: An Irish Prayer Book Copied by Dáibhi de Barra” (with Constant J. Mews and Julia S. Kühns) in The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 14, 2014, pp. 111-129.
“Seamus Heaney – Translator,” in Tinteán, (online), January 2014.
Review of Lynne Muir, An Illuminated Celtic Address Book, in Tinteán, (online) , December 2013.
“A forgotten Irish Saint, and his Many Churches,” in Tinteán, (online), April 2013.
“St Carthage in Australasia” in Celts and their Cultures at Home and Abroad, eds. Anders Ahlqvist & Pamela O’Neill, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, 2013, pp. 367-380.
“Windows at St. Carthage’s, Parkville” in Footprints: Journal of the Diocesan Historical Commision, Vol. 28, No.1. June 2013, pp. 11-19
Review of Anders Ahlqvist & Pamela O’Neill (eds.), Language and Power in the Celtic World, in The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 11, 2011, pp. 94-95.
Review of David Stifter, Sengoidelc: Old Irish for Beginners, & Vim Tigges, An Old Irish Primer, in The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 7, 2007-8, pp. 84-86.
“Teaching Irish to the Irish: Ulick Bourke’s Easy Lessons in Irish”. Paper given to Conference “Them and Us: Perceptions of the Celts” at University of Melbourne, August 2006.
“Around the Boree Log and Australian Irish identity”. Paper given to Conference on Irish in Australia at University of Ballarat, December 1999.
“Ceist na teanga: Irish poetry in English translations.” Paper to W.B.Yeats Society, Sept. 1999.
“Spiritualities for a Secular Society”. Paper presented to a conference of the Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants, Millgrove, July 1999.
“Clarence Mangan’s Vision of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century”. Paper presented to the Tenth Irish-Australian Conference, La Trobe University, 28 September 1998.
“Around the Boree Log Revisited” in Tirra Lirra, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Winter 1998). pp.11-15.
“From Troy to Belfast. Translation and Comparative Literature” in Tirra Lirra, Vol.7, No.1 (Spring 1996), pp.27-29.
“God and the Great Failure. Poetry from the Irish Famine” in Tirra Lirra, Vol. 6, Nos. 2/3 (Autumn/Summer 1995/96), pp. 22-26
“The People’s Food. The Nation and the Great Famine.” Paper presented at Conference on the Irish Famine, Macquarie University, 28 September 1996.
“Patrick White’s Travellers.” Paper presented to the Conference of the Australasian Association for the Study of Religions at the Ballarat Campus of Australian Catholic University, 7 July, 1995.
“Maps and Voyages in John Donne’s Poetry” in Religion Literature and the Arts Project, Selected Conference Proceedings 1995. (Sydney, 1996)
“Robert Lowell: Secular, Puritan, and Agnostical” in Religion Literature and the Arts Project, Conference Proceedings 1994 (Sydney, 1995)
“John Bunyan and Patrick White. Pilgrims on the Fringe.” Paper presented 23 September 1994 at the Seventh Conference on Literature and Religion at University of Glasgow.
“The Gender of God in some English Writers”, in The Bible and European Literature: History and Hermeneutics, ed. O. Osborn & L. McIntosh, Melbourne, 1987.
“‘They are religious – except me’: Emily Dickinson and Religious Belief.” Paper to International Conference on Literature and Religion, University of Durham, 1986.
“War” (Discussion based on Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Steinbeck, The Moon is Down, Lee, The Final Decade, Parsons (ed.), Men Who March Away.) in HSC English Resource Book 1985, Melbourne 1984.
“Donne’s ‘The Sunne Rising’ in Viewpoints 84. Melbourne 1983.
“Chaucer’s Knight and his Tale”, The Critical Review 22, Melbourne, 1980.
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