Crafting Infinity: Reworking Elements in Irish Culture

About

Dr Rory T. Cornish was born in London and studied at the University of East Anglia in Norwich Davidson College in North Carolina and University College London where he was a graduate research student under Professor Ian R. Christie FBA. He has taught on both sides of the Atlantic and is presently Professor of History at Winthrop University in Rock Hill South Carolina. He has been a contributor to fifteen publications including The International Encyclopedia of Military History (Routledge Press 2006) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press 2004) and was co-editor of Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American (Irish Academic Press 2006). The author of an early study on the political career of George Grenville he is presently working on a new study of Grenville Charles Lloyd and political patronage in eighteenth century Britain. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society London.Dr Marguerite Quintelli-Neary studied at Rowan University New Jersey the Sorbonne (Paris) and Université François Rabelais (Tours France) as an undergraduate completing an MA at Villanova University and PhD at the University of Delaware. She has taught at Rowan University and Chadron State College and presently teaches Irish and British Literature at Winthrop University in Rock Hill South Carolina. Her publications have appeared in numerous journals including Études Irlandaises New Hibernia Review In-Between The Journal of Irish Literature and The Southern Review. She was Associate Editor of the two-volume Dictionary of Irish Literature (Greenwood 1996) author of Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels (Greenwood 1997) and The Irish-American Myth of the Frontier West (Maunsel Irish Research Series 2009). She also edited Visions of the Irish Dream (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010) and served as editor of Working Papers in Irish Studies from 20032010.