Maurice Harmon, Assoc. Prof. of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama (Emeritus)

Details: Maurice Harmon, Associate Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama (Emeritus), English Dept., University College, Dublin (NUI), Belfield, Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland. Email: maurice.harmon@ucd.ie

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Publishing Record

Select Bibliography .
  • Sean O’Faolain; A Critical Introduction, 1967; rev. 1985.
  • Modern Irish Literature 1800-1967, 1967.
  • ed., Fenians and Fenianism, 1968.
  • ed., The Malone Shakespeare 1970-1971.
  • ed., The Celtic Master, 1969.
  • ed., William Carleton, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 4 vols., 1973.
  • The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella, 1974.
  • ed., with P. Rafroidi, The Irish Novel in Our Time,1976.
  • ed., Richard Murphy: Poet of Two Traditions, 1977.
  • Select Bibliography for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literatureand its Backgrounds, 1977.
  • A Literary Map of Ireland, 1977.
  • Ed. & intro., Irish Poetry after Yeats., 1978, 1998.
  • ed., The Playboy of the Western World, 1978.
  • ed., Image and Illusion. Anglo-Irish Literature and itsContexts, 1979.
  • with Roger McHugh, History of Anglo-Irish Literature fromits Origins to the Present Day, 1982.
  • ed., with Morris Beja, et al., James Joyce. The CentennialSymposium,1986.
  • Austin Clarke, A Critical Introduction 1989.
  • Seán O’Faolain, A Life, 1994.
  • ed. & intro., No Author Better Served. The Correspondencebetween Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider, 1998.
  • The Dolmen Press, A Celebration, 2001.
  • trans., The Colloquy of the Old Men, 2001.

Poetry Collections ]
  • The Book Of Precedence and Other Poems 1994.
  • A Stillness at Kiawah, 1996.
  • The Last Regatta and Other Poems, 2000.
  • Tales of Death and Other Poems, 2001.

Translated Editions .
  • ‘The Hostel at Keshcorran’ translated from the Irish, translated into French ‘Le Logis De Keshcorran ouL’Envouitement des Gaeles’ by Réné Agostini, CahierNumèro 16, Mythes, Croyances et Religions, 1998,11-18..
  • Trans. & intro., The Colloquy of the Old Men:A Translation of Acallam na Senorach - Stories and Poems, 2001 .

Essay Collections
  • ‘The Later Poetry of Austin Clarke’, in The Celtic Cross, ed. R. Browne, 1964, 39-55.
  • ‘New Voices in the Fifties’, in Irish Poets in English, ed. S. Lucy, 1973, 183-207.
  • ‘Generations Apart: 1920-1975’, in The Irish Novel in Our Time, ed. P. Rafroidi and Harmon, 1976, 49-65.
  • ‘Cobwebs Before the Wind’, in Views of the Irish Peasantry 1800-1916, ed. D. Casey and R. Rhodes, 1977, 129-159.
  • ‘Beginning with Words’, in Richard Murphy. Poet of Two Traditions, ed. Harmon, 1978, 118-128.
  • ‘First Impressions: 1969-1978’, in The Irish Short Story, ed. P. Rafroidi and T. Brown, 1979, 63-77.
  • ‘General Works’, in Recent Research on Anglo-Irish Writers, ed. R. Finneran, 1983, 1-20.
  • ‘Richard Murphy’, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1985, 405-410.
  • ‘The Era of Inhibitions: Irish Literature 1920-1960, in The Irish Writer and Society, ed. M. Sekine, 1985, 31-41.
  • "‘We pine for ceremony’: Ritual and Reality in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (1965-1975)", in Studies in Seamus Heaney, ed. J. Genet, 1987, 47-64; rep. in Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. E. Andrews, 1992.
  • ‘Definitions of Irishness in Modern Irish Literature’, in Irishness in a Changing Society, ed. Princess Grace Irish Library, 1988, 45-63.
  • ‘Pangur Ban and the Scholar Critic’, in Literature and the Art of Creation, ed. R. Welch and S.B. Bushrui, 1988, 33-42.
  • ‘Francis Stuart’ in Contemporary Irish Novelists, ed. Rudiger Imhof, 1990, 9-21.
  • ‘The Enigma of Samuel Ferguson’, in Irish Writers and Politics, ed. Okifumi Komesu and Masaru Sekine, 1990, 62-79.
  • "‘Move, if you move, like water": The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella 1972-1990’, in Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. E. Andrews, 1992, 194-213.
  • ‘Mary Lavin: Moralist of the Heart’ in Ireland and France. A Bountiful Friendship. Essays in honour of Patrick Rafroidi, ed. by B. Hayley and C. Murray, 1992, 107-123.
  • ‘Ancient Lights in Austin Clarke and Thomas Kinsella’ in A Small Nation’s Contribution to the World: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature and Language, ed. Donald Morse, Csilla Bertha and Istvan Palffy, 1994, 70-87.
  • ‘Seamus Heaney et la douce flamme’ in Le processus de la creation chez les Ecrivains Irlandais contemporains, ed Jacqueline Genet, 1994, 37-53; trans. As Seamus Heaney et la creation poetique, 1995 and Irish Writers and their Creative Processes, ed. Jacqueline Genet and Wynne Hellegouarc’h, 1996, 17-29.
  • ‘Yeats, Austin Clarke and Sean O’Faolain’ in Yeats’s Political Identities, Selected Essays ,ed. Jonathan Allison, 1996, pp. 221-233.
  • ‘Patrick Kavanagh’s Old Peasant’ in Rural Ireland, Real Ireland? ed. Jacqueline Genet, op.c it., 1996, 213-222.
  • ‘Foreword’ to Patrick Kavanagh: A Reference Guide. Compiled and edited by Jonathan Allison 1996.
  • ‘Spaten und Wasserwaage: Seamus Heaney’s suche nach Herkunft und Gleichgewicht’ in Seamus Heaney Tod eines Naturforschers, Nobel Preis fur Literatur, 1996, 47-67.
  • ‘Sean O’Faolain: nouvelles de la derniere periode’, in La Nouvelle Irlandaise de Language Anglaise, 1996, ed. Jacqueline Genet, 77-85.
  • ‘Sean O’Faolain. Man of Ideas,’Conference papers edited by Donatella Abbate Badin (2001) .

Articles
  • ‘Richard Rowan, His Own Scapegoat’, James Joyce Quarterly, 111, 1 (Fall 1965), 34-40.
  • ‘Sean O’Faolain; "I Have Nobody to Vote For"‘, Studies, LV1, 221(Spring 1967), 51-60.
  • ‘By Memory Inspired: Themes and Forces in Recent Irish Writing’, Éire-Ireland, 11, 11(Summer 1973), 3-19.
  • ‘The Poetry of Padraic Fallon’, Studies, LX1V, 255(Autumn 1975), 169-281.
  • ‘Aspects of the Peasantry in Anglo-Irish Literature’, Studia Hibernica, XV (1975), 45-62.
  • ‘Literature and Nationalism in Ireland’, Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny’, 4(1978), 473-486.
  • ‘Yeats et la jeune poesie irlandaise’, Cahier de L’Herne, 1981, 425-437.
  • ‘The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella 1973-1983’, Studies, LXX11, 185 (Spring 1983), 57-66.
  • ‘"Where Dwell Our Different Selves": The Poetry of Ewart Milne’, Prospice, 14(1983), 63-71.
  • ‘The Rejection of Yeats: the Case of Clarke and O’Faolain,’ Studies (Autumn 1983), 1-14.
  • ‘Austin Clarke. Sword of the West (1921, 1936, 1974), Etudes Irlandaises, 1985, 93-104.
  • ‘The Making of Sean O’Faolain’, Studies (Winter 1990), 387-395.
  • ‘The Chair at UCC’, Cork Review. Sean O’Faolain 1900-1990 (1991). 35-36.
  • ‘Anglo-Irish Literature. A Survey of General Works (1)’,. Etudes Irlandaises, No. XV1 -2 (Decembre 1991), 143-155 (2)’. No. XV11-1 (Juin 1992), 157-167.
  • ‘Seamus Heaney’s Divisions and Allegiances’, "Seamus Heaney Special Issue", Colby Quarterly (Spring 1994), 7-16.
  • ‘Contemporary Irish Poetry’, Anglistik & englischunterricht. Ireland: Literature, Culture, Politics. Band 52 (1994), 17-28.
  • ‘The Teeming Air:The Poetry of Louis MacNeice, John Hewitt, and W.R. Rodgers’, in Mythes Croyances et Religions dans le Monde Anglo-Saxon, Cahier Numero 12 (1994), 107-114.
  • ‘Rituale um Tod und Wiedergeburt. Die Dichtung des Iren Seamus Heaney’, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 28 October 1995, No 251/66.
  • ‘English Words, Irish Voices’, Etudes Irlandaises, No. 21, I (Printemps 1996), pp. I-II.
  • ‘Tradition et innovation dans la litterature irlandaise’, Bretagne des livres, numero 27 (mai 1996).
  • ‘The Achievement of Francis Stuart’, in "Francis Stuart Special Issue", Writing Ulster, , No 4 (1996), 19-37.
  • Keeping his Spirit Up: The later Poetry and Prose of Seamus Heaney, in Journal of English, Spring 1997.
  • Conversations with Mary Lavin, Irish University Review, 27,2, Autumn/Winter 1997.
  • The Achievement of Austin Clarke, 23,2, Automne, Etudes Irlandaises, 1998, 27-37.
  • Sean O’Faolain in La Nouvelle Irlandaise de Langue Anglaise, ed Jacqueline Genet, 1996, 77-85.
  • ‘Eavan Boland: The Complex State of the Woman Poet’, Women’s Studies Forum, 1998, 3, 105-124.
  • ’Approaches to the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature’, in The Harp [Tokyo], Spring 1998.
  • ’Seamus Heaney. Digger of the Middle Ground’. in papers of Tokyo Iasil-Japan Conference, XV111, The Harp,1998,1-13.
  • ’A Note on Paula Meehan’, ABEI Journal, Brazil, 1, June, 1999, pp.25-28.
  • ‘Four Irish Elegies,’ 17(1999), Mythes, Croyances et Religions, 29-38.
  • ‘Sean 0’Faolain. A Man before His Time’, Cork Literary Review, VII, 2000, 84-89.
  • Introduction à sa nouvelle traduction de Acallam na Senorach [The Colloquy of the Old Men], Mythes, Croyances et Religions, 18 (2000), 13-19.
  • ‘From Basin Lane to Old Vienna: Place, Transcendence and Counterpoint in Thomas Kinsella’, "Special Thomas Kinsella Issue", Irish University Review, 31,1 (Spring/Summer 2001), 78-94.
  • ‘A Slowly Twisted Scar: Texture, Theme and Paradox in the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella’, Literary Review Ireland, IX, 2002.

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Appointments

  • Professor Emeritus Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin, 1990.
  • Professor Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama 1984-1990.
  • Statutory Lecturer Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama 1975-1984.
  • Lecturer in English 1965-1974.
  • Associate Professor of English University of Notre Dame 1963-1965.
  • Assistant Professor of English Lewis and Clarke College 1958-1963.
  • Dean Elder Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant Harvard University 1955-1958.
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor Ohio tate University 1973-1974.
  • Visiting Professor University of Washington Seattle 1974.
  • Visiting Distinguished Scholar Catholic University of America 1983.
  • John Drinko Professor of Liberal Arts Marshall University 1992.
  • Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Boston College 1993-94.
  • Visiting Professor in Irish Studies Trinity College 1996.
  • Visiting Professor, Kobe College, Japan 1997-98.
  • Extern Examiner, University of Limerick, 1986-1996.
  • Extern Examiner Uppsala University, 1999.
  • Visiting Lecturer or Professor universities in North and SouthAmerica, Western and Eastern Europe, and Israel several occasionssince 1965.
  • Executive Secretary Swift Tercentenary Committee 1965-67.
  • Executive Secretary International Association of UniversityProfessors of English, Dublin Conference 1969.
  • Executive Secretary Synge Centenary Committee 1969-7.
  • Secretary Yeats Association 1969-72.
  • Irish Representative American Committee for Irish Studies1966-1980.
  • Organiser Fifth Triennial Conference International Associationfor the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature 1982.
  • Organiser Academic Programme James Joyce Centenary Conference1982.
  • Director MPhil in Irish Studies 1982-1990.
  • Chairman IASIL, 1979-1982. Executive Committee 1970-1980.
  • Vice-President Royal Irish Academy 1986-89. Member 1976.
  • Academic Advisor Princess Grace Irish Library Eirdata, 2000- .
  • President UNICEF (Ireland) 1982-1990.
  • European Community Project Coordinator Bethlehem University1988-1991.
  • European Community Educational Consultant in Israel 1992.
  • European Union Project Coordinator Bethlehem University 1993-1998.
  • Recipient research grants or fellowships from Ford Foundation,American Philosophical Society, Harvard.
  • University, University of Notre Dame, University College Dublin,Royal Irish Academy, British Academy, British Council.
  • Murray, Christopher (ed.) Serving the Word. Essays and Poems in Honour of Maurice Harmon 1992.
  • Preserving the Word. The Maurice Harmon Library: a Catalogue compiled by Barbara Brown, 1996.
  • Editor, University Review 1966-1970.
  • Editor Irish University Review a Journal of Irish Studies .
  • 1970-1986.
  • Editor, Poetry Ireland Review, 2001-2002.

Editorial tenures
  • University Review, 1966-1970
  • Irish University Review a Journal of Irish Studies,1970-1986.
  • Poetry Ireland Review, 2001-2002.
  • External Examiner at The Poets’ House, 2001-2004.

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