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Dr. James Heaney is a full-time Lecturer in English and Irish Studies at Carlow College, St. Patrick's, where he has taught since 2003. He previously held academic positions at Trinity College Dublin, Maynooth University, and Mater Dei Institute of Education. From 2005-2010, he served as Academic Director of Humanities and coordinated the MFA Creative Writing partnership with Carlow University, Pittsburgh (2005-2014). His teaching focuses on European Drama, Modern Irish Writing, and Creative Writing.
Heaney's research examines revolutionary literature through comparative frameworks, particularly Ireland-Spain connections. Key interests include Irish Revival literature, women's writings, and political aesthetics in early 20th-century revolutionary movements. His forthcoming book analyzes republicanism in Irish and Spanish revolutionary literature.
Publications demonstrate consistent focus on political-literary intersections, with recent works exploring violence, religion and transformation in revolutionary contexts. His 2013-2014 articles examine figures like Pearse and Alberti through lenses of sacrifice, agony and creative possibility during upheaval periods.
Awards include:
- Pierce Malone Scholarship (NUI, 1996)
- Government of Ireland Scholarship
- Fish Short Story Prize (2014)
- Multiple literary shortlists (poetry, screenwriting)
He has supervised postgraduate research on Wilde, Kavanagh and Barlow, and regularly presents at international conferences on republican philosophy in literature.
