Contributors

David Pierce is Professor of English at York St John University College. He has written books on Yeats and Joyce and on fiction and social class. He has also edited a four- volume edition of Yeats criticism for Helm Information as well as a Reader in modern Irish writing for Cork University Press. His most recent books are Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing (Yale University Press, 2005) and Joyce and Company (Continuum, 2006). He is a member of the Board of the International James Joyce Foundation.