Barry Monahan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film & Screen Media, University College Cork. He has researched the history and aesthetics of Irish and other national cinemas, and theatre and film theory. His books include Ireland’s Theatre on Screen: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen (Irish Academic Press, 2009); The Films of Lenny Abrahamson: A Filmmaking of Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2018); and Hands on Film: Actants, Aesthetics, Affects (Amsterdam University Press, 2022; Routledge, 2025). He published a chapter in Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020, titled “Historical Transitions in Ireland on Screen”, and an article on the amateur film adaptation of Liam O’Flaherty’s The Informer in the New Hibernia Review (both 2020). His work has also been published in The Conversation.
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