From Prof. Kelleher’s book project about Mary and Padraic Colum, a chapter of which is dedicated to the relationship between the Joyces and the Colums. Padraic Colum was president of the James Joyce Society for over two decades.
Professor Margaret Kelleher is Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin and UCD Academic Lead on the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), a collaboration between the National Library of Ireland and UCD which opened recently at Newman House, Stephen's Green, Dublin. Her publications include The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (2006) and The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2018, UCD Press and University of Chicago Press) for which she was awarded the American Conference of Irish Studies prize for Books on Language and Culture and shortlisted for the Michel Déon Prize. Her current book project is a joint biography of Mary and Padraic Colum.