Dr Michael G. Cronin
Biography
Research Interests
Books
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2022 | Revolutionary Bodies: homoeroticism and the political imagination in Irish writing.
Michael G Cronin (2022) Revolutionary Bodies: homoeroticism and the political imagination in Irish writing. Manchester: Manchester UP. [Details] |
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2022 | Sexual/Liberation.
Michael G Cronin (2022) Sexual/Liberation. Cork: Cork UP/Sireacht. [Details] |
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2012 | Impure Thoughts: sexuality, Catholicism and literature in twentieth-century Ireland.
Michael G. Cronin (2012) Impure Thoughts: sexuality, Catholicism and literature in twentieth-century Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
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2020 | '‘Our nameless desires’: the erotics of time and space in contemporary Irish lesbian and gay fiction'
Michael G. Cronin (2020) '‘Our nameless desires’: the erotics of time and space in contemporary Irish lesbian and gay fiction' In: Liam Harte (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction. Oxford: Oxford UP. [Details] |
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2019 | 'Rebellious devotion: Catholicism and the limits of modernism'
Cronin M.G. (2019) 'Rebellious devotion: Catholicism and the limits of modernism' In: A History of Irish Modernism. [DOI] [Details] |
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2019 | ''Eros and Liberation: the homoerotic body in Borstal Boy''
Michael G Cronin (2019) ''Eros and Liberation: the homoerotic body in Borstal Boy'' In: John McCourt (eds). Reading Brendan Behan. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details] |
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2019 | '‘Rebellious Devotion: Catholicism and the limits of Modernism’'
Michael G Cronin (2019) '‘Rebellious Devotion: Catholicism and the limits of Modernism’' In: Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby (eds). A History of Irish Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
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2018 | '‘Between Holyhead and Kingstown’: Anglo-Irish perspectives on the ‘character’ of British fiction'
Michael G. Cronin (2018) '‘Between Holyhead and Kingstown’: Anglo-Irish perspectives on the ‘character’ of British fiction' In: Dougal McNeill and Charles Ferrall (eds). Futility and Anarchy?British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
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2018 | 'In the wake of Joyce: Irish writing after 1939'
Cronin M. (2018) 'In the wake of Joyce: Irish writing after 1939' In: The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [DOI] [Details] |
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2016 | ''To Right the Wrong of the People': vulnerability and revolutionary desire in Patrick Pearse's drama''
Michael G. Cronin (2016) ''To Right the Wrong of the People': vulnerability and revolutionary desire in Patrick Pearse's drama'' In: Eugene McNulty and Róisín Ní Ghairbhí (eds). Patrick Pearse and the Theatre. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
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2016 | ''Pain, pleasure and revolution: the body in Roger Casement’s writings.''
Michael G. Cronin (2016) ''Pain, pleasure and revolution: the body in Roger Casement’s writings.'' In: Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey and Emilie Pine (eds). The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
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2015 | 'Irish studies between the past and the future'
Cronin M. (2015) 'Irish studies between the past and the future' In: Tom Inglis (eds). Are the Irish Different?. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
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2014 | 'Clubs, closets and catwalks: GAA stars and the politics of contemporary Irish masculinity'
Cronin M. (2014) 'Clubs, closets and catwalks: GAA stars and the politics of contemporary Irish masculinity' In: Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales. [DOI] [Details] |
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2012 | '‘Fantastic Longings: The Moral Cartography of Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle’'
Michael G. Cronin (2012) '‘Fantastic Longings: The Moral Cartography of Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle’' In: Werner Huber, Sandra Mayer and Julia Novak (eds). Irish Studies in Europe, 4. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
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2022 | '‘Ransack the histories’: Gay Men, Liberation and the Politics of Literary Style'
Michael G Cronin (2022) '‘Ransack the histories’: Gay Men, Liberation and the Politics of Literary Style'. Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 5 (1):58-72 [Details] |
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2018 | 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex: Modernization and Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Scholarship'
Cronin, MG (2018) 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex: Modernization and Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Scholarship'. Boundary 2, 45 :231-252 [DOI] [full-text] [Details] |
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2010 | 'Kate OBrien and the Erotics of Liberal Catholic Dissent'
Michael G. Cronin (2010) 'Kate OBrien and the Erotics of Liberal Catholic Dissent'. Field Day Review, 6 [full-text] [Details] |
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2004 | 'He's My Country: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Gay Fiction'
Michael G. Cronin (2004) 'He's My Country: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Gay Fiction'. ÉIRE-IRELAND, 39 :250-267 [full-text] [Details] |
Other Journals
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2022 | 'Review of Paul McVeigh (ed) The 32: an anthology of Irish working-class voices'
Michael G Cronin (2022) 'Review of Paul McVeigh (ed) The 32: an anthology of Irish working-class voices' Irish Literary Supplement, . [Details] |
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2013 | 'Review of Eibhear Walshe Oscars Shadow: Wilde, homosexuality and modern Ireland'
Michael G. Cronin (2013) 'Review of Eibhear Walshe Oscars Shadow: Wilde, homosexuality and modern Ireland' Irish Literary Supplement, 32 . [full-text] [Details] |
Conference Contributions
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2022 | Guest Lecture, Wuppertal University.
Michael G Cronin (2022) Guest Lecture, Wuppertal University. [Invited Lecture], Historical consciousness and literary style in James Plunket's Strumpet City and Jamie O'Neill's At Swim Two Boys, Wuppertal University, Germany [Details] |
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2022 | Guest Lecture, University of Canterbury.
Michael G Cronin (2022) Guest Lecture, University of Canterbury. [Invited Lecture], 'Ransack the histories': imperialism, neoliberalism and Irish queer historical fiction , University of Canterbury [Details] |
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2022 | Guest Lecture, UCC.
Michael G Cronin (2022) Guest Lecture, UCC. [Invited Lecture], Hopeful and homoerotic spaces in Irish writing, Department of English, UCC [Details] |
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2022 | Guest Lecture, UCC.
Michael G Cronin (2022) Guest Lecture, UCC. [Invited Lecture], Sexual/Liberation, School of Applied Social Studies, UCC [Details] |
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2022 | Guest Lecture, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.
Michael G Cronin (2022) Guest Lecture, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. [Invited Lecture], Perception and politics: Patrick Graham’s guiding images, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane [Details] |
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2021 | Catholicism and literary culture in Scotland, Ireland and England: comparative perspectives.
Michael G Cronin (2021) Catholicism and literary culture in Scotland, Ireland and England: comparative perspectives. [Oral Presentation], 'Holy God/ tis a fearful death': religious feeling, aesthetics and political dissent in Irish Modernism, University of Glasgow (online) , 01-JUN-21 - 02-JUN-21 [Details] |
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2021 | Strange Country: Ireland in politics and culture 1998-2021 (SOFEIR annual conference).
Michael G Cronin (2021) Strange Country: Ireland in politics and culture 1998-2021 (SOFEIR annual conference). [Oral Presentation], ‘A chink in the fabric of reality’: politics and aesthetics in ‘Celtic Tiger’ fiction, Université Paris Nanterre (online) , 20-MAY-21 - 21-MAY-21 [Details] |
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2019 | Faces of Change: researching sexuality and gender at Maynooth University.
Michael G Cronin (2019) Faces of Change: researching sexuality and gender at Maynooth University. [Oral Presentation], Erotics and politics of ‘closetedness’ in Colm Tóibín’s fiction, Maynooth University [Details] |
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2019 | Columbia Irish Studies Seminar.
Michael G Cronin (2019) Columbia Irish Studies Seminar. [Invited Lecture], The Political Imagination of Irish Lesbian and Gay Fiction, Columbia University, New York [Details] |
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2019 | Dublin One City, One Book Festival.
Michael G Cronin (2019) Dublin One City, One Book Festival. [Public presentations], The Country Girls and the Coming of Age Novel: a public event chaired by Michael G Cronin, Peasre St Public Libraray, Dublin [Details] |
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2019 | OUTing the Past:the Festival of LGBT History.
Michael G Cronin (2019) OUTing the Past:the Festival of LGBT History. [Invited Oral Presentation], Queering the Rising: presentation on Roger Casement and Patrick Pearse, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin [Details] |
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2018 | 32nd Irish Conference of Historians.
Michael G Cronin (2018) 32nd Irish Conference of Historians. [Keynote Address], Sex, class and hegemony in twentieth-century Ireland, UCC [Details] |
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2018 | Dublin Joyce Summer School.
Michael G Cronin (2018) Dublin Joyce Summer School. [Invited Lecture], ‘Sexuality, human needs and the political imagination in Portrait.', UCD/The James Joyce Centre [Details] |
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2017 | Invited speaker for Irish Literary Society in London.
Michael G Cronin (2017) Invited speaker for Irish Literary Society in London. [Oral Presentation], Writing Irish Gay Lives, London [Details] |
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2017 | Competing Traditions: 20th and 21st Century Irish Literatures between Realism and Experimentation.
Michael G Cronin (2017) Competing Traditions: 20th and 21st Century Irish Literatures between Realism and Experimentation. [Oral Presentation], Strumpet City and the historical novel as untimely critique, University of Lodz, Poland [Details] |
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2016 | Revolutionary Masculinities.
Michael G. Cronin (2016) Revolutionary Masculinities. [Oral Presentation], Pain, pleasure and revolution: the body in Roger Casement's writing, Maynooth University [Details] |
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2016 | XXV International James Joyce Conference.
Michael G. Cronin (2016) XXV International James Joyce Conference. [Oral Presentation], The influence of 'Portrait' on Post-Independence Irish Writing, University of London [Details] |
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2016 | All's Changed: 1916 and Modernism.
Michael G. Cronin (2016) All's Changed: 1916 and Modernism. [Oral Presentation], ‘Patrick Pearse: aesthetics and erotics of heroic masculinity’, Maynooth University [Details] |
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2016 | Marginal Irish Modernisms.
Michael G. Cronin (2016) Marginal Irish Modernisms. [Oral Presentation], Forrest Reid: aesthetics and erotics of colonial modernity, Liverpool John Moores University [Details] |
Book Review
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2015 | Review of Rosemary Hennessy, Fires on the Border: the passionate politics of labor organising on the Mexican frontera and
James Penney, After Queer Theory: the limits of sexual politics.
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Michael G. Cronin (2015) Review of Rosemary Hennessy, Fires on the Border: the passionate politics of labor organising on the Mexican frontera and James Penney, After Queer Theory: the limits of sexual politics. . Book Review [Details] |
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2014 | Review of Munkelt et. al. (eds.) Postcolonial translocations: cultural representation and critical spatial thinking
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Michael G. Cronin (2014) Review of Munkelt et. al. (eds.) Postcolonial translocations: cultural representation and critical spatial thinking . Book Review [DOI] [Details] |
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2014 | Review of Mark Quigley, Empire’s Wake: postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form.
Michael G. Cronin (2014) Review of Mark Quigley, Empire’s Wake: postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form. Book Review [Details] |
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2014 | Review of Stuti Khanna, The Contemporary Novel and the City: reconceiving national and narrative form
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Michael G. Cronin (2014) Review of Stuti Khanna, The Contemporary Novel and the City: reconceiving national and narrative form . Book Review [Details] |
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2013 | Review of Joseph Valente, The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922.
Michael G. Cronin (2013) Review of Joseph Valente, The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922. Book Review [full-text] [Details] |
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2013 | Irish Review (Special Issue: Criticism and the Crash).
Michael G. Cronin (guest editor) (2013) Irish Review (Special Issue: Criticism and the Crash). Book Review [Details] |