Gearoid O'Flaherty
Dr
Gearóid O'Flaherty is an Assistant Professor in the School of English. He holds a B.A. in English Literature and History from University College Dublin and a PhD in English from the University of Kent (Canterbury). He joined the School of English, DCU in 2016 and lectures on several different modules including Tragedy and Comedy, Shakespeare, Gothic (Literature & Film), and Irish, European and American Drama.
He is the Teaching and Learning Convenor for the School of English.
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Gearoid O'Flaherty (2022) '‘Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum – Revisiting the Wildes on Trial’' In: Law and Literature: The Irish Case. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press. | |
| 2004 | Gearoid O'Flaherty (2004) 'George Bernard Shaw and Ireland' In: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. | |
| 2004 | O'Flaherty G. (2004) 'George bernard shaw and Ireland' In: The Cambridge Companion to: Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. [DOI] | |
| 2000 | Gearoid O'Flaherty (2000) 'George Bernard Shaw and the Irish Literary Revival: Examining the Ambiguity and Complexity of Shavian-Hiberno Relations' In: New Voices in Irish Criticism. Dublin : Four Courts Press. |
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Research Interests
His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Anglo-Irish literature and cultural studies. He has a particular interest in the influence Irish émigré writers had on the Irish Literary Revival – such as Wilde, Shaw, Joyce and Beckett and how their experiences of exile helped influence their own formation of a national and cultural identity within Ireland, the wider Irish Diaspora and the international literary world. Additional areas of teaching and/or research interest include the authors and writings of Greek Tragedy, the 1890’s fin-de sieclé era, Gothic literature and cinema, Victorian periodicals, Modernism, Postcolonial literature, Dystopian Literature and Film.
Teaching Interests
Gearoid O'Flaherty lectures on several different modules including EL103/EL210 Genre: Tragedy and Comedy; EL105/EL110 Irish, European and American Drama; EL201/EL209 Shakespeare; EL301 Research Seminar - 'Dystopian Narratives'; EL306 Gothic (Literature & Film); and EL307 Modernism.