Jim Shanahan holds a B.A. (Hons) in Modern History and English Literature from the University of Oxford (1997); an M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College Dublin (1998); and a Ph.D from TCD (2006). He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction, with particular emphasis on Irish historical fiction relating to the 1798 rebellion, and the novels of Charles Lever. He has also contributed articles to the Literary Encyclopedia Online (www.litencyc.com) and to the Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography.
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Jim Shanahan (2020) ''Imperial Minds: Irish Writers and Empire in the Nineteenth Century - Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Moore, Charles Lever, and Kim' In: Irish Literature in Transition, 1830-1880. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Jim Shanahan (2017) 'Terry Pratchett: Almost Human' In: Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. | |
| 2017 | Jim Shanahan (2017) 'Getting Back to Ireland: Charles Lever's Soldiers of Fortune, Tourists, and Irishmen in Reverse' In: Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
| 2016 | Jim Shanahan (2016) 'Paddythackeray: Thackeray and the Timeless Space of the Irish Military Novel' In: Thackeray in Time: History, Memory, and Modernity. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. | |
| 2014 | Shanahan, J. (2014) 'Suffering rebellion: Irish Gothic fiction, 1799-1830' In: Irish Gothics: Genres, Forms, Modes, And Traditions, 1760-1890. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Jim Shanahan (2013) ''The Losing Side Ever': Charles Lever, Walter Scott and the Irish National Tale' In: Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne; Fresh Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars. | |
| 2013 | Jim Shanahan (2013) 'Séan Burke, Lion of Lahinch: An IRA Man at the Walker Cup' In: Ordinary Irish Life: Music, Sport and Culture. Sallins : Irish Academic Press. | |
| 2011 | Jim Shanahan (2011) 'Escaping from Barrett's Moon: Recreating the Irish Literary Landscape in the Romantic Period' In: Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
| 2011 | Jim Shanahan (2011) 'The Years of the French: France and the 1798 Rebellion in Fiction' In: France, Ireland and Rebellion. Rennes : CRBC Rennes 2. | |
| 2010 | Jim Shanahan (2010) ''Vivid Irish History': Frank Mathew's The Wood of the Brambles and the Prehistory of Irish Modernist Fiction' In: Irish Modernism: Origins, Contexts, Publics. Oxford : Peter Lang. | |
| 2007 | Jim Shanahan (2007) 'Fearing to Speak: Fear and the 1798 Rebellion in the Nineteenth Century' In: Fear: Essays on the Meaning and Experience of Fear. Dublin : Four Courts. | |
| 2007 | Jim Shanahan (2007) ''The Fostering Aid of a Sister Country': Wales in Irish Novels, 1796-1810' In: Wales and the Romantic Imagination. Cardiff : University of Wales Press. | |
| 2003 | Jim Shanahan (2003) '“Reviving Pleasant Memories”: Charles Lever and the Crisis of Union' In: New Voices in Irish Criticism, Volume II. Dublin : Four Courts. |
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Research Interests
His research interests include: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, especially Irish fiction; the interaction between history, memory and fiction; the historical novel; Romanticism; the Gothic; fiction of the 1798 Rebellion; the history of sport.
Teaching Interests
Romanticism, Eighteenth-century fiction, Nineteenth-century fiction, Irish writing, speculative fiction, the historical novel.