Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in Dublin Technological University - Tallaght Campus. He is editor of two series with Peter Lang: Studies in Franco-Irish Relations and Reimagining Ireland.

Eugene O'Brien is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is also the editor for the Oxford University Press Online Bibliography project in literary theory. He has directed thirty-one PhD theses on the areas of Irish Studies and Literary and Critical Theory. His recent publications include Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker: A Study of the Prose (2016); The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney (2016); Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, with Deirdre Flynn (2018); and Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond, with Eamon Maher (2018).