stated that Irish history ought to be treated by "raising a monument to Amnesia, and forgetting where we put it". Honors and awards British Academy Fellow (2006) American Academy of Arts and Sciences - International Honorary Member (2019) Works Literary criticism Poetry in the Wars (Bloodaxe Books, 1986) Louis MacNeice: A Study (Faber & Faber, 1988) From Cathleen to Anorexia: The Breakdown of Ireland, Lip pamphlet (Attic Press, Dublin, 1990) The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Bloodaxe Books, 1994) Gender and the Irish Identity (Bloodaxe Books, 1996) Poetry and Posterity (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) Multiculturalism: The View from the Two Irelands (with Declan Kiberd) (Cork University Press, 2001) ‘The Great War, History and the English Lyric', in Vincent Sherry (editor), The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2005) As editor Edward Thomas: Poems and Last Poems (Macmillan, 1973) The Selected James Simmons (Blackstaff Press, 1978) The Selected Paul Durcan (Blackstaff Press, 1982) A Language Not to Be Betrayed: Selected Prose of Edward Thomas (Carcanet Press, 1981). Across a Roaring Hill: The Protestant Imagination in Modern Ireland, with Gerald Dawe (Blackstaff Press, 1985) Marin Sorescu: The Biggest Egg in the World (Bloodaxe Books, 1987) Dorothy Hewett: Alice in Wormland: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1990) Culture in Ireland: Division or Diversity?: proceedings of the Cultures of Ireland Group Conference, 27–28 September 1991 (Institute of Irish Studies, 1991) Yeats Annual No.12: That Accusing Eye - Yeats and His Irish Readers (co-editor) (Palgrave, 1996) The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry from Britain and Ireland (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) Ireland (Ulster) Scotland: Concepts, Contexts, Comparisons (co-editor) (Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, Belfast, 2003) Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) References External links The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen's University Belfast 1940 births Living people Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish literary critics Irish women critics Women literary critics Academics of Queen's University Belfast People from County Cork