Biography
Stephen O'Neill is Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches modules on contemporary Irish fiction, class and modern Irish literature, and Seamus Heaney"s North. He also lectures on the Junior Fresh module Genres: An Introduction to Literary Studies. Formerly, he was an Irish Research Council Enterprise Research Fellow at Trinity and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, where he worked on the 'Self-Determination: A Global Perspective' exhibition, and co-edited the volume Art and Self-Determination: A Reader with Lisa Moran. His monograph Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955 is forthcoming with Liverpool University Press. Stephen was previously the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for 2019-2020 at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has also held visiting fellowships from the Huntington Library, the University of São Paulo (via the SPeCTReSS Network), the Moore Institute at NUI Galway, and the School of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He has forthcoming and published articles and chapters on topics including the representation of work in Belfast, partition and memory, twentieth century Irish poetry, visual culture and state formation, newspaper history, and the Westlink in Belfast.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
- Stephen O'Neill, Wherever Green Is Orange, Eire-Ireland, 57, (1-2), 2022, p289 - 311, p289-311Journal Article, 2022, DOI
- "Ulster" at Work and Under Construction in, editor(s)Lisa Moran and Stephen O'Neill , Art and Self-Determination: A Reader, Dublin, IMMA, 2023, pp132-139 , [Stephen O'Neill]Book Chapter, 2023
- Aoife Dempsey, Jane Mahony, and Stephen O'Neill, Introduction: Institutions and Ireland: Transforming Representations, Irish University Review, 52, (1), 2022, p1-8Journal Article, 2022, DOI
- May Morton in, editor(s)Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie , Irish Women Poets Rediscovered: Readings in poetry from the eighteenth-twentieth century,, Cork University Press, 2021, pp76-83 , [Stephen O'Neill]Book Chapter, 2021
- Stephen O'Neill, 'the Straitjacket of "Ulster"': Brian Moore, Partition, and Fatalism, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 44, (2), 2021, p38 - 64Journal Article, 2021
- 'Throwing Petrol on the Fire': Writing in the Shadow of the Belfast Urban Motorway in, Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture, Springer International Publishing, 2018, pp177-193 , [Stephen O'Neill]Book Chapter, 2018, DOI
- Continuity and Change in the Belfast Press, 1900-1994 in, editor(s)Martin Conboy and Adrian Bingham , The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3: Competition and Disruption, 1900-2017, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp377-395 , [Nora Moroney and Stephen O'Neill]Book Chapter, 2020, DOI
- Lisa Moran and Stephen O'Neill, Art and Self-Determination: A Reader, Dublin, 2023Book
- Stephen O'Neill, 'Map of the Belfast Pogroms, 1920-1922', 2022, -Map, GIS map
Research Expertise
My research has mostly been concerned with the ongoing partition of Ireland, its cultural representation, and the impact that it continues to have on the island's culture and institutions. I am currently writing a book entitled Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, which examines this in detail. I am also interested in the country and the city in twentieth century Irish culture, as well as journalism, emergency law, and decolonization.