Professor Eve Patten
Professor, English
Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity Long Room Hub
Biography
Eve Patten was born in Belfast and educated at Oxford University and Trinity College, Dublin. She came to Trinity in 1996, after spending three years as a British Council lecturer in Eastern Europe.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Eve Patten, Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2022, 1 - 240pp
Eve Patten, 'Romanian Literary History at a Crossroads', Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, 67, (3), 2022, p47 - 52
Eve Patten, 'Trinity Professors versus Men of Letters: Ferguson, Dowden and De Vere', Irish University Review, 52, (1), 2022, p133 - 148
'The Irish Novelist as Critic and Anthologist' in, editor(s)Liam Harte , The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp623 - 641, [Eve Patten]
Eve Patten, Irish Literature in Transition 1940-80, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 1 - 391pp
'From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa' in, editor(s)Daniel Roberts and Jonathan Wright , Ireland's Imperial Connections, 1775--1947, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp37 - 56, [Eve Patten]
Mark Sweetnam, 'Biblical Literature', Oxford Bibliography of British and Irish Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, -
Eve Patten, Review, Review of Irish Cultures of Travel: Writing on the Continent 1829-1914 , by Raphael Ingelbien , Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2, (1), 2018, p305-307
Eve Patten, Review, Review of The Best are Leaving: Emigration and Postwar Culture, by Clair Wills , Irish University Review, 47, (1), 2018, p569-590
" 'Breaking Away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the Commercial Woman Writer" in, editor(s)Anna Plz and Whitney Standlee , Irish Women's Writing 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2016, pp82 - 99, [Eve Patten and Jane Mahony]
Eve Patten, 'Olivia Manning: A Woman at War', Review of 'Olivia Manning: A Woman at War', by David, Deirdre , Modern Language Review, 110, (1), 2015, p250-1
'Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and 1940s Ireland' in, editor(s)Dorothea Depner and Guy Woodward , Irish Culture and Wartime Europe, 1938-1948, Dublin , Four Courts Press, 2015, pp99 - 112, [Eve Patten]
'Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: the making of a "national reader"' in, editor(s)Mihaela Irimia and Andreea Paris , Literature and the Long Modernity, Amsterdam, New York, Rodopi, 2014, pp309 - 323, [Eve Patten]
Eve Patten and Jason McElligott, The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice , Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 1 - 242pp
Aidan O'Malley and Eve Patten, Ireland, West to East: Irish Cultural Connections with Central and Eastern Europe , Oxford, Peter Lang, 2013, 1 - 291pp
Eve Patten, Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War, Cork, Cork University Press, 2012, 260pp
Samuel Ferguson's Hibernian Nights' Entertainments in, editor(s)James H. Murphy , The Oxford History of the Irish Book vol iv: The Irish Book in English, Oxford , Oxford University Press, 2011, pp442-8 , [Eve Patten]
Eve Patten, 'Irish Novels, Revivalist and Otherwise'; review of J.W.Foster, Irish Novels 1890--1940 (OUP, 2009), The James Joyce Literary Supplement, 24, (1), 2010, p18 - 19
Eve Patten, Review of Revising Robert Burns and Ulster: Literature, Religion and Politics c. 1770--1920, by Frank Ferguson and Robert Holmes (eds) , Irish Historical Studies , vol 37, (no 146), 2010, p322-3
'Olivia Manning', in Robert Clark, Emory Elliot and Janet Todd (eds), The Literary Encyclopaedia, 2009, [Eve Patten]
"The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Toibin's Europe" in, editor(s)Paul Delaney , Reading Colm Toibin, Dublin, Liffey Press, 2008, pp83 - 96, [Eve Patten]
' "Why not war writers?": Considering the cultural front' in, editor(s)Eve Patten and Richard Pine , Literatures of War, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp17 - 30, [Eve Patten]
Eve Patten, Richard Pine (editors), Literatures of War, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 1 - 466pp
"Life purified and reprojected: autobiography and the modern Irish novel" in, editor(s)Liam Harte , Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp51 - 70, [Eve Patten]
Nicholas Allen and Eve Patten (editors), That Island Never Found: Essays and Poems for Terence Brown , Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, 9 - 197pp
Eve Patten, Review of Conquering England: Ireland in Victorian London, by Fintan Cullen and Roy Foster , Irish Studies Review, 14, (1), 2006, p132-134
"Contemporary Irish Fiction" in, editor(s)John Wilson Foster , The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp259 - 276, [Eve Patten]
Eve Patten, "Ireland? Whose Ireland? Interrogating Irish Studies", Issues in English , 5, (1), 2006, p17 - 27
Eve Patten, Review of Letters to W.B.Yeats and Ezra Pound from Iseult Gonne, by A.Norman Jeffares, Anna MacBride White and Christine Bridgewater , Notes and Queries, New Series 52, (1), 2005, p145-146
Eve Patten, Review of The Cities of Belfast, by Nicholas Allen and Aaron Kelly , Irish Studies Review, 13, (3), 2005, p442-443
Eve Patten, Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts, 2004
Eve Patten, 'Ireland's "two cultures" debate: Victorian science and the Literary Revival' , Irish University Review, 33, (1), 2003, p1 - 13
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Elspeth Payne, Caoimhe Whelan, Eve Patten, Improving Arts and Humanities Engagement in Ireland's Civic and Community Sphere. Experiences, challenges, and opportunities for researchers based in HEIs, 2022, - 29
Eve Patten, Caoimhe Whelan, Caitriona Curtis, Policy and the Arts & Humanities in Ireland: A Position Paper by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, 2021, - 1-11
Aoife King (ed), Rita Duffy, Caitríona Lally, Jacob J. Erickson, Donna Lyons et al., What the Pandemic Means: Perspectives from the Trinity Long Room Hub Covid-19 Blog Collection, 2021, - 1-56
Jane Ohlmeyer, Giovanna M R Lima, Sarah Bowman, Eve Patten, Micheal O Siochru, (2020), '1641 Depositions: Sharing our history, building a legacy' [pdf]
Research Expertise
Description
Main research interests: nineteenth and twentieth century British and Irish literature; nineteenth-century Irish cultural and civic history, and in particular the cultural history of Dublin; the writings of Samuel Ferguson, William Rowan Hamilton, Emily Lawless; the cultural history of Irish science in the nineteenth century; Yeats the the Literary Revival; modern Irish Studies and cultural theory; contemporary Irish fiction and the modern Irish autobiographical novel. Other research interests cover twentieth-century British cultural history and fiction. Specific interests in the war-related and travel writings of Rebecca West and Olivia Manning; current research in the area of British modernist writers and Ireland. Irish and British book and publishing history (C19th and 20th).Recognition
Awards and Honours
Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin
Memberships
Member of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature). Member of European Society for the Study of English