Eibhear Walshe is a senior lecturer in the School of English at University College Cork and Director of Creative Writing. His biography Kate O’Brien a Writing Life was published by Irish Academic Press in 2006 and he edited Elizabeth Bowen: Visions and Revisions for Irish Academic Press in 2008. He edited Elizabeth Bowen’s Selected Irish Writings for Cork University Press in 2011. His first novel, The Diary of Mary Travers was published in 2014, shortlisted for the Kerry Fiction Prize 2015 and long listed for the Dublin International Literary Award, 2016. His study of Colm Tóibín, A Different Story, was published by Irish Academic Press in 2013. Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks, co-edited with Catherine Marshall, under the editorship of Fintan O’Toole was shortlisted as Irish non- fiction book of the year 2016.