The Writings of Padraic Colum: ’That Queer Thing Genius’

This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adults and children, and a collector of folklore.

Pádraic Whyte is an associate professor and co-director of the MPhil programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is a Fulbright scholar whose publications include the co-edited volume Children’s Literature Collections: Approaches to Research (2017), which won the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Edited Book Award, 2019.

Keith O’Sullivan is an associate professor and head of the School of English, Dublin City University. He is also deputy chair of the MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature programme and co-director of the Centre for Research in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. He is co-principal investigator on the Creative Europe G-Book projects (www.g-book.eu).