St Mary's Academic Co-edits Series on Dermot Healy

Research Fellow in the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary’s University, Twickenham Dr Keith Hopper is currently co-editing a series of four books by and about the late Dermot Healy. The first of these books, The Collected Short Stories and an edited reprint of Healy’s first novel, Fighting with Shadows, will be officially launched at Trinity College Dublin on 22 October 2015. Dr Hopper said, “Dermot Healy was an extraordinary but often under-appreciated writer. Our hope is that these new volumes, which constitute the first phase in an on-going research project, will help cement his reputation within the Irish literary canon and beyond”. [caption id="attachment_10815" align="alignnone" width="223"] Dermot Healy[/caption] The Collected Short Stories has already been included in the Irish Post's list of “Ten new Irish books you should read this year”: http://irishpost.co.uk/ten-new-irish-books-you-should-read-this-year/ —Keith Hopper teaches Literature and Film Studies for Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education, and is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Irish Studies at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He is the author of Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist (revised edition 2009) and general editor of the twelve-volume Ireland into Film series (2001–2007). He is also the co-editor (with Neil Murphy) of Flann O’Brien: Centenary Essays (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011) and The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013).