Seán Crosson

Dr. Seán Crosson is President of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) and a lecturer in NUI Galway. He has published widely in Irish Studies, particularly in the areas of Irish poetry (in both English and Irish) and Irish film. His monograph ‘The Given Note': Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) includes translations from the work of contemporary Irish-language poets as well as a consideration of the impact of music on W.B. Yeats’s work. Among his other publications are the co-edited volumes Crisis and Contemporary Poetry (Palgrave, 2011), Contemporary Irish Film: New Perspectives on a National Cinema (Braumüller, 2011) and Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).