Her research interests include Irish literature, modernism, the work of Samuel Beckett, and women’s writing, particularly Irish women’s writing of the late 19th and early 20th century, and contemporary writing.
She is co-founder and convenor of the Irish Women’s Writing Network (1880-1920), [https://irishwomenswritingnetwork.com], and, with Kathryn Laing, general editor of two book series on Irish women’s writing, Key Irish Women Writers and Irish Women Writers: Texts and Contexts (EER).
Publications include (co-editor, with Whitney Standlee, Caoilfionn Ní Bheacháin, Anna Pilz, Julie Anne Stevens and Kathryn Laing) a special issue of English Studies, ‘Collaborations and Networks in Irish Women’s Writing’ (autumn 2023); (editor, with Kathryn Laing) Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives (EER, 2020), A Tongue Not Mine: Beckett and Translation (Oxford University Press, 2011), which was completed on an IRCHSS award and won the American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize; Samuel Beckett (Writers and Their Work, Northcote House, 2006); and Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives, co-edited with Kathryn Laing and Maureen O’Connor (Carysfort, 2006), and essays on Molly Keane, Edna O’Brien, Mary Lavin, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Cecil Thurston, and Samuel Beckett.
Recent work includes essays on early English productions of Waiting for Godot and their traces in provincial theatre archives, and essays on Edna O’Brien in Heather Ingman and Clíona Ó Gallchóir, eds A History of Irish Women’s Writing (Edinburgh, 2021), Beckett and ‘outsider art’, and on Katherine Cecil Thurston.
Current research includes alternative histories of Ireland by late-19th and early 20thc Irish women writers, and on Mary Carbery (1867-1949).
She also writes fiction, was longlisted for the Peggy Chapman Andrews First Novel award, and is represented by Seren Adams at United Agents.
Biography
Sinéad Mooney graduated from University College Cork with a BA in 1993, and an MA in English in 1996, followed by a DPhil from the University of Oxford (2002). Having been a lecturer in the English Department at the National University of Ireland, Galway, from 2002 to 2014, Sinéad joined De Montfort University in 2014 as a Research Fellow and was a Senior Lecturer in English there from 2016-2019. She joined the UCC School of English and Digital Humanities as a fixed term lecturer in August 2022.Her research interests include Irish literature, modernism, the work of Samuel Beckett, and women’s writing, particularly Irish women’s writing of the late 19th and early 20th century, and contemporary writing.
She is co-founder and convenor of the Irish Women’s Writing Network (1880-1920), [https://irishwomenswritingnetwork.com], and, with Kathryn Laing, general editor of two book series on Irish women’s writing, Key Irish Women Writers and Irish Women Writers: Texts and Contexts (EER).
Publications include (co-editor, with Whitney Standlee, Caoilfionn Ní Bheacháin, Anna Pilz, Julie Anne Stevens and Kathryn Laing) a special issue of English Studies, ‘Collaborations and Networks in Irish Women’s Writing’ (autumn 2023); (editor, with Kathryn Laing) Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives (EER, 2020), A Tongue Not Mine: Beckett and Translation (Oxford University Press, 2011), which was completed on an IRCHSS award and won the American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize; Samuel Beckett (Writers and Their Work, Northcote House, 2006); and Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives, co-edited with Kathryn Laing and Maureen O’Connor (Carysfort, 2006), and essays on Molly Keane, Edna O’Brien, Mary Lavin, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Cecil Thurston, and Samuel Beckett.
Recent work includes essays on early English productions of Waiting for Godot and their traces in provincial theatre archives, and essays on Edna O’Brien in Heather Ingman and Clíona Ó Gallchóir, eds A History of Irish Women’s Writing (Edinburgh, 2021), Beckett and ‘outsider art’, and on Katherine Cecil Thurston.
Current research includes alternative histories of Ireland by late-19th and early 20thc Irish women writers, and on Mary Carbery (1867-1949).
She also writes fiction, was longlisted for the Peggy Chapman Andrews First Novel award, and is represented by Seren Adams at United Agents.
Publications
Books
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2011) | A Tongue Not Mine: Beckett and Translation. Sinéad Mooney (2011) A Tongue Not Mine: Beckett and Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details] | |
| (2006) | Samuel Beckett. Sinéad Mooney (2006) Samuel Beckett. Plymouth: Northcote House. [Details] |
Edited Books
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2020) | Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives Sinéad Mooney and Kathryn Laing (Ed.). (2020) Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives Brighton: Edwin Everett Root Press. [Details] | |
| (2006) | Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives Sinéad Mooney, Maureen O'Connor and Kathryn Laing (Ed.). (2006) Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives Dublin: Carysfort Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2023) | ''Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers' Collaborations and Networks, 1880–1940'' Kathryn Laing, Sinéad Mooney, Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin, Anna Pilz, Whitney Standlee, Julie Anne Stevens (2023) ''Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers' Collaborations and Networks, 1880–1940''. English Studies, 104 (6):843-864 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2019) | '“Delirium of interpretation”: Surrealism, the possessions, and Beckett’s outsider artists' Mooney S. (2019) '“Delirium of interpretation”: Surrealism, the possessions, and Beckett’s outsider artists'. Translation Studies, 12 (1):47-63 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2018) | '‘Demented particulars’: Traces of godot and the provincial theatre archive' Mooney S. (2018) '‘Demented particulars’: Traces of godot and the provincial theatre archive'. Contemporary Theatre Review, 28 (1):39-53 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2017) | ''Radish, One Per Night': Early Godots in the Regional Theatre Archive' Sinéad Mooney (2017) ''Radish, One Per Night': Early Godots in the Regional Theatre Archive'. Journal Of Beckett Studies, 29 (2):256-269 [Details] |