Declan Kiberd is the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English and Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including, among others,
Inventing Ireland and
Synge and the Irish Language. P. J. Mathews is senior lecturer in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. He is the author of Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Fein, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement and editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Millington Synge.