James H. Murphy, CM, a Professor of English at DePaul University, Chicago, currently serves as Boston College's Interim Director of Irish Studies. He is a graduate of universities in Ireland and Britain and author or editor of fourteen books. A scholar of the "long century" (1791-1922), Murphy has written widely on issues of gender and sexuality and religion and education in the Victorian Period. Endeavoring to manifest a full historical picture of nineteenth-century Ireland, he hopes to complement earlier studies of the monarchy and viceroyalty in Ireland with his present work on the Dublin city council.

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