James H. MurphyJames H. Murphy is Professor of English, Boston College, USA. He is the author of Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873-1922 (1997), Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria (2001), Ireland a Social, Cultural and Literary History, 1791-1891 (2003), Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age (2011), Ireland’s Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spencer, 1868-86 (2014), and The Politics of Dublin Corporation, 1840-1900: From Reform to Expansion (2020). He is editor of The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV: The Irish Book in English, 1800-1891 (2011). Read More Read Less