Angela Bourke is the author of Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker (2004), The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (1999), and the Famine Folio, Voices Underfoot: Memory, Forgetting, and Oral Verbal Art (2016). She is joint editor of The Field Day Anthology vols iv & v: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions (2002), an emeritus professor at UCD and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.