Dr Hilary Lennon received her PhD from the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and is the Harriet O’Donovan Sheehy Research Fellow in the School of English, University College Cork. She is the editor of Frank O’Connor: Critical Essays (Four Courts Press, 2007), and the creator and editor of the UCC official O’Connor website, frankoconnor.ucc.ie. Her Selected Letters of Frank O’Connor is forthcoming from Cork University Press.