Declan Kiberd



Declan Kiberd is a professor, literary theorist, author and journalist, who lives and teaches in Dublin.
Kiberd in1969 won an award to study Irish and English at Trinity College Dublin, where he got a double first and a Gold Medal. He then went to Oxford where he took a DPhil under the late Richard Ellmann, the biographer of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats.
Professor Kiberd is Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama in University College Dublin. He joined UCD as lecturer in Anglo-Irish literature in 1979. He taught English previously in the University of Kent at Canterbury (1976-7), and Irish in Trinity College Dublin (1977-9). He was appointed Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD in 1997.
He has also been Director of the Yeats International Summer School (1985-7), patron of the Dublin Shaw Society (1995-2000), a columnist with the Irish Times (1985-7) and the Irish Press (1987-93), the presenter of the RTE Arts programme, Exhibit A (1984-6), and a regular essayist and reviewer in the Irish Times, the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books and the New York Times.
Dr Kiberd is one of Ireland's foremost intellectuals, who has lectured on Irish Literature in more than 30 countries.
He is best known for a major critical assessment of Anglo-Irish literature and culture, Inventing Ireland.
Another publication of note is Irish Classics, which was given the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2002.
Kiberd also wrote the introduction to the Penguin edition of Ulysses.