{"id":45,"date":"2014-11-17T15:47:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eamonnwall.net\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2025-09-02T03:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:47:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/eamonnwall.net\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eamonn Wall is the author of eight collections of poetry: My Aunts\u00a0 Twilight Poker (<\/strong>2023); Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015<\/strong> (2015); Sailing Lake Mareotis<\/strong>\u00a0(2011); A Tour of Your Country<\/strong>\u00a0(2008); Refuge at De Soto Bend<\/strong>\u00a0(2004); The Crosses<\/strong>\u00a0(2000); Iron Mountain Road<\/strong>(1997); Dyckman-200th Street<\/strong> (1994), all published by Salmon Publishing in Ireland. <\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.salmonpoetry.com\/author-details.php?ID=360&a=149<\/p>\n

Individual poems have been published in Prairie Schooner<\/em>, The Shop<\/em>, Poetry Ireland Review<\/em>, Cyphers<\/em>,\u00a0 TriQuarterly<\/em>, Crab Orchard Review<\/em>, South Dakota Review<\/em>, River Styx<\/em>, The Recorder<\/em>, New Hibernia Review<\/em>, The Irish Times,<\/em> and other journals and newspapers.<\/p>\n

He is also the author of four books of prose.<\/p>\n

Conocimiento: Writing Irish Borderlands<\/em>. Reimagining Ireland\/Peter Lang, 2025. <\/p>\n

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From Oven Lane to Sun Prairie: in Search of Irish America<\/strong>. Arlen House, 2019. Distributed in the US by Syracuse University Press.<\/p>\n

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\"writingtheirishwest-200\"<\/a>Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions<\/strong>\u00a0was published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cBringing an ecocritical approach to seven contemporary authors whose work is inspired by the West of Ireland, Wall breaks new ground in transatlantic studies by drawing parallels between representations of that region and the American West\u201d\u00a0(Isle)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWriting the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions<\/em>, Wall has distilled the earlier experience of geographical binarism into an illuminating critical approach. His new book examines contemporary Irish writing on the West of Ireland through the wide-angle lens of cultural, critical, and literary writing on the American West. Though his focus remains on the Irish writers, apt evocations of American parallels enrich the texture of his analysis\u201d\u00a0(Andrew Auge, New Hibernia Review)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWall\u2019s meticulous and timely scholarship, which incorporates recent texts such as\u00a0Christine Cusick\u2019s Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts<\/em>, ensures the book\u2019s status within the field of ecocriticism\u201d\u00a0(Donna Potts, Irish Literary Supplement).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"sine\"<\/a>From the Sin-e Caf\u00e9 to the Black Hills<\/strong>, a collection of essays, was published by the\u00a0University of Wisconsin Press<\/a>\u00a0in 2000 and awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize by the American Conference for Irish Studies for excellence in scholarship.<\/p>\n

Essays, articles, and reviews of Irish, Irish American, and American writers have appeared in New Hibernia Review<\/em>, Irish Literary Supplement<\/em>, The Irish Times<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em>, Chicago Tribune<\/em>, South Carolina Review<\/em>, Reading Ireland<\/em>, and other journals. Eamonn\u2019s poetry and prose has appeared in the following anthologies: The Book of Irish-American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present<\/em>; Irish Writing in the 20th Century: A Reader<\/em>; Wexford Through Its Writers<\/em>; Flood Stage, An Anthology of St. Louis Poets<\/em>; The Big Empty, Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A longtime member of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Eamonn Wall served as president of the organization from 2005-2007. From 2014-2018, he served as a vice-president of Irish American Writers and Artists. http:\/\/www.iamwa.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

He was the Charles Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies, Villanova University, Spring 2014. In 2023, he was a fellow in non-fiction at the Writers’ Institute, City University of New York-Graduate Center.<\/p>\n

A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland, Eamonn Wall has lived in the US since 1982. He was educated at University College, Dublin; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and the City University of New York-Graduate Center, where he received his Ph.D. in English.<\/p>\n

Eamonn Wall lives in St. Louis, Missouri. From 2000-2025, he worked at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as a Professor of English and as the Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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