Breandán Mac Suibhne
Breandán Mac Suibhne is a historian of society and culture in modern Ireland (PhD, Carnegie Mellon, 1999). His The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2017) was Irish Times Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2017. The Royal Irish Academy awarded it the inaugural Michel Déon Biennial Prize for Nonfiction and it received the Donnelly Prize for Books in History and Social Science from the American Conference for Irish Studies. His other publications include two major annotated editions, viz. John Gamble's Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Field Day, 2011), a compendium of the travel-writing of a hard-living doctor, and, with David Dickson, Hugh Dorian's The Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Donegal (Lilliput, 2000, 2001; University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), the most extensive lower-class account of Ireland's Great Famine. Mac Suibhne was a founding editor, with critic Seamus Deane, of Field Day Review (2005-), a journal of political and literary culture, and, with Deane, he edited two book series, Field Files and Field Day Editions. With Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, he edited Ag Cur Chun Fónaimh (Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2023), a collection of essays on the history of the development agency Údarás na Gaeltachta.
