Academic Staff Information

Professor Tadhg Foley

Chairman, Centre for Irish Studies

Department:  Department of English

Address:  Room 507, Department of English, NUI Galway

Telephone:  353 (0)91 492701

Fax:  353 (0)91 495513

Email:  t.p.foleynuigalway.ie

Current Research Interests 

Tadhg (a.k.a. Timothy P.) Foley is a graduate of NUI, Galway (BA, MA, HDE) and of the University of Oxford (DPhil). He teaches courses on Romanticism, Victorian culture and society, theorising colonization in the nineteenth century, critical theory, and gender and nation in 19thC Ireland. He is a former director of the MA in Culture and Colonialism and he has organised/co-organised several conferences in colonialism, Irish Studies, and Irish-Australian Studies. His doctoral work was on the concept of ’taste’ in the 18thC, an accomplishment in which he himself is conspicuously deficient. His main research interest is in the history of ideas in 19thC Ireland and he has collaborated extensively with Professor Tom Boylan of the Economics Department on the production, distribution, and consumption of economic ideas. At present they are completing a four-volume anthology of writings on political economy in 19thC Ireland for Routledge/Thoemmes.

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