My first book, Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns, was published this year by Edinburgh University Press. Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers — Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane — this book disrupts common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in postcolonial Ireland. Lingering with unease and discomfort in the work of mid-twentieth-century women writers and the spaces they occupied, it pays close attention to inadmissible feelings of loss, anxiety, hauntedness and melancholia. By embracing discomfort, it moves towards a less idealising form of queer studies that is more responsive to the complexity of queer history, and offers a new story of Irish culture in the twentieth century.