Richard Barlow is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a former Academic Director of the Trieste Joyce School. His articles have appeared in Irish Studies Review, James Joyce Quarterly, Philosophy and Literature and Scottish Literary Review. He is the author of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms (2023) and The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture (2017). Paul Fagan is an Irish Research Council fellow at Maynooth University. He is a co-founder of the International Flann O'Brien Society, a founding general editor of The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies, and an elected member of the International James Joyce Foundation Board of Trustees. Paul is the co-editor of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (2021) and Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation (2021) as well as four edited volumes on Flann O'Brien. He is currently finalising monographs on 'Irish Literary Hoaxes' and 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing, 1860s-1950s'.