Back in the Republic of Conscience: Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, its Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics’, Textual Practice, 9 March 2016, pp.1-35.
Guest editor and contributor to ‘Seamus Heaney Special Issue’, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 21: 2 (Winter 2015), pp.343-57
‘Out of this World’: Seamus Heaney Remembering Czesław Miłosz’, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 20: 1 (Winter 2014), pp.113-18. ISSN 1218 7364
‘Back in the Heartland: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Route 110’ Sequence in Human Chain‘, Irish Studies Review, 21:4 (November 2013), 374-386. ISSN 0967 0882
‘Past Master’: Czesław Miłosz and his Impact on Seamus Heaney’s Poetry’, Textual Practice, 27:5 (2013), 825-50 – available from Taylor & Francis Online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0950236X.2012.751448
‘The Power of Withholding: Politics, Gender and Narrative Technique in William Trevor’s Felicia’s Journey‘, New Hibernia Review, 17:1 (Spring 2013), 98-114. ISSN 1092 3977
‘His Nibs: Self-Reflexivity and the Significance of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Human Chain‘, Irish University Review, 42:2, Autumn 2012, 327-50. ISSN 0021 1427
‘Air from Another Time and Place’: The Island’s Arts’ (an essay on the visual arts and literature in Ireland), Nordic Irish Studies, 11:1, 2012, 7-27. ISBN 978 87 91259 13 4.
‘Neither Home Nor Away: Place and the Displacement in Bernard O’Donoghue’s Poetry’, Irish Studies Review, 17:4 (2009), 513-18. ISSN 0967 0882.
‘Fallout from the Thunder: Poetry and Politics in Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle’, Irish Studies Review, 16:4 (2008), pp.369-84. ISSN 0967 0882
‘From Winter Seeds to Wintering Out: The Evolution of Seamus Heaney’s Third Volume’, New Hibernia Review, 11:2 (Summer 2007), 130-141. ISSN 1092 3977
‘The Imprint of History: John Boyd’s The Flats, its Cultural and Political Contexts’, Essays in Theatre/Etudes Theatrales 20:2 (2006), 137-156. ISSN 0821-4425
‘Forms of Redress’: Structure and Characterisation in Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City’. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 5:1 (1999), 47-70. ISSN 1218 7364
‘Northern Odyssey’: John Montague’s ‘The Cry’ and its Political Contexts, New Hibernia Review, 7:1 (Spring 2003), 87-109. ISSN 1092 3977
‘A Class Apart’: Sam Thompson’s Over the Bridge, its Contexts and Reception’. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 8:1, (Spring 2002), 227-244. ISSN 1218 7364
‘‘Changing Skies: The Roles of Native and American Narratives in the Politicisation of Seamus Heaney’s Early Poetry’, Symbiosis, 6:2 (2002), 133-158. ISSN 1362 7902
‘Reckonings: The Political Contexts for Northern Irish Literature 1965-68’, Irish Studies Review, 10:2 (2002), 133-158. ISSN 0967 0882
‘Shadows on a Glass: Self-Reflexivity in the Fiction of Deirdre Madden’. Irish University Review, 30:1 (Spring/ Summer 2000), 82-102. ISSN 0021 1427
‘Gleanings, Leavings: American and Irish Influences During the Making of Seamus Heaney’s Wintering Out’, New Hibernia Review, 2:3 (Autumn 1998), 16-35. ISSN 1092 3977