Phyllis Gaffney’s research interests include Franco-Irish relations, literary translation and Samuel Beckett. She started as a medievalist, then taught every century of French literature at Carysfort College of Education and later at University College Dublin. Her previous books are Healing Amid the Ruins: The Irish Hospital at Saint- Lô 1945–46 (1999), Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative (2011), and two co-edited essay collections, Reverberations: Staging Relations in French Since 1500 (2008), and The Medieval Imagination: Mirabile Dictu (2012).