Breandán Mac Suibhne is the Naughton Publication Coordinator for the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Based in Newman House, Dublin, he manages a new publishing collaboration involving the Keough-Naughton Institute and Field Day, an initiative generously funded by Donald Keough and Martin Naughton. A graduate of University College Dublin and Carnegie Mellon University, Mac Suibhne has published on various aspects of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish history, including Volunteering and the construction of Irish national identity in the 1780s, the United Irishmen, agrarian ‘improvement’ and social unrest in the mid-1800s, the photographing of Irish republican suspects in the 1860s, Catholic mentalités in the late nineteenth century and changing attitudes to traditional music. He is co-editor (with David Dickson) of Hugh Dorian, The Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal (2000; 2001), the most extensive lower-class account of the Great Famine, and (with Seamus Deane) of Field Day Review. His Spirit, Spectre, Shade: The Biography of an Irish Ghost will appear in Spring 2008.