The Irish Studies Program congratulates Professor Margaret Kelleher on being elected to the Royal Irish Academy. She earned her PhD at BC in 1992, working with Adele Dalsimer, the co-founder of the Irish Studies Program. Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin and an internationally renowned scholar in Irish literature in English, Kelleher has published The Feminisation of Famine: Expressions of the Inexpressible? (Duke University Press, 1997) and The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (UCD Press, 2018). The latter was awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books in Language and Culture by the American Conference for Irish Studies and most recently has been shortlisted for the Michel Déon Prize. She was also co-editor of the influential two-volume Cambridge History of Irish Literature with BC’s Phillip O’Leary (Cambridge University Press, 2006).