Anthony Roche

Anthony Roche was born in Dublin in 1951 and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a First-Class Honours B.A. in English in 1973. He attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was awarded an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. for a dissertation on J.M. Synge. Having taught in the U.S. for the 1980s, he returned to Ireland where he was a Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, retiring in 2016. He is married to the writer Katy Hayes...See more

Anthony Roche was born in Dublin in 1951 and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a First-Class Honours B.A. in English in 1973. He attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was awarded an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. for a dissertation on J.M. Synge. Having taught in the U.S. for the 1980s, he returned to Ireland where he was a Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, retiring in 2016. He is married to the writer Katy Hayes; they have a son, Merlin, and a daughter, Lily, and live in Monkstown, County Dublin. He has published widely on Irish drama, especially on Brian Friel. His most recent book, The Irish Dramatic Revival, 1899-1939 (Bloomsbury, 2015), includes a chapter 'Bernard Shaw: The Absent Presence'. See less