Recorded December 6th, 2023.

A lunchtime 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Professor Sean Moore (University of New Hampshire) in conversation with Professor Aileen Douglas (School of English, TCD).

Sean Moore's first book with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2010, was awarded the Murphy Prize for distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies. He worked as a Director of the UNH Honors Program in 2011, serving a three-year term and returning to the faculty in 2014 to accept research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society/National Endowment for the Humanities and Newport Mansions for the 2014-2015 academic year for a book project on the colonial slave and book trades. He received another National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for 2015-2016 to finish the book. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

His research project as a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub is titled The British Secret Service and the Scottish and Irish Book Trades, 1660-1829: An Inquiry in the History of Intelligence.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/