Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Vicki Cooper and all the editorial and production team at Cambridge University Press for their most generous help, support and patience. Profound thanks are also due to my colleagues at University College Dublin for their support during the preparation of this volume: Ciarán Crilly, Melissa Devereux, Desmond Earley, Orla Flanagan, Jaime Jones, Frank Lawrence, Wolfgang Marx, Thérèse Smith and Harry White.