Articles
LITERARY HISTORY ARTICLES
‘Embraces of Love’, FAITHFUL COMPANIONS: COLLECTED ESSAYS CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KATE O’BRIEN LITERARY WEEKEND, ed. Mary Coll (Limerick: Mellick Press, 2009)
‘Picking Up Broken Glass, or, Turning Lesbian History into Fiction’, in SAPPHISTS AND SEXOLOGISTS: HISTORIES OF SEXUALITIES VOLUME 2, ed. Sonja Tiernan and Mary McAuliffe (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009)
‘Doing Lesbian History, Then and Now’, in HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS / REFLEXIONS HISTORIQUES (Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 2007)
Introduction to Isabel Miller, PATIENCE AND SARAH (Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005)
Introduction to Virago Modern Classics edition of Polly Devlin, ALL OF US THERE (London: Virago, 2003)
Introduction to Virago Modern Classics edition of Molly Keane, TIME AFTER TIME (London: Virago, 2001)
Articles on ‘Anne Lister’, ‘Ladies of Llangollen’, and ‘Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods’, in LESBIAN HISTORIES AND CULTURES: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, ed. by Bonnie Zimmerman (New York and London: Garland, 2000)
‘A Tale of Two Annies’, in BUTCH/FEMME: INSIDE LESBIAN GENDER, ed. by Sally Munt (London: Cassell, 1998)
'How Could I Fear and Hold Thee by the Hand? The Poetry of Eva Gore-Booth,' in SEX, NATION AND DISSENT IN IRISH WRITING, ed. by Eibhear Walshe (Cork: Cork University Press, 1997)
‘Divided Heart, Divided History: Eighteenth-Century Bisexual Heroines’, in BISEXUAL HORIZONS: POLITICS, HISTORIES, LIVES, ed. by Sharon Rose, Cris Stevens et al (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1996)
'Liberty in Chains: The Diaries of Anne Lister (1817-24),' in BREAKING THE BARRIERS TO DESIRE (Nottingham: Five Leaves Press, 1995)
'Noises from Woodsheds: The Muffled Voices of Irish Lesbian Fiction,' in VOLCANOES AND PEARL DIVERS, ed. by Suzanne Raitt (London: Onlywomen Press, 1994); adapted version in LESBIAN AND GAY VISIONS OF IRELAND: TOWARDS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, ed. by Ide O'Carroll and Eoin Collins (London: Cassell, 1995)
'Out of Order: Kate O'Brien's Lesbian Fictions,' in ORDINARY PEOPLE DANCING, ed. by Eibhear Walsh (Cork: Cork University Press, 1993)
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLES
‘Go On, You Choose’, in WHO’S YOUR DADDY? AND OTHER WRITINGS ON QUEER PARENTING, ed. Rachel Epstein (Toronto: Sumach Press, 2009)
‘A Free Space,’ in FROM NEWMAN TO NEW WOMAN: UCD WOMEN REMEMBER, ed. by Anne Macdona (Dublin: New Island, 2001)
'Proving It,' SIREN (Toronto), October 1998
'The Youngest Child,' WOMEN'S NEWS (Belfast), November 1997
'A Pagan Place,' GAY COMMUNITY NEWS (Ireland), February 1996
‘Coming Out a Bit Strong’, INDEX ON CENSORSHIP, 24, No. 1 (1995): 87-88