PhD candidate, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
Paddy Brennan is a Blair Chair Scholar at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies. He is currently researching a PhD exploring the depiction of consumption and self-starvation in 20th and 21st century Irish fiction.
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