Professor David Pierce taught at York St John University. He is an internationally noted author, publishing since 1979. The main focus of his work is Joyce, Yeats and the history of modern Irish writing. His books include the anthology, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century (2000), his highly-regarded memoir, The Long Apprenticeship (2012), three books with Yale University Press: James Joyce's Ireland (1992), Yeats's Worlds (1995), Light, Freedom and Song (2005), and two recent titles with Edward Everett Root: The Joyce Country: ?Literary Scholarship and Irish Culture (2018), James Joyce's Portrait: ?A New Reading (2019).
