Joseph S. O'Leary, born in Cork, Ireland, 1949, has degrees in Literature and Theology, and has taught English Literature at Sophia University, Japan, from 1988 to 2015. His literary publications include "Joysis Crisis: Rereading James Joyce, Theomasochistically" (2021) and "Irreducible Ireland: Moore, Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett" (2024), both from Chisokudo Publications, Nagoya.