Tierney, Rashers: - Rashers Tierney is an itinerant lecturer and anthropologist of note, presenting seminars across North America on all things Irish. His earth-shattering PhD thesis on Flatulence in Finnegans Wake has been hailed as the work that blew apart the clique-ish inner circle of Joycean scholarship. He is currently at work on a study entitled Brogue mo thóin, a controversial volume on the connections between the ancient Irish craft of shoemaking and renowned Gaelic curses.