[9] In 1969, a reviewer of his second novel wrote that despite being "disguised as an English professor at Rutgers", he was really "a nonstop Irish-American storyteller", gadding from one character to another, with a fondness for black comedy.

[12] In 1975, Joseph Frank invited Moynahan to give three lectures at Princeton on Anglo-Irish writers, and from this a third specialism developed.

[13] Two weeks after Nabokov's funeral at Montreux, an American memorial event was held at the McGraw Hill auditorium in New York, and some 500 people heard Alfred Appel, Alfred Kazin, John Updike, Dmitri Nabokov, Moynahan, and Harold McGraw pay tribute.

[16] In this survey of the whole field of Anglo-Irish literature, there are chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lever, Sheridan Le Fanu, C. R. Maturin, George Moore, Somerville and Ross, W. B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett, and historical summaries.

[17] Moynahan finds that the women writers, Edgeworth, Somerville and Ross, and Bowen, were a major force in the development of literary imagination.

[19] After he died of pneumonia in March 2014, on his 89th birthday,[1] an obituary by Stuart Mitchner in Town Topics called him witty, dashing, roguish, and breezy, "refreshingly counter to the remote, buttoned-up academic".