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Philip O'Leary
Professor, English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. College of the Holy Cross, Ph.D. Harvard University
Irish literature and culture, including poetry and theater; Gaelic language. Early Irish saga literature; literature of the Irish cultural renaissance. Author of books including Ideology and Innovation: The Prose and Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921.
617.552.3724
philip.oleary.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/facstaff/oleary.html
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Richard Kearney
Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy, Philosophy Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. University of Dublin
M.A. McGill University
Ph.D. University of Paris
A scholar, essayist, activist, poet, novelist, and television talk-show host in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s, Kearney was involved in drafting a number of proposals for a Northern Irish peace agreement and in speechwriting for Irish President Mary Robinson. Author of numerous books, including Strangers, Gods, and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness; The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion and Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Literature, Philosophy. Courses have included: "Philosophy of Imagination."
617.552.3874
kearneyr@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/Pl/fac/kearney.fac.html
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Robert Savage, Jr.
Co-director, Irish Studies Program
Adjunct Associate Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. Boston College
Irish political and cultural history; current events in Ireland and Northern Ireland; film and media in Ireland and Britain. Founder and curator of the Boston College Irish Film Series. Co-director of the Boston College Irish Studies Program, which offers an interdisciplinary approach to the culture and society of Ireland. Author of the books Ireland in the New Century: Politics, Culture and Identity and Irish Television: the Political and Social Origins. Courses have included: "Unrest in Ireland", "Ireland Since the Famine", "19th Century Ireland," "Twentieth Century Ireland: A Political and Social History."
617.552.3966
savager@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/savage_robert.html
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