Phillip O'Leary

professor of english


Philip O'Leary

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Philip O'Leary
Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences

olearyph@bc.edu

http://www2.bc.edu/~olearyph

Office Location
Connolly House
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-3724
Fax: 617-552-4220


    
EDUCATION

A.B., College of the Holy Cross
Ph.D., Harvard University

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Irish Studies. Academic specializations include early Irish saga literature and literature of the Irish cultural renaissance.

COURSES

New Window Will Open EN097.01- Continuing Modern Irish I

New Window Will Open EN098.01- Continuing Modern Irish II

New Window Will Open EN101 - Celtic Heroic Age

New Window Will Open EN788 - Irish Heroic Fiction to Mod Adaptation


PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
  • Ideology and Innovation: The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921 (1994).
  • Deiric an Dochais: Leamh ar Shaothar Phadhraic Oig Ui Chonaire (1995).
  • "Yank Outsiders: Irish-Americans in Gaelic Fiction and Drama of the Irish Free State," in New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora (2000).
  • "'Rebuilding Tara in Our Mental World:' The Gaelic Writer and the Heroic Tradition, 1922-1939," in Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 15 (1995): 198-241.