Breanda虂n O虂 Buachalla
The announces the inaugural Breanda虂n O虂 Buachalla Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday (March 27) in the Hesburgh Library Rare Books Room on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.
As part of the Twentieth Anniversary Speakers and Public Talks Series, the lecture honors the late , the first Thomas J. and Kathleen M. O鈥橠onnell Chair of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame, who was instrumental to the success of both the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish 91视频 and the .
The inaugural lecture, 鈥淕aeilge anois labharfar: Travails of the Irish Language,鈥� will be presented by Distinguished Naughton Fellow Cormac 脫 Gr谩da, emeritus professor of economics at University College Dublin. 鈥淲e are pleased to have Cormac 脫 Gr谩da deliver this inaugural lecture on the experience of the Irish language, as Breanda虂n regarded the Irish language as a living tradition, symbolic of an unbroken practice with the past,鈥� said , director of the Keough-Naughton Institute.
Cormac 脫 Gr谩da
脫 Gr谩da鈥檚 major books include 鈥淚reland: A New Economic History 1780-1939鈥� (1994), 鈥淛ewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce鈥� (2006) and 鈥淔amine: A Short History鈥� (2009). Co-editor of the European Review of Economic History, 脫 Gr谩da is a member of the Irish Economic and Social History Society as well as the Royal Irish Academy, where he received the academy鈥檚 Gold Medal in 2010.
The memorial lecture will provide an opportunity to recognize a premier scholar of Irish culture, literature and linguistics. 鈥淏reand谩n had mythic, larger-than-life status in Irish language and Irish studies circles where he was known as 鈥楾he Great 脫 Buachalla,鈥� the scholar who had written the most important book on Irish-speaking culture in the last 50 years, his classic 800-page study of Jacobite Ireland,鈥� said Fox.
When 脫 Buachalla took the Thomas J. and Kathleen M. O鈥橠onnell Chair, he became the first new endowed chair of Irish in North America since the Hibernian Chair at Catholic University in 1896 鈥� a point of which he was proud. Known for his sense of humor, devotion to his family, commitment to his students and intolerance of shoddy work, his presence is felt today. Because of 脫 Buachalla鈥檚 work and vision, the new Department of Irish he built now receives international recognition.
脫 Buachalla is 鈥渕uch missed,鈥� said Fox, 鈥渂ut his legacy at Notre Dame will live on in the classroom and in the field of Irish language and literature for many years to come.鈥�