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IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009

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WELCOME to our inaugural IrishEducation 100 special supple-ment of the Irish Voice.

It seemed a natural that we should pay trib-ute to the Irish who have made such anindelible mark at colleges and universitiesthroughout both the U.S. and Canada. Ourdiverse compilation includes presidents andprofessors, trustees and administrators andeveryone in between, all of whom share acommon bond — a deep pride in theirshared heritage.

There are Irish, it seems, in every corner ofevery school that we researched. And IrishStudies programs are springing up all overthe country, chock full of eager students want-ing to immerse themselves in all things Irish.

There really is nothing like flavoring ahigher education with some Irish spice. Igraduated from Adelphi University on LongIsland in 1987 – the university’s president,Robert A. Scott, is one of our Education 100honorees – and was eager to learn as muchabout Ireland as I could.

Though the university did not have an IrishStudies program I had a very supportive pro-fessor who encouraged me in my quest tospend a year abroad at Trinity College inDublin, assuring me that all the credits Iearned there would be easily transferable sothat I wouldn’t lose out as far as earning my

degree on time here.Off I went to Trinity in the fall of 1985, and

it was an adventure that I will never forget. Istudied Irish economics, Russian (yes,Russian!) history, Irish politics and so muchmore. It was an incredible year, both acade-mically and personally, and my time inIreland firmly solidified my affection forIreland and the Irish that continues unabatedto this day.

Our list features many educators and bene-factors of Irish Studies programs that haveenriched students of all different back-grounds. Here in New York, GlucksmanIreland House at New York University,founded by our honoree Loretta BrennanGlucksman and her late husband Lew, is atreasure trove of Irishness not only availablefor students, but for anyone who wants topartake of the many Irish cultural and socialevents taking place there on a weekly basis.

Congratulations to this year’s IrishEducation 100 honorees, who can take a bowknowing that they’ve made significant contri-butions to keeping students enlightened andeager to discover more. Education truly isthe key to life!

Debbie McGoldrickSenior Editor Irish Voice

FIRST ANNUALIRISH EDUCATION 100SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT

SENIOR EDITORDebbie McGoldrick

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGERJohn Dillon

INTERNChris Maiello

ART DIRECTORGenevieve McCarthy

AD DESIGNERNaela El-Assad

COVER DESIGNKevin Kemper

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DR. Donald E. Bain is the presi-dent of St. John Fisher College

in Rochester, New York. Bain holds a BA, MA and PhD from

the State University of New York atBuffalo. Following his doctoral work,

he was awarded an NEH fel-lowship at Yale University, andhe subsequently received a grad-uate certificate in educationalmanagement from Har vardUniversity.

Bain, who has been a memberof the St. John Fisher College fac-ulty since 1975, is a board mem-ber at Holy Sepulchre Cemeteryin Rochester, and the RochesterBusiness Alliance. He is also amember of the New York StateMagistrates AssociationIndependent Judicial ElectionQualification Commission forthe Seventh Judicial District ofNew York State.

Bain traces his Irish roots tocounties Kerry and Cork. Heis a third generation IrishAmerican.

Last November, he traveledto Co. Waterford, Rochester’s sis-ter city, to meet with Waterfordarea business leaders to exploreopportunities for educationalpartnerships for St. John Fisher

College. The college also housesnumber 765 of a limited edition of

1,480 facsimilies of the Book of Kells,and a Great Famine Monument thatwas installed on campus in 1997 bymembers of the local AOH.

Bain is married with two grownchildren.

SISTER Margaret Carney is the 20thpresident of St. Bonaventure

University in western New York. Since the beginning of her presiden-

cy, St. Bonaventure has invested approx-imately $25 million in seven major projectson the 500-acre campus. She is also a dri-ving force in the Anniversary Campaignfor St. Bonaventure University, which

has raised more than $82 million inpledges and commitments toward the$90 million goal.

Carney ser ves on the board of theCouncil of Independent Colleges of NewYork and the Association of FranciscanColleges and Universities. She is newlyappointed to the board of the Associationof Catholic Colleges and Universities andis a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference’sCouncil of Presidents. She also serves onthe Secretariat for the FranciscanIntellectual Tradition.

Carney received her doctorate in the-ology in Rome in 1988, becoming thefirst woman to graduate from theFranciscan University of Rome at thedoctoral level. She studied in Europeafter completing master’s degrees in the-ology at Duquesne University andFranciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure.

She has lectured extensively both in theU.S. and abroad and served for eightyears as the general minister of her reli-gious congregation, the Sisters of St.Francis of Whitehall, Pennsylvania. Thecongregation serves in the U.S., Brazil,Lithuania and Bolivia.

Carney holds five honorary doctoratesand is the recipient of a number of otherhonors.

Her maternal grandparents were nativesof counties Cork and Sligo, while herpaternal grandparents hailed from Co.Mayo.

DYMPNA Bowles is dean for cur-riculum and Instruction at the

Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)in New York. She has been at FIT since2001.

Bowles facilitates the development

and approval of new degree pro-grams and curricula and overseesthe assessment of general education.

As dean, she has responsibility forfaculty development and theTeaching Institute, and supervisesthe Center for Excellence inTeaching (CET), a state-of-the-arttechnology training facility for fac-ulty.

Before joining FIT, Bowles wasdirector of planning at John JayCollege in New York for six years,after having served as director ofboth faculty development and fam-ily college in the City Universityof New York’s (CUNY) Office ofAcademic Affairs. While at CUNY,she also directed the university’s sys-tem-wide efforts in articulation andtransfer among the 19 CUNY col-leges.

Previous to her administrativepositions, Bowles was an assistantprofessor at Brooklyn College.

A native of Belfast, Bowles receiveda bachelor’s degree from St. John’s

University, a master’s from Fordham anda doctorate in linguistics and reading fromColumbia University Teachers College.

Bowles also serves as chair of theCUNY Institute for Irish AmericanStudies advisory board.

LORETTA Brennan Glucksman isthe co-founder and chair of the

advisory board at Glucksman IrelandHouse at New York University. She isalso one of the Irish American com-munity’s most prominent philan-thropists and fundraisers throughher role as chairperson of theAmerican Ireland Fund.

A third generation Irish Americanwho traces her roots to countiesLeitrim and Donegal, Glucksmanmarried her high school sweetheartJack Cooney in her early twentiesand had three children in quick suc-cession, two boys, John andChristopher, and one girl, Kate. Alwaysa working mother, she began hercareer as an English teacher andcontinued her education at Trenton

State College (now the College ofNew Jersey, TCN). She subse-quently joined the Trenton publicbroadcasting TV station and becamean award-winning producer.

Moving from producing to found-ing her own public relations firm,in 1983 she met Lewis L.Glucksman, a prominent Wall Streetfinancier from a second genera-tion New York Hungarian Jewishfamily. A second marriage for both,they wed in 1985.

Together, Lew and LorettaBrennan Glucksman foundedGlucksman Ireland House, theCenter for Irish Studies, at NYU, theGlucksman Chair of English andAmerican Letters at NYU, theGlucksman Chair of Irish Studiesat NYU, the Glucksman Chair ofIrish and Scottish Studies at theUniversity of Aberdeen, and theLewis Glucksman Galler y atUniversity College Cork.

The Glucksmans made a hugecontribution to philanthropy inIreland, funding various projectsthroughout the educational sec-tor, most notably at the Universityof Limerick, Trinity College Dublin,and University College Cork. Lew

Glucksman died at the age of 80 in July2006.

Glucksman has been the recipientof many awards for her philanthrop-ic, cultural and educational work.She received an honorary doctoratefrom Trinity College Dublin in 1997;an honorary CBE for her contributionto the Northern Irish peace processin 2002; an honorary fellowship ofthe Royal College of Surgeons inIreland in 2005; and most recently anhonorary doctorate from the NationalUniversity of Ireland in 2007.

Glucksman has been honored by theUniversity of Scranton and FairfieldUniversity with honorary doctorates,and has been an honorary member ofthe Royal Irish Academy since 2004.

LORETTA BRENNAN GLUCKSMAN

DONALD E. BAIN

DYMPNA BOWLES

SISTER MARGARETCARNEY

CLARE Carroll is a professor atQueens College and the Graduate

Center of the City University of NewYork in Queens.

She received her degrees from QueensCollege, and is a member of the AmericanConference for Irish Studies, a schol-arly organization with approximately800 members in the U.S., Ireland, Canadaand other countries around the world.

Carroll was a Fulbright Fellow atTrinity College in Dublin; an AmericanCultural Institute Fellow at the NationalUniversity of Ireland, Galway; and a vis-iting distinguished scholar in Irish Studiesat Concordia University in Montreal.

Carroll’s grandparents were natives ofCo. Mayo.CLARE CARROLL


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SEAMUS Connolly, a native ofKillaloe, Co. Clare, is the Sullivan

Artist in Residence at Boston College.

He also directs the college’sIrish Studies’ music and danceprograms.

At the request of the Bostonbranch of Comhaltas CeoltoiriEireann, Connolly agreed toteach and pass on toAmerican-born students thevarious regional styles of Irishfiddling. Some of his betterstudents qualified to competein the Irish National MusicChampionships.

One of his students wonfirst place in the under-18 fid-dle category, a competitionConnolly had won 25 yearsearlier. He has won the IrishNational Fiddle Champion-ship,10 times, and has beeninducted into the ComhaltasCeoltoiri Eireann Hall of Famein 2002.

In 1999 he was named oneof Irish America magazine’sTop 100 Irish Americans.Connolly has per formedthroughout the world and onNPR and the Today show, aswell as on Irish radio andtelevision.

He has two solo CDs, Notes FromMy Mind and Here and There.

IN the 34 years since he left the uni-versity classroom as a tenured pro-

fessor of English and AmericanCivilization for higher education admin-istration, Robert A. Corrigan has led twomajor urban universities for a total — todate — of 28 years and achieved nation-

al recognition as an urbanuniversity leader.

At the University ofMassachusetts, Boston, wherehe served as chancellor from1979-88, and at San FranciscoState University (1988-), he hasmade community service andcivic engagement the hall-marks of his campuses.

He is a leader in the majormovements of American high-er education in last severaldecades, opening up univer-sities to a far more diverse stu-dent population; bringingmany more women and peo-ple of color onto the faculty;promoting service learning,and embracing higher educa-tion’s responsibility to, as hehas said, “educate hearts aswell as minds.”

Corrigan is recognized inthe national higher educa-tion community, the CaliforniaState University system, andthe Bay Area civic and busi-ness community as a leaderand active participant in BayArea affairs.

He received a bachelor’s degree fromBrown University and both his mas-ter’s and doctoral degrees in Americancivilization from the University ofPennsylvania.

He traces his Irish roots to Innisfallen,Co. Kerry. MICHAEL Cosgrove is the pres-

ident/CEO of mutual funds

for GE Asset Management inStamford, Connecticut, and a trusteeat Fordham University in the Bronx,from where he received a bachelorof science degree in economics.

Cosgrove also received a mas-ter’s from St. John’s University,and a graduate certificate fromDartmouth.

Cosgrove is responsible for GE’sglobal mutual funds and sub-advi-sory business, including distribu-tion, product development and ser-vicing in the variable annuity,qualified plans and advisory mar-kets. He has amassed a number ofawards and honors, including Manof the Year from Education ThroughMusic, and Man of the Year fromGood Counsel Academy.

A member of the Friendly Sonsof St. Patrick in New York,Cosgrove’s father is a native of Co.Leitrim. A maternal grandmotherhailed from Co. Cavan.

Cosgrove is married with twochildren.

DANIEL F. Collins is a divisionvice president of corporate

communications at CorningIncorporated in Corning, NewYork. He is also a member of theboard of trustees at St.Bonaventure University in westernNew York, serving as chair of theMarketing Committee, and a mem-ber of the Technology and StudentAffairs committees.

Collins, married with two chil-dren and a graduate of St.Bonaventure, was named 2005Alumni of the Year at St.Bonaventure’s School of Journalismand Mass Communications.

He is a past president of theNational Alumni Board, (1998-2002) at St. Bonaventure.

Collins is a former member of theAncient Order of Hibernians. Hetraces his Irish roots to countiesTipperary and Cork.

JAMES E. Collins began his termas the youngest president of Loras

College in Dubuque, Iowa on June 1,2004. Collins obtained a bachelor’sdegree in finance from Loras in 1984and a master of arts degree in higher edu-cation from the University of Iowa in2004.

After graduating from Loras, Collinsreturned to campus as an admissions rep-resentative, and in his 25 years of serviceto the college has held positions as direc-tor of special projects, director of alum-ni and college relations, interim directorof development, assistant to the presidentand vice president for institutional advance-ment. In 1999, he was appointed the col-lege’s senior vice president.

As president, Collins has spearheadedone of the strongest periods of achieve-

ment in the college’s 170-year history. Under hisleadership, the collegeenrolled the highest quali-ty first year class in theschool’s history, received arecord number of applica-tions from prospective stu-dents and, achieved its high-est ranking to date by U.S.News and World Report(12th among 319 Midwestbaccalaureate colleges anduniversities).

On the national level,Collins currently serveson the board of directors forthe Association of CatholicColleges and Universities.He is also a member of theCouncil of IndependentColleges.

In Iowa, he is a memberof the Institute forTomorrow’s WorkforceBoard of Directors, theIowa College Foundation(Executive Committee),the Iowa IntercollegiateAthletic Conference

(Presidents’ Council), and the IowaAssociation of Independent Collegesand Universities (Executive Committee).

An active member of the Dubuquecommunity, Collins serves on the UnitedWay Cabinet, Greater DubuqueDevelopment Corporation (ExecutiveCommittee), and the Carnegie-StoutPublic Library Foundation.

He has served on the board of educa-tion at the Archdiocese of Dubuque,and on the boards of the Dubuque AreaChamber of Commerce and JuniorAchievement. He has also been a mem-ber of the development councils forMercy Hospital and Stone Hill RetirementCenter.

Collins and his wife, Lisa, reside inDubuque with their six children.

ROBERT A. CORRIGAN

DANIEL F. COLLINS

JAMES E. COLLINS

SEAMUS CONNOLLY

MICHAEL COSGROVE

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SISTER JoAnne Courneen, RSM, is atrustee at Mercyhurst College in Erie,

Pennsylvania. She is also a member of theleadership team of the newly created Sistersof Mercy New York, Pennsylvania, PacificWest Community.

An elementary education major andmember of the former cadet teacher pro-gram, Courneen graduated from Mercyhurstin 1964.

After joining the Sisters of Mercy, she spentthe first years of her religious life teachingand later serving as principal at St. LukeSchool in Erie.

Following final profession, she movedon to Mercyhurst Preparatory School in Erieas a math teacher and assistant principal.

Her summers were spent in Washington,D.C., working in a women’s shelter. That

experience led to her next ministry, five yearsworking full time at SOME (So Others

Might Eat), a Washington neighborhoodcenter serving the homeless elderly.

Returning to Erie, Courneen joined theCatholic Schools Office as director of spe-cial programs. During four years thereshe helped parochial schools utilize stateand federal aid, such as textbook loan pro-grams, and supervised the beginnings ofa computer program for Catholic schools.

Then she returned to Mercyhurst Prepto become its first president. She remainedthere for nine years until she succeededSister Maura Smith as president of herreligious community.

In 2004, when Courneen’s term as pres-ident ended, she set her sights on her firstoverseas post — the Mercy InternationalCenter on Baggot Street in Dublin.Established in the first House of Mercyfounded by Catherine McAuley, it housesthe order’s archives and is a retreat centerwhere members and associates of theMercy order can go for programs on thegroup’s founding spirit.

Though she applied for a job as heritagedirector, she was encouraged instead tobecome finance director. It was a newfocus for her, but one she came to enjoy great-ly — along with the opportunity to interactwith people from all over the world.

Courneen could have remained in Dublinfor another two-year term, but decidedthat was too long to stay away from her homecommunity. In fall 2006, she returned toMercyhurst and a position as director of theMercy Institute.

A year later, she moved to Buffalo to jointhe leadership team of the newly createdSisters of Mercy New York, Pennsylvania,Pacific West Community.

MARY Dempsey has served as com-missioner of the Chicago Public

Library since 1994. The library is com-

prised of 1,300 employees in 79 neighbor-hood locations.

Under her direction, 40 new librarieshave been constructed. Starting thisyear, construction on the first of 16 addi-tional libraries began.

Also under her direction, all libraries havebeen equipped with state of the art tech-nology including free desktop and WiFiaccess to the Internet; access to more than80 online databases; rich book collec-tions; and innovative reading and educa-tional programs. Dempsey holds a bach-elor’s degree from St. Mary’s University,a master’s from the University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign, and a JD fromDePaul University.

She serves as chair of the board oftrustees of DePaul University and is a pastchair of the Urban Libraries Council.

Dempsey and her husband, attorneyPhilip Corboy, live in Chicago.

FATHER Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C., ispresident of Stonehill College in

Easton, Massachusetts.Whether working in the Bronx as a pas-

tor or serving Stonehill as president,Cregan’s career has been intertwined witheducation. As the pastor of SacredHeart Parish in the Bronx, he wasresponsible for oversight of schoolsand he directed many students fromthere to his alma mater, Stonehill College.

At Stonehill, he is a leader in Catholichigher education in the U.S. and lives outhis congregation’s mission of being an“educator in the faith” with distinction.

Cregan, who traces his Irish roots toCo. Kerry through his father, was pre-sented with the Irish Cultural Centre’sPartner of the Year Award in 2001. Heis supportive of the college’s vibrantIrish Studies program.

Cregan is the ninth president ofStonehill College. A 1978 graduate of thecollege, he took office in 2000. Sincebecoming president, Cregan has workeddiligently on several key fronts.

Before being appointed president ofStonehill, Cregan served as the pastorof Sacred Heart Parish, a large inner-cityparish in the Bronx.

Cregan holds a master of divinitydegree from the University of St.Michael’s College at the Toronto Schoolof Theology (University of Toronto).He is a former member of the board oftrustees at the University of St. Michael’sCollege.

Cregan also holds a JD from BrooklynLaw School. He is licensed to practicelaw before the U.S. Supreme Court, inthe state of New York and theCommonwealth of Massachusetts, theDistrict of Columbia, the U.S. districtcourts for the districts of Puerto Rico andMassachusetts, the Southern and EasternDistricts of New York, and the U.S.Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Cregan joined the Congregation ofHoly Cross in 1975 and was ordained apriest in 1983.

DR. Daniel J. Curran is the presi-dent of the University of Dayton

in Ohio.

Curran received a bachelor of sci-ence in sociology from St. Joseph’sUniversity in Philadelphia, and a mas-ter of arts in sociology from TempleUniversity in Philadelphia. He receiveda doctor of philosophy from theUniversity of Delaware.

Curran was named president of theUniversity of Dayton in 2002. Prior tothat, he held various executive andteaching positions at St. Joseph’s.

Among the honors he has receivedare the Brother Bartholomew A.Sheehan, SJ Award, from St. Joseph’sin 2002, and the OutstandingContribution Award in InternationalScholarly Exchange from the ChineseSociety for Juvenile DelinquencyResearch in 2002. He was also award-ed a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award,Department of Criminology from theUniversity of Melbourne in 1990.

Curran, who is married with two chil-dren, has a grandfather who hailedfrom Fethard, Co. Tipperary.

MICHAEL J. Dolan, senior vicepresident for the Exxon Mobil

Corporation in Irving, Texas, traces hisIrish ancestry three generations ago to Co.Cork.

Dolan joined Mobil Oil Corporation in1980 at the Paulsboro, New Jersey,research laboratory. Over the next 13years, he worked in a variety of engi-neering and managerial positions sup-porting Mobil’s worldwide refineries.

Following the Exxon and Mobil merg-er, in 2000 Dolan became the MiddleEast and Africa regional director of ExxonMobil Chemical Company located inBrussels, Belgium. In 2001, he movedto the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where heserved as executive vice president forExxon Mobil Saudi Arabia.

He returned to the U.S. in 2003 asdeputy to the president of Exxon MobilRefining and Supply Company in Fairfax,Virginia.

From September 2004, he was presidentof Exxon Mobil Chemical Company andvice president of Exxon Mobil Corporationuntil his appointment as senior vice pres-ident in April 2008.

Dolan is a member of the board of theU.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council,the U.S.-China Business Council and theAmerican Petroleum Institute. He is onthe board of trustees of WorcesterPolytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester,Massachusetts.

A native of Massachusetts, Dolan earneda bachelor of science degree in chemicalengineering from WPI and a master of busi-ness administration degree from DrexelUniversity in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He is married with four children.

DANIEL J. CURRAN

JAMES Doan is professor of human-ities at the College of Arts and

Sciences of Nova Southeastern Universityin Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

He received a bachelor of arts degree

in 1975 from the University of California,Santa Cruz, a master’s from UCLA in1977, and a master’s from Harvard in 1978in Celtic languages and literatures. Doanreceived a PhD from Harvard in folkloreand Celtic studies in 1981.

Doan is president of the South FloridaIrish Studies Association and a mem-ber of the American Conference for IrishStudies.

Doan traces his Irish heritage to theBurkes and O’Neills from Connaughtand Ulster in the 18th century.

Doan has published a number of papersand presented at numerous conferencesin the area of Irish studies. He foundedthe South Florida Irish Studies Associationand co-founded an Irish studies minor atNova Southeastern University. He isactive in the Irish community in southFlorida.

JAMES DOAN

SISTER JoANNECOURNEEN

FATHER MARK T. CREGAN

MARY A. DEMPSEY

MICHAEL J. DOLAN


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FATHER Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A., offi-cially became the 32nd president of

Villanova University in 2006. Donohue, who was chair of the theater

department at Villanova, is an award-win-ning director who is well-known inPhiladelphia’s world of theater and thearts.

In 2002, Donohue became the firstAugustinian priest to win a BarrymoreAward, the Harold Prince Award forOutstanding Direction of a Musical, forChicago. His production of Parade garneredThe Philadelphia Inquirer’s 2004 TheatreCritic’s Award as one of the 10 best playsof the 2003-04 season

In addition to these awards, he receivedthe American College Theatre FestivalCertificate of Merit for direction of a musi-cal 11 years in a row.

A Villanova graduate who began hisstudies for the priesthood at the universi-ty, he received his bachelor’s degree in1975, with a concentration in theater and com-munication arts, and was ordained a priestfour years later.

In 1983, Donohue earned a master’sdegree in theater from the CatholicUniversity of America in Washington, D.C.Two years later he received a master’sdegree in divinity from the WashingtonTheological Union in Silver Spring, Maryland.

In 1988, Donohue began his doctoralstudies in theater at the University ofIllinois, Champaign/Urbana, and receivedhis PhD in 1992.

His dissertation topic, “Shozo Sato and theInterculturation of Kabuki and WesternTheater,” reflected an interest he had devel-oped in this classic Japanese form.

In 1990, he was inducted into Phi KappaPhi, which is the nation’s oldest, largest andmost selective all-discipline honor society.

Donohue first joined the faculty ofVillanova University in 1985 as an instruc-tor in the theater department. He left to pur-sue his doctoral studies in 1988 and returnedin 1992. He was awarded tenure in 2005.

An associate professor, Donohue combinedteaching, directing and performing whilechair of the theater department.

WILLIAM B. Eimicke is currentlythe deputy fire commissioner for

strategic planning and policy at the FireDepartment of the City of New York.

He is on public service leave from hisposition at Columbia University as the exec-utive director of the Picker Center for

Education of the School of Internationaland Public Affairs. The center runs theschool’s Executive MPA program, univer-sity partnerships and non-degree profes-sional training programs.

As a public servant, Eimicke previouslyserved in various executive positions inNew York State and New York City underGovernor Mario Cuomo and Mayor EdwardKoch. He also served as a consultant on VicePresident Al Gore’s National PerformanceReview.

He is the author or co-author of six booksand numerous articles and technical reports.He also co-founded the Northern IrelandPeace Builders/ Community BuildersProgram.

Eimicke is a graduate of SyracuseUniversity and holds an master’s and PhDfrom the Maxwell School of SyracuseUniversity.

He previously taught at Syracuse University,Indiana University, Russell Sage College, theState University of New York at Albany,and Baruch College of the City Universityof New York.

RICHARD B. Finnegan is a professorand chair of the political science

department at Stonehill College in Easton,Massachusetts.

Finnegan received degrees from Stonehilland Boston College, a master’s in educationfrom Harvard and a PhD from FloridaState University.

Finnegan has been the driving forcebehind Irish studies at Stonehill College. Asa teacher, scholar, and author, he is arespected professional who has contributedsignificantly to the academic life of the col-lege and to the overall field of Irish studies.

He is a member of the Eire Society, theBoston Irish Charitable Society, IrishChamber of Commerce USA, the IrishCultural Centre of New England and theAmerican Conference for Irish Studies.

Married with three children, Finnegan hasa grandfather who hailed from Co.Roscommon, and a grandmother from Co.Kerry.

Finnegan has written extensively on Irishbusiness, law, politics and culture.

DR. James W. Flannery is the Winshipprofessor of arts and humanities at

Emory University in Atlanta. He is also thedirector of the W.B. Yeats Foundation inAtlanta.

Flannery came to Emory in 1982 tofound the university’s theater program. Hehas been called “Irish America’sRenaissance Man” because of his multi-ple talents as a producer, stage director,singer, scholar, critic and teacher.

He holds a bachelor’s (Phi Beta Kappa)from Trinity College in Hartford, a mas-ter of fine arts from the Yale School ofDrama and a PhD from Trinity CollegeDublin.

Flannery has been awarded honorarydoctorates from Trinity College Hartfordand the University of Ulster. He alsoreceived the Wild Geese Award forOutstanding Contributions to Irish Culture,and the Governor’s Award in theHumanities from the state of Georgia forhis activities promoting the Celtic heritageof the American South.

From 1989 to 1993, the Yeats Foundationsponsored, with the help of the

Coca-Cola Company, the YeatsInternational Theater Festival at theAbbey Theater in Dublin. Under Flannery’sdirection, the festival featured produc-tions of 15 of the poet’s one-act plays.

As a singer, Flannery is recognized asone of the foremost interpreters of Irishsong, especially the amhran mór or artsong tradition based on the achievementsof the ancient bards and harpers of Ireland.

Listed in “Who’s Who in America,”Flannery has five times been named byIrish America magazine as one of the Top100 Irish Americans.

JOHN J. Dooner is the chairman andCEO of McCann Worldgroup based

in New York. McCann is one of theworld’s largest advertising agency net-works.

Dooner earned a bachelor’s degreefrom St. Thomas University in MiamiGardens. He is a member of the board

of Trustees of St. Thomas, and playeda key strategic role in the universityísacademic renewal, including restructur-ing and rebranding the university andits schools.

Dooner traces his Irish ancestry to Co.Clare, where his grandparents hailedfrom. He is a trustee of the IrelandCouncil of the University of Notre Dameand a board member of Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies atNotre Dame.

He is also a member of the AmericanIrish Historical Society in New York, andof the Ireland-U.S. Council for Commerceand Industry.

Since taking on the leadership ofMcCann Erickson in 1992, Dooner hasbeen credited in the industry for advanc-ing the creative and overall quality andreputation of the company, for drivingan extraordinary new business record,and for reinventing and expanding therange and vitality of communicationscompetencies offered.

He has been honored with the NationalHuman Relations Award from theAmerican Jewish Committee, and namedEast Coast Executive of the Year byAdweek magazine.

Dooner is married with two children.

DR. Charles J. Dougherty was electedpresident of Duquesne University

in Pittsburgh in May 2001. His contract wasrecently and unanimously extended throughJune 30, 2016.

Dougherty is a nationally recognizedscholar and expert in health care ethics, andhas served on numerous health care advi-sory commissions and projects. Mostrecently,

He is a member of the board of directorsof UPMC Mercy Hospital, where he chairs

the Ethics Committee; the Senator JohnHeinz History Center; the AlleghenyConference on Community Development;and the Urban League of Pittsburgh. He alsoserves on the Association of IndependentColleges and Universities of Pennsylvaniaand the President’s Committee of thePittsburgh Council on Higher Education.

Dougherty has published extensivelyon ethics and health care. His works on thesetopics include two books published byOxford University Press and more than50 scholarly articles.

He received master’s and doctoratedegrees in philosophy from the Universityof Notre Dame in 1973 and 1975, and hisbachelor’s degree in philosophy from St.Bonaventure University in 1971.

Dougherty came to Duquesne fromCreighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.He served as academic vice president from1995 to 2001 and as acting president ofCreighton in the summer of 2000.

Dougherty joined the Creighton facultyin 1975, and chaired the department ofphilosophy from 1981 to 1989.

He also has held faculty appointments inmedicine, pharmacy, dentistry and nursing,and served as the first director of theCreighton Center for Health Policy andEthics from 1988 to 1995.

RICHARD B. FINNEGAN

FATHER PETER M.DONOHUE

JOHN J. DOONER

CHARLES J. DOUGHERTY

WILLIAM B. EIMICKE

JAMES W. FLANNERY

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DR. Charles L. Flynn is president ofthe College of Mount St. Vincent

in Riverdale, New York. He was appoint-ed to the position in 2000.

Flynn received a bachelor of artsdegree from Hamilton College inMassachusetts, and a master’s and PhDfrom Duke University. He traces his

Irish ancestry to Co. Clare.Flynn joined Mount St. Vincent

from Assumption College inWorcester, Massachusetts, wherehe was the provost / dean of facul-ty. Previously, he was the associ-ate provost of Adelphi University inGarden City, New York for twoyears, and vice president for acad-emic affairs and dean of the Collegeat Hanover College in Indiana from1989-1994.

An historian, Flynn has taughton the faculties of several colleges,including Washington and JeffersonCollege and Denison University.

Flynn is the author of White Land,Black Labor: Caste and Class inthe Late Nineteenth Century Georgia(LSU, 1983), and co-editor of anaward-winning volume entitledRace, Class, and Politics in SouthernHistory: Essays in Honor of Robert F.Durden (LSU, 1989), as well asnumerous articles.He currently serves as a member

of the board of directors of the GraceInstitute in Manhattan and the Bronx TaskForce on Historic Preservation.

Flynn was named a Sagamore of theWabash by the governor of Indiana in1992, and a Kentucky Colonel by thegovernor of Kentucky in 1991, both inrecognition of his public service.

LORI Meghan Gallagher is the direc-tor of the Center for Irish Studies at

the University of St. Thomas in Houston.She has served in that position since the cen-ter opened in January 2003.

As director, Gallagher oversees the Irishstudies academic program, which con-sists of an undergraduate minor programand a graduate concentration in the mas-ter in liberal arts program, and the Irelandstudy abroad program. The universityoffers five to six interdisciplinary IrishStudies courses each semester.

Additionally, she is a lecturer at the uni-versity on historical and political perspec-tives on Irish law and culture, the Northern

Ireland peace process, the Irish Americanexperience and contemporary Ireland.

In developing the Northern Irelandpeace process course, Gallagher hasworked directly with William J. Flynn,chairman emeritus of Mutual of AmericaInsurance Company in New York, whoplayed a significant role in facilitating thepeace process.

Gallagher served as the chair of theAmerican Conference for Irish StudiesSouthern Regional Conference, which theUniversity of St. Thomas hosted onFebruary 24-26, 2005.

She also is a director of the Irish Society,a local non-sectarian, non-partisan cultur-al group that was instrumental in the cre-ation of the Center for Irish Studies at theuniversity and that co-sponsors many Irishcultural events with the center.

Before joining the university, Gallagherwas the partner-in-charge of the appellatesection of the Houston-based internation-al law firm of Andrews Kurth LLP. She prac-ticed law full-time with Andrews Kurthfor 18 years until she joined UST in 2002.

Gallagher is a fourth-generation IrishAmerican whose family immigrated toAmerica in the 1860s from Donegal. Shereceived her undergraduate degrees inEnglish and journalism as well as her JDfrom the University of New Mexico inAlbuquerque. She received a postgraduatediploma in Anglo-Irish literature fromTrinity College Dublin on a RotaryFoundation Scholarship.

JAMES Patrick Foley is the executivevice president of the University of

Montana in Missoula. He received his bach-elor of science degree from St. John’sUniversity in Minnesota.

Foley works directly for universityPresident George Dennison, and over-

sees the Montana Museum of Art andCulture’s operations as well as universityrelations, the broadcast media center andthe university’s branding and marketing.

He came to the university in August2005 after working as the staff director forCongressman Pat Williams, and Montanachief of staff for U.S. Senator Max Baucus.He also worked for the Montana governor’soffice and state Department of Labor andIndustry from 1977 to 1983.

In 2007 Foley received the BarbaraHollmann Administrator of the Year Awardfrom the Associated Students of the univer-sity. “Vice President Foley embodies thetrue spirit of the award. His openness andflexible attitude have always been con-ducive to building greater understandingbetween ASUM and UM administrators.He was willing to work with various indi-vidual students and student groups to lis-ten to their concerns,” said the students.

Both of Foley’s maternal grandparentshailed from Co. Cork. His mother’s maid-en name was O’Neill.

CHRISTOPHER Fox is a professorat the University of Notre Dame,

and director of the university’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

Fox received a bachelor’s degree inEnglish from Cleveland StateUniversity, and a master’s and PhD inEnglish from the State University ofNew York at Binghamton.

Fox has received the PresidentialAward for Distinguished Servicefrom Notre Dame. He has also beennamed to Irish America magazine’s Top100 Irish American list.

Fox received a DistinguishedDissertation in the Humanities andFine Arts Prize from SUNY-Binghamton. He is a co-founder of theKeough-Naughton Institute for IrishStudies.

Fox traces his Irish heritage backto the 18th century. He and his wifeJudith have four children, Geoffrey,

Sean, Annie and Ashley.

BROTHER Richard Gilman, C.S.C., ispresident of Holy Cross College in

Notre Dame, Indiana.Gilman graduated summa cum laude as class

valedictorian from St. Edward’s University inAustin, Texas where he earned a bachelor ofscience degree in mathematics and physicsin 1965. He attended Harvard Graduate

School of Education on a National ScienceFoundation fellowship, receiving the M.A.T.degree in 1966.

He was an instructor in pure and appliedmathematics and physics at St. Augustine’sCollege in Cape Coast, Ghana until 1974,after which he began a 17-year period of dis-tinguished service at Archbishop HobanHigh School in Akron, Ohio, having servedthe last six years of that tenure as presidentand principal.

Gilman also has studied at St. LouisUniversity (1971), the University of Akron(1974-75, 1980), Georgetown University(1976), and was a member of the WoodrowWilson Institute at Princeton University,where he studied in 1985. He received a doc-torate in higher educational administration fromthe University of Dayton.

In 1991 he was named he third presidentof Holy Cross College.

Gilman is a founding member and pastchairman of Corvilla, a not-for-profit group pro-viding residential services for developmen-tally disabled children and adults. He also cur-rently serves on the board of trustees of St.Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.

CHRISTOPHER FOX

TONY Gannon is the director ofeducation at Space Florida in

Cape Canaveral, Florida. Gannon devel-oped the Science Challenge concept atthe Kennedy Space Center on behalf ofIrish employment agency FAS, andlater expanded the program to Houston

and other locations throughout theU.S.

In 2002, while working at the KennedySpace Center, he approached then IrishEducation Minister Noel Dempsey tosupport his dream of having Irish stu-dents study and work in areas of aero-space and life sciences research in theU.S. The first Florida internship tookplace at the Space Life Sciences Lab atKennedy in 2002.

In 2003, the program expanded anda team of 12 Irish graduates spent 10weeks at Kennedy Space Center.Towards the end of the program, the stu-dents launched a rocket into space.

Also in Florida, Gannon formulateda program for Irish technicians thatwas based on green/clean energy andconservation methodologies. The lasttwo programs under the direction of theFlorida Solar Energy Center were verysuccessful, and almost 40 Irish techni-cians became certified in wind turbinetechnology and other green initiatives.

Gannon, a native of Dublin, receiveda bachelor’s degree from UniversityCollege Dublin.

He is an advisor in the Florida Officeof Math and Science.

TONY GANNON

CHARLES L. FLYNN

JAMES PATRICK FOLEY

BROTHER RICHARDGILMAN

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JOHN Gleeson, a native of Dublin, isthe co-director of the Center for

Celtic Studies at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, from where he also receivedhis degrees.

Gleeson was instrumental in settingup the Center for Celtic Studies. Its Irish

language program was the first in theU.S. to be recognized by the Irish govern-ment in the form of a grant from theDepartment of Gaeltacht, Community,and Rural Affairs.

The center received additional recogni-tion in terms of an historic official visit fromPresident Mary McAleese in 2006.

The center offers courses in archeolo-gy, dance, film, folklore, history, literatureand music as well as an extensive studyin Ireland program.

Gleeson is a member of MilwaukeeIrish Ar ts, the Shamrock Club ofWisconsin, the Irish Immigrant Serviceof Milwaukee and the Irish CulturalHeritage of Wisconsin Center.

Among his notable achievements arebeing named Wisconsin Irish Man of theYear, a member of Irish America magazine’sTop 100 Irish Americans, and theWisconsin Scottish Celtic Person of theYear. He is also vice president of thePaddy Clancy Scholarship Fund.

Gleeson is married with two children.

THOMAS Patrick Halton is a nativeof Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan. His teacher,

Master Peter Martin, recognized him asan exceptional student and provided pri-vate coaching for him that culminated inan award to St. Patrick’s, the only board-ing secondary school for Catholic boys inCo. Cavan.

On graduation, he entered St. Patrick’sCollege in Maynooth where he pursued hisinterest in Greek literature and archeolo-gy. Following Maynooth, he taught Greekand Latin at St. Patrick’s in his nativeCavan. He also wrote for The Furrow

and The Irish Ecclesiastical Record.Halton earned a master’s in ancient

classics at University College Dublin andcame to the Catholic University of Americain Washington, D.C. in 1959 on a doctor-al scholarship. At the completion of hisdoctorate, Catholic University offeredhim a teaching position. He taught at theuniversity for 40 years as Gardiner profes-sor of Greek and chairman of theDepartment of Greek and Latin.

Halton is editor of the 30-volume Fathersof the Church series and has published 20books with grants from many foundations,including the National Endowment forthe Humanities and the Mellon Foundation.

Halton received the Bene Merenti Medalfrom the Pope for his outstanding acade-mic achievement, and was president ofthe North American Patristics Association.His proudest honor was the award of thetitle Cavan Man of the Year, which was pre-sented to him on his 70th birthday in hishome county before an international circleof friends.

On Halton’s retirement, the CatholicUniversity published a volume of essaysin his honor celebrating his scholarlyachievements and also the heritage and cus-toms of his native Cavan that inspiredhim.

Halton is preeminently a classicist buthis erudition is always spiced with a dis-tinctively Irish wit and charm.

FATHER Donald J. Harrington, C.M.,is the 15th president of St. John’s

University in Flushing, Queens. Harringtonis also currently on the board of directorsof the Commission on IndependentColleges and Universities.

Prior to serving as St. John’s presi-dent, Harrington served as the 22nd pres-ident of Niagara University, along with twoterms on the board of directors for theAssociation of Catholic Colleges andUniversities.

While at St. John’s, Harrington’s visionhas resulted in an extraordinary transfor-mation of the university into a “new” St.

John’s, with enhanced facilities, expand-ed academic initiatives and an increasingglobal presence.

Since the beginning of Harrington’stenure as president in 1989, St. John’shas expanded to include three addition-al campuses in Manhattan, Oakdale andRome, Italy.

Born in Brooklyn, Harrington enteredthe junior college seminar y of theVincentian Fathers in Princeton, NewJersey. He completed his studies for thepriesthood at Mary Immaculate Seminaryin Northampton, Pennsylvania.

Harrington pursued graduate studies atthe Catholic University of America and theUniversity of Toronto.

Harrington holds honorary doctoratesfrom several colleges and universities inthe U.S., including Niagara University, St.Thomas Aquinas University and theCatholic University of America. He has alsobeen honored by several internationalinstitutions such as Fu Jen University inTaipei, the American University in Romeand Kokushikan University in Tokyo.

He was awarded the honor ProEcclesiaet Pontifice by Pope John Paul IIin 1989 and was named a Knight of theHoly Sepulchre in 1999. He received theOrder of Merit (Cavalieri) of the repub-lic of Italy in June 2003 and the GrandUfficiale in October 2003.

Harrington is a third generation IrishAmerican, tracing his family lineage to Co.Waterford.

PAUL Harrington is an economistand a member of the faculty at the

School of Public Policy and Urban Affairsat Northeastern University in Boston.

In 1980, he created the Center forLabor Market Studies that, nearly 30years later, is recognized among thenation’s top education and workforce

development research centers.He has given testimony based on his

research to both houses of Congresson numerous occasions, on topics rang-ing from the impact of immigration on thenation’s labor markets to the relationshipsbetween family organization, education,and the problems of poverty.

Harrington frequently serves as a fea-tured speaker at conferences on educa-tion and workforce development acrossthe nation, and is frequently cited inmedia reports on labor market and eco-nomic activity.

He has served on a number of non-prof-it boards, including educational andworkforce organizations, and organiza-tions involved in the distribution of foodto low income and elderly households.

Over the years, he has authored andco-authored numerous articles, mono-graphs and books and taught a widevariety of courses in economics andpublic policy.

Harrington’s father came to the U.S. in1926 from the Beara Peninsula, WestCork.

FATHER Robert R. Grimes, S.J., isthe dean of Fordham College at

Lincoln Center in New York, a part ofFordham University.

He earned a bachelor of arts, cum laude,in German language and literature fromFordham in 1975. Among his other degreesare ones from Manhattanville College,the Weston School of Theology and a

PhD in music from theUniversity of Pittsburgh. Hewas ordained a priest in Juneof 1984.

Among his honors are theIrish in America Award for thebest book-length manuscriptdealing with the Irish experi-ence in North America, award-ed by the Cushwa Center forthe Study of AmericanCatholicism at the Universityof Notre Dame in 1994.

In addition to serving asdean, Grimes also is an asso-ciate professor of music at

Fordham University. A third generation Irish American, he is

a member of the board of trustees atXavier High School in New York, and amember of the board of trustees of theCollege of Holy Cross in Worcester,Massachusetts. He is also chair of theacademic affairs committee of the boardof trustees at Holy Cross.

THOMAS E. Hachey is a professor ofhistory and executive director of the

Center for Irish Programs at Boston College.Hachey received a PhD from St. John’s

University in New York, and conductedhis post-doctoral studies at the Universityof London.

Hachey oversees all of Boston College’sIrish initiatives, including the Irish Studiesprogram, the Irish Institute, the BurnsLibrary Irish Collections, the Center for IrishPrograms-Dublin and the Irish MusicProgram.

He is a Danforth Fellow (1979-1983);winner of the 2002 Roger McHugh Prize,given by the New Hibernian Review, inconjunction with the president of UniversityCollege Dublin, and sits on editorial boardsfor three scholarly Irish studies journals.

Hachey was honored as one of IrishAmerica magazine’s Top 100 Irish Americansin 2007, and is the author and/or editor ofseven books, three of which are on Ireland,and author of over 100 reviews and essayson Irish history.

Hachey is a member of the AmericanConference for Irish Studies, and a past pres-ident of the Irish Historical Society, Dublin.

He is married to Jane Beverly Hachey. Hismaternal grandfather hailed from Bantry,Co. Cork, and maternal grandmother fromGlengarriff, Co. Cork.

FATHER DONALD J. HARRINGTON

JOHN GLEESON

FATHER ROBERT R. GRIMES

THOMAS E. HACHEYTHOMAS HALTON

PAUL HARRINGTON

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CHARLES Heimbold, Jr., the retiredchairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers

Squibb Company and former U.S. ambas-sador to Sweden, endowed a chair in IrishStudies at Villanova in 1999 with his wifeMonika. The chair is held each springsemester by a distinguished Irish writer,and has become one of the most prestigiousIrish studies positions in the U.S.

After a career spanning nearly 40 yearswith Bristol-Myers Squibb pharmaceuti-cal company, Heimbold retired as thecompany’s chairman and chief executive

officer in 2001 after his appointmentby President George W. Bush asU.S. ambassador to Sweden. Heserved in the role of ambassadoruntil 2004.

Heimbold graduated with hon-ors from Villanova University’sCollege of Arts and Sciences in1954 with a bachelor of arts degreein English. In 1959, he completeda program at the Hague Academyof International Law.

Heimbold was with the NewYork law firm of Milbank, Tweed,Hadley & McCloy from 1960 to1963. He received a bachelor oflaws degree from the University ofPennsylvania in 1960, and a mas-ter of laws degree from New YorkUniversity in 1966.

In 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Heimboldcommitted $10 million to Villanova,the largest gift from an alumnus in

the history of the university. Their excep-tional generosity, with its focus on schol-arships, is creating new educational oppor-tunities and contributing to the vibrancyof the cultural climate at Villanova.

In addition to his affiliation with Villanova,Heimbold, who traces his Irish ancestryto Co. Meath, is a member of the Councilon Foreign Relations, a former chairmanof the board of overseers at the Universityof Pennsylvania Law School, and a formertrustee at Sarah Lawrence College.

DIRECTOR of Irish Studies at theUniversity of Montana in

Mossoula, Kathleen Mary Kane tracesher Irish roots to counties Derry, Corkand Wicklow.

She received her PhDfrom the University ofTexas Department ofEnglish, Ethnic andThird World Studies.Among her notableawards received are aCox TeachingExcellence Award, theUniversity of MontanaMentoring Award, aresearch grant from theIrish government anda research suppor taward from the MontanaCommittee for theHumanities.

Kane is a member of the NationalConference of Irish Studies and theMontana Gaelic Cultural Society. Sheis married with five children.

NORA Hussey, a native of Co.Kerry, is currently the director

of theater and theater studies atWellesley College in Wellesley,Massachusetts, where she teaches,directs the main stage productions,and mentors the student/experimentalperformances.

Prior to Wellesley, she taught andguest directed at colleges and univer-sities from Bangor, Maine to Providence,

Rhode Island. At the 1998 WellesleyCollege commencement, Hussey wasawarded the Pinanski Prize for excel-lence in teaching.

In 1998 Hussey founded the WellesleySummer Theatre (WST) with a pro-duction of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.Since then WST has presented 15 pro-ductions including a world premiere,American premiere, and two NewEngland premieres.

In the last 20 years, Hussey hasdirected over 90 productions in region-al, small professional, and university the-aters across New England.

In recent years she co-adapted andthen directed the Poets’ Theatre produc-tion of I Am of Ireland: The Women ofthe North Speak Out. The script was sub-sequently selected for inclusion in theInternational Festival of WomenPlaywrights, and she directed it in Co.Galway in the summer of 1997.

As directorial assistant to DerekWalcott, she directed three world pre-mieres for the Boston Playwrights’Theatre. She is a founding member ofthe Guild, which was dedicated to thesupport and the promotion of womentheater artists in New England.

Hussey is married to Kieran Brennan,and they have a son, Rory Gareth.

THOMAS Ihde is an associate profes-sor of Irish language and literature

at Lehman College, City University ofNew York (CUNY), in the Bronx.

Ihde is the executive director of theCUNY’s Institute for Irish AmericanStudies, a past board member of AmericanConference for Irish Studies, and pastpresident of North American Associationfor Celtic Language Teachers.

He was appointed as the first full-timeIrish language professor at CUNY in2008. He has two books published,Colloquial Irish (Routledge 2008) andthe Irish Language in the United States(Bergin & Garvey 1994).

Ihde has set up a network of collegesoffering Irish language to undergraduatestudents, starting with Bergen CommunityCollege in 1995.

He is presently coordinating under-graduate Irish language courses at his owncampus, as well as at Queens College,Manhattan College, the College of MountSaint Vincent and Bergen CommunityCollege.

Ihde received a bachelor’s degree fromSt. Mary’s University, and master’s andPhD degrees from Trinity College inDublin.

Ihde’s grandparents hailed from coun-ties Galway, Monaghan and Wicklow.

HOWARD Keeley is assistant pro-fessor of literature and director of

the Center for Irish Studies at GeorgiaSouthern University in Statesboro.

A native of Dublin, Keeley has been inStatesboro since fall 2004, although theCenter for Irish Studies was founded onSt. Patrick’s Day 1995. The center oper-ates an academic program that caters toaround 275 students annually.

Features of the program include afive-course undergraduate minor in Irishstudies; a literature MA with a concen-tration on Irish authors; and a full-cred-it summer study in Ireland option.

Keeley came to the U.S. in1989. He received a BA inEnglish (summa cum laude)from the University ofGeorgia. He then earned amaster’s and a PhD in Britishand Irish literature fromPrinceton University.

At Princeton, Keeley wonthe foremost graduate award,the Jacobus Fellowship “forhighest scholarly excel-lence.” His research focus-es on how Irish literaturerepresents the country’smaterial culture, especiallyits housing.

He is particularly inter-ested in the period after the Famine,which includes the Land War. Duringthis time, the Irish won the right to ownnot just their own land, but also theirhomesteads.

Keeley is president (2009-2011) of thesouthern chapter of the AmericanConference for Irish Studies. He is fac-ulty advisor for Club Gael (Irish StudiesStudent Club). He is also an honorarymember of the W.B. Yeats Society ofNew York.

Keeley and his wife Jessica havethree children who range in age from12 years to 20 months.

THOMAS IHDE

SISTER Kathleen Keating, past pres-ident of Our Lady of the Elms College

in Chicopee, Massachusetts, is theco-founder of the college’s IrishCultural Center.

She received a bachelor of artsdegree from Elms, and a master’sdegree in history from VillanovaUniversity. She also received adoctorate in histor y fromFordham University.

Keating’s maternal grandpar-ents hailed from Co. Kerry. Herpaternal grandfather hailed fromCo. Tipperary, while her paternalgrandmother also had Tipperaryroots.

In 1998 Keating received theHuman Relations Award fromthe National Conference forCommunity and Justice, and in2001 she was named Chicopee’sCitizen of the Year.

She is a member of the Sons of Erin inWestfield, Massachusetts.

SISTER KATHLEEN KEATING

CHARLES HEIMBOLDNORA HUSSEY

HOWARD KEELEY

KATHLEEN MARY KANE


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WILLIAM Kelly is the president of theGraduate Center of the City of New

York (CUNY) in Manhattan. From 1998through June 2005, he served as theGraduate Center’s provost and senior vicepresident, a tenure that was marked bythe recruitment of a remarkable cadre of inter-nationally renowned scholars to the school’sfaculty.

A distinguished American literature schol-ar and an expert on the works of James

Fenimore Cooper, Kelly is the author ofPlotting America’s Past: Fenimore Cooper andthe Leatherstocking Tales.

He is the editor of the Random House edi-tion of The Selected Works of Washington Irvingand the Oxford University Press editionof The Pathfinder. He is currently at work ona book about John Jacob Astor.

Kelly graduated summa cum laude fromPrinceton University in 1971, where hewon the David Bowers Prize in AmericanStudies. He was named outstanding grad-uate student in English at Indiana University,where he received his PhD in 1976.

He also holds a diploma in intellectual his-tory from Cambridge University and in1980 received a Fulbright Fellowship toFrance, where he subsequently becamevisiting professor at the University of Paris.

On the faculty of CUNY’s Queens Collegefrom 1976 to 1998, Kelly was named QueensCollege’s Golden Key Honor Society Teacherof the Year in 1994.

Kelly is the vice chairman of the CUNYResearch Foundation and serves as a trusteeof the John Simon Guggenheim MemorialFoundation. He is also a member of the boardof the CUNY Institute for Irish AmericanStudies.

DR. John Lahey is the presidentof Quinnipiac University in

Hamden, Connecticut. President for thepast 22 years, Lahey has distinguishedhimself as an innovative and dynamicleader who has spearheaded Quinnipiacemergence as one of the leading insti-tutions in the Northeast.

With a national reputation for admin-istration and fundraising, Lahey hasincreased Quinnipiac’s endowmentfrom $5 million to $175 million, guid-ed a comprehensive building programand directed a more than 300% increasein student enrollment, from 1,902 stu-dents in 1986 to more than 7,600 stu-dents today.

U.S. News and World Report recog-nizes Quinnipiac as one of the topschools in the northern region, andQuinnipiac is now listed among ThePrinceton Review’s Best 361 Colleges.

Lahey, a native of the Bronx, receivedboth his undergraduate and master’sdegrees in philosophy from the

University of Dayton, his PhD in phi-losophy from the University of Miami,and a second master’s degree in high-er education administration fromColumbia University.

Lahey’s paternal grandfather, DanielLahey, was born in Knockglossmore,Co. Kerry and emigrated as a childwith the Lahey family to Canada andthen to New York City. His paternalgrandmother, Agnes Roche, hailsfrom Co. Cork and his maternal grand-mother, Nellie Griffin, hails from Co.Clare.

Lahey also is a leader in the commu-nity, serving as a member of theAncient Order of Hibernians, Division4, New York County; director andvice chairman of the St. Patrick’sDay Parade, Inc.; member of theKnights of St. Patrick; and on theboard of directors for Yale-New HavenHospital, United Illuminating Company,the Aristotle Corporation,

Independence Holding Company andthe Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy.

A member of the New York City St.Patrick’s Day Parade Committee formore than 20 years, the 1997 grand mar-shal of the parade and in 2000 namedone of the 10 outstanding grand mar-shals of the 20th century, Lahey hasdevoted much of his time to educatingthe public about the historic implica-tions of Ireland’s Great Hunger. He hasbeen at the forefront of a movement torequire schools to include the IrishFamine in school curricula as a humanrights violation.

Under Lahey’s leadership, Quinnipiachas developed the largest collection ofbooks, educational materials and arton Ireland’s Great Hunger in its LenderFamily Special Collection Room, AnGor ta Mór, located in its ArnoldBernhard Library. The collection isthe largest of its kind in the world, devot-ed solely to Ireland’s Great Hunger.

Lahey resides in Cheshire,Connecticut, with his wife Judy, and hastwo sons, Brent and Robert.

FATHER William P. Leahy, S.J., ispresident of Boston College.

He received his bachelor and mas-ter’s degrees from St. Louis University,

a master’s from the Jesuit School ofTheology in Berkeley, Massachusetts, anda PhD from Stanford.

Leahy leads one of the nation’s mostprestigious Catholic universities with14,500 students and 154,000 alumni. Hebecame the 25th president of BostonCollege in July 1996.

Coming to Boston College fromMarquette University, where he servedfor five years as executive vice presi-dent, Leahy brought to his position adiverse background as a university admin-istrator and as a scholar in 20th centuryAmerican social and religious history.

He is the author of Adapting to America:Catholics, Jesuits and Higher Educationin the Twentieth Century, as well asnumerous scholarly articles on religiousand educational history in the U.S.

He is a member of Boston College’s IrishInstitute, and was named as one of the Top100 Irish Americans by Irish Americamagazine in 2006. He traces his Irishancestry to Co. Kerry.

DR. Michael Kenneally, a nativeof Youghal, Co. Cork, is the chair

of Canadian Irish studies in theDepartment of English, Faculty of Artsand Science at Concordia Universityin Montreal.

He studied at the University of BritishColumbia, McGill and the University ofToronto, where he received his PhD.

Kenneally has written many articleson Irish and Irish Canadian literature, andteachers courses on these subjects atConcordia. He has written, edited orco-edited more six books, and also edit-ed the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.

He is the inaugural holder of the chairin Canadian Irish Studies at Concordiaand is director of the Centre for CanadianIrish Studies, both of which have beenfunded with the assistance of the

Canadian IrishStudies Foundation.

He is a formerpresident of the St.Patrick’s Society ofMontreal, a formerpresident of theCanadian Associationfor Irish Studies, andformer chair of theI n t e r n a t i o n a lAssociation for theStudy of IrishLiteratures.

Kenneally has lec-tured on Irish litera-ture in many coun-

tries and has been visiting scholar in Irishstudies at Simon Fraser University, theUniversity of Innsbruck in Austria andWaseda University in Tokyo.

He is the executive director of theCanadian Irish Studies Foundation. Hewas appointed Honorary Consul Generalof Ireland in Quebec in 2003.

Kenneally’s main accomplishment isin mobilizing Montreal’s Irish commu-nity to raise funds to develop Irish stud-ies as an academic discipline at Concordia.The Canadian Irish Studies Foundationnow has an endowment of more than $6million, which funds 18 courses annual-ly in 10 difference disciplines, brings dis-tinguished Irish public and cultural fig-ures to Montreal. It also provides 20scholarships annually to students inIrish studies.

DR. Cornelius Ker win becameAmerican University’s 14th presi-

dent in 2007. He had been the Washington,D.C. university’s acting, then interim, pres-ident since August 2005, and served asprovost from 1997 until 2005.

Kerwin is a long-standing member ofthe university’s community. He received abachelor of arts from American Universityin 1971, followed by a master of arts in polit-ical science from the University of RhodeIsland in 1973, and a PhD in political sciencefrom Johns Hopkins University in 1978.

He has been a member of the AmericanUniversity faculty since 1975. He has helda number of prominent leadership positionswithin the School of Public Affairs, includ-ing his service as dean from 1989 to 1997.

As provost, Kerwin served as the univer-

sity’s chief academic offi-cer, leading approximate-ly 475 full-time teachingfaculty in the university’ssix schools and colleges.He has worked with thedeans and faculty commit-tees to complete a reviewof the university’s mas-ter’s and doctoral pro-grams, resulting in fewerprograms but creating dis-tinctive market niches,improved physical facili-

ties and enhanced national reputations. Kerwin, a professor of public administra-

tion in the School of Public Affairs, is a nation-ally recognized specialist in public policy,with emphasis on the regulatory process.He is actively engaged in teaching andresearch and teaches courses in adminis-trative process, policy implementation,and American government.

Under Kerwin’s leadership, the univer-sity established the Center for the Study ofRulemaking in July 2004. As part of itsmission to better understand and improvethe processes and techniques used bygovernment agencies to develop regulations,the center organizes conferences, sym-posia, and workshops, which bring togeth-er scholars, public and private sector per-sonnel, and the larger academic community.

FATHER WILLIAM P.LEAHY

WILLIAM KELLY

MICHAEL KENNEALLY

CORNELIUS KERWIN

JOHN LAHEY

FATHER Brian Linnane is the24th president of Loyola College

in Baltimore, Maryland in 2005. Linnane entered the Society of

Jesus in 1977 and was ordained to thepriesthood on June 14, 1986. Heearned an A.B. degree, magna cumlaude, from Boston College in 1977and a master’s from GeorgetownUniversity’s Depar tment ofGovernment in 1981 before undertak-ing divinity studies at the JesuitSchool of Theology, where he earned

a master’s degree in1986.

He earned master’sdegrees from the YaleDepar tment ofReligious Studies in1990 and 1991, and aPhD. in 1994. Heearned a Licentiate inSacred Theology at theJesuit School ofTheology at Berkeleythe same year.

Linnane joined theReligious StudiesDepar tment at HolyCross in 1994. He hastaught courses inChristian ethics at HolyCross, and has alsooffered advanced cours-es in morality, medicalethics, and virtue theo-ry. His scholarly publi-cations are extensive,and include the areas offundamental moral the-ology, health care

ethics, and virtue ethics.Linnane has served as

national vice president of AlphaSigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society,and as a member of the Seminar onJesuit Higher Education. He was achair of the Catholic TheologicalSociety of America’s Committee onAdmissions.

His paternal grandmother hailedfrom Co. Waterford, and paternalgrandfather from Co. Clare. Hismaternal grandparents hailed fromCo. Sligo.

JEANNE Minihan McGinn is the chairof the Liberal Arts Department at the

Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She earned a bachelor’s degree from

Bucknell, a master’s in Irish literaturefrom University College Cork and a PhDfrom Bryn Mawr College.

McGinn is a member of the InternationalAssociation for the Study of Irish Literature.She traces her Irish roots to counties Mayo

and Cork.She teaches

creative writ-ing and litera-ture at theCurtis Institute.She was amember of thefaculty from1994-1999 andwas appointedchair of theLiberal ArtsDepartment in2001.

Among thehonors she hasreceived arethe LindbackFoundat ionAward for

Distinguished Teaching, Curtis Institute ofMusic, 2008; Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation,Fellowship in the Humanities, 1992-1993;Bryn Mawr College Senior Fellowship,September 1991-1992; Rotary InternationalGraduate Fellowship, September 1985,and the William Pangburn Award, BucknellUniversity, May 1983.

McGinn is married to Joseph McGinn,a professor at Lock Haven University.

JAMES McCarthy is provost andsenior vice president for academ-

ic af fairs at Baruch College, CityUniversity of New York in Manhattan.

He received his bachelor’s degreefrom Holy Cross, a master’s fromIndiana University, and a further mas-ter’s and PhD from Princeton.

McCarthy and his wife, Dr. MagdaGhanma, are Irish citizens. All four ofhis grandparents hailed from Co. Kerry.Several family members reside inDublin.

McCarthy is a former HeilbrunnProfessor of Public Health at Columbia,former dean, School of Health HumanServices at the University of NewHampshire; a former director of theHopkins Population Center at JohnsHopkins University, a former boardchair at the Guttmacher Institute inNew York, and a former board memberof the Planned Parenthood Federationof America.

McCarthy is also a former visiting aca-demic at Trinity College Dublin, wherehe conducted research and publishedon community health in Dublin andon Irish fertility trends.

CAROL McCullough Fitzgeraldis a member of the board of

directors of Chestnut Hill College,founded in 1924 as a college forwomen by the Sisters of St. Joseph ofPhiladelphia, but a fully coeduca-tional institution since 2003. Sheserves on the board’s DevelopmentCommittee and chairs the NominatingCommittee.

Fitzgerald, whose McCulloughroots are in Co. Tyrone, is also exec-utive director of The PennsylvaniaSociety, a non-profit patriotic and

charitable organization found-ed in 1899 that annually honorsthe accomplishments ofPennsylvanians who bring distinc-tion to the Commonwealth.

Education forms a special focusfor Fitzgerald, as she overseesThe Pennsylvania Society’s annu-al Benjamin Franklin ScholarAward, a competitive collegescholarship program open to allPennsylvania public high schoolstudents.

She has been associated withhigher education for more than25 years, holding senior-levelpositions in alumni relations andadvancement at the University ofPennsylvania and DrexelUniversity, her undergraduateand graduate institutions respec-tively, while also serving as avolunteer for several schools,education- and youth-focusedorganizations, and alumnae asso-ciations — William Penn CharterSchool; Springside School;Academy of Children’s Music;Philadelphia Futures; Girl Scoutsof Eastern Pennsylvania; DukeUniversity Executive Leadership

Board; Trustees’ Council of PennWomen, and the University ofPennsylvania Association of Alumnae.

Fitzgerald is an experienced publicrelations consultant and political cam-paign manager and fundraiser forjudicial, local and state candidates.

She is the mother of three grownchildren and resides in the ChestnutHill section of Philadelphia with herhusband, the Honorable James J.Fitzgerald III, Superior Cour t ofPennsylvania.

MARTIN G. McGuinn retired inFebruary of 2006 as chairman and

chief executive officer of Mellon FinancialCorporation, a global financial servicescompany headquartered in Pittsburgh.

Under McGuinn’s leadership, assetsunder management grew by more than9% per year and assets under custody oradministration grew by more than 10% peryear compared to an S&P 500 stock indexthat was virtually flat. During this same peri-od Mellon became the fifth largest globalcustodian and the 12th largest asset man-ager in the world.

A Philadelphia native, McGuinn received

a bachelor’s degree and a juris doctordegree, both from Villanova University,for which he also serves as a member of theboard of trustees. He then served forthree years in the U.S. Marine Corps as acaptain, including a tour in Vietnam.

McGuinn is a former member of sever-al key committees at Villanova University,including the steering committee for theCampaign for Villanova; the Board ofConsultants, Villanova Law School, servingas chairman from 1985 to 1987; the Corporateand Foundation Gifts Committee for theVillanova Campaign; as well as former edi-tor-in-chief of the Villanova Law Review.

Through McGuinn’s generous support ofVillanova, he established the Martin G.McGuinn Chair in Business Law, and theMcGuinn Scholars Program for studyabroad students from Ireland.

McGuinn’s paternal grandparents hailedfrom Co. Mayo. His mother’s family wasfrom Co. Cork.

McGuinn is a former director of theAmerican Ireland Fund. He received thechairman’s award for distinguished leader-ship from the Pittsburgh American IrelandFund in 2001, and the Ireland Chamber ofCommerce in the USA award in 2004.

McGuinn is married to Ann. They havetwo sons and three granddaughters.

CAROL McCULLOUGHFITZGERALD

FATHER BRIAN F. LINNANE

JAMES McCARTHY

MARTIN G. McGUINN

JEANNE MINIHAN McGINN

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PATRICIA McGuire is the 14thpresident of Trinity Washington

University in Washington, D.C. Shebegan her tenure as president in 1989.

Trinity College was founded in 1897by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namurand became Trinity WashingtonUniversity in 2004.

McGuire received a bachelor of artsfrom Trinity cum laude before receiv-ing a JD from Georgetown UniversityLaw Center.

Before coming to TrinityWashington in 1989 she was theassistant dean for development andexternal affairs for the GeorgetownUniversity Law Center.

McGuire holds a number of hon-orary degrees from several insti-tutions, including, GeorgetownUniversity, the College of NewRochelle, the College of St. Elizabethand Wells College. In 2007 theGreater Washington Board of Tradenamed McGuire the Leader of theYears, the top business honor award-ed by the Washington Chamber ofCommerce.

The Washington Business Journalincluded McGuire among its list ofWomen Who Mean Business.

Washington Magazine has namedher as one of both the 150 Most

Powerful People in Washington alongwith the 100 Most Powerful Women inWashington.

McGuire writes and speaks on awide variety of topics concerning high-er education, women and Catholic edu-cation. Her articles have appeared inThe Wall Street Journal, The WashingtonPost, The Baltimore Sun, Current Issuesin Catholic Higher Education and awide variety of other publications.

MARTIN Meehan is the secondchancellor of the University of

Massachusetts Lowell and the 14thleader of the institution and its pre-decessor schools, founded in the 1890s.

A former member of the House ofRepresentatives, Meehan represent-ed the fifth congressional district ofMassachusetts from 1993 to 2007.

Meehan has sought to raise publicawareness of Irish history and bringrecognition to the many contributionsIrish Americans have made to soci-

ety.During his congressional career,

Meehan was deeply involved with theNorthern Ireland peace process. In2000, he accompanied President Clintonand cabinet members on a mission tobolster prospects for a lasting peace inNorthern Ireland.

As a member of the Ad HocCommittee on Irish Affairs, he cospon-sored resolutions calling for a peacefulresolution to the conflict and the com-mencement of all-party talks leadingtoward self-rule for the North. Meehanfought to break down trade barriers andstimulate strong business ties betweenthe U.S. and Northern Ireland.

In addition to his congressional ser-vice, Meehan worked as theMassachusetts deputy secretary ofstate for securities and corporationsbefore becoming Chancellor of UMassLowell in 2007.

Three of Meehan’s four grandparentshailed from counties Clare, Kerry andMayo.

Meehan earned a bachelor’s from theUniversity of Lowell, a master’s fromSuffolk and a JD from Suffolk UniversityLaw School.

Meehan and his wife Ellen Murphy,a health care consultant, are the parentsof Robert Francis Meehan, 9, andDaniel Martin Meehan, 6.

PAUL Muldoon was born in 1951 in Co.Armagh, and educated in Armagh

and at the Queen’s University of Belfast.From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast asa radio and television producer for theBritish Broadcasting Corporation.

Since 1987 he has lived in the U.S., wherehe is now Howard G.B. Clark ‘21 professorat Princeton University and chair of thePeter B. Lewis Center for the Arts.

In 2007 he was appointed poetry editor ofThe New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 hewas professor of poetry at the University of

Oxford, where he is an honorary fellow ofHertford College.

Muldoon’s main collections of poetryare New Weather (1973), Mules (1977),Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983),Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: AMystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994),Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001) and MoySand and Gravel (2002), for which he wonthe 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection,Horse Latitudes, appeared in the fall of2006.

A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,the American Academy of Arts and Sciencesand the American Academy of Arts andLetters, Muldoon was given an AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters award in liter-ature for 1996.

Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. EliotPrize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellencein Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland FundLiterary Award, the 2004 ShakespearePrize, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry, andthe 2006 European Prize for Poetry.

He has been described by The TimesLiterary Supplement as “the most significantEnglish-language poet born since theSecond World War.”

Married with two children, Muldoonlives in New Jersey. He also plays guitar inhis Princeton-based rock band, Rackett.

WHO can say why one child in afamily develops a fascination

with her Irish heritage, any more thanwe fully understand why another iscaptivated by mathematics, and anoth-er needs to understand the structureof molecules?” asks CatherineMcKenna, who as the Margaret BrooksRobinson Professor of Celtic Languagesand Literatures at Harvard University

is in a unique position to find out.McKenna’s paternal grandparents

hailed from counties Monaghan andCavan; her mother’s parents werenatives of Laois and Kerry. Her inter-est in all things Irish has been intensefor as long as she can remember.

“I have sometimes thought that itwas in part because I didn’t know myfather, who died when I was an infant,or my mother’s parents, who diedbefore I was born, that I came to lookbeyond family history into the historyof the country from which my peoplehad come for my sense of who I am.”

Her love of stories, particularly Irishones, has been lifelong. A native NewYorker, McKenna earned a bachelor ofar ts from Mar ymount College inTarrytown, followed by a master’s andPhD from Harvard.

“I’ve been extraordinarily fortunatein being able to devote so much ofmy professional life to teaching theIrish and Celtic heritage that has beenmy lens on the world and its history,”says McKenna, who will undoubtedlypass on her affinity for Ireland to her1-year-old son John Andrew McGill, andhusband John Allen McGill.

PATRICK McNicholas is an attor-ney with the firm of McNicholas

and McNicholas in Los Angeles.He has been a trustee of theUniversity of San Francisco since2004. He graduated from the univer-sity with a bachelor of science degree,and received a JD from theMcGeorge School of Law.

McNicholas is a member of theIrish American Bar Association. Hehas been named as one of SouthernCalifornia’s Top 100 lawyers, and asuper lawyer by Los Angeles Magazinein the years 2005-’09.

He was elected to the AmericanBoard of Trial Advocates in 1998, andelected to the American College ofTrial Lawyers in 2008.

McNicholas’ great-grandparentshailed from counties Mayo andCork.

PAUL MULDOON

PATRICIA McGUIRECATHERINE McKENNA

PATRICK McNICHOLAS

MARTIN T. MEEHAN

THOMAS Mulroy is presidentand CEO of T-Rex Capital, and a

member of the board of trustees of

Villanova University. T-Rex Capital is a real estate invest-

ment firm that Mulroy co-founded in1999. Previously, Mulroy was senior vicepresident of investments at StarwoodFinancial, and before that, senior vicepresident at Lazard Freres & Co.,involved in the origination and struc-turing of investments in real estateacquisitions and financings.

Mulroy is a member of the universi-ty’s major Gifts Committee, the VillanovaReal Estate Advisory Council andVillanova’s President’s Council:Transforming Minds and Hearts. Heis also a President’s Club advisor.

Mulroy graduated from Villanova’sSchool of Business in 1985, and receiveda master’s in finance from New YorkUniversity. He resides in New Canaan,Connecticut and Boca Raton, Floridawith his wife and three children.

THOMAS MULROY

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SISTER Anne Munley, president ofMarywood University in Scranton,

Pennsylvania, is a member of theCongregation of the Sisters, Servants of theImmaculate Heart of Mary.

Her career as an educator and author hasspanned several decades. She has been pres-

ident of Marywood, where in 1966 shereceived a BA in sociology, history and gov-ernment, since 2007.

Prior to that she was executive directorof the African Sisters EducationCollaborative in Scranton from 2006-’07,director of programs and social mission forthe International Union of SuperiorsGeneral in Rome from 2003-’06, and an assis-tant professor of sociology at Marywoodfrom 1980-’82. She also served as the col-lege’s rector of planning and institutionalresearch, and coordinator of Title III from1990-‘94

She served or currently serves nation-ally and internationally as consultant, pre-senter, and facilitator for numerous religiouscongregations, and conducted trainingsessions on counter-trafficking in Bangkok,Thailand and Lagos, Nigeria in 2005.

Munley’s paternal grandparents andmaternal great-grandparents were all fromCo. Mayo.

In addition to her degree from Marywood,Munley also received a master’s in sociol-ogy from the Catholic University of Americain 1971, and a PhD in sociology fromBoston College in 1981.

FATHER Jon PatrickMurphy is the direc-

tor of the School of PublicSer vice at DePaulUniversity in Chicago.

He received a master’sdegree and PhD fromStanford, and a master’sfrom DePaul. He alsoearned a bachelor’sdegree from theDeAndreis School ofTheology at St. Mary’s.

Murphy is the authorof Visions and Values inCatholic Higher Educationand other books and arti-cles. He teaches at AllHallows College in Dublineach July.

JAMES Murphy has been thedirector of the Irish Studies pro-

gram at Villanova University sinceits inception in 1979.

The program offers an inter-discipli-nar y approach to Irish and IrishAmerican culture, with a range ofcourses in literature, history, art his-tory, political science and sociology.In the spring of each year the programhosts a leading Irish writer as theCharles A. Heimbold Chair of IrishStudies.

Under Murphy’s direc-tion, the Irish Studies pro-gram has expanded to thepoint where each year 60 ormore students now partic-ipate in a study abroad affil-iation with the NationalUniversity of Ireland inGalway.

Murphy holds a bache-lor’s degree from ManhattanCollege, a master’s fromNiagara University and aPhD from TempleUniversity. This year he isconcluding his teachingcareer at Villanova, whichbegan in 1963.

“I’ve been lucky to beable to teach the writers Ilove, mostly Irish. It’s theteaching that has allowedme to understand not only

the writers, but myself. I wouldn’ttrade a teaching career for anything.”

Murphy is first generation Irish,born in Brooklyn. His mother wasfrom Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo; his fatherfrom Cloone, Co. Leitrim. He andhis wife Kath return to Ireland atleast once each year to their home inGalway City.

Murphy’s story Finding Home hasbeen published both here and inIreland. He is at work on a memoirrooted in 1940s-‘50s Irish America.

DR. Maureen Murphy is professor ofcurriculum and teaching in the School

of Education, Health and Human Servicesat Hofstra University, the largest privateuniversity on Long Island. Last year she co-founded the university’s Irish Studies pro-gram, which is the first of its kind on LongIsland.

A past president of the AmericanConference for Irish Studies and a pastchair of the International Association for the

Study of Irish Literatures, Murphy is one ofthe six senior editors of the forthcomingDictionary of Irish Biography which will bepublished in nine volumes and on line by theRoyal Irish Academy and CambridgeUniversity Press in 2009. Throughout hercareer she has been particularly focused onsupporting the growth of Irish studiesthroughout the U.S.

Murphy edited Asenath Nicholson’sAnnals of the Famine in Ireland (1998) andIreland’s Welcome to the Stranger(2002), AnnieO’Donnell’s, Your Fondest Annie (2005)and with James MacKillop edited IrishLiterature: a Reader (1987, rev. ed. 2006).

Murphy directed the New York StateGreat Irish Curriculum Project (2001)which won the National Conference forthe Social Studies Excellence Award in2002. She was also the historian of theIrish Hunger Memorial in Battery ParkCity.

Murphy received her PhD from IndianaUniversity and an honorary doctor ofhumane letters from the State University ofNew York.

She is a member of the board of theAmerican Irish Historical Society, theEmerald Isle Immigration Center and amember of the Co. Longford Society inNew York.

Murphy’s grandparents hailed from coun-ties Longford and Leitrim.

SISTER Kathleen A. O’Brien issenior vice president for acade-

mic af fairs at Alverno College inMilwaukee, Wisconsin. Alverno is a

four-year, liberal arts, inde-pendent, Catholic collegefor women chartered in1887 by the School Sistersof St. Francis.

A member of the SchoolSisters of St. Francis,O’Brien received her bach-elor’s degree from Alverno,a master’s from VanderbiltUniversity and a PhD fromthe University ofWisconsin.

O’Brien received anOutstanding Achievementaward from the WisconsinWomen in HigherEducation in 2008. Shewas also named anOutstanding Alumna byAlverno in 2004. She wasawarded a patent by theU.S. government for herdiagnostic digital portfo-lio.

O’Brien is a member of the IrishHeritage Society of Milwaukee, andtraces her Irish heritage to Co. Clarethree generations ago.

MAUREEN MURPHY

SISTER Marguerite O’Beirne is thevice president for mission and ministry

at Neumann College in Aston, Pennsylvania.Founded by the Sisters of St. Francis

of Philadelphia, Neumann is a Catholic

coeducational college rooted in theFranciscan tradition, which emphasizesrespect for individuals and concern forthe environment.

O’Beirne, a native of Co. Sligo, holds abachelor of arts degree in English fromNewmann, a master of arts in Englishfrom Millersville University, and a P.D. inadministration from Fordham University.

She is a member of the Irish AmericanChamber of Commerce and the FriendlySons and Daughters of Erin.

Among O’Beirne’s notable honors andachievements are being named Womanof the Year by the Friendly Sons of St.Patrick, Mercer County. She has alsoreceived the St. John Neumann OutstandingAlumni Award, the Ancient Order ofHibernian’s Woman of the Year, MercerCounty Business Busy Person of the Yearand the Granville Academy EducatorRecognition Award.

She is a past St. Patrick’s Day Paradegrand marshal in Mercer County. She hasalso received a proclamation for contri-butions to education from Mercer.

SISTER MARGUERITEO’BEIRNE

SISTER ANNE MUNLEYJAMES MURPHY

SISTER KATHLEEN A. O’BRIEN

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CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGEHome of the Logue Library Irish Collection —literature, language, history, culture —and a distinctive International Business, Language, and Culture degree programCongratulatesCAROL McCULLOUGH FITZGERALD,Board of Directors,and all the distinguished honorees of the inaugural Irish Education 100.

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SISTER Mary Eileen O’Brien ispresident of the Dominican

College of Blauvelt in Orangeburg,New York.

She received a bachelor of arts in

English from Dominican College, amaster’s in mathematics fromManhattan College, a master’s in adultand higher education from Teacher’sCollege, Columbia University, and aPhD in education administration andsupervision from Fordham University.

O’Brien is a member of the DominicanSisters of Blauvelt which was foundedby Sister Mary Ann Sammon, an Irishimmigrant from Co. Tipperary.

Her maternal grandparents hailedform Co. Tipperary, and her paternalgrandparents came from Co. Monaghan.

She has received a number of acco-lades, including a Lifetime AchievementAward from Rockland EmploymentNetwork in 2006, and the Helen HayesHospital MacArthur Award in 2006.

Among her current affiliations arememberships in the Association ofCatholic Colleges and Universities;the Association of Governing BoardsCouncil of Independent Colleges;Council of Independent Colleges andUniversities; the board of directorsof the Dominican Higher EducationCouncil; and the board of advisors atHelen Hayes Hospital.

BRIAN O Conchubhair is an assis-tant professor in the Department

of Irish Language and Literature atthe University of Notre Dame, and a fel-low at the university’s Keough-NaughtonInstitute for Irish Studies.

A native of Co. Kerr y, OConchubhair received a bachelor’sdegree from MICE Limerick, a mas-ter’s from University College Galway,a master’s from Boston College anda PhD from the National Universityof Ireland Galway.

O Conchubhair is a member ofthe American Conference of IrishStudies, the Celtic Studies Associationof North America, and the GaelicLeague.

In 2009 he received the OireachtasLiterary Award in Ireland, and in2007 he was short listed for GradamUí Shuilleabháin in Ireland.

His publications include GearrscéaltaÁr Linne (2006) and WHY IRISH?Irish Language & Literature inAcademia (2008). His essays onvarious aspects of 19th- and 20th-cen-

tury Irish literature and culture appearin Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad, Comhar,Éire-Ireland, New Hibernian Review, IrishUniversity Review, Yearbook of EnglishStudies, Sport in History and A NewView of the Irish Language.

EDWARD T. O’Donnell is an asso-ciate professor of history at the

College of the Holy Cross in Worcester,Massachusetts. He teaches a coursetitled “The Irish American Experience.”

In 2001, as visiting associate profes-sor at Fordham University, he taughta course titled “The Irish in New YorkCity.” He is the author of severalbooks and articles relating to Irish his-tory, including 1001 Things EveryoneShould Know About Irish AmericanHistory (Random House), and theforthcoming Land of Promise: TheStory of the Irish in America (Simonand Schuster).

O’Donnell holds an AB in historyfrom the College of the Holy Cross, amaster of arts in history from ColumbiaUniversity, a master of philosophyfrom Columbia, and also a PhD fromColumbia.

He is second generation Irish onhis father’s side, from counties Mayoand Waterford, and third generationon his mother’s side, from Galwayand Roscommon.

O’Donnell is a former member of theNew York City chapter of the FriendlySons of St. Patrick.

He is married to Stephanie, and thecouple has four daughters.

BREANDAN O Buachalla is thefirst Thomas J. and Kathleen

O’Donnell Chair in Irish Languageand Literature at the Keough-NaughtonInstitute for Irish Studies at theUniversity of Notre Dame.

A native of Co. Cork, O Buachalla isa former professor of modern Irish atUniversity College Dublin (1978-1996)and professor of Irish in the School ofCeltic Studies at the Dublin Institute for

Advanced Studies (1973-1978). He has held the Parnell Fellowship

at Cambridge University and visitingprofessorships at Notre Dame, NewYork University and Boston College.

The leading authority on the literatureand ideology of early modern Ireland,O Buachalla has published extensive-ly on the impact of the Counter-Reformation on Irish political thought,early modern historiography and thecult of the Stuarts in Irish literature.

Besides cultural studies, literatureand politics, O Buachalla has publishedextensively in the field of linguistics. Hismost recent book is An Teanga Bheo:Gaeilge Chléire (InstitiúidTeangeolaíochta Éireann, 2003), ananalysis of the dialect of Irish spokenin Cape Clear, west Cork.

O Buachalla received his bachelor’s,master’s and a PhD from the NationalUniversity of Ireland. A member ofthe Royal Irish Academy, he has receivedan ACLS Fellowship, a Butler LiteraryAward and French government fel-lowships.

O Buachalla is married with three chil-dren.

JEROME O’Callaghan is the asso-ciate dean at the State University

of New York (SUNY) Cortland. O’Callaghan, a native of Co. Wexford,

received a bachelor’s degree in civillaw from University College Dublin in

1978. He became a solicitor inIreland in 1981, and in 1988received a PhD in political sciencefrom Syracuse University inupstate New York.

O’Callaghan is an author ofmany published articles on law,par ticularly regarding freespeech. He is also the author ofbiographical essays on formerIrish Taoiseach (Prime Minister)Sean Lemass and Mary Robinson,the first female president ofIreland.

O’Callaghan was named to theWho’s Who Among America’sTeachers list in the years, 2002-’04. He also received theChancellor’s Excellence inTeaching Award from the StateUniversity of New York in 2001,and the American PoliticalScience Award for Outstanding

Teaching 2001.O’Callaghan was also named

Teacher of the Year, 1992, by Pi SigmaAlpha (Texas Tech University).

O’Callaghan and his wife Paula havea son, Jerome Joseph.

EDWARD T. O’DONNELL

SISTER MARY EILEENO’BRIEN

BREANDAN O BUACHALLA

JEROME O’CALLAGHAN

BRIAN O CONCHUBHAIR

JAMES J. O’Donnell has been provostof Georgetown University since 2002.

He is a distinguished scholar and recognizedinnovator in the application of networkedinformation technology in higher education.

In addition to his duties as provost,O’Donnell is a member of the faculty ofGeorgetown’s Classics department. Hehas served as president of the AmericanPhilological Association, the primary pro-fessional association for classicists in theUnited States and Canada, and has beenelected a fellow of the Medieval Academy

of America.O’Donnell has published widely and

lectured extensively on the cultural histo-ry of the late antique Mediterranean worldand the application of technology in high-er education. He is the author of sevenbooks, including a three-volume edition ofAugustine’s Confessions. His latest book, TheRuin of the Roman Empire, was publishedby HarperCollins in 2008.

In 1990, O’Donnell co-founded the BrynMawr Classical Review, the second on-line scholarly journal ever created in thehumanities. He is a trustee of the NationalHumanities Center.

Prior to his positions at the University ofPennsylvania, O’Donnell taught at BrynMawr College, the Catholic University ofAmerica and Cornell University. He has alsoheld visiting appointments at Johns HopkinsUniversity, the University of Washingtonand Yale University.

O’Donnell came to Georgetown fromthe University of Pennsylvania, where heserved as vice provost for informationsystems and computing and as a professorof Classical Studies. He earned a bachelor’sdegree Phi Beta Kappa and was electedLatin Salutatorian at Princeton Universityin 1972. He earned his doctorate fromYale University in 1975.

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We Congratulate

Rev. William P. Leahy, SJSeamus Connolly

Thomas E. HacheyPhilip T. O’LearyRobert K. O’Neill

and all the Irish Education 100 honorees

Boston CollegeAmerica’s Leader in Irish Studies

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SHARYN O’Halloran is the GeorgeBlumenthal Professor of Political

Economics and professor of Internationaland Public Affairs at Columbia University.

A political scientist and economist bytraining, O’Halloran has written extensive-ly on issues related to the political econ-omy of international trade and finance, reg-ulation and institutional reform, economicgrowth and democratic transitions, andthe political representation of minori-ties.

O’Halloran has an extensive publicservice record. She served as an advisorto the Mexican Department of Commerce,International Trade Division (SECOFI)during the NAFTA negotiations con-cerning the politics of “Fast Track”authority. Recently, she advised the

Turkish government on the impact ofdemocratization and economic develop-ment on political stability.

O’Halloran has also consulted withthe World Bank’s International FinanceGroup and its Regulation and CompetitionPolicy Group on the impact of trade andpolitical institutions on economic growthand performance, as well as a large pro-ject analyzing data on trade openness,international organizations, and theirimpact on democratic transitions.

She was part of the expert witnessteam in Georgia v. Ashcroft, and otherredistricting cases, and provided a con-gressional briefing on the potentialimpact on the renewal of the 2007 VotingRights Act. Most recently she has servedas a Federal Reserve policy advisor onfinancial regulatory reform.

O’Halloran received a bachelor of artsdegree in economics and political sci-ence from University of California SanDiego, graduating with honors, and wenton to receive a master’s and PhD., spe-cializing in the political economy, also fromUniversity of California San Diego. Shecompleted a post-doctoral fellowship atStanford University in public policy.

O’Halloran holds both U.S. and Irish cit-izenship. She is Irish on both sides of thefamily, with the Fitzpatrick’s (maternal-side) coming from Cavan and theO’Halloran’s from Galway and Clare.She has three daughters, Madison,Morgan and Quinn.

MARY O’NEIL MUNDINGERis the dean of the Columbia

University School of Nursing, and cen-tennial professor in health policy.She’s a graduate of the University ofMichigan, Teachers College atColumbia University and theColumbia University School of PublicHealth.

She is a third generation IrishAmerican who traces her roots to Co.Mayo. Mundinger, a married moth-er of four, has visited Ireland threetimes.

“My Irish background is a sourceof great pride; reflecting on the abil-ities of my ancestors, and celebrat-ing transmission to me, in particularmy love of literature and writing,family devotion and community val-ues,” Mundinger says.

FATHER Thomas O’Hara, C.S.C.,is the eighth president of King’s

College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.He has held the office since 1999.

King’s College was originally estab-lished to educate the sons of minersin the anthracite region of northeast-ern Pennsylvania. O’Hara is himselfthe proud son of a miner who gave 36years to the industry, and a mother

who worked in the region’sgarment industr y for 35years

He received a bachelor ofarts degree in political sci-ence from King’s in 1971,and a master’s in theologyfrom the University of NotreDame in 1977. He alsoreceived a PhD in politicalscience from the AmericanUniversity in Washington,D.C. in 1988.

Prior to his academicappointment at King’s,O’Hara assisted in reliefwork with the MissionarySisters of Charity, the reli-gious community of the lateMother Teresa, in Dacca,Bangladesh, where he alsowas professor of English atNotre Dame College. Heserved as professor of polit-

ical science at thePhilosophical Centre of Jinja, Jinja,Uganda.

O’Hara traces his Irish roots tocounties Mayo and Sligo through twograndparents.

O’Hara has conducted research,served on panels and published numer-ous papers and chapters on the roleof religious lobby groups in theAmerican public policy system.

SISTER Jeanne O’Laughlin is the chan-cellor of Barry University in Miami

Shores, Florida. After serving BarryUniversity for 23 years, O’Laughlin steppeddown as Barry’s fifth president in 2004, tooka year’s sabbatical to finish her memoirs,and returned to serve as chancellor in2005.

A native of Detroit, upon her arrival inMiami Shores in 1981 she inherited a col-

lege with less than 2,000 students. Underher leadership, Barry added 38 buildings,increased enrollment from 1,750 to 9,042,raised over $200 million, increased theamount of academic schools from five to10, and even added 2,000 trees to its cam-puses.

O’Laughlin received a bachelor of sciencein biology and mathematics from SienaHeights College, and a master’s in biolo-gy from the University of Arizona. Sheearned a PhD in educational administrationfrom the University of Arizona. She hasreceived numerous accolades, includinghonorary degrees from Holy Cross College,the University of Miami, Rollins College andLynn University.

As a 13-year-old, riding a streetcar inDetroit, she noticed a black woman enterthe car with four small children. As the street-car lurched, one of the children fell into herlap. She gladly held the child for the restof the ride, but as one of the passengers dis-embarked, he passed by young Jeanneand spit on her.

Confused, she asked her father thatevening why the man spit on her.“Prejudice,” he replied.

“How do you stop that?” she asked. “Education,” he answered.

TRAOLACH O Riordain, a nativeof Co. Cork, is a lecturer in Irish

studies at the University of Montana inMissoula.

A graduate of the University ofMontana, O Riordain secured the fund-ing for and developed the Irish lan-guage program at the University ofMontana. He secured grant support and

helped to developthe Irish tradition-al music and danceprograms at the uni-versity.

Speaking at thelaunch of the IrishStudies program atthe university in1996, McAleese said,“You won’t be sur-prised if I single outfor special mentionProfessor TraolachO Riordain laochraGael, a champion ofIrish heritage.Traolach has invest-ed so much of histalent and time tothe development of

interest in Irish language, culture andheritage here in Montana.”

O Riordain was honored by theAncient Order of Hibernians as Irishmanof the Year in 2007. He is a member ofthe AOH, and also the Gaelic AthleticAssociation.

O Riordain and his wife have twochildren.

SISTER JEANNEO’LAUGHLIN

ROBERT K. O’Neill is the Burns librar-ian and part-time faculty member of

the Political Science Department at Boston

College.O’Neill earned a bachelor’s in history

from Merrimack College, a master’s in his-tory from the University of Arizona andtwo further degrees from the Universityof Chicago, a PhD in history and master’sin library science.

His Irish interests are extensive. He isa board member and past president of theEire Society of Boston; vice president ofthe Charitable Irish Society, Boston; anda member of Boston’s Irish AmericanPartnership; the Irish Cultural Centerin Canton, Massachusetts; Phoenix IrishCultural Center; Royal Dublin Society,Dublin; and the St. Patrick’s ParadeCommittee in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

O’Neill’s grandparents hailed fromcounties Cork, Tipperary, Antrim andKerry. He and his wife Helen have six children

and three grandchildren.

ROBERT K. O’NEILL

SHARYN O’HALLORAN

FATHER THOMAS O’HARA

TRAOLACH O RIORDAIN

MARY O’NEILMUNDINGER

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BERNARD O’Rourke is the associ-ate dean, Division of Business

at Caldwell College in Caldwell, NewJersey.

Caldwell is a Catholic, co-education-al, four-year liberal arts institutionfounded in 1939 by the Sisters of St.Dominic, located on a 70-acre woodedcampus in a quiet suburban communi-ty 20 miles from Manhattan.

A native of Dublin and raised in Co.Monaghan, O’Rourke earned a bache-lor of arts degree from UniversityCollege, Dublin and is a barrister at law,

King’s Inns, Dublin.He also earned a mas-ter’s from FordhamUniversity.

A resident of theU.S. since 1975,O’Rourke is marriedwith two daughters.He is a member of theAncient Order ofHibernians and theIreland Chamber ofCommerce in the U.S.

O’Rourke wasrecently elected to

serve a two year termfrom July 2009 to June

2011 as president of NJCBAA (NewJersey Collegiate BusinessAdministration Association). Twice ayear, NJCBAA brings together all thedeans and chairs of business schools,divisions and departments through-out the state, representing 24 four-yearinstitutions and 19 community col-leges.

His tip for aspiring college profes-sors? Secure the best credentials by wayof degrees. Experience counts, butcredentials are key.

KATHLEEN Owens is president ofGwynedd-Mercy College in

Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania. Sheassumed the presidency of the col-lege, a coeducational, Catholic insti-tution with a strong foundation in theliberal arts located 30 miles outside of

Philadelphia, in August of 2002.Owens serves on the Board of the

Philadelphia-based Life Science CareerAlliance, as well as vice-chair of theboard for Project H.O.M.E., aPhiladelphia-based organization dedi-cated to serving the needs of homelesspersons. She has just completed sixyears as a trustee at Medaille Collegein Buffalo, New York.

Owens also serves as a member of theNCAA Div III Presidents Council, is amember of the board of directors andpresident-elect of the Association ofIndependent Colleges and Universitiesof Pennsylvania (AICUP), and is amember of the Forum of ExecutiveWomen in Philadelphia, among otherservice commitments.

Owens received her PhD and BSdegrees from Loyola University inChicago, and her MEd degree fromDePaul University.

She is married to Donald Zamborsky,and has two married sons, three grand-sons and two granddaughters.

She traces her Irish roots to Co.Galway.

JOSEPH A. Power, Jr. is president ofPower Rogers & Smith, P.C. in

Chicago, and a lecturer at LoyolaUniversity School of Law.

Power, a naturalized Irish citizen,traces his roots to counties Waterfordand Tipperary. He is a member ofChicago’s Irish Fellowship Club andthe Celtic Legal Society.

Power earned a bachelor of arts degreefrom Notre Dame, and a JD from LoyolaUniversity School of Law of Chicago.Among his notable honors and achieve-ments are the receipt of a Medal ofExcellence from Loyola School of Law,a citizen of the year award from theCity Club of Chicago, and a medal of meritfrom the Illinois Bar Association.

Married with four children, in 2002Power was named one of the “30Tough Lawyers” by Chicago Magazine.Those listed are, according to themagazine, attorneys you want “foryou, not against you.”

DONAL B. O’Shea is the dean offaculty and vice president for

academic affairs, and the Elizabeth T.Kennan professor of mathematicsand statistics, at Mount Holyoke inSouth Hadley, Massachusetts.

O’Shea is a well-known geometer,internationally recognized for hiswork in singularity theory and incomputational algebraic geometry.O’Shea became dean in 1998 afterserving on the faculty since 1980.

O’Shea’s research deals with theinterplay between the geometric,algebraic, and topological propertiesof singularities of higher dimension-

al spaces. “One of the things I likeabout the research,” says O’Shea,“is that it takes methods from manypieces of mathematics and also has justsome lovely open problems and many,many mysteries.”

As dean, O’Shea’s philosophy is tofoster an environment in which facul-ty members can do their best work anddrive the curriculum in new, intel-lectually vibrant directions.

A native of Canada, O’Shea is authorof numerous books, monographs,and articles. From 1994 through 1997,he served as the college’s officer ofsponsored research.

Since coming to Mount Holyoke, hehas spent a year each in France andGermany and two at the University ofHawaii conducting research on singu-lar points of real and complex hyper-surfaces. He is especially interestedin improving the teaching of geome-try at the college level, as well asmaking the study of mathematics ingeneral more accessible to studentsof dif fering abilities and interests.He has translated over 130 Russian-language mathematics articles intoEnglish.

O’Shea has received numerousgrants from the National ScienceFoundation and other funding orga-nizations to support both his researchand his curricular work.

MEGHAN Lynch O’Sullivan, pro-fessor of the practice of interna-

tional affairs at the John F. KennedySchool at Harvard, has a career resumethat’s extremely vast. O’Sullivan is a for-mer special assistant to PresidentGeorge W. Bush and deputy nationalsecurity advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan(2004-’07) who helped negotiate thebilateral security agreement betweenIraq and the U.S. in the fall of 2008.

She is also a former member of thePolicy Planning Department at the

State Department, where shewas the senior advisor to RichardHaass, former U.S. special envoyto the Irish peace process.

O’Sullivan, a native of Lexington,Massachusetts, has Cork rootsthrough her grandparents, whoemigrated to the U.S. in the 1920s.“Growing up in the O’Sullivanhousehold, I was often remindedthat many of the institutions uponwhich our country is based werebuilt and then led by Irish immi-grants and their descendants,”says O’Sullivan.

She is especially proud theexample that peace in the Northcan provide to the world’s manytrouble spots. “I look at the

Republic of Ireland, Northern Irelandand the rest of Great Britain withadmiration, as examples of the abilityof determined people to overcome apast of conflict and violence and buildfoundations for the future,” she says.

When working with the govern-ments of Iran and Afghanistan,O’Sullivan adds, “I often brought atten-tion to Ireland as an example of howgovernments and people can turnfrom bitter animosities to more hope-ful futures.”

JOSEPH A. POWER

BERNARD C. O’ROURKE

DONAL B. O’SHEA

MEGHAN LYNCH O’SULLIVAN

KATHLEEN OWENS

MICHAEL Rafferty is the princi-pal of Old Saybrook Middle

School in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.He received bachelor and master of sci-

ence degrees from the University ofWisconsin-Platteville in 1968 and 1972,and a C.A.G.S. in educational adminis-

tration from theUniversity ofMassachusetts in 1977.

Rafferty is a previ-ous member of theBoston DonegalSociety. He receivedthe DistinguishedAlumni Award fromthe University ofWisconsin-Plattevillein 2003. Old Saybrookreceived the U.S.Department ofEducation NationallyRecognized School ofExcellence Award in

1997-‘98.Both of Rafferty’s paternal grandpar-

ents hailed from Co. Donegal. He ismarried with five kids, including aProvidence College student studying inGalway. He also has 14 grandchildren.

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KEVIN P. Reilly is the sixth presi-dent of the University of Wisconsin

System, one of the largest (173,000students) and most highly regardedpublic higher education systems in theworld.

Reilly began his tenure as presidentin September 2004. He collaborated

with the campus chancellors withinthe system to create the Growth Agendafor Wisconsin, a long-term vision andstrategic plan for what the universityneeds to do to help make Wisconsin andthe nation competitive in the globalknowledge economy.

Under his research enrollment hasrisen to an all-time high, and spon-sored research has continued to expand.At the same time, the UW System wasranked by the National Center forHigher Education Management Systemsamong the five “most productive statesystems and public sectors of highereducation relative to their resources.”

Reilly received a bachelor of artsdegree from the University of NotreDame and a master of arts from theUniversity of Minnesota.

His career has followed his shared pas-sion for education and his Irish heritage.He is a member of the Irish AmericanCultural Institute, as well as theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison CelticStudies Steering Committee. He isalso a published scholar in Irish stud-ies.

Reilly’s four grandparents emigratedfrom counties Mayo and Cavan. He ismarried with three children.

PHILIP B. Ryan is a trustee atWorcester Polytechnic Institute in

Worcester, Massachusetts. He is alsothe CEO of Merchants Automotive Groupin Hooksett, New Hampshire.

Ryan holds a BS degree from WorcesterPolytechnic, and an MBA from Harvard.

Ryan was awarded the Herbert F. TaylorAlumni Award for Distinguished Servicefrom Worcester Polytechnic. He alsowas awarded the Alexis de TocquevilleHeritage Award from the United Way.

He traces his Irish ancestry to the coun-ties of Dublin, Tipperary, Galway andCork. One grandparent was born inIreland; the other three are first genera-tion Irish Americans.

Ryan is married. He and his wife havetwo children and four grandchildren.

FATHER George F. Riley has beenan integral part of Villanova University

for the past 48 years, during which time hehas served eight presidents and was vicepresident for university relations for 20years. Since 1992, he has been specialassistant to the university president foralumni and external relations.

In his current position, he is the uni-versity’s presidential representative for

the development and maintenance of astrong and productive bond between theuniversity and more than 91,000 alumni liv-ing in the U.S. and abroad. His work takeshim to alumni chapters all over the coun-try and beyond.

From 1962 to 1971, Riley taught ethics andcontemporary religions. He was the univer-sity’s first liaison for the Peace Corps andserved as director of admissions for theprovince of St. Thomas of Villanova.

In 1972 Riley was named vice presidentfor the university relations with responsi-bility for the offices of development, pub-lic relations and alumni affairs.

During the 48 years Riley has been atVillanova, he has spent the same numberof years in ministry to Catholic parishes inAtlantic City and Cape May counties. Heis a former commissioner of thePennsylvania Public Television Network.

He served on the board of trustees ofMerrimack College in Andover,Massachusetts, and has also been a boardmember of the Continental Bank ofPhiladelphia, the Higher Education Congressof Philadelphia and the American CatholicHistorical Society.

A native of Massachusetts, Riley gradu-ated from Villanova in 1958 and wasordained to the priesthood in 1962. Heholds two master’s degrees and a doctor-ate from the Catholic University of America.

SISTER Denise Roche is the presidentof D’Youville College in Buffalo, New

York. Since 1979, Roche has lifted the col-lege to new heights in both enrollment,academic offerings and to a respected placein the pantheon of higher education.

At 36, Roche was the youngest person tobe named president of D’Youville. Under herleadership, enrollment grew from 1153 in1980 to more than 2,700 today; the college

endowment was $1.2 million and now standsat $16 million; and over 10 major new aca-demic programs have been developedattracting a significant number of new stu-dents.

A recipient of many awards, she wasnamed Citizen of the Year by The BuffaloNews in 1994, is a member of the WNYWomen’s Hall of Fame, received theChancellor Charles P. Norton Medal fromthe University at Buffalo, the LifetimeAchievement Award from the WNYHispanics and Friends Civic Association, anda Special Award presented to her by theNational Conference of Christians andJews.

Canisius College awarded her a Doctorof Humane Letters honorary degree in1992.

A Buffalo native, Roche is a graduate ofD’Youville and earned a master’s degree insociology from Boston University and adoctorate at the University of Massachusetts.She served as an instructor, acting chair,teaching assistant, assistant professor andassociate dean at D’Youville prior to beingnamed president.

Roche traces her Irish ancestry four gen-erations back to Co. Kerry.

DR. Allan Laurence Service is theprovost at Regis University of

Denver, Colorado. The university, one of28 American Jesuit colleges and univer-sities, serves over 12,000 students and oper-ates with an annual budget in excess of$130 million.

Service recently passed his 25th anniver-sary at Regis, having previously servedin a succession of academic leadership rolesincluding dean of career programs, aca-demic dean of the School for ProfessionalStudies and vice president for academicaffairs.

Service has been particularly instrumen-tal in developing undergraduate and grad-

uate academic partnerships betweenRegis University and the NationalUniversity of Ireland Galway that share stu-dents and faculty in online degree pro-grams.

Service earned an AB in mathematicsfrom the College of the Holy Cross, amaster’s in operations research fromCase Institute of Technology, and a PhDin operations research from Case WesternReserve University.

All four of Service’s grandparents wereborn in Ireland. His mother, Margaret, wasthe daughter of Catherine Lenihan (Feddis)of Co. Limerick and Patrick Feddis ofDublin. His father, Albert, was the son ofHannah Brady (Service) and AlbertService, both of Belfast. The coupleseach met and married in New York Citywhere Service was born.

Service feels a great closeness to his Irishroots and has traveled to Ireland a dozentimes, connecting there with many cousins,especially the Davises of Co. Limerick andthe Feddises of Co. Dublin.

Service resides in Westminster, Coloradowith his wife, Dr. Esther Ray Mills. Theirfamily includes three children — Nora,Graham, and Soren — and 4.5 grand-children, Sophia, Nathan, Abigail, Theo,and Audrey (due in November).

Service is fond of describing himself, pro-fessionally and personally, as the result of“crossing a New York Irishman with aJesuit education.”

SISTER DENISE ROCHE

DR. ROBERT A. Scott is the presi-dent of Adelphi University in

Garden City, Long Island, New York. Hewas appointed by the Adelphi UniversityBoard of Trustees as the ninth presi-dent and professor of anthropology andsociology in July 2000.

He has built on Adelphi’s rich traditions

in undergraduate and graduate educationand continues to link the liberal arts andsciences with professional programs.

From 1985 to July 2000, Scott served aspresident at Ramapo College of NewJersey. In recognition of his work, Scottwas named president emeritus and award-ed the honorary doctor of letters degree.

Earlier in his career, he served as assis-tant commissioner of higher education inIndiana. As a consequence, Scott is oneof the few people ever to hold all three toppositions in American higher education— head of an independent university, apublic institution, and a state higher edu-cation coordinating board.

He earned his bachelor of ar ts inEnglish at Bucknell University and his PhDat Cornell University.

Since joining Adelphi, he has receiveda number of prestigious awards, includ-ing being named as one of the 100 MostInfluential Long Islanders by Long IslandBusiness News.

Scott’s paternal grandfather hailedfrom Dromore, Co. Down. He is mar-ried with two children.

ROBERT A. SCOTT

KEVIN P. REILLYFATHER GEORGE F.

RILEY

ALLAN L. SERVICE

PHILIP B. RYAN

JOHN Sexton, the 15th presidentof New York University, also is the

Benjamin Butler professor of law andNYU Law School’s dean emeritus,having served as dean for 14 years. Hejoined the Law School’s faculty in1981, was named the school’s dean in1988, and was designated the univer-sity’s president in 2001.

Sexton is chair of the IndependentColleges and Universities of NewYork, chair of the New York Academyof Sciences, and vice chair of theAmerican Council on Education. He isa fellow of the American Academy ofArts and Sciences and a member ofboth the Association of AmericanUniversity Presidents and the Councilon Foreign Relations.

He has served as the chairman of theboard of the Federal Reserve Bank ofNew York (2003-2006) and chair ofthe Federal Reserve Systems Councilof Chairs (2006). He served as a boardmember for the National Associationof Securities Dealers (1996-1998), andwas founding chair of the Board ofNASD Dispute Resolution (2000-2002).

He also serves on the boards of the

Council onForeign Relations,the Institute ofI n t e r n a t i o n a lEducation and theAssociation for aBetter New York.While dean of theLaw School hewas president ofthe Association ofAmerican LawSchools.

Sexton receiveda bachelor’s in his-tory (1963) fromFordham College;

a master’s in com-parative religion

(1965) and a PhD in histor y ofAmerican religion (1978) fromFordham University; and a JD magnacum laude (1979) from Harvard LawSchool.

Sexton holds honorar y degreesfrom Fordham University, St. FrancisCollege, St. John’s University,University of Rochester and KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven.

Before coming to NYU, Sextonserved as law clerk to Chief JusticeWarren Burger of the United StatesSupreme Court (1980-1981), and toJudges David Bazelon and HaroldLeventhal of the United States Courtof Appeals (1979-1980).

For 10 years (1983-1993), he servedas special master supervising pretri-al proceedings in the Love Canal liti-gation. From 1966-1975, he was a pro-fessor of religion at St. Francis Collegein Brooklyn, where he was depart-ment chair from 1970-1975.

Sexton’s grandfather hailed fromCo. Sligo. He is a member of the advi-sor y board of NYU’s GlucksmanIreland House.

DR. R. Mark Sullivan is the eighthpresident of the College of St. Rose

in Albany, New York, a comprehensive,liberal arts college serving over 5,000undergraduate and graduate students in near-ly 111 degree programs.

He holds a bachelor of arts degree fromthe University of Rhode Island, a master of

science in public administration fromSyracuse University Maxwell School, andEd.D in educational leadership from Harvard.

Prior to his appointment at St. Rose, he wasexecutive vice president and COO of MaristCollege from 1987 to 1996. He also servedas vice president for administrative affairsat Southern Connecticut State University,and assistant commissioner for theConnecticut Board of Governors for HigherEducation. In 1980, he served as actingcommissioner for higher education inConnecticut.

He has received the Juvenile DiabetesResearch Foundation Angel Award; theMonsignor Burns Memorial Award fromCatholic Central High School; the Educatorof the Year Award from Progress Inc. andProgress High School; the CatherineMcAuley Award for Distinguished Serviceto the Capital District Community fromMaria College, the Citizen Laureate Awardfrom the University at Albany; theCommunity Partner Award from the Blackand Latino Achiever Program, CapitalDistrict YMCA, the Bishop Hubbard Awardfrom Living Resources and the YMCAPresident’s Award.

Sullivan is married with three children andthree grandsons.

FATHER Brian J. Shanley, O.P. is thepresident of Providence College in

Providence, Rhode Island. Shanley holds a doctorate in philosophy

from the University of Toronto and complet-ed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Universityof Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy ofReligion. After completing undergraduatestudies in history at Providence College in1980, he earned a licentiate degree in phi-losophy from the Catholic University ofAmerica.

He also holds a master of divinity and alicentiate degree in sacred theology fromthe Dominican House of Studies inWashington, D.C.

Ordained a member of the DominicanOrder of Preachers in 1987, Shanley taughtphilosophy at Providence and was a visitingprofessor at Emory University’s CandlerSchool of Theology. He most recentlyserved as an associate professor of philos-ophy at the Catholic University of America.

A member of the Providence CollegeBoard of Trustees and Corporation — withprior service as chair of the Board’s StrategicPlanning Committee — Shanley also hasserved on the executive committee of theAmerican Catholic Philosophical Association.

Shanley has served as associate editor andeditor of The Thomist and as a member ofthe editorial board for the InternationalJournal for Philosophy of Religion. Widely pub-lished in philosophy-focused academicjournals, his research interests includeThomas Aquinas, philosophy of religion,metaphysics, medieval philosophy, andethics.

An opera aficionado, Shanley is a self-described sports enthusiast who enjoysgolf and incorporates Xing Yi martial artsinto his daily routine.

He traces his paternal Irish ancestry toLongford, where his grandparents originat-ed. His maternal grandparents were fromTipperary.

FATHER James Patrick Shea hasjust assumed the presidency of

the University of Mary in Bismarck,Nor th Dakota. At 33, he is theyoungest university president in theU.S.

“I’m deeply honored and humbled tohave been chosen to serve as thesixth president of the University ofMary,” said Shea. “It’s a surprisingchoice to many, I know, including me.But I am grateful to the board oftrustees and the sisters for their con-fidence in me, and I look forward to the

challenges and opportunities thatlie in store.”

The Shea family originates inKerry, but his father’s family emi-grated north to Longford in the16th century and settled on anisland in the Shannon River atFermoyle, near Lanesborough.

His great-great-grandfather,Patrick Shea, left for America fromGalway in May 1870 and settledin Millerville, Minnesota. Fromthere, his great-grandfather, RichardShea, homesteaded at Hazelton,North Dakota, at the farm whereShea was raised.

Shea studied for two years atJamestown College (WilsonScholar), then entered seminary forthe Diocese of Bismarck in 1995 andwent on to study philosophy at theCatholic University of America inWashington, D.C. There he wasawarded the Basselin Scholarship,

the most prestigious academic schol-arship offered to Catholic seminarystudents in the U.S.Shea completed his bachelor’s degree

in 1997 and his master’s degree andlicentiate in philosophy the followingyear. While in Washington, he taughtreligion in two inner-city elementaryschools and worked with MotherTeresa’s Missionaries of Charity atthe Gift of Peace AIDS Hospice.

In 1998, he was sent to live at theNorth American College at the Vatican,where he studied theology under theJesuits at the Gregorian University. Hewas ordained a priest in 2002.

JOHN SEXTON

FATHER BRIAN J.SHANLEY

FATHER JAMES PATRICK SHEA

R. MARK SULLIVAN

JANE Sullivan Roberts is the managingdirector of Major, Lindsey and Africa,

one of the country’s leading attorney searchconsulting firms.

She holds her Irish heritage in high

regard. Her mother is a native of Cork, whileher paternal grandparents hailed fromcounties Kerry and Fermanagh.

Roberts owns a holiday cottage in Irelandwith her husband, United States SupremeCourt Chief Justice John Roberts. They havetwo children.

Roberts is on the board of trustees of heralma mater, the College of the Holy Crossin Worcester, Massachusetts, from whichshe graduated with a bachelor of artsdegree in 1976. In 1977 she received an edu-cation diploma from the University ofMelbourne in Australia. She received amaster’s from Brown three years later,and a JD from Georgetown Law School in1984.

Roberts also sits on the board of gover-nors of the John Carroll Society, and theboard of directors of Citizens for AffordableEnergy. She is a Rotary FoundationFellowship Partner with Pillsbury WinthropShaw Pittman.

JANE SULLIVANROBERTS

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STEPHEN J. Sweeny, presidentof the College of New Rochelle

(CNR) in Westchester, New York,since 1997, traces his Irish ancestry toBallydehob, Co. Clare, where his ances-tors left for America in the 1840s.

Sweeny obtained a bachelor of artsdegree in Spanish literature from theCatholic University of America, two mas-ter’s degrees in theology and coun-seling psychology from ManhattanCollege, and a PhD in higher educationfrom New York University. Additionalstudies at the Institute for Education

Management at Harvard Universityand its Seminar for New Presidents fur-ther prepared Sweeny for his currentposition.

At the college, Sweeny has strength-ened the tradition of serving the under-served, proving that there is no contra-diction between access and academicexcellence.

He was instrumental in instituting anaward-winning CNR image campaignwhich garnered a record number of cor-porate and alumnae contributions to thecollege. Under Sweeny’s direction,CNR also completed a multi-milliondollar renovation of Gill Library, expand-ed its computerized research capabil-ities on all six campuses, and began con-struction on a $28 millioninterdisciplinary Wellness Center forstudents and the local community.

In more than two decades at the col-lege, Sweeny has served in key posi-tions including senior vice president foracademic af fairs (1981-1997), vicepresident for planning and acting vicepresident for academic affairs (1980-1981), executive assistant to the pres-ident (1979-1980), assistant to thepresident for government relations(1978-1979), and assistant to the provost(1976-1978). He has also been a prin-cipal and teacher at two New YorkCity Catholic elementary/junior highschools.

Sweeny is married with one daughter.

MARK H. Tuohey is a partner in thelaw firm of Vinson & Elkins LLP inWashington, D.C.

He holds several trustee positionsat universities across the country,including Fordham University andCatholic University of America. He is

also the founding chair anddirector of the WashingtonJesuit Academy (1998-2003),and a trustee of GonzangaCollege High School inWashington, D.C. (1993-2003).

Tuohey received a bache-lor’s degree from St.Bonaventure University, anda JD from FordhamUniversity. He is a directorof the American Ireland Fund,a chair of Cooperation IrelandU.S., and a member of theFriendly Sons of St. Patrick.

Tuohey is an Irish citizenwhose maternal grandpar-ents Michael Slattery andMargaret Hoorigan hailedfrom Co. Tipperary. His pater-nal grandfather Mark H.Tuohey, Sr., came from Co.Galway.

Tuohey was named aslawyer of the year from theD.C. Bar Association in 2001

and Washingtonian of the year in2006. He was the grand marshal of theSt. Patrick’s Day Parade in Washington,D.C. in 2006.

He is married to Martha KellerTuohey. They have three grown chil-dren.

EDWARD Thompsonis vice president for

advancement at MolloyCollege in Rockville Centre,Long Island.

Thompson received abachelor of ar ts degreefrom Holy Cross, and a JDfrom St. John’s University.He is a co-founder of theEnergeia Partnership, anda co-founder of theSustainability Institute. In2008 he was namedEnvironmentalist of theYear by the Long IslandNeighborhood Network.

Thompson traces his Irishancestry to Co. Antrim onhis father’s side, and Co.Wicklow on his mother’s.He is a member of theFriendly Sons of St. Patrickof Long Island, and theIrish Studies Institute atMolloy.

SISTER Constance Touey is the co-principal of St. Francis de Sales

School in Philadelphia, and SisterJeanette Lucey is an eighth gradeteacher and member of the develop-ment team.

Sister Constance received a bache-lor of arts degree from ImmaculataUniversity, and a master’s fromKutztown University. Sister Jeanettereceived a bachelor of arts degree fromImmaculata, and a master’s fromVillanova.

St. Francis de Sales Parish wasfounded in 1904 at the request ofIrish working girls who wanted toattend Mass each day, but were too faraway from a church. Since then, theparish and school have continued toserve immigrants and refugees.

Sister Constance and Sister Jeannettehave worked at St. Francis de Sales forthe last 25 years and have movedthis inner-city school onto a firmfinancial footing through their devel-opment efforts. Each year for the past12 years they have raised more thana half a million dollars for the school

and it has become a model for others. The student body is multi-national

(43 countries represented), multi-religious and from all socio-econom-ic backgrounds. More than half livebelow the federal poverty line. Theschool is situated in the zip code withthe second highest homicide rate inthe City of Philadelphia.

Following the deaths of young grad-uates the sisters began what hasbecome a model peace program tostem the tide of violence and create“The New Kind of Hero,” one whodoes not use violence to solve chal-lenges and confrontations. The peaceprogram has been recognized withnumerous national, state and localawards and has been replicated inmany schools across the country

The motto of St. Francis de SalesSchool is “Magic Happens Here forChildren,” and Sisters Constance andJeannette work very hard to make thatmagic happen.

Sister Constance traces her Irishancestr y to Co. Cavan, while Sr.Jeanette traces hers to Co. Cork.

JOHN Waters is thedirector of studies at

New York University’sGlucksman Ireland House,and the director of the mas-ter’s program in Irish andIrish American studies atNYU.

Waters received a bache-lor’s degree from JohnsHopkins, a master’s fromTrinity College in Dublin,and a PhD from DukeUniversity. His areas ofresearch and interest includeIrish studies, 18th CenturyBritish and Irish culture andBritish Romantic literature.

Waters traces his Irishancestry back three gener-ations to Co. Roscommon.He is a member of theAmerican Conference forIrish Studies.

He is married to KateHunter. They have one child,a daughter Fiona.

SISTER CONSTANCE TOUEYSISTER JEANETTE LUCEY

STEPHEN J. SWEENY

EDWARD THOMPSON

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IRENE Whelan is a professor ofhistory at Manhattanville College

in Purchase, New York. A native of Co. Galway, she received

her degrees from the University ofWisconsin-Madison. She came to theU.S. in the 1970s.

She is a member of the executivecommittee of the AmericanConference for Irish Studies, theNUI Galway alumni group in NewYork, and New York University’sGlucksman Ireland House.

Whelan established an Irish stud-ies minor at Manhattanville, and acooperative exchange with NUIGalway.

Whelan is the author of The BibleWar in Ireland (2005).

TIMOTHY J. White is professorof political science at Xavier

University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He

earned bachelor and master’s degreesfrom the University of Missouri, and aPhD from the University of Michigan.

He is a member of the AmericanConference for Irish Studies, the IrishAmerican Cultural Institute, the PoliticalStudies Association of Ireland, theCeltic Studies Association of NorthAmerica, and the Irish Salon ofCincinnati.

White traces his Irish heritage to Co.Tipperary, where his great-grandparentsemigrated from.

For four years, he has served as thechair of the Donnelly Committee select-ing the best book in history or social sci-ence in the field of Irish studies.

White was twice elected social sciencerepresentative for the AmericanConference for Irish Studies. He is a win-ner of the Irish American CulturalInstitute’s visiting professorship at theNational University of Ireland-Galway.

IRENE WHELAN

PHILIP O’Leary, a professor ofEnglish at Boston College, received

his bachelor’s degree from Holy Crossand his PhD from Harvard.

His teaching integrates his currentresearch interests in the writing of theGaelic movement with his knowledge ofIrish literary and cultural studies. O’Learyis an expert in Irish culture, particular-ly literature and theater; Irish writers; Irishpoetry and the Gaelic language. He isauthor of the book Gaelic Prose in the Irish

Free State, 1922-1939.

In addition toclasses in the Irishlanguage, O’Learyteaches courses onIrish theater, fictionand poetry, includ-ing a comparativecourse dealing withthe drama of theIrish and HarlemRenaissance.

O’Leary guestedited a special issueof Eire-Ireland ontranslation in 2000and is currently con-sulting editor of Eire-Ireland. He alsomaintains linksbetween IrishStudies and theCeltic Departmentat Harvard.

O’Leary receivedan honorary doctorof literature degreefrom the NationalUniversity of IrelandGalway in June of

this year. “By producing his gargantuanwork in English he has introduced mod-ern Gaelic literature to a global audienceand stressed the importance and central-ity of Gaelic to Irish Studies,” his honorarydegree citation read in part.

Previously he had served as an IrishAmerican Cultural Institute fellow atNUI Galway.

O’Leary has also been a distinguishedvisiting professor of Irish language andliterature at Notre Dame University.

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