Word: cathasaigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teacher's neat casual suits or carefully parted white hair fool you. Students say Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies Tomas O Cathasaigh teaches the myths with energy and wit worthy of the Celtic heroes themselves...
...Cathasaigh, or Tomas as he is always called (for even the teaching fellows are nervous about pronouncing his last name), in one class introduced St. Patrick as two legends...
This semester Cathasaigh is teaching twoclasses, Celtic 137: Celtic Mythology and Celtic208: Early Irish Society
According to Cathasaigh, one of the moststimulating aspects of lecturing at Harvard hasbeen the different backgrounds of undergraduatesin his classes. The Irish system, in contrast,ensures that all students in the discipline havefirst had particular schooling...
...very interesting, and it's a newexperience for me," Cathasaigh said...