Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even before the 3,000 delegates arrived at Blackpool's Winter Gardens, the annual Labor Party conference in the Irish Sea resort was shaping up as a struggle between militant leftists and the party's centrists. On one side, determined to win more support for Britain's unpopular 30-week coal miners' strike, was Arthur Scargill, 46, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mine workers. On the other, with an eye on Labor's sagging ratings in the polls, was Party Leader Neil Kinnock...
Despite the relatively obscure status of Irish Studies in America, O Coilean has big plans for his department and for the field in general...
Last spring, Professor of Irish Studies Sean O Coilean was teaching at the National University of Ireland's College at Cork, introducing students to their country's native heritage. There, he says, "If you say you are in Irish Studies, no one asks...
Harvard's "unrivalled" library and research facilities in his field lured the Cork native across the Atlantic. The University owns most of the important manuscripts of Irish literature, and will acquire all of them eventually, he explains...
...coincidence, both Charles W. Dunn and John V. Kellecher, the two professors of Irish Studies who comprised the department's tenured faculty last year, retired this fall...