Irish language among new course offerings

This summer three courses will be offered: The Irish Literary Revival, Introduction to Popular Irish Culture and The Irish Experience in Montreal.

The Government of Ireland has just awarded the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies a grant of $46,500 to teach Irish language classes over the next three years. This award is recognition of the growing profile the Centre has in Ireland and internationally.

The Centre offers courses on Irish and Irish-Canadian subjects in more than a dozen departments. The university is about to hire two new faculty in Irish Studies, one a historian, the other a literary critic. With their presence, 15 courses will be offered in 2006-07.

This fall, novelist Patrick McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, both made into films by Neil Jordan) will give a reading and a master class to students in the Creative Writing program.

In September, O’Brien Visiting Scholar Margaret Kelleher (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) will teach two courses.

For more information on the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, visit artsandscience.concordia.ca/irish