| | Irish Studies Program Celebrates 20 Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The Irish Studies Program will mark 20 years of promoting the history, culture, literature and art of Ireland with a year-long celebration beginning Columbus Day weekend, featuring a colloquium of American and Irish scholars, an open house and an appearance by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. |
 | | Boston College has been at the forefront of Irish studies' evolution as an academic discipline in US higher education, which had tended to depict Irish history and literature more in terms of British culture, say program administrators. |
 | | Joining O'Neill will be Burns Scholar in Irish Studies Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill; former Burns Scholar Alvin Jackson, an historian at Queens University, Belfast; and Margaret Kelleher, a former Irish Studies doctoral student now on the faculty of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth. |
| www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v7/o1/irishstudies.html (550 words) |