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@BKQBOCLOFOFPEMOLDO>JP ENEODOPQ@EAOENEODEJOPEPQPA>QNJOHE>N=NU>? ENAH=J@ FOFPEPQRAFBP Peter Fallon Named Burns Visiting Scholar for Academic Year 2012-2013 Press, Cuala Press, Three Candles Press, and Dolmen Press. Gallery has published more than 400 books of poems and plays by Irish writers, including Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Gerald Dawe, Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Derek Mahon, John Montague, Tom Kilroy, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Medbh McGuckian, John Banville, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Marina Carr and Michael Hartnett, and it has fostered a new generation of Irish poets, including Vona Groarke, Peter Sirr, Conor O’Callaghan, Kerry Hardie, Aidan Rooney and Alan Gillis. On July 2, 1995, The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland’s National Theatre, was filled to celebrate twenty-five years of The Gallery Press, with readings introduced by Seamus Heaney. In her opening address, the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, enthusiastically declared: “The Gallery Press has spent the last twenty-five years contributing towards bringing Irish poets and writers of plays and fiction to a wider world culture. I warmly salute the enormous contribution Peter Fallon has made to the diverse and challenging voices in Ireland.” The Gallery Press’s fortieth anniversary in 2010 was Peter Fallon celebrated by readings, special events, and publications at the Dublin Book Festival, Poetry Now, Cúirt, the The Center for Irish Programs and the John J. Yeats Summer School, and Glucksman Ireland Burns Library of Boston College are pleased to House/NYU. RTE, Ireland’s national radio, marked welcome Irish poet, editor, and publisher Peter Fallon the occasion with an hour-long "SUT4IPX special. The as the 2012-2013 Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Dublin Writers Festival culminated in a gala reading Irish Studies. In 1970, at the age of 18, Fallon, already at the Abbey Theatre in June, where Seamus Heaney a published poet, founded The Gallery Press, which introduced the participating poets. Bill Whelan has established itself as Ireland’s preeminent literary composed and premièred settings for a number of poems publishing house in the rich tradition of Dun Emer DPOUJOVFEPOQBHF C>II2012 SLI. 15 KL. 2 1 79951_Newsltr.indd 1 10/11/12 1:24 PM DOCUMENT SIZE: 8.5” x 11” BLACK + PANTONE 409 U &/&0%012!&"0 $")& /,,10#))0 %"!2)" Irish Studies sadly suffered the Cate McQuaid in the #PTUPO(MPCF, loss of Adjunct Professor of History, February 28, 2012, and Fintan Ruth-Ann Harris, with her sudden O’Toole in 5IF *SJTI 5JNFT, April passing on September 5th. Ruth- 21, 2012. Ann’s work on the genealogical Irish Music Librarian Elizabeth database Information Wanted/ Sweeney reports that Sullivan Missing Friends continues under Artist-in-Residence Séamus Con- the guidance of Senior Reference nolly has prepared yet another Librarian Kathy Williams, with ambitious concert schedule for the whom Ruth-Ann had collaborated coming academic year. This year’s on this long-term project. Their calendar includes: Michael Ó Súilleabháin work is based on the Missing Friends column of the #PTUPO1JMPU 5VFTEBZ 4FQUFNCFS 8FEOFTEBZ /PWFNCFS newspaper, which began in 1831 *SJTI.VTJDPO6JMMFBOO1JQFT #FUXFFO8PSMET-FDUVSF3FDJUBM and continued through 1916. The $PODFSUCZ+PFZ"CBSUB 'FBUVSJOH.JDIFgMÊ4|JMMFBCIgJO column has expanded over the past 2101 Commonwealth Avenue 1JBOPXJUI4USJOH2VBSUFU4VMMJWBO two years to include the years 1862 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. "SUJTUJO3FTJEFODF4nBNVT$POOPMMZ through 1870, and work continues Brighton Campus, BC Gasson Hall Irish Room on the remaining records. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. To date, sixty-three thousand 5VTFEBZ 0DUPCFS Chestnut Hill Campus, BC records have been included in the *SJTI%BODF$nJMJ %JSFDUFE Boston College JOGPXBOUFECDFEV CZ,JFSBO+PSEBO .VTJDCZ 8FEOFTEBZ %FDFNCFS website, which is used extensively 4VMMJWBO"SUJTUJO3FTJEFODF "$ISJTUNBT(BUIFSJOH*SJTI by genealogists and historians. 4nBNVT$POOPMMZXJUI .VTJD 4POHT4UPSJFT Additional funding has recently .JDIBFM5VCSJEZ GPSNFSMZPG 'FBUVSJOH(BCSJFM%POPIVF been provided by a gift from UIF$IJFGUBJOT 'SJFOET .BSJBO.BLJOTXJUI local construction magnate Gasson Hall Irish Room 4VMMJWBO"SUJTUJO3FTJEFODF Jay Cashman, whose generous 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. 4nBNVT$POOPMMZBOE donation was matched by funding Chestnut Hill Campus, BC #PTUPO$PMMFHF*SJTI from the Center for Irish Programs 1SPHSBNT4UVEFOUT at Boston College. These funds will Walsh Hall Function Room allow upgrades to be made to the 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. search engine, making this online Chestnut Hill Campus, BC database more user-friendly, and increasing its value to historical research. >IILCQEB>?LSB@LK@BOQP>OB COBB>KALMBKQLQEBMR?IF@ Adjunct Professor of English Vera Krielkamp and McMullen For more on the Kathleen Conneely Museum Director Dr. Nancy Gaelic Roots Series, visit Netzer received rave reviews 5IVSTEBZ /PWFNCFS www.CDFEVHBFMJDSPPUT and widespread acclaim for the *SJTI.VTJDPO8IJTUMF "DDPSEJPO or telephone 617-552-6396. successful exhibit produced in (VJUBS 7PDBMT$PODFSU collaboration with Irish Studies GFBUVSJOH,BUIMFFO$POOFFMZ Co-sponsored by faculty at Boston College. %BO(VSOFZ&BNPO0±-FBSZ the Center for Irish Programs Reviewers from both sides of the Gasson Hall Irish Room and the Irish Music Center of Atlantic had high praise for “Rural 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. the John J. Burns Library Ireland: The Inside Story.” See Chestnut Hill Campus, BC 2 79951_Newsltr.indd 2 10/11/12 1:24 PM DOCUMENT SIZE: 8.5” x 11” BLACK + PANTONE 409 U DOCUMENT SIZE: 8.5” x 11” BLACK + PANTONE 409 U Peter Fallon Named Burns Translation, appeared in 2004. A revised edition has been issued by Oxford University Press (Oxford/New Visiting Scholar York) in its World’s Classics Series. In 1990, Fallon DPOUJOVFEGSPNQBHF edited, with Derek Mahon, the best-selling anthology 5IF 1FOHVJO #PPL PG $POUFNQPSBSZ *SJTI 1PFUSZ. His most recent collection of poems is 5IF $PNQBOZ PG including Peter Fallon’s “The Woman of the House.” )PSTFT (2007). He is one of the youngest contributors which has since been presented, sung by Julie Feeney, included in 5IF'JFME%BZ"OUIPMPHZPG*SJTI8SJUJOH at the National Concert Hall and, with the National "%UPUIF1SFTFOU. Concert Orchestra, broadcast on RTE. Fallon is a member of Aosdána, the association Fallon is an Honors Graduate of Trinity College, which elects and “honours artists who have made Dublin. In 2009, he received an Alumni Award and, an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.” the following year, was appointed Adjunct Professor Among his many other honors, Fallon received the in the School of English of Trinity College, Dublin. He 1993 O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award from the Irish has given more than 200 readings at universities American Cultural Institute, whose citation read: 1FUFS and colleges in the US — including Harvard, Yale, 'BMMPO±TQPFUSZIBTDPOUJOVFEUP»PVSJTIBOEEFFQFOEFTQJUF Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, UIF FYUSBPSEJOBSZ EFNBOET PG IJT DBSFFS BT B QVCMJTIFS the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and 5IFMBUFQPFNTPGIJTNPTUSFDFOUDPMMFDUJPO Eye to Eye Emory University. He has read in a dozen countries BSF UIF ºOFTU IF IBT XSJUUFO 8IFO UIF IJTUPSZ PG *SJTI — in Europe (France, the Czech Republic, England, QPFUSZJOUIFMBUFUXFOUJFUIDFOUVSZDPNFTUPCFXSJUUFO UIF Scotland and Wales), Canada (the Harbourfront OBNFPG1FUFS'BMMPOJTTVSFUPUVSOVQFWFSZXIFSF. Festival), and Japan. Peter also read at the inaugural International Writers’ Conference, Ottawa, and the Peter lives in Loughcrew, County Meath, where he first Dublin Writers Festival. In the spring of 2000, he farmed for many years, and his poetry reflects that was the inaugural Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies strong connection to the land. Seamus Heaney wrote at Villanova University, PA, which conferred on him of Fallon: an Honorary Doctorate. Recently, he has read at the Beall Poetry Festival (Waco, Texas), the Aldeburgh $BSF DPNQBOZ DPNNVOJUZIBWFCFFOGVOEBNFOUBM Festival (England), and the ,FOZPO 3FWJFX Literary DPODFSOT PG 1FUFS 'BMMPO±TXSJUJOH JO BOE BCPVU UIF Festival (Ohio, 2011). He has conducted workshops XPSME DBSFGPSQFPQMFBOEQMBDF GPSQMBOFUFBSUIBOE at The Irish Writers’ Centre, Cúirt (The International UIFQPFUSZPGFBSUI GPSUIFWBMVFTFTQPVTFEJO7JSHJM±T Writers’ Festival, Galway) and the Yeats International GeorgicsXIJDIIFIBTUSBOTMBUFE¥BOEUIFTFSJPVTOFTT Summer School. PGUIBUDBSFUBLJOHIBTEFWFMPQFEPWFSUIFZFBSTUPB QPJOUXIFSFUIFBSUJTUJDBOEUIFNPSBMIBWFDPOWFSHFE His own collections of poems include 5IF4QFBLJOH — Seamus Heaney, June 2010 4UPOFT (1978), 8JOUFS 8PSL (1983), 5IF /FXT BOE 8FBUIFS (1987) and &ZF UP &ZF (1992). /FXT PG UIF During his stay at Boston College, Fallon will teach 8PSME, his selected poems, was published in the two courses, one in the fall and spring terms each. U.S. by Wake Forest University Press in 1993. An His fall course is entitled “Heaney and Friel: Writing expanded edition, /FXTPGUIF8PSME4FMFDUFEBOE/FX Ireland, Writing the World.” The spring course will 1PFNT, was published in Ireland in 1998, included be a Poetry Workshop. In addition to these, Fallon in the *SJTI5JNFT± “Books of the Year,” and reprinted will make one public presentation each semester. twice. Fallon’s poems have been translated into The primary purpose of the Burns Chair, however, French, German, Irish and Japanese, and volumes of is to provide visiting scholars with the opportunity to 4FMFDUFE1PFNT have been published in Romanian and research and write, making use of the rich resources Hungarian. 5BSSZ'MZOO (based on a novel by Patrick available at Boston College in general and at the

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