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IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 ELCOME to our inaugural Irish degree on time here. S3 Education 100 special supple- Off I went to Trinity in the fall of 1985, and Wment of the Irish Voice. it was an adventure that I will never forget. I It seemed a natural that we should pay trib- studied Irish economics, Russian (yes, ute to the Irish who have made such an Russian!) history, Irish politics and so much indelible mark at colleges and universities more. It was an incredible year, both acade- throughout both the U.S. and Canada. Our mically and personally, and my time in diverse compilation includes presidents and Ireland firmly solidified my affection for professors, trustees and administrators and Ireland and the Irish that continues unabated everyone in between, all of whom share a to this day. common bond — a deep pride in their Our list features many educators and bene- FIRST ANNUAL shared heritage. factors of Irish Studies programs that have IRISH EDUCATION 100 There are Irish, it seems, in every corner of enriched students of all different back- SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT every school that we researched. And Irish grounds. Here in New York, Glucksman Studies programs are springing up all over Ireland House at New York University, SENIOR EDITOR the country, chock full of eager students want- founded by our honoree Loretta Brennan Debbie McGoldrick ing to immerse themselves in all things Irish. Glucksman and her late husband Lew, is a treasure trove of Irishness not only available BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT There really is nothing like flavoring a MANAGER higher education with some Irish spice. I for students, but for anyone who wants to John Dillon graduated from Adelphi University on Long partake of the many Irish cultural and social Island in 1987 – the university’s president, events taking place there on a weekly basis. INTERN Robert A. Scott, is one of our Education 100 Congratulations to this year’s Irish Chris Maiello honorees – and was eager to learn as much Education 100 honorees, who can take a bow about Ireland as I could. knowing that they’ve made significant contri- ART DIRECTOR Though the university did not have an Irish butions to keeping students enlightened and Genevieve McCarthy Studies program I had a very supportive pro- eager to discover more. Education truly is AD DESIGNER fessor who encouraged me in my quest to the key to life! Naela El-Assad spend a year abroad at Trinity College in Dublin, assuring me that all the credits I Debbie McGoldrick COVER DESIGN earned there would be easily transferable so Senior Editor Kevin Kemper that I wouldn’t lose out as far as earning my Irish Voice

IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S4 he was awarded an NEH fel- and approval of new degree pro- lowship at Yale University, and grams and curricula and oversees he subsequently received a grad- the assessment of general education. uate certificate in educational As dean, she has responsibility for management from Harvard faculty development and the University. Teaching Institute, and supervises Bain, who has been a member the Center for Excellence in of the St. John Fisher College fac- Teaching (CET), a state-of-the-art ulty since 1975, is a board mem- technology training facility for fac- ber at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery ulty. in Rochester, and the Rochester Before joining FIT, Bowles was Business Alliance. He is also a director of planning at John Jay member of the New York State College in New York for six years, Magistrates Association after having served as director of Independent Judicial Election both faculty development and fam- Qualification Commission for ily college in the City University the Seventh Judicial District of of New York’s (CUNY) Office of New York State. Academic Affairs. While at CUNY, Bain traces his Irish roots to she also directed the university’s sys- counties Kerry and Cork. He tem-wide efforts in articulation and is a third generation Irish transfer among the 19 CUNY col- American. leges. Last November, he traveled Previous to her administrative to Co. Waterford, Rochester’s sis- positions, Bowles was an assistant ter city, to meet with Waterford professor at Brooklyn College. area business leaders to explore DYMPNA BOWLES A native of Belfast, Bowles received opportunities for educational a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s partnerships for St. John Fisher YMPNA Bowles is dean for cur- University, a master’s from Fordham and DONALD E. BAIN College. The college also houses Driculum and Instruction at the a doctorate in linguistics and reading from number 765 of a limited edition of Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) Columbia University Teachers College. R. Donald E. Bain is the presi- 1,480 facsimilies of the Book of Kells, in New York. She has been at FIT since Bowles also serves as chair of the Ddent of St. John Fisher College and a Great Famine Monument that 2001. CUNY Institute for Irish American in Rochester, New York. was installed on campus in 1997 by Bowles facilitates the development Studies advisory board. Bain holds a BA, MA and PhD from members of the local AOH. the State University of New York at Bain is married with two grown has raised more than $82 million in Buffalo. Following his doctoral work, children. pledges and commitments toward the $90 million goal. State College (now the College of Carney serves on the board of the New Jersey, TCN). She subse- Council of Independent Colleges of New quently joined the Trenton public York and the Association of Franciscan broadcasting TV station and became Colleges and Universities. She is newly an award-winning producer. appointed to the board of the Association Moving from producing to found- of Catholic Colleges and Universities and ing her own public relations firm, is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference’s in 1983 she met Lewis L. Council of Presidents. She also serves on Glucksman, a prominent Wall Street the Secretariat for the Franciscan financier from a second genera- Intellectual Tradition. tion New York Hungarian Jewish Carney received her doctorate in the- family. A second marriage for both, ology in Rome in 1988, becoming the they wed in 1985. first woman to graduate from the Together, Lew and Loretta Franciscan University of Rome at the Brennan Glucksman founded doctoral level. She studied in Europe Glucksman Ireland House, the after completing master’s degrees in the- Center for Irish Studies, at NYU, the ology at Duquesne University and Glucksman Chair of English and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure. American Letters at NYU, the She has lectured extensively both in the Glucksman Chair of Irish Studies U.S. and abroad and served for eight at NYU, the Glucksman Chair of SISTER MARGARET years as the general minister of her reli- Irish and Scottish Studies at the CARNEY gious congregation, the Sisters of St. University of Aberdeen, and the Francis of Whitehall, Pennsylvania. The Lewis Glucksman Gallery at ISTER Margaret Carney is the 20th congregation serves in the U.S., Brazil, University College Cork. Spresident of St. Bonaventure Lithuania and Bolivia. The Glucksmans made a huge University in western New York. Carney holds five honorary doctorates contribution to philanthropy in Since the beginning of her presiden- and is the recipient of a number of other Ireland, funding various projects cy, St. Bonaventure has invested approx- honors. LORETTA BRENNAN throughout the educational sec- imately $25 million in seven major projects Her maternal grandparents were natives GLUCKSMAN tor, most notably at the University on the 500-acre campus. She is also a dri- of counties Cork and Sligo, while her of Limerick, Trinity College Dublin, ving force in the Anniversary Campaign paternal grandparents hailed from Co. ORETTA Brennan Glucksman is and University College Cork. Lew for St. Bonaventure University, which Mayo. Lthe co-founder and chair of the Glucksman died at the age of 80 in July 2006. advisory board at Glucksman Ireland LARE Carroll is a professor at Glucksman has been the recipient House at New York University. She is CQueens College and the Graduate of many awards for her philanthrop- also one of the Irish American com- Center of the City University of New ic, cultural and educational work. munity’s most prominent philan- York in Queens. She received an honorary doctorate thropists and fundraisers through She received her degrees from Queens from Trinity College Dublin in 1997; her role as chairperson of the College, and is a member of the American an honorary CBE for her contribution American Ireland Fund. Conference for Irish Studies, a schol- to the Northern Irish peace process A third generation Irish American arly organization with approximately in 2002; an honorary fellowship of who traces her roots to counties 800 members in the U.S., Ireland, Canada the Royal College of Surgeons in Leitrim and Donegal, Glucksman and other countries around the world. Ireland in 2005; and most recently an married her high school sweetheart Carroll was a Fulbright Fellow at honorary doctorate from the National Jack Cooney in her early twenties Trinity College in Dublin; an American University of Ireland in 2007. and had three children in quick suc- Cultural Institute Fellow at the National Glucksman has been honored by the cession, two boys, John and University of Ireland, Galway; and a vis- University of Scranton and Fairfield Christopher, and one girl, Kate. Always iting distinguished scholar in Irish Studies University with honorary doctorates, a working mother, she began her at Concordia University in Montreal. and has been an honorary member of career as an English teacher and Carroll’s grandparents were natives of the Royal Irish Academy since 2004. CLARE CARROLL continued her education at Trenton Co. Mayo.

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IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S6 ment in the college’s 170- ANIEL F. Collins is a division year history. Under his Dvice president of corporate leadership, the college communications at Corning enrolled the highest quali- Incorporated in Corning, New ty first year class in the York. He is also a member of the school’s history, received a board of trustees at St. record number of applica- Bonaventure University in western tions from prospective stu- New York, serving as chair of the dents and, achieved its high- Marketing Committee, and a mem- est ranking to date by U.S. ber of the Technology and Student News and World Report Affairs committees. (12th among 319 Midwest Collins, married with two chil- baccalaureate colleges and dren and a graduate of St. universities). Bonaventure, was named 2005 On the national level, Alumni of the Year at St. Collins currently serves Bonaventure’s School of Journalism on the board of directors for and Mass Communications. the Association of Catholic He is a past president of the Colleges and Universities. National Alumni Board, (1998- He is also a member of the 2002) at St. Bonaventure. Council of Independent Collins is a former member of the Colleges. Ancient Order of Hibernians. He In Iowa, he is a member traces his Irish roots to counties of the Institute for Tipperary and Cork. Tomorrow’s Workforce DANIEL F. COLLINS Board of Directors, the Iowa College Foundation He also directs the college’s (Executive Committee), Irish Studies’ music and dance JAMES E. COLLINS the Iowa Intercollegiate programs. Athletic Conference AMES E. Collins began his term At the request of the Boston (Presidents’ Council), and the Iowa Jas the youngest president of Loras branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Association of Independent Colleges College in Dubuque, Iowa on June 1, Eireann, Connolly agreed to and Universities (Executive Committee). 2004. Collins obtained a bachelor’s teach and pass on to An active member of the Dubuque degree in finance from Loras in 1984 American-born students the community, Collins serves on the United and a master of arts degree in higher edu- various regional styles of Irish Way Cabinet, Greater Dubuque cation from the University of Iowa in fiddling. Some of his better Development Corporation (Executive 2004. students qualified to compete Committee), and the Carnegie-Stout After graduating from Loras, Collins in the Irish National Music Public Library Foundation. returned to campus as an admissions rep- Championships. He has served on the board of educa- resentative, and in his 25 years of service One of his students won tion at the Archdiocese of Dubuque, to the college has held positions as direc- first place in the under-18 fid- and on the boards of the Dubuque Area tor of special projects, director of alum- dle category, a competition Chamber of Commerce and Junior ni and college relations, interim director Connolly had won 25 years Achievement. He has also been a mem- of development, assistant to the president earlier. He has won the Irish ber of the development councils for and vice president for institutional advance- National Fiddle Champion- Mercy Hospital and Stone Hill Retirement ment. In 1999, he was appointed the col- ship,10 times, and has been Center. lege’s senior vice president. inducted into the Comhaltas Collins and his wife, Lisa, reside in As president, Collins has spearheaded Ceoltoiri Eireann Hall of Fame Dubuque with their six children. one of the strongest periods of achieve- in 2002. In 1999 he was named one al recognition as an urban of Irish America magazine’s university leader. Top 100 Irish Americans. At the University of Connolly has performed Massachusetts, Boston, where throughout the world and on he served as chancellor from SEAMUS CONNOLLY NPR and the Today show, as 1979-88, and at San Francisco well as on Irish radio and State University (1988-), he has EAMUS Connolly, a native of television. made community service and SKillaloe, Co. Clare, is the Sullivan He has two solo CDs, Notes From civic engagement the hall- Artist in Residence at Boston College. My Mind and Here and There. marks of his campuses. He is a leader in the major movements of American high- for GE Asset Management in er education in last several Stamford, Connecticut, and a trustee decades, opening up univer- at Fordham University in the Bronx, sities to a far more diverse stu- from where he received a bachelor dent population; bringing of science degree in economics. many more women and peo- Cosgrove also received a mas- ple of color onto the faculty; ter’s from St. John’s University, promoting service learning, and a graduate certificate from and embracing higher educa- Dartmouth. tion’s responsibility to, as he Cosgrove is responsible for GE’s has said, “educate hearts as global mutual funds and sub-advi- well as minds.” sory business, including distribu- Corrigan is recognized in tion, product development and ser- the national higher educa- vicing in the variable annuity, tion community, the California qualified plans and advisory mar- State University system, and kets. He has amassed a number of the Bay Area civic and busi- awards and honors, including Man ness community as a leader of the Year from Education Through ROBERT A. CORRIGAN and active participant in Bay Music, and Man of the Year from Area affairs. Good Counsel Academy. N the 34 years since he left the uni- He received a bachelor’s degree from A member of the Friendly Sons Iversity classroom as a tenured pro- Brown University and both his mas- of St. Patrick in New York, fessor of English and American ter’s and doctoral degrees in American Cosgrove’s father is a native of Co. Civilization for higher education admin- civilization from the University of MICHAEL COSGROVE Leitrim. A maternal grandmother istration, Robert A. Corrigan has led two Pennsylvania. hailed from Co. Cavan. major urban universities for a total — to He traces his Irish roots to Innisfallen, ICHAEL Cosgrove is the pres- Cosgrove is married with two date — of 28 years and achieved nation- Co. Kerry. 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IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S10 Might Eat), a Washington neighborhood Cregan, who traces his Irish roots to center serving the homeless elderly. Co. Kerry through his father, was pre- Returning to Erie, Courneen joined the sented with the Irish Cultural Centre’s Catholic Schools Office as director of spe- Partner of the Year Award in 2001. He cial programs. During four years there is supportive of the college’s vibrant she helped parochial schools utilize state Irish Studies program. and federal aid, such as textbook loan pro- Cregan is the ninth president of grams, and supervised the beginnings of Stonehill College. A 1978 graduate of the a computer program for Catholic schools. college, he took office in 2000. Since Then she returned to Mercyhurst Prep becoming president, Cregan has worked to become its first president. She remained diligently on several key fronts. there for nine years until she succeeded Before being appointed president of Sister Maura Smith as president of her Stonehill, Cregan served as the pastor religious community. of Sacred Heart Parish, a large inner-city In 2004, when Courneen’s term as pres- parish in the Bronx. ident ended, she set her sights on her first Cregan holds a master of divinity overseas post — the Mercy International degree from the University of St. SISTER JoANNE Center on Baggot Street in Dublin. FATHER MARK T. Michael’s College at the Toronto School COURNEEN Established in the first House of Mercy CREGAN of Theology (University of Toronto). founded by Catherine McAuley, it houses He is a former member of the board of ISTER JoAnne Courneen, RSM, is a the order’s archives and is a retreat center trustees at the University of St. Michael’s trustee at Mercyhurst College in Erie, ATHER Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C., is S where members and associates of the College. Pennsylvania. She is also a member of the Fpresident of Stonehill College in Mercy order can go for programs on the Cregan also holds a JD from Brooklyn leadership team of the newly created Sisters Easton, Massachusetts. group’s founding spirit. Law School. He is licensed to practice of Mercy New York, Pennsylvania, Pacific Whether working in the Bronx as a pas- Though she applied for a job as heritage law before the U.S. Supreme Court, in West Community. tor or serving Stonehill as president, director, she was encouraged instead to the state of New York and the An elementary education major and Cregan’s career has been intertwined with become finance director. It was a new Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the member of the former cadet teacher pro- education. As the pastor of Sacred focus for her, but one she came to enjoy great- District of Columbia, the U.S. district gram, Courneen graduated from Mercyhurst Heart Parish in the Bronx, he was ly — along with the opportunity to interact courts for the districts of Puerto Rico and in 1964. responsible for oversight of schools with people from all over the world. Massachusetts, the Southern and Eastern After joining the Sisters of Mercy, she spent and he directed many students from Courneen could have remained in Dublin Districts of New York, and the U.S. the first years of her religious life teaching there to his alma mater, Stonehill College. for another two-year term, but decided Court of Appeals, First Circuit. and later serving as principal at St. Luke At Stonehill, he is a leader in Catholic that was too long to stay away from her home Cregan joined the Congregation of School in Erie. higher education in the U.S. and lives out community. In fall 2006, she returned to Holy Cross in 1975 and was ordained a Following final profession, she moved his congregation’s mission of being an Mercyhurst and a position as director of the priest in 1983. on to Mercyhurst Preparatory School in Erie “educator in the faith” with distinction. Mercy Institute. as a math teacher and assistant principal. A year later, she moved to Buffalo to join prised of 1,300 employees in 79 neighbor- Her summers were spent in Washington, the leadership team of the newly created hood locations. D.C., working in a women’s shelter. That Sisters of Mercy New York, Pennsylvania, Under her direction, 40 new libraries experience led to her next ministry, five years Pacific West Community. have been constructed. Starting this working full time at SOME (So Others year, construction on the first of 16 addi- tional libraries began. Curran received a bachelor of sci- Also under her direction, all libraries have ence in sociology from St. Joseph’s been equipped with state of the art tech- University in Philadelphia, and a mas- nology including free desktop and WiFi ter of arts in sociology from Temple access to the Internet; access to more than University in Philadelphia. He received 80 online databases; rich book collec- a doctor of philosophy from the tions; and innovative reading and educa- University of Delaware. tional programs. Dempsey holds a bach- Curran was named president of the elor’s degree from St. Mary’s University, University of Dayton in 2002. Prior to a master’s from the University of Illinois that, he held various executive and at Urbana-Champaign, and a JD from teaching positions at St. Joseph’s. DePaul University. Among the honors he has received She serves as chair of the board of are the Brother Bartholomew A. MARY A. DEMPSEY trustees of DePaul University and is a past Sheehan, SJ Award, from St. Joseph’s chair of the Urban Libraries Council. in 2002, and the Outstanding ARY Dempsey has served as com- Mmissioner of the Chicago Public Dempsey and her husband, attorney Contribution Award in International Philip Corboy, live in Chicago. Scholarly Exchange from the Chinese Library since 1994. The library is com- Society for Juvenile Delinquency Research in 2002. He was also award- Following the Exxon and Mobil merg- ed a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, er, in 2000 Dolan became the Middle Department of Criminology from the East and Africa regional director of Exxon DANIEL J. CURRAN University of Melbourne in 1990. Mobil Chemical Company located in Curran, who is married with two chil- Brussels, Belgium. In 2001, he moved R. Daniel J. Curran is the presi- to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he Ddent of the University of Dayton dren, has a grandfather who hailed from Fethard, Co. Tipperary. served as executive vice president for in Ohio. Exxon Mobil Saudi Arabia. He returned to the U.S. in 2003 as in 1975 from the University of California, deputy to the president of Exxon Mobil Santa Cruz, a master’s from UCLA in Refining and Supply Company in Fairfax, 1977, and a master’s from Harvard in 1978 Virginia. in Celtic languages and literatures. Doan From September 2004, he was president received a PhD from Harvard in folklore of Exxon Mobil Chemical Company and and Celtic studies in 1981. vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation Doan is president of the South Florida until his appointment as senior vice pres- Irish Studies Association and a mem- ident in April 2008. ber of the American Conference for Irish MICHAEL J. DOLAN Dolan is a member of the board of the Studies. U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council, Doan traces his Irish heritage to the ICHAEL J. Dolan, senior vice the U.S.-China Business Council and the Burkes and O’Neills from Connaught Mpresident for the Exxon Mobil American Petroleum Institute. He is on and Ulster in the 18th century. Corporation in Irving, Texas, traces his the board of trustees of Worcester Doan has published a number of papers Irish ancestry three generations ago to Co. Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, and presented at numerous conferences Cork. Massachusetts. JAMES DOAN in the area of Irish studies. He founded Dolan joined Mobil Oil Corporation in A native of Massachusetts, Dolan earned the South Florida Irish Studies Association AMES Doan is professor of human- 1980 at the Paulsboro, New Jersey, a bachelor of science degree in chemical and co-founded an Irish studies minor at Jities at the College of Arts and research laboratory. Over the next 13 engineering from WPI and a master of busi- Nova Southeastern University. He is Sciences of Nova Southeastern University years, he worked in a variety of engi- ness administration degree from Drexel active in the Irish community in south in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. neering and managerial positions sup- University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Florida. He received a bachelor of arts degree porting Mobil’s worldwide refineries. He is married with four children. IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S11

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IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S13 In addition to these awards, he received of Trustees of St. Thomas, and played the American College Theatre Festival a key strategic role in the universityís Certificate of Merit for direction of a musi- academic renewal, including restructur- cal 11 years in a row. ing and rebranding the university and A Villanova graduate who began his its schools. studies for the priesthood at the universi- Dooner traces his Irish ancestry to Co. ty, he received his bachelor’s degree in Clare, where his grandparents hailed 1975, with a concentration in theater and com- from. He is a trustee of the Ireland munication arts, and was ordained a priest Council of the University of Notre Dame four years later. and a board member of Keough- In 1983, Donohue earned a master’s Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at degree in theater from the Catholic Notre Dame. University of America in Washington, D.C. He is also a member of the American Two years later he received a master’s Irish Historical Society in New York, and degree in divinity from the Washington of the Ireland-U.S. Council for Commerce Theological Union in Silver Spring, Maryland. and Industry. In 1988, Donohue began his doctoral Since taking on the leadership of FATHER PETER M. studies in theater at the University of McCann Erickson in 1992, Dooner has DONOHUE Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, and received been credited in the industry for advanc- ATHER Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A., offi- his PhD in 1992. ing the creative and overall quality and Fcially became the 32nd president of His dissertation topic, “Shozo Sato and the reputation of the company, for driving Villanova University in 2006. Interculturation of Kabuki and Western JOHN J. DOONER an extraordinary new business record, Donohue, who was chair of the theater Theater,” reflected an interest he had devel- and for reinventing and expanding the department at Villanova, is an award-win- oped in this classic Japanese form. OHN J. Dooner is the chairman and range and vitality of communications ning director who is well-known in In 1990, he was inducted into Phi Kappa JCEO of McCann Worldgroup based competencies offered. Philadelphia’s world of theater and the Phi, which is the nation’s oldest, largest and in New York. McCann is one of the He has been honored with the National arts. most selective all-discipline honor society. world’s largest advertising agency net- Human Relations Award from the In 2002, Donohue became the first Donohue first joined the faculty of works. American Jewish Committee, and named Augustinian priest to win a Barrymore Villanova University in 1985 as an instruc- Dooner earned a bachelor’s degree East Coast Executive of the Year by Award, the Harold Prince Award for tor in the theater department. He left to pur- from St. Thomas University in Miami Adweek magazine. Outstanding Direction of a Musical, for sue his doctoral studies in 1988 and returned Gardens. He is a member of the board Dooner is married with two children. Chicago. His production of Parade garnered in 1992. He was awarded tenure in 2005. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s 2004 Theatre An associate professor, Donohue combined Education of the School of International Critic’s Award as one of the 10 best plays teaching, directing and performing while and Public Affairs. The center runs the of the 2003-04 season chair of the theater department. school’s Executive MPA program, univer- sity partnerships and non-degree profes- the Ethics Committee; the Senator John sional training programs. Heinz History Center; the Allegheny As a public servant, Eimicke previously Conference on Community Development; served in various executive positions in and the Urban League of Pittsburgh. He also New York State and New York City under serves on the Association of Independent Governor Mario Cuomo and Mayor Edward Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania Koch. He also served as a consultant on Vice and the President’s Committee of the President Al Gore’s National Performance Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education. Review. Dougherty has published extensively He is the author or co-author of six books on ethics and health care. His works on these and numerous articles and technical reports. topics include two books published by He also co-founded the Northern Ireland Oxford University Press and more than Peace Builders/ Community Builders 50 scholarly articles. Program. He received master’s and doctorate WILLIAM B. EIMICKE Eimicke is a graduate of Syracuse degrees in philosophy from the University University and holds an master’s and PhD of Notre Dame in 1973 and 1975, and his ILLIAM B. Eimicke is currently from the Maxwell School of Syracuse bachelor’s degree in philosophy from St. Wthe deputy fire commissioner for University. CHARLES J. DOUGHERTY Bonaventure University in 1971. strategic planning and policy at the Fire He previously taught at Syracuse University, Dougherty came to Duquesne from Department of the City of New York. Indiana University, Russell Sage College, the R. Charles J. Dougherty was elected Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He is on public service leave from his State University of New York at Albany, Dpresident of Duquesne University He served as academic vice president from position at Columbia University as the exec- and Baruch College of the City University in Pittsburgh in May 2001. His contract was 1995 to 2001 and as acting president of utive director of the Picker Center for of New York. recently and unanimously extended through Creighton in the summer of 2000. June 30, 2016. Dougherty joined the Creighton faculty He holds a bachelor’s (Phi Beta Kappa) Dougherty is a nationally recognized in 1975, and chaired the department of from Trinity College in Hartford, a mas- scholar and expert in health care ethics, and philosophy from 1981 to 1989. ter of fine arts from the Yale School of has served on numerous health care advi- He also has held faculty appointments in Drama and a PhD from Trinity College sory commissions and projects. Most medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and nursing, Dublin. recently, and served as the first director of the Flannery has been awarded honorary He is a member of the board of directors Creighton Center for Health Policy and doctorates from Trinity College Hartford of UPMC Mercy Hospital, where he chairs Ethics from 1988 to 1995. and the University of Ulster. He also received the Wild Geese Award for Finnegan received degrees from Stonehill Outstanding Contributions to Irish Culture, and Boston College, a master’s in education and the Governor’s Award in the from Harvard and a PhD from Florida Humanities from the state of Georgia for State University. his activities promoting the Celtic heritage Finnegan has been the driving force of the American South. behind Irish studies at Stonehill College. As From 1989 to 1993, the Yeats Foundation a teacher, scholar, and author, he is a sponsored, with the help of the respected professional who has contributed Coca-Cola Company, the Yeats significantly to the academic life of the col- JAMES W. FLANNERY International Theater Festival at the lege and to the overall field of Irish studies. Abbey Theater in Dublin. Under Flannery’s He is a member of the Eire Society, the R. James W. Flannery is the Winship direction, the festival featured produc- Boston Irish Charitable Society, Irish Dprofessor of arts and humanities at tions of 15 of the poet’s one-act plays. Chamber of Commerce USA, the Irish Emory University in Atlanta. He is also the As a singer, Flannery is recognized as Cultural Centre of New England and the director of the W.B. Yeats Foundation in one of the foremost interpreters of Irish American Conference for Irish Studies. Atlanta. song, especially the amhran mór or art RICHARD B. FINNEGAN Married with three children, Finnegan has Flannery came to Emory in 1982 to song tradition based on the achievements a grandfather who hailed from Co. found the university’s theater program. He of the ancient bards and harpers of Ireland. ICHARD B. Finnegan is a professor Roscommon, and a grandmother from Co. has been called “Irish America’s Listed in “Who’s Who in America,” Rand chair of the political science Kerry. Renaissance Man” because of his multi- Flannery has five times been named by department at Stonehill College in Easton, Finnegan has written extensively on Irish ple talents as a producer, stage director, Irish America magazine as one of the Top Massachusetts. business, law, politics and culture. singer, scholar, critic and teacher. 100 Irish Americans. IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S14 Irish ancestry to Co. Clare. sees the Montana Museum of Art and Flynn joined Mount St. Vincent Culture’s operations as well as university from Assumption College in relations, the broadcast media center and Worcester, Massachusetts, where the university’s branding and marketing. he was the provost / dean of facul- He came to the university in August ty. Previously, he was the associ- 2005 after working as the staff director for ate provost of Adelphi University in Congressman Pat Williams, and Montana Garden City, New York for two chief of staff for U.S. Senator Max Baucus. years, and vice president for acad- He also worked for the Montana governor’s emic affairs and dean of the College office and state Department of Labor and at Hanover College in Indiana from Industry from 1977 to 1983. 1989-1994. In 2007 Foley received the Barbara An historian, Flynn has taught Hollmann Administrator of the Year Award on the faculties of several colleges, from the Associated Students of the univer- including Washington and Jefferson sity. “Vice President Foley embodies the College and Denison University. true spirit of the award. His openness and Flynn is the author of White Land, JAMES PATRICK FOLEY flexible attitude have always been con- Black Labor: Caste and Class in ducive to building greater understanding the Late Nineteenth Century Georgia AMES Patrick Foley is the executive between ASUM and UM administrators. (LSU, 1983), and co-editor of an Jvice president of the University of He was willing to work with various indi- award-winning volume entitled Montana in Missoula. He received his bach- vidual students and student groups to lis- Race, Class, and Politics in Southern elor of science degree from St. John’s ten to their concerns,” said the students. History: Essays in Honor of Robert F. University in Minnesota. Both of Foley’s maternal grandparents Durden (LSU, 1989), as well as Foley works directly for university hailed from Co. Cork. His mother’s maid- President George Dennison, and over- CHARLES L. FLYNN numerous articles. en name was O’Neill. He currently serves as a member Ireland peace process, the Irish American R. Charles L. Flynn is president of of the board of directors of the Grace Dthe College of Mount St. Vincent experience and contemporary Ireland. Institute in Manhattan and the Bronx Task In developing the Northern Ireland in Riverdale, New York. He was appoint- Force on Historic Preservation. ed to the position in 2000. peace process course, Gallagher has Flynn was named a Sagamore of the worked directly with William J. Flynn, Flynn received a bachelor of arts Wabash by the governor of Indiana in degree from Hamilton College in chairman emeritus of Mutual of America 1992, and a Kentucky Colonel by the Insurance Company in New York, who Massachusetts, and a master’s and PhD governor of Kentucky in 1991, both in from Duke University. He traces his played a significant role in facilitating the recognition of his public service. peace process. Gallagher served as the chair of the and director of the university’s Keough- American Conference for Irish Studies Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Southern Regional Conference, which the Fox received a bachelor’s degree in University of St. Thomas hosted on English from Cleveland State February 24-26, 2005. University, and a master’s and PhD in She also is a director of the Irish Society, English from the State University of a local non-sectarian, non-partisan cultur- New York at Binghamton. al group that was instrumental in the cre- Fox has received the Presidential LORI MEGHAN ation of the Center for Irish Studies at the Award for Distinguished Service GALLAGHER university and that co-sponsors many Irish from Notre Dame. He has also been cultural events with the center. ORI Meghan Gallagher is the direc- named to Irish America magazine’s Top Before joining the university, Gallagher Ltor of the Center for Irish Studies at 100 Irish American list. was the partner-in-charge of the appellate the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Fox received a Distinguished section of the Houston-based internation- She has served in that position since the cen- Dissertation in the Humanities and al law firm of Andrews Kurth LLP. She prac- ter opened in January 2003. Fine Arts Prize from SUNY- ticed law full-time with Andrews Kurth As director, Gallagher oversees the Irish Binghamton. He is a co-founder of the for 18 years until she joined UST in 2002. studies academic program, which con- Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Gallagher is a fourth-generation Irish sists of an undergraduate minor program Studies. American whose family immigrated to and a graduate concentration in the mas- Fox traces his Irish heritage back America in the 1860s from Donegal. She CHRISTOPHER FOX ter in liberal arts program, and the Ireland to the 18th century. He and his wife received her undergraduate degrees in study abroad program. The university HRISTOPHER Fox is a professor Judith have four children, Geoffrey, English and journalism as well as her JD offers five to six interdisciplinary Irish Cat the University of Notre Dame, Sean, Annie and Ashley. from the University of New Mexico in Studies courses each semester. Albuquerque. She received a postgraduate Additionally, she is a lecturer at the uni- diploma in Anglo-Irish literature from versity on historical and political perspec- and other locations throughout the Trinity College Dublin on a Rotary tives on Irish law and culture, the Northern U.S. Foundation Scholarship. In 2002, while working at the Kennedy Space Center, he approached then Irish School of Education on a National Science Education Minister Noel Dempsey to Foundation fellowship, receiving the M.A.T. support his dream of having Irish stu- degree in 1966. dents study and work in areas of aero- He was an instructor in pure and applied space and life sciences research in the mathematics and physics at St. Augustine’s U.S. The first Florida internship took College in Cape Coast, Ghana until 1974, place at the Space Life Sciences Lab at after which he began a 17-year period of dis- Kennedy in 2002. tinguished service at Archbishop Hoban In 2003, the program expanded and High School in Akron, Ohio, having served a team of 12 Irish graduates spent 10 the last six years of that tenure as president weeks at Kennedy Space Center. and principal. Towards the end of the program, the stu- Gilman also has studied at St. Louis dents launched a rocket into space. University (1971), the University of Akron Also in Florida, Gannon formulated (1974-75, 1980), Georgetown University a program for Irish technicians that (1976), and was a member of the Woodrow was based on green/clean energy and Wilson Institute at Princeton University, conservation methodologies. The last where he studied in 1985. He received a doc- two programs under the direction of the BROTHER RICHARD GILMAN torate in higher educational administration from TONY GANNON Florida Solar Energy Center were very the University of Dayton. successful, and almost 40 Irish techni- ROTHER Richard Gilman, C.S.C., is In 1991 he was named he third president ONY Gannon is the director of cians became certified in wind turbine Bpresident of Holy Cross College in of Holy Cross College. Teducation at Space Florida in technology and other green initiatives. Notre Dame, Indiana. Gilman is a founding member and past Cape Canaveral, Florida. Gannon devel- Gannon, a native of Dublin, received Gilman graduated summa cum laude as class chairman of Corvilla, a not-for-profit group pro- oped the Science Challenge concept at a bachelor’s degree from University valedictorian from St. Edward’s University in viding residential services for developmen- the Kennedy Space Center on behalf of College Dublin. Austin, Texas where he earned a bachelor of tally disabled children and adults. He also cur- Irish employment agency FAS, and He is an advisor in the Florida Office science degree in mathematics and physics rently serves on the board of trustees of St. later expanded the program to Houston of Math and Science. in 1965. He attended Harvard Graduate Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009

S15 language program was the first in the PhD in music from the U.S. to be recognized by the Irish govern- University of Pittsburgh. He ment in the form of a grant from the was ordained a priest in June Department of Gaeltacht, Community, of 1984. and Rural Affairs. Among his honors are the The center received additional recogni- Irish in America Award for the tion in terms of an historic official visit from best book-length manuscript President Mary McAleese in 2006. dealing with the Irish experi- The center offers courses in archeolo- ence in North America, award- gy, dance, film, folklore, history, literature ed by the Cushwa Center for and music as well as an extensive study the Study of American in Ireland program. Catholicism at the University Gleeson is a member of Milwaukee of Notre Dame in 1994. Irish Arts, the Shamrock Club of In addition to serving as Wisconsin, the Irish Immigrant Service FATHER ROBERT R. GRIMES dean, Grimes also is an asso- of Milwaukee and the Irish Cultural ciate professor of music at Heritage of Wisconsin Center. ATHER Robert R. Grimes, S.J., is Fordham University. JOHN GLEESON Among his notable achievements are Fthe dean of Fordham College at A third generation Irish American, he is OHN Gleeson, a native of Dublin, is being named Wisconsin Irish Man of the Lincoln Center in New York, a part of a member of the board of trustees at Jthe co-director of the Center for Year, a member of Irish America magazine’s Fordham University. Xavier High School in New York, and a Celtic Studies at the University of Wisconsin Top 100 Irish Americans, and the He earned a bachelor of arts, cum laude, member of the board of trustees of the Milwaukee, from where he also received Wisconsin Scottish Celtic Person of the in German language and literature from College of Holy Cross in Worcester, his degrees. Year. He is also vice president of the Fordham in 1975. Among his other degrees Massachusetts. He is also chair of the Gleeson was instrumental in setting Paddy Clancy Scholarship Fund. are ones from Manhattanville College, academic affairs committee of the board up the Center for Celtic Studies. Its Irish Gleeson is married with two children. the Weston School of Theology and a of trustees at Holy Cross.

Hachey oversees all of Boston College’s and The Irish Ecclesiastical Record. Irish initiatives, including the Irish Studies Halton earned a master’s in ancient program, the Irish Institute, the Burns classics at University College Dublin and Library Irish Collections, the Center for Irish came to the Catholic University of America Programs-Dublin and the Irish Music in Washington, D.C. in 1959 on a doctor- Program. al scholarship. At the completion of his He is a Danforth Fellow (1979-1983); doctorate, Catholic University offered winner of the 2002 Roger McHugh Prize, him a teaching position. He taught at the given by the New Hibernian Review, in university for 40 years as Gardiner profes- conjunction with the president of University sor of Greek and chairman of the College Dublin, and sits on editorial boards Department of Greek and Latin. for three scholarly Irish studies journals. Halton is editor of the 30-volume Fathers Hachey was honored as one of Irish of the Church series and has published 20 America magazine’s Top 100 Irish Americans books with grants from many foundations, in 2007, and is the author and/or editor of including the National Endowment for seven books, three of which are on Ireland, the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. and author of over 100 reviews and essays Halton received the Bene Merenti Medal THOMAS E. HACHEY on Irish history. from the Pope for his outstanding acade- HOMAS E. Hachey is a professor of Hachey is a member of the American THOMAS HALTON mic achievement, and was president of Thistory and executive director of the Conference for Irish Studies, and a past pres- the North American Patristics Association. Center for Irish Programs at Boston College. ident of the Irish Historical Society, Dublin. HOMAS Patrick Halton is a native His proudest honor was the award of the Hachey received a PhD from St. John’s He is married to Jane Beverly Hachey. His Tof Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan. His teacher, title Cavan Man of the Year, which was pre- University in New York, and conducted maternal grandfather hailed from Bantry, Master Peter Martin, recognized him as sented to him on his 70th birthday in his his post-doctoral studies at the University Co. Cork, and maternal grandmother from an exceptional student and provided pri- home county before an international circle of London. Glengarriff, Co. Cork. vate coaching for him that culminated in of friends. an award to St. Patrick’s, the only board- On Halton’s retirement, the Catholic ing secondary school for Catholic boys in University published a volume of essays John’s, with enhanced facilities, expand- Co. Cavan. in his honor celebrating his scholarly ed academic initiatives and an increasing On graduation, he entered St. Patrick’s achievements and also the heritage and cus- global presence. College in Maynooth where he pursued his toms of his native Cavan that inspired Since the beginning of Harrington’s interest in Greek literature and archeolo- him. tenure as president in 1989, St. John’s gy. Following Maynooth, he taught Greek Halton is preeminently a classicist but has expanded to include three addition- and Latin at St. Patrick’s in his native his erudition is always spiced with a dis- al campuses in Manhattan, Oakdale and Cavan. He also wrote for The Furrow tinctively Irish wit and charm. Rome, Italy. Born in Brooklyn, Harrington entered the junior college seminary of the development research centers. Vincentian Fathers in Princeton, New He has given testimony based on his Jersey. He completed his studies for the research to both houses of Congress priesthood at Mary Immaculate Seminary on numerous occasions, on topics rang- in Northampton, Pennsylvania. ing from the impact of immigration on the Harrington pursued graduate studies at nation’s labor markets to the relationships the Catholic University of America and the between family organization, education, University of Toronto. and the problems of poverty. Harrington holds honorary doctorates Harrington frequently serves as a fea- FATHER DONALD J. from several colleges and universities in tured speaker at conferences on educa- HARRINGTON the U.S., including Niagara University, St. tion and workforce development across the nation, and is frequently cited in ATHER Donald J. Harrington, C.M., Thomas Aquinas University and the Catholic University of America. He has also media reports on labor market and eco- Fis the 15th president of St. John’s nomic activity. University in Flushing, Queens. Harrington been honored by several international institutions such as Fu Jen University in He has served on a number of non-prof- is also currently on the board of directors it boards, including educational and of the Commission on Independent Taipei, the American University in Rome and Kokushikan University in Tokyo. workforce organizations, and organiza- Colleges and Universities. PAUL HARRINGTON tions involved in the distribution of food Prior to serving as St. John’s presi- He was awarded the honor Pro Ecclesiaet Pontifice by Pope John Paul II to low income and elderly households. dent, Harrington served as the 22nd pres- AUL Harrington is an economist Over the years, he has authored and ident of Niagara University, along with two in 1989 and was named a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre in 1999. He received the Pand a member of the faculty at the co-authored numerous articles, mono- terms on the board of directors for the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs graphs and books and taught a wide Association of Catholic Colleges and Order of Merit (Cavalieri) of the repub- lic of Italy in June 2003 and the Grand at Northeastern University in Boston. variety of courses in economics and Universities. In 1980, he created the Center for public policy. While at St. John’s, Harrington’s vision Ufficiale in October 2003. Harrington is a third generation Irish Labor Market Studies that, nearly 30 Harrington’s father came to the U.S. in has resulted in an extraordinary transfor- years later, is recognized among the 1926 from the Beara Peninsula, West mation of the university into a “new” St. American, tracing his family lineage to Co. Waterford. nation’s top education and workforce Cork.

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S16 officer in 2001 after his appointment Rhode Island. At the 1998 Wellesley by President George W. Bush as College commencement, Hussey was U.S. ambassador to Sweden. He awarded the Pinanski Prize for excel- served in the role of ambassador lence in teaching. until 2004. In 1998 Hussey founded the Wellesley Heimbold graduated with hon- Summer Theatre (WST) with a pro- ors from Villanova University’s duction of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. College of Arts and Sciences in Since then WST has presented 15 pro- 1954 with a bachelor of arts degree ductions including a world premiere, in English. In 1959, he completed American premiere, and two New a program at the Hague Academy England premieres. of International Law. In the last 20 years, Hussey has Heimbold was with the New directed over 90 productions in region- York law firm of Milbank, Tweed, al, small professional, and university the- Hadley & McCloy from 1960 to aters across New England. 1963. He received a bachelor of In recent years she co-adapted and laws degree from the University of then directed the Poets’ Theatre produc- Pennsylvania in 1960, and a mas- tion of I Am of Ireland: The Women of ter of laws degree from New York the North Speak Out. The script was sub- University in 1966. NORA HUSSEY sequently selected for inclusion in the In 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Heimbold International Festival of Women CHARLES HEIMBOLD committed $10 million to Villanova, ORA Hussey, a native of Co. Playwrights, and she directed it in Co. HARLES Heimbold, Jr., the retired the largest gift from an alumnus in NKerry, is currently the director Galway in the summer of 1997. Cchairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers the history of the university. Their excep- of theater and theater studies at As directorial assistant to Derek Squibb Company and former U.S. ambas- tional generosity, with its focus on schol- Wellesley College in Wellesley, Walcott, she directed three world pre- sador to Sweden, endowed a chair in Irish arships, is creating new educational oppor- Massachusetts, where she teaches, mieres for the Boston Playwrights’ Studies at Villanova in 1999 with his wife tunities and contributing to the vibrancy directs the main stage productions, Theatre. She is a founding member of Monika. The chair is held each spring of the cultural climate at Villanova. and mentors the student/experimental the Guild, which was dedicated to the semester by a distinguished Irish writer, In addition to his affiliation with Villanova, performances. support and the promotion of women and has become one of the most prestigious Heimbold, who traces his Irish ancestry Prior to Wellesley, she taught and theater artists in New England. Irish studies positions in the U.S. to Co. Meath, is a member of the Council guest directed at colleges and univer- Hussey is married to Kieran Brennan, After a career spanning nearly 40 years on Foreign Relations, a former chairman sities from Bangor, Maine to Providence, and they have a son, Rory Gareth. with Bristol-Myers Squibb pharmaceuti- of the board of overseers at the University cal company, Heimbold retired as the of Pennsylvania Law School, and a former company’s chairman and chief executive trustee at Sarah Lawrence College. She received her PhD from the University of Ihde is the executive director of the Texas Department of CUNY’s Institute for Irish American English, Ethnic and Studies, a past board member of American Third World Studies. Conference for Irish Studies, and past Among her notable president of North American Association awards received are a for Celtic Language Teachers. Cox Teaching He was appointed as the first full-time Excellence Award, the Irish language professor at CUNY in University of Montana 2008. He has two books published, Mentoring Award, a Colloquial Irish (Routledge 2008) and research grant from the the Irish Language in the United States Irish government and (Bergin & Garvey 1994). a research support Ihde has set up a network of colleges award from the Montana offering Irish language to undergraduate KATHLEEN MARY KANE Committee for the students, starting with Bergen Community IRECTOR of Irish Studies at the Humanities. College in 1995. DUniversity of Montana in Kane is a member of the National He is presently coordinating under- Mossoula, Kathleen Mary Kane traces Conference of Irish Studies and the graduate Irish language courses at his own her Irish roots to counties Derry, Cork Montana Gaelic Cultural Society. She campus, as well as at Queens College, and Wicklow. is married with five children. Manhattan College, the College of Mount Saint Vincent and Bergen Community Keeley came to the U.S. in College. 1989. He received a BA in THOMAS IHDE Ihde received a bachelor’s degree from English (summa cum laude) St. Mary’s University, and master’s and from the University of HOMAS Ihde is an associate profes- PhD degrees from Trinity College in Georgia. He then earned a Tsor of Irish language and literature Dublin. master’s and a PhD in British at Lehman College, City University of Ihde’s grandparents hailed from coun- and Irish literature from New York (CUNY), in the Bronx. ties Galway, Monaghan and Wicklow. Princeton University. At Princeton, Keeley won in Chicopee, Massachusetts, is the the foremost graduate award, co-founder of the college’s Irish the Jacobus Fellowship “for Cultural Center. highest scholarly excel- She received a bachelor of arts lence.” His research focus- degree from Elms, and a master’s es on how Irish literature degree in history from Villanova represents the country’s University. She also received a material culture, especially doctorate in history from HOWARD KEELEY its housing. Fordham University. He is particularly inter- Keating’s maternal grandpar- OWARD Keeley is assistant pro- ested in the period after the Famine, ents hailed from Co. Kerry. Her Hfessor of literature and director of which includes the Land War. During paternal grandfather hailed from the Center for Irish Studies at Georgia this time, the Irish won the right to own Co. Tipperary, while her paternal Southern University in Statesboro. not just their own land, but also their grandmother also had Tipperary A native of Dublin, Keeley has been in homesteads. roots. Statesboro since fall 2004, although the Keeley is president (2009-2011) of the In 1998 Keating received the Center for Irish Studies was founded on southern chapter of the American Human Relations Award from St. Patrick’s Day 1995. The center oper- Conference for Irish Studies. He is fac- the National Conference for ates an academic program that caters to ulty advisor for Club Gael (Irish Studies SISTER KATHLEEN Community and Justice, and in around 275 students annually. Student Club). He is also an honorary KEATING 2001 she was named Chicopee’s Features of the program include a member of the W.B. Yeats Society of Citizen of the Year. five-course undergraduate minor in Irish New York. ISTER Kathleen Keating, past pres- She is a member of the Sons of Erin in studies; a literature MA with a concen- Keeley and his wife Jessica have Sident of Our Lady of the Elms College Westfield, Massachusetts. tration on Irish authors; and a full-cred- three children who range in age from it summer study in Ireland option. 12 years to 20 months. IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S17

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IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S20 Fenimore Cooper, Kelly is the author of Canadian Irish Plotting America’s Past: Fenimore Cooper and Studies Foundation. the Leatherstocking Tales. He is a former He is the editor of the Random House edi- president of the St. tion of The Selected Works of Washington Irving Patrick’s Society of and the Oxford University Press edition Montreal, a former of The Pathfinder. He is currently at work on president of the a book about John Jacob Astor. Canadian Association Kelly graduated summa cum laude from for Irish Studies, and Princeton University in 1971, where he former chair of the won the David Bowers Prize in American International Studies. He was named outstanding grad- Association for the uate student in English at Indiana University, Study of Irish where he received his PhD in 1976. Literatures. He also holds a diploma in intellectual his- Kenneally has lec- tory from Cambridge University and in MICHAEL KENNEALLY tured on Irish litera- 1980 received a Fulbright Fellowship to ture in many coun- WILLIAM KELLY France, where he subsequently became R. Michael Kenneally, a native tries and has been visiting scholar in Irish Dof Youghal, Co. Cork, is the chair ILLIAM Kelly is the president of the visiting professor at the University of Paris. studies at Simon Fraser University, the of Canadian Irish studies in the WGraduate Center of the City of New On the faculty of CUNY’s Queens College University of Innsbruck in Austria and Department of English, Faculty of Arts York (CUNY) in Manhattan. From 1998 from 1976 to 1998, Kelly was named Queens Waseda University in Tokyo. and Science at Concordia University through June 2005, he served as the College’s Golden Key Honor Society Teacher He is the executive director of the in Montreal. Graduate Center’s provost and senior vice of the Year in 1994. Canadian Irish Studies Foundation. He He studied at the University of British president, a tenure that was marked by Kelly is the vice chairman of the CUNY was appointed Honorary Consul General Columbia, McGill and the University of the recruitment of a remarkable cadre of inter- Research Foundation and serves as a trustee of Ireland in Quebec in 2003. Toronto, where he received his PhD. nationally renowned scholars to the school’s of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Kenneally’s main accomplishment is Kenneally has written many articles faculty. Foundation. He is also a member of the board in mobilizing Montreal’s Irish commu- on Irish and Irish Canadian literature, and A distinguished American literature schol- of the CUNY Institute for Irish American nity to raise funds to develop Irish stud- teachers courses on these subjects at ar and an expert on the works of James Studies. ies as an academic discipline at Concordia. Concordia. He has written, edited or The Canadian Irish Studies Foundation sity’s chief academic offi- co-edited more six books, and also edit- now has an endowment of more than $6 cer, leading approximate- ed the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. million, which funds 18 courses annual- ly 475 full-time teaching He is the inaugural holder of the chair ly in 10 difference disciplines, brings dis- faculty in the university’s in Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia tinguished Irish public and cultural fig- six schools and colleges. and is director of the Centre for Canadian ures to Montreal. It also provides 20 He has worked with the Irish Studies, both of which have been scholarships annually to students in deans and faculty commit- funded with the assistance of the Irish studies. tees to complete a review of the university’s mas- University of Dayton, his PhD in phi- ter’s and doctoral pro- losophy from the University of Miami, grams, resulting in fewer and a second master’s degree in high- programs but creating dis- er education administration from CORNELIUS KERWIN tinctive market niches, Columbia University. improved physical facili- R. Cornelius Kerwin became Lahey’s paternal grandfather, Daniel ties and enhanced national reputations. DAmerican University’s 14th presi- Lahey, was born in Knockglossmore, Kerwin, a professor of public administra- dent in 2007. He had been the Washington, Co. Kerry and emigrated as a child tion in the School of Public Affairs, is a nation- D.C. university’s acting, then interim, pres- with the Lahey family to Canada and ally recognized specialist in public policy, ident since August 2005, and served as then to New York City. His paternal with emphasis on the regulatory process. provost from 1997 until 2005. grandmother, Agnes Roche, hails He is actively engaged in teaching and Kerwin is a long-standing member of from Co. Cork and his maternal grand- research and teaches courses in adminis- the university’s community. He received a mother, Nellie Griffin, hails from Co. trative process, policy implementation, bachelor of arts from American University Clare. and American government. in 1971, followed by a master of arts in polit- Lahey also is a leader in the commu- Under Kerwin’s leadership, the univer- ical science from the University of Rhode nity, serving as a member of the sity established the Center for the Study of Island in 1973, and a PhD in political science Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division Rulemaking in July 2004. As part of its from Johns Hopkins University in 1978. 4, New York County; director and mission to better understand and improve He has been a member of the American vice chairman of the St. Patrick’s the processes and techniques used by University faculty since 1975. He has held Day Parade, Inc.; member of the government agencies to develop regulations, a number of prominent leadership positions Knights of St. Patrick; and on the the center organizes conferences, sym- within the School of Public Affairs, includ- board of directors for Yale-New Haven posia, and workshops, which bring togeth- ing his service as dean from 1989 to 1997. Hospital, United Illuminating Company, er scholars, public and private sector per- As provost, Kerwin served as the univer- the Aristotle Corporation, sonnel, and the larger academic community. JOHN LAHEY Independence Holding Company and the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy. a master’s from the Jesuit School of R. John Lahey is the president A member of the New York City St. Theology in Berkeley, Massachusetts, and Dof Quinnipiac University in Patrick’s Day Parade Committee for a PhD from Stanford. Hamden, Connecticut. President for the more than 20 years, the 1997 grand mar- Leahy leads one of the nation’s most past 22 years, Lahey has distinguished shal of the parade and in 2000 named prestigious Catholic universities with himself as an innovative and dynamic one of the 10 outstanding grand mar- 14,500 students and 154,000 alumni. He leader who has spearheaded Quinnipiac shals of the 20th century, Lahey has became the 25th president of Boston emergence as one of the leading insti- devoted much of his time to educating College in July 1996. tutions in the Northeast. the public about the historic implica- Coming to Boston College from With a national reputation for admin- tions of Ireland’s Great Hunger. He has Marquette University, where he served istration and fundraising, Lahey has been at the forefront of a movement to for five years as executive vice presi- increased Quinnipiac’s endowment require schools to include the Irish dent, Leahy brought to his position a from $5 million to $175 million, guid- Famine in school curricula as a human diverse background as a university admin- ed a comprehensive building program rights violation. istrator and as a scholar in 20th century and directed a more than 300% increase Under Lahey’s leadership, Quinnipiac American social and religious history. in student enrollment, from 1,902 stu- has developed the largest collection of He is the author of Adapting to America: dents in 1986 to more than 7,600 stu- books, educational materials and art Catholics, Jesuits and Higher Education dents today. on Ireland’s Great Hunger in its Lender in the Twentieth Century, as well as U.S. News and World Report recog- Family Special Collection Room, An FATHER WILLIAM P. numerous scholarly articles on religious nizes Quinnipiac as one of the top Gorta Mór, located in its Arnold LEAHY and educational history in the U.S. schools in the northern region, and Bernhard Library. The collection is He is a member of Boston College’s Irish Quinnipiac is now listed among The the largest of its kind in the world, devot- ATHER William P. Leahy, S.J., is Institute, and was named as one of the Top Princeton Review’s Best 361 Colleges. ed solely to Ireland’s Great Hunger. Fpresident of Boston College. 100 Irish Americans by Irish America Lahey, a native of the Bronx, received Lahey resides in Cheshire, He received his bachelor and mas- magazine in 2006. He traces his Irish both his undergraduate and master’s Connecticut, with his wife Judy, and has ter’s degrees from St. Louis University, ancestry to Co. Kerry. degrees in philosophy from the two sons, Brent and Robert. IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009

S21 a master’s degree in He received his bachelor’s degree 1986. from Holy Cross, a master’s from He earned master’s Indiana University, and a further mas- degrees from the Yale ter’s and PhD from Princeton. Department of McCarthy and his wife, Dr. Magda Religious Studies in Ghanma, are Irish citizens. All four of 1990 and 1991, and a his grandparents hailed from Co. Kerry. PhD. in 1994. He Several family members reside in earned a Licentiate in Dublin. Sacred Theology at the McCarthy is a former Heilbrunn Jesuit School of Professor of Public Health at Columbia, Theology at Berkeley former dean, School of Health Human the same year. Services at the University of New Linnane joined the Hampshire; a former director of the Religious Studies Hopkins Population Center at Johns Department at Holy Hopkins University, a former board Cross in 1994. He has chair at the Guttmacher Institute in taught courses in New York, and a former board member Christian ethics at Holy of the Planned Parenthood Federation Cross, and has also JAMES McCARTHY of America. offered advanced cours- McCarthy is also a former visiting aca- es in morality, medical AMES McCarthy is provost and demic at Trinity College Dublin, where ethics, and virtue theo- Jsenior vice president for academ- he conducted research and published ry. His scholarly publi- ic affairs at Baruch College, City on community health in Dublin and cations are extensive, University of New York in Manhattan. on Irish fertility trends. and include the areas of fundamental moral the- and Cork. FATHER BRIAN F. LINNANE ology, health care She teaches ethics, and virtue ethics. creative writ- ATHER Brian Linnane is the Linnane has served as ing and litera- F24th president of Loyola College national vice president of Alpha ture at the in Baltimore, Maryland in 2005. Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society, Curtis Institute. Linnane entered the Society of and as a member of the Seminar on She was a Jesus in 1977 and was ordained to the Jesuit Higher Education. He was a member of the priesthood on June 14, 1986. He chair of the Catholic Theological faculty from earned an A.B. degree, magna cum Society of America’s Committee on 1994-1999 and laude, from Boston College in 1977 Admissions. was appointed and a master’s from Georgetown His paternal grandmother hailed chair of the University’s Department of from Co. Waterford, and paternal Liberal Arts Government in 1981 before undertak- grandfather from Co. Clare. His Department in ing divinity studies at the Jesuit maternal grandparents hailed from 2001. School of Theology, where he earned Co. Sligo. Among the honors she has received are charitable organization found- the Lindback ed in 1899 that annually honors JEANNE MINIHAN McGINN Foundation the accomplishments of Award for Pennsylvanians who bring distinc- EANNE Minihan McGinn is the chair Distinguished Teaching, Curtis Institute of tion to the Commonwealth. Jof the Liberal Arts Department at the Music, 2008; Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, Education forms a special focus Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Fellowship in the Humanities, 1992-1993; for Fitzgerald, as she oversees She earned a bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College Senior Fellowship, The Pennsylvania Society’s annu- Bucknell, a master’s in Irish literature September 1991-1992; Rotary International al Benjamin Franklin Scholar from University College Cork and a PhD Graduate Fellowship, September 1985, Award, a competitive college from Bryn Mawr College. and the William Pangburn Award, Bucknell scholarship program open to all McGinn is a member of the International University, May 1983. Pennsylvania public high school Association for the Study of Irish Literature. McGinn is married to Joseph McGinn, students. She traces her Irish roots to counties Mayo a professor at Lock Haven University. She has been associated with higher education for more than a bachelor’s degree and a juris doctor 25 years, holding senior-level degree, both from Villanova University, positions in alumni relations and for which he also serves as a member of the advancement at the University of board of trustees. He then served for Pennsylvania and Drexel three years in the U.S. Marine Corps as a University, her undergraduate captain, including a tour in Vietnam. and graduate institutions respec- McGuinn is a former member of sever- tively, while also serving as a al key committees at Villanova University, volunteer for several schools, including the steering committee for the education- and youth-focused Campaign for Villanova; the Board of organizations, and alumnae asso- Consultants, Villanova Law School, serving ciations — William Penn Charter as chairman from 1985 to 1987; the Corporate School; Springside School; and Foundation Gifts Committee for the CAROL McCULLOUGH Academy of Children’s Music; Villanova Campaign; as well as former edi- Philadelphia Futures; Girl Scouts tor-in-chief of the Villanova Law Review. FITZGERALD of Eastern Pennsylvania; Duke MARTIN G. McGUINN Through McGuinn’s generous support of University Executive Leadership AROL McCullough Fitzgerald ARTIN G. McGuinn retired in Villanova, he established the Martin G. Board; Trustees’ Council of Penn Cis a member of the board of MFebruary of 2006 as chairman and McGuinn Chair in Business Law, and the Women, and the University of directors of Chestnut Hill College, chief executive officer of Mellon Financial McGuinn Scholars Program for study Pennsylvania Association of Alumnae. founded in 1924 as a college for Corporation, a global financial services abroad students from Ireland. Fitzgerald is an experienced public women by the Sisters of St. Joseph of company headquartered in Pittsburgh. McGuinn’s paternal grandparents hailed relations consultant and political cam- Philadelphia, but a fully coeduca- Under McGuinn’s leadership, assets from Co. Mayo. His mother’s family was paign manager and fundraiser for tional institution since 2003. She under management grew by more than from Co. Cork. judicial, local and state candidates. serves on the board’s Development 9% per year and assets under custody or McGuinn is a former director of the She is the mother of three grown Committee and chairs the Nominating administration grew by more than 10% per American Ireland Fund. He received the children and resides in the Chestnut Committee. year compared to an S&P 500 stock index chairman’s award for distinguished leader- Hill section of Philadelphia with her Fitzgerald, whose McCullough that was virtually flat. During this same peri- ship from the Pittsburgh American Ireland husband, the Honorable James J. roots are in Co. Tyrone, is also exec- od Mellon became the fifth largest global Fund in 2001, and the Ireland Chamber of Fitzgerald III, Superior Court of utive director of The Pennsylvania custodian and the 12th largest asset man- Commerce in the USA award in 2004. Pennsylvania. Society, a non-profit patriotic and ager in the world. McGuinn is married to Ann. They have A Philadelphia native, McGuinn received two sons and three granddaughters. IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S22 Before coming to Trinity is in a unique position to find out. Washington in 1989 she was the McKenna’s paternal grandparents assistant dean for development and hailed from counties Monaghan and external affairs for the Georgetown Cavan; her mother’s parents were University Law Center. natives of Laois and Kerry. Her inter- McGuire holds a number of hon- est in all things Irish has been intense orary degrees from several insti- for as long as she can remember. tutions, including, Georgetown “I have sometimes thought that it University, the College of New was in part because I didn’t know my Rochelle, the College of St. Elizabeth father, who died when I was an infant, and Wells College. In 2007 the or my mother’s parents, who died Greater Washington Board of Trade before I was born, that I came to look named McGuire the Leader of the beyond family history into the history Years, the top business honor award- of the country from which my people ed by the Washington Chamber of had come for my sense of who I am.” Commerce. Her love of stories, particularly Irish The Washington Business Journal ones, has been lifelong. A native New included McGuire among its list of Yorker, McKenna earned a bachelor of CATHERINE McKENNA arts from Marymount College in PATRICIA McGUIRE Women Who Mean Business. Washington Magazine has named Tarrytown, followed by a master’s and ATRICIA McGuire is the 14th her as one of both the 150 Most “ HO can say why one child in a PhD from Harvard. Ppresident of Trinity Washington Powerful People in Washington along Wfamily develops a fascination “I’ve been extraordinarily fortunate University in Washington, D.C. She with the 100 Most Powerful Women in with her Irish heritage, any more than in being able to devote so much of began her tenure as president in 1989. Washington. we fully understand why another is my professional life to teaching the Trinity College was founded in 1897 McGuire writes and speaks on a captivated by mathematics, and anoth- Irish and Celtic heritage that has been by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur wide variety of topics concerning high- er needs to understand the structure my lens on the world and its history,” and became Trinity Washington er education, women and Catholic edu- of molecules?” asks Catherine says McKenna, who will undoubtedly University in 2004. cation. Her articles have appeared in McKenna, who as the Margaret Brooks pass on her affinity for Ireland to her McGuire received a bachelor of arts The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages 1-year-old son John Andrew McGill, and from Trinity cum laude before receiv- Post, The Baltimore Sun, Current Issues and Literatures at Harvard University husband John Allen McGill. ing a JD from Georgetown University in Catholic Higher Education and a Law Center. wide variety of other publications. ety. During his congressional career, Meehan was deeply involved with the ATRICK McNicholas is an attor- Northern Ireland peace process. In Pney with the firm of McNicholas 2000, he accompanied President Clinton and McNicholas in Los Angeles. and cabinet members on a mission to He has been a trustee of the bolster prospects for a lasting peace in University of San Francisco since Northern Ireland. 2004. He graduated from the univer- As a member of the Ad Hoc sity with a bachelor of science degree, Committee on Irish Affairs, he cospon- and received a JD from the sored resolutions calling for a peaceful McGeorge School of Law. resolution to the conflict and the com- McNicholas is a member of the mencement of all-party talks leading Irish American Bar Association. He toward self-rule for the North. Meehan has been named as one of Southern fought to break down trade barriers and California’s Top 100 lawyers, and a stimulate strong business ties between super lawyer by Los Angeles Magazine the U.S. and Northern Ireland. in the years 2005-’09. In addition to his congressional ser- He was elected to the American vice, Meehan worked as the Board of Trial Advocates in 1998, and MARTIN T. MEEHAN Massachusetts deputy secretary of elected to the American College of state for securities and corporations Trial Lawyers in 2008. ARTIN Meehan is the second before becoming Chancellor of UMass McNicholas’ great-grandparents Mchancellor of the University of Lowell in 2007. hailed from counties Mayo and Massachusetts Lowell and the 14th Three of Meehan’s four grandparents PATRICK McNICHOLAS Cork. leader of the institution and its pre- hailed from counties Clare, Kerry and decessor schools, founded in the 1890s. Mayo. Oxford, where he is an honorary fellow of A former member of the House of Meehan earned a bachelor’s from the Hertford College. Representatives, Meehan represent- University of Lowell, a master’s from Muldoon’s main collections of poetry ed the fifth congressional district of Suffolk and a JD from Suffolk University are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Massachusetts from 1993 to 2007. Law School. Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meehan has sought to raise public Meehan and his wife Ellen Murphy, Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A awareness of Irish history and bring a health care consultant, are the parents Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), recognition to the many contributions of Robert Francis Meehan, 9, and Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001) and Moy Irish Americans have made to soci- Daniel Martin Meehan, 6. Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection, Horse Latitudes, appeared in the fall of Villanova University. 2006. T-Rex Capital is a real estate invest- A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, ment firm that Mulroy co-founded in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999. Previously, Mulroy was senior vice and the American Academy of Arts and president of investments at Starwood Letters, Muldoon was given an American Financial, and before that, senior vice Academy of Arts and Letters award in liter- president at Lazard Freres & Co., involved in the origination and struc- PAUL MULDOON ature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot turing of investments in real estate AUL Muldoon was born in 1951 in Co. Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the acquisitions and financings. PArmagh, and educated in Armagh 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence Mulroy is a member of the universi- and at the Queen’s University of Belfast. in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund ty’s major Gifts Committee, the Villanova From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Real Estate Advisory Council and a radio and television producer for the Prize, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry, and Villanova’s President’s Council: British Broadcasting Corporation. the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. Transforming Minds and Hearts. He Since 1987 he has lived in the U.S., where He has been described by The Times is also a President’s Club advisor. he is now Howard G.B. Clark ‘21 professor Literary Supplement as “the most significant Mulroy graduated from Villanova’s at Princeton University and chair of the English-language poet born since the THOMAS MULROY School of Business in 1985, and received Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. Second World War.” a master’s in finance from New York HOMAS Mulroy is president In 2007 he was appointed poetry editor of Married with two children, Muldoon University. He resides in New Canaan, Tand CEO of T-Rex Capital, and a The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he lives in New Jersey. He also plays guitar in Connecticut and Boca Raton, Florida member of the board of trustees of was professor of poetry at the University of his Princeton-based rock band, Rackett. with his wife and three children.

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S24 ident of Marywood, where in 1966 she Under Murphy’s direc- received a BA in sociology, history and gov- tion, the Irish Studies pro- ernment, since 2007. gram has expanded to the Prior to that she was executive director point where each year 60 or of the African Sisters Education more students now partic- Collaborative in Scranton from 2006-’07, ipate in a study abroad affil- director of programs and social mission for iation with the National the International Union of Superiors University of Ireland in General in Rome from 2003-’06, and an assis- Galway. tant professor of sociology at Marywood Murphy holds a bache- from 1980-’82. She also served as the col- lor’s degree from Manhattan lege’s rector of planning and institutional College, a master’s from research, and coordinator of Title III from Niagara University and a 1990-‘94 PhD from Temple She served or currently serves nation- University. This year he is ally and internationally as consultant, pre- concluding his teaching senter, and facilitator for numerous religious career at Villanova, which congregations, and conducted training began in 1963. sessions on counter-trafficking in Bangkok, “I’ve been lucky to be SISTER ANNE MUNLEY Thailand and Lagos, Nigeria in 2005. able to teach the writers I Munley’s paternal grandparents and love, mostly Irish. It’s the ISTER Anne Munley, president of maternal great-grandparents were all from JAMES MURPHY teaching that has allowed SMarywood University in Scranton, Co. Mayo. me to understand not only Pennsylvania, is a member of the In addition to her degree from Marywood, AMES Murphy has been the the writers, but myself. I wouldn’t Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Munley also received a master’s in sociol- Jdirector of the Irish Studies pro- trade a teaching career for anything.” Immaculate Heart of Mary. ogy from the Catholic University of America gram at Villanova University since Murphy is first generation Irish, Her career as an educator and author has in 1971, and a PhD in sociology from its inception in 1979. born in Brooklyn. His mother was spanned several decades. She has been pres- Boston College in 1981. The program offers an inter-discipli- from Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo; his father nary approach to Irish and Irish from Cloone, Co. Leitrim. He and Study of Irish Literatures, Murphy is one of American culture, with a range of his wife Kath return to Ireland at the six senior editors of the forthcoming courses in literature, history, art his- least once each year to their home in Dictionary of Irish Biography which will be tory, political science and sociology. Galway City. published in nine volumes and on line by the In the spring of each year the program Murphy’s story Finding Home has Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge hosts a leading Irish writer as the been published both here and in University Press in 2009. Throughout her Charles A. Heimbold Chair of Irish Ireland. He is at work on a memoir career she has been particularly focused on Studies. rooted in 1940s-‘50s Irish America. supporting the growth of Irish studies throughout the U.S. ATHER Jon Patrick Murphy edited Asenath Nicholson’s FMurphy is the direc- Annals of the Famine in Ireland (1998) and tor of the School of Public Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger (2002), Annie Service at DePaul O’Donnell’s, Your Fondest Annie (2005) University in Chicago. and with James MacKillop edited Irish He received a master’s Literature: a Reader (1987, rev. ed. 2006). degree and PhD from Murphy directed the New York State Stanford, and a master’s Great Irish Curriculum Project (2001) from DePaul. He also which won the National Conference for earned a bachelor’s the Social Studies Excellence Award in degree from the 2002. She was also the historian of the DeAndreis School of Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park Theology at St. Mary’s. MAUREEN MURPHY City. Murphy is the author R. Maureen Murphy is professor of Murphy received her PhD from Indiana of Visions and Values in Dcurriculum and teaching in the School University and an honorary doctor of Catholic Higher Education of Education, Health and Human Services humane letters from the State University of and other books and arti- at Hofstra University, the largest private New York. cles. He teaches at All university on Long Island. Last year she co- She is a member of the board of the Hallows College in Dublin founded the university’s Irish Studies pro- American Irish Historical Society, the FATHER JON PATRICK MURPHY each July. gram, which is the first of its kind on Long Emerald Isle Immigration Center and a Island. member of the Co. Longford Society in A past president of the American New York. four-year, liberal arts, inde- Conference for Irish Studies and a past Murphy’s grandparents hailed from coun- pendent, Catholic college chair of the International Association for the ties Longford and Leitrim. for women chartered in 1887 by the School Sisters coeducational college rooted in the of St. Francis. Franciscan tradition, which emphasizes A member of the School respect for individuals and concern for Sisters of St. Francis, the environment. O’Brien received her bach- O’Beirne, a native of Co. Sligo, holds a elor’s degree from Alverno, bachelor of arts degree in English from a master’s from Vanderbilt Newmann, a master of arts in English University and a PhD from from Millersville University, and a P.D. in the University of administration from Fordham University. Wisconsin. She is a member of the Irish American O’Brien received an Chamber of Commerce and the Friendly Outstanding Achievement Sons and Daughters of Erin. award from the Wisconsin Among O’Beirne’s notable honors and Women in Higher achievements are being named Woman Education in 2008. She of the Year by the Friendly Sons of St. was also named an Patrick, Mercer County. She has also Outstanding Alumna by received the St. John Neumann Outstanding Alverno in 2004. She was Alumni Award, the Ancient Order of awarded a patent by the SISTER MARGUERITE Hibernian’s Woman of the Year, Mercer U.S. government for her O’BEIRNE County Business Busy Person of the Year SISTER KATHLEEN A. O’BRIEN diagnostic digital portfo- and the Granville Academy Educator lio. ISTER Marguerite O’Beirne is the Recognition Award. ISTER Kathleen A. O’Brien is O’Brien is a member of the Irish Svice president for mission and ministry She is a past St. Patrick’s Day Parade Ssenior vice president for acade- Heritage Society of Milwaukee, and at Neumann College in Aston, Pennsylvania. grand marshal in Mercer County. She has mic affairs at Alverno College in traces her Irish heritage to Co. Clare Founded by the Sisters of St. Francis also received a proclamation for contri- Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Alverno is a three generations ago. of Philadelphia, Neumann is a Catholic butions to education from Mercer.

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IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S28 English from Dominican College, a Advanced Studies (1973-1978). master’s in mathematics from He has held the Parnell Fellowship Manhattan College, a master’s in adult at Cambridge University and visiting and higher education from Teacher’s professorships at Notre Dame, New College, Columbia University, and a York University and Boston College. PhD in education administration and The leading authority on the literature supervision from Fordham University. and ideology of early modern Ireland, O’Brien is a member of the Dominican O Buachalla has published extensive- Sisters of Blauvelt which was founded ly on the impact of the Counter- by Sister Mary Ann Sammon, an Irish Reformation on Irish political thought, immigrant from Co. Tipperary. early modern historiography and the Her maternal grandparents hailed cult of the Stuarts in Irish literature. form Co. Tipperary, and her paternal Besides cultural studies, literature grandparents came from Co. Monaghan. and politics, O Buachalla has published She has received a number of acco- extensively in the field of linguistics. His lades, including a Lifetime Achievement BREANDAN most recent book is An Teanga Bheo: Award from Rockland Employment O BUACHALLA Gaeilge Chléire (Institiúid Network in 2006, and the Helen Hayes Teangeolaíochta Éireann, 2003), an Hospital MacArthur Award in 2006. REANDAN O Buachalla is the analysis of the dialect of Irish spoken Among her current affiliations are Bfirst Thomas J. and Kathleen in Cape Clear, west Cork. memberships in the Association of O’Donnell Chair in Irish Language O Buachalla received his bachelor’s, and Literature at the Keough-Naughton SISTER MARY EILEEN Catholic Colleges and Universities; master’s and a PhD from the National the Association of Governing Boards Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Ireland. A member of O’BRIEN Council of Independent Colleges; University of Notre Dame. the Royal Irish Academy, he has received A native of Co. Cork, O Buachalla is an ACLS Fellowship, a Butler Literary ISTER Mary Eileen O’Brien is Council of Independent Colleges and a former professor of modern Irish at Award and French government fel- president of the Dominican Universities; the board of directors S University College Dublin (1978-1996) lowships. College of Blauvelt in Orangeburg, of the Dominican Higher Education and professor of Irish in the School of O Buachalla is married with three chil- New York. Council; and the board of advisors at Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for dren. She received a bachelor of arts in Helen Hayes Hospital. A native of Co. Kerry, O 1978. He became a solicitor in Conchubhair received a bachelor’s Ireland in 1981, and in 1988 degree from MICE Limerick, a mas- received a PhD in political science ter’s from University College Galway, from Syracuse University in a master’s from Boston College and upstate New York. a PhD from the National University O’Callaghan is an author of of Ireland Galway. many published articles on law, O Conchubhair is a member of particularly regarding free the American Conference of Irish speech. He is also the author of Studies, the Celtic Studies Association biographical essays on former of North America, and the Gaelic Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) League. Sean Lemass and Mary Robinson, In 2009 he received the Oireachtas the first female president of Literary Award in Ireland, and in Ireland. 2007 he was short listed for Gradam O’Callaghan was named to the Uí Shuilleabháin in Ireland. Who’s Who Among America’s His publications include Gearrscéalta Teachers list in the years, 2002- Ár Linne (2006) and WHY IRISH? ’04. He also received the Irish Language & Literature in Chancellor’s Excellence in BRIAN O CONCHUBHAIR Academia (2008). His essays on Teaching Award from the State various aspects of 19th- and 20th-cen- University of New York in 2001, RIAN O Conchubhair is an assis- tury Irish literature and culture appear JEROME O’CALLAGHAN and the American Political Btant professor in the Department in Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad, Comhar, Science Award for Outstanding of Irish Language and Literature at Éire-Ireland, New Hibernian Review, Irish EROME O’Callaghan is the asso- Teaching 2001. the University of Notre Dame, and a fel- University Review, Yearbook of English Jciate dean at the State University O’Callaghan was also named low at the university’s Keough-Naughton Studies, Sport in History and A New of New York (SUNY) Cortland. Teacher of the Year, 1992, by Pi Sigma Institute for Irish Studies. View of the Irish Language. O’Callaghan, a native of Co. Wexford, Alpha (Texas Tech University). received a bachelor’s degree in civil O’Callaghan and his wife Paula have law from University College Dublin in a son, Jerome Joseph. of America. O’Donnell has published widely and lectured extensively on the cultural histo- ry of the late antique Mediterranean world In 2001, as visiting associate profes- and the application of technology in high- sor at Fordham University, he taught er education. He is the author of seven a course titled “The Irish in New York books, including a three-volume edition of City.” He is the author of several Augustine’s Confessions. His latest book, The books and articles relating to Irish his- Ruin of the Roman Empire, was published tory, including 1001 Things Everyone by HarperCollins in 2008. Should Know About Irish American In 1990, O’Donnell co-founded the Bryn History (Random House), and the Mawr Classical Review, the second on- forthcoming Land of Promise: The line scholarly journal ever created in the Story of the Irish in America (Simon humanities. He is a trustee of the National and Schuster). Humanities Center. O’Donnell holds an AB in history Prior to his positions at the University of from the College of the Holy Cross, a JAMES J. O’DONNELL Pennsylvania, O’Donnell taught at Bryn master of arts in history from Columbia Mawr College, the Catholic University of University, a master of philosophy AMES J. O’Donnell has been provost America and Cornell University. He has also from Columbia, and also a PhD from Jof Georgetown University since 2002. held visiting appointments at Johns Hopkins Columbia. He is a distinguished scholar and recognized University, the University of Washington He is second generation Irish on innovator in the application of networked and Yale University. his father’s side, from counties Mayo information technology in higher education. O’Donnell came to Georgetown from and Waterford, and third generation In addition to his duties as provost, the University of Pennsylvania, where he on his mother’s side, from Galway EDWARD T. O’DONNELL O’Donnell is a member of the faculty of served as vice provost for information and Roscommon. Georgetown’s Classics department. He systems and computing and as a professor DWARD T. O’Donnell is an asso- O’Donnell is a former member of the has served as president of the American of Classical Studies. He earned a bachelor’s Eciate professor of history at the New York City chapter of the Friendly Philological Association, the primary pro- degree Phi Beta Kappa and was elected College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Sons of St. Patrick. fessional association for classicists in the Latin Salutatorian at Princeton University Massachusetts. He teaches a course He is married to Stephanie, and the United States and Canada, and has been in 1972. He earned his doctorate from titled “The Irish American Experience.” couple has four daughters. elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy Yale University in 1975. IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S29 We Congratulate

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IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S30 Turkish government on the impact of who worked in the region’s democratization and economic develop- garment industry for 35 ment on political stability. years O’Halloran has also consulted with He received a bachelor of the World Bank’s International Finance arts degree in political sci- Group and its Regulation and Competition ence from King’s in 1971, Policy Group on the impact of trade and and a master’s in theology political institutions on economic growth from the University of Notre and performance, as well as a large pro- Dame in 1977. He also ject analyzing data on trade openness, received a PhD in political international organizations, and their science from the American impact on democratic transitions. University in Washington, She was part of the expert witness D.C. in 1988. team in Georgia v. Ashcroft, and other Prior to his academic redistricting cases, and provided a con- appointment at King’s, SHARYN O’HALLORAN gressional briefing on the potential O’Hara assisted in relief impact on the renewal of the 2007 Voting work with the Missionary HARYN O’Halloran is the George Rights Act. Most recently she has served Sisters of Charity, the reli- SBlumenthal Professor of Political as a Federal Reserve policy advisor on gious community of the late Economics and professor of International financial regulatory reform. Mother Teresa, in Dacca, and Public Affairs at Columbia University. O’Halloran received a bachelor of arts Bangladesh, where he also A political scientist and economist by degree in economics and political sci- was professor of English at training, O’Halloran has written extensive- ence from University of California San Notre Dame College. He ly on issues related to the political econ- Diego, graduating with honors, and went FATHER THOMAS O’HARA served as professor of polit- omy of international trade and finance, reg- on to receive a master’s and PhD., spe- ical science at the ulation and institutional reform, economic cializing in the political economy, also from ATHER Thomas O’Hara, C.S.C., Philosophical Centre of Jinja, Jinja, growth and democratic transitions, and University of California San Diego. She Fis the eighth president of King’s Uganda. the political representation of minori- completed a post-doctoral fellowship at College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. O’Hara traces his Irish roots to ties. Stanford University in public policy. He has held the office since 1999. counties Mayo and Sligo through two O’Halloran has an extensive public O’Halloran holds both U.S. and Irish cit- King’s College was originally estab- grandparents. service record. She served as an advisor izenship. She is Irish on both sides of the lished to educate the sons of miners O’Hara has conducted research, to the Mexican Department of Commerce, family, with the Fitzpatrick’s (maternal- in the anthracite region of northeast- served on panels and published numer- International Trade Division (SECOFI) side) coming from Cavan and the ern Pennsylvania. O’Hara is himself ous papers and chapters on the role during the NAFTA negotiations con- O’Halloran’s from Galway and Clare. the proud son of a miner who gave 36 of religious lobby groups in the cerning the politics of “Fast Track” She has three daughters, Madison, years to the industry, and a mother American public policy system. authority. Recently, she advised the Morgan and Quinn. lege with less than 2,000 students. Under her leadership, Barry added 38 buildings, ARY O’NEIL MUNDINGER increased enrollment from 1,750 to 9,042, Mis the dean of the Columbia raised over $200 million, increased the University School of Nursing, and cen- amount of academic schools from five to tennial professor in health policy. 10, and even added 2,000 trees to its cam- She’s a graduate of the University of puses. Michigan, Teachers College at O’Laughlin received a bachelor of science Columbia University and the in biology and mathematics from Siena Columbia University School of Public Heights College, and a master’s in biolo- Health. gy from the University of Arizona. She She is a third generation Irish earned a PhD in educational administration American who traces her roots to Co. from the University of Arizona. She has Mayo. Mundinger, a married moth- received numerous accolades, including er of four, has visited Ireland three honorary degrees from Holy Cross College, times. the University of Miami, Rollins College and “My Irish background is a source Lynn University. of great pride; reflecting on the abil- SISTER JEANNE As a 13-year-old, riding a streetcar in ities of my ancestors, and celebrat- O’LAUGHLIN Detroit, she noticed a black woman enter ing transmission to me, in particular my love of literature and writing, the car with four small children. As the street- MARY O’NEIL ISTER Jeanne O’Laughlin is the chan- family devotion and community val- car lurched, one of the children fell into her MUNDINGER Scellor of Barry University in Miami lap. She gladly held the child for the rest ues,” Mundinger says. Shores, Florida. After serving Barry of the ride, but as one of the passengers dis- University for 23 years, O’Laughlin stepped helped to develop embarked, he passed by young Jeanne the Irish tradition- down as Barry’s fifth president in 2004, took and spit on her. a year’s sabbatical to finish her memoirs, al music and dance Confused, she asked her father that programs at the uni- and returned to serve as chancellor in evening why the man spit on her. 2005. versity. “Prejudice,” he replied. Speaking at the A native of Detroit, upon her arrival in “How do you stop that?” she asked. Miami Shores in 1981 she inherited a col- launch of the Irish “Education,” he answered. Studies program at the university in College. 1996, McAleese said, O’Neill earned a bachelor’s in history “You won’t be sur- from Merrimack College, a master’s in his- prised if I single out tory from the University of Arizona and for special mention two further degrees from the University Professor Traolach of Chicago, a PhD in history and master’s O Riordain laochra in library science. Gael, a champion of His Irish interests are extensive. He is Irish heritage. a board member and past president of the Traolach has invest- Eire Society of Boston; vice president of ed so much of his the Charitable Irish Society, Boston; and talent and time to a member of Boston’s Irish American TRAOLACH O RIORDAIN the development of Partnership; the Irish Cultural Center interest in Irish language, culture and in Canton, Massachusetts; Phoenix Irish RAOLACH O Riordain, a native heritage here in Montana.” Cultural Center; Royal Dublin Society, Tof Co. Cork, is a lecturer in Irish O Riordain was honored by the Dublin; and the St. Patrick’s Parade studies at the University of Montana in Ancient Order of Hibernians as Irishman Committee in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Missoula. of the Year in 2007. He is a member of O’Neill’s grandparents hailed from A graduate of the University of the AOH, and also the Gaelic Athletic ROBERT K. O’NEILL counties Cork, Tipperary, Antrim and Montana, O Riordain secured the fund- Association. Kerry. ing for and developed the Irish lan- OBERT K. O’Neill is the Burns librar- O Riordain and his wife have two He and his wife Helen have six children guage program at the University of Rian and part-time faculty member of Montana. He secured grant support and children. the Political Science Department at Boston and three grandchildren. IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009

S31 King’s Inns, Dublin. al spaces. “One of the things I like He also earned a mas- about the research,” says O’Shea, ter’s from Fordham “is that it takes methods from many University. pieces of mathematics and also has just A resident of the some lovely open problems and many, U.S. since 1975, many mysteries.” O’Rourke is married As dean, O’Shea’s philosophy is to with two daughters. foster an environment in which facul- He is a member of the ty members can do their best work and Ancient Order of drive the curriculum in new, intel- Hibernians and the lectually vibrant directions. Ireland Chamber of A native of Canada, O’Shea is author Commerce in the U.S. of numerous books, monographs, O’Rourke was and articles. From 1994 through 1997, recently elected to he served as the college’s officer of BERNARD C. O’ROURKE serve a two year term sponsored research. Since coming to Mount Holyoke, he ERNARD O’Rourke is the associ- from July 2009 to June DONAL B. O’SHEA has spent a year each in France and ate dean, Division of Business 2011 as president of NJCBAA (New B Germany and two at the University of at Caldwell College in Caldwell, New Jersey Collegiate Business ONAL B. O’Shea is the dean of Hawaii conducting research on singu- Jersey. Administration Association). Twice a Dfaculty and vice president for lar points of real and complex hyper- Caldwell is a Catholic, co-education- year, NJCBAA brings together all the academic affairs, and the Elizabeth T. surfaces. He is especially interested al, four-year liberal arts institution deans and chairs of business schools, Kennan professor of mathematics in improving the teaching of geome- founded in 1939 by the Sisters of St. divisions and departments through- and statistics, at Mount Holyoke in try at the college level, as well as Dominic, located on a 70-acre wooded out the state, representing 24 four-year South Hadley, Massachusetts. making the study of mathematics in campus in a quiet suburban communi- institutions and 19 community col- O’Shea is a well-known geometer, general more accessible to students ty 20 miles from Manhattan. leges. internationally recognized for his of differing abilities and interests. A native of Dublin and raised in Co. His tip for aspiring college profes- work in singularity theory and in He has translated over 130 Russian- Monaghan, O’Rourke earned a bache- sors? Secure the best credentials by way computational algebraic geometry. language mathematics articles into lor of arts degree from University of degrees. Experience counts, but O’Shea became dean in 1998 after English. College, Dublin and is a barrister at law, credentials are key. serving on the faculty since 1980. O’Shea has received numerous State Department, where she O’Shea’s research deals with the grants from the National Science was the senior advisor to Richard interplay between the geometric, Foundation and other funding orga- Haass, former U.S. special envoy algebraic, and topological properties nizations to support both his research to the Irish peace process. of singularities of higher dimension- and his curricular work. O’Sullivan, a native of Lexington, Massachusetts, has Cork roots Philadelphia, in August of 2002. through her grandparents, who Owens serves on the Board of the emigrated to the U.S. in the 1920s. Philadelphia-based Life Science Career “Growing up in the O’Sullivan Alliance, as well as vice-chair of the household, I was often reminded board for Project H.O.M.E., a that many of the institutions upon Philadelphia-based organization dedi- which our country is based were cated to serving the needs of homeless built and then led by Irish immi- persons. She has just completed six grants and their descendants,” years as a trustee at Medaille College says O’Sullivan. in Buffalo, New York. She is especially proud the Owens also serves as a member of the example that peace in the North NCAA Div III Presidents Council, is a MEGHAN LYNCH O’SULLIVAN can provide to the world’s many member of the board of directors and trouble spots. “I look at the president-elect of the Association of EGHAN Lynch O’Sullivan, pro- Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland Independent Colleges and Universities Mfessor of the practice of interna- and the rest of Great Britain with of Pennsylvania (AICUP), and is a tional affairs at the John F. Kennedy admiration, as examples of the ability member of the Forum of Executive School at Harvard, has a career resume of determined people to overcome a Women in Philadelphia, among other that’s extremely vast. O’Sullivan is a for- past of conflict and violence and build service commitments. mer special assistant to President foundations for the future,” she says. KATHLEEN OWENS Owens received her PhD and BS George W. Bush and deputy national When working with the govern- degrees from Loyola University in security advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan ments of Iran and Afghanistan, ATHLEEN Owens is president of Chicago, and her MEd degree from (2004-’07) who helped negotiate the O’Sullivan adds, “I often brought atten- KGwynedd-Mercy College in DePaul University. bilateral security agreement between tion to Ireland as an example of how Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania. She She is married to Donald Zamborsky, Iraq and the U.S. in the fall of 2008. governments and people can turn assumed the presidency of the col- and has two married sons, three grand- She is also a former member of the from bitter animosities to more hope- lege, a coeducational, Catholic insti- sons and two granddaughters. Policy Planning Department at the ful futures.” tution with a strong foundation in the She traces her Irish roots to Co. liberal arts located 30 miles outside of Galway. OSEPH A. Power, Jr. is president of JPower Rogers & Smith, P.C. in tration from the Chicago, and a lecturer at Loyola University of University School of Law. Massachusetts in 1977. Power, a naturalized Irish citizen, Rafferty is a previ- traces his roots to counties Waterford ous member of the and Tipperary. He is a member of Boston Donegal Chicago’s Irish Fellowship Club and Society. He received the Celtic Legal Society. the Distinguished Power earned a bachelor of arts degree Alumni Award from from Notre Dame, and a JD from Loyola the University of University School of Law of Chicago. Wisconsin-Platteville Among his notable honors and achieve- in 2003. Old Saybrook ments are the receipt of a Medal of received the U.S. Excellence from Loyola School of Law, Department of a citizen of the year award from the Education Nationally City Club of Chicago, and a medal of merit MICHAEL RAFFERTY Recognized School of from the Illinois Bar Association. ICHAEL Rafferty is the princi- Excellence Award in Married with four children, in 2002 1997-‘98. Power was named one of the “30 Mpal of Old Saybrook Middle School in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Both of Rafferty’s paternal grandpar- Tough Lawyers” by Chicago Magazine. ents hailed from Co. Donegal. He is Those listed are, according to the He received bachelor and master of sci- ence degrees from the University of married with five kids, including a magazine, attorneys you want “for Providence College student studying in JOSEPH A. POWER you, not against you.” Wisconsin-Platteville in 1968 and 1972, and a C.A.G.S. in educational adminis- Galway. He also has 14 grandchildren.

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S32 with the campus chancellors within the development and maintenance of a the system to create the Growth Agenda strong and productive bond between the for Wisconsin, a long-term vision and university and more than 91,000 alumni liv- strategic plan for what the university ing in the U.S. and abroad. His work takes needs to do to help make Wisconsin and him to alumni chapters all over the coun- the nation competitive in the global try and beyond. knowledge economy. From 1962 to 1971, Riley taught ethics and Under his research enrollment has contemporary religions. He was the univer- risen to an all-time high, and spon- sity’s first liaison for the Peace Corps and sored research has continued to expand. served as director of admissions for the At the same time, the UW System was province of St. Thomas of Villanova. ranked by the National Center for In 1972 Riley was named vice president Higher Education Management Systems for the university relations with responsi- among the five “most productive state bility for the offices of development, pub- systems and public sectors of higher lic relations and alumni affairs. education relative to their resources.” During the 48 years Riley has been at Reilly received a bachelor of arts Villanova, he has spent the same number degree from the University of Notre of years in ministry to Catholic parishes in Dame and a master of arts from the Atlantic City and Cape May counties. He University of Minnesota. is a former commissioner of the His career has followed his shared pas- FATHER GEORGE F. Pennsylvania Public Television Network. KEVIN P. REILLY sion for education and his Irish heritage. RILEY He served on the board of trustees of He is a member of the Irish American Merrimack College in Andover, EVIN P. Reilly is the sixth presi- Cultural Institute, as well as the ATHER George F. Riley has been Massachusetts, and has also been a board Kdent of the University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Madison Celtic Fan integral part of Villanova University member of the Continental Bank of System, one of the largest (173,000 Studies Steering Committee. He is for the past 48 years, during which time he Philadelphia, the Higher Education Congress students) and most highly regarded also a published scholar in Irish stud- has served eight presidents and was vice of Philadelphia and the American Catholic public higher education systems in the ies. president for university relations for 20 Historical Society. world. Reilly’s four grandparents emigrated years. Since 1992, he has been special A native of Massachusetts, Riley gradu- Reilly began his tenure as president from counties Mayo and Cavan. He is assistant to the university president for ated from Villanova in 1958 and was in September 2004. He collaborated married with three children. alumni and external relations. ordained to the priesthood in 1962. He In his current position, he is the uni- holds two master’s degrees and a doctor- endowment was $1.2 million and now stands versity’s presidential representative for ate from the Catholic University of America. at $16 million; and over 10 major new aca- demic programs have been developed HILIP B. Ryan is a trustee at attracting a significant number of new stu- PWorcester Polytechnic Institute in dents. Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also A recipient of many awards, she was the CEO of Merchants Automotive Group named Citizen of the Year by The Buffalo in Hooksett, New Hampshire. News in 1994, is a member of the WNY Ryan holds a BS degree from Worcester Women’s Hall of Fame, received the Polytechnic, and an MBA from Harvard. Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal from Ryan was awarded the Herbert F. Taylor the University at Buffalo, the Lifetime Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Achievement Award from the WNY from Worcester Polytechnic. He also Hispanics and Friends Civic Association, and was awarded the Alexis de Tocqueville a Special Award presented to her by the Heritage Award from the United Way. National Conference of Christians and He traces his Irish ancestry to the coun- Jews. ties of Dublin, Tipperary, Galway and Canisius College awarded her a Doctor Cork. One grandparent was born in SISTER DENISE ROCHE of Humane Letters honorary degree in Ireland; the other three are first genera- 1992. tion Irish Americans. ISTER Denise Roche is the president A Buffalo native, Roche is a graduate of PHILIP B. RYAN Ryan is married. He and his wife have Sof D’Youville College in Buffalo, New D’Youville and earned a master’s degree in two children and four grandchildren. York. Since 1979, Roche has lifted the col- sociology from Boston University and a lege to new heights in both enrollment, doctorate at the University of Massachusetts. uate academic partnerships between academic offerings and to a respected place She served as an instructor, acting chair, Regis University and the National in the pantheon of higher education. teaching assistant, assistant professor and University of Ireland Galway that share stu- At 36, Roche was the youngest person to associate dean at D’Youville prior to being dents and faculty in online degree pro- be named president of D’Youville. Under her named president. grams. leadership, enrollment grew from 1153 in Roche traces her Irish ancestry four gen- Service earned an AB in mathematics 1980 to more than 2,700 today; the college erations back to Co. Kerry. from the College of the Holy Cross, a master’s in operations research from in undergraduate and graduate education Case Institute of Technology, and a PhD and continues to link the liberal arts and in operations research from Case Western sciences with professional programs. Reserve University. From 1985 to July 2000, Scott served as All four of Service’s grandparents were president at Ramapo College of New born in Ireland. His mother, Margaret, was Jersey. In recognition of his work, Scott the daughter of Catherine Lenihan (Feddis) was named president emeritus and award- of Co. Limerick and Patrick Feddis of ed the honorary doctor of letters degree. Dublin. His father, Albert, was the son of Earlier in his career, he served as assis- Hannah Brady (Service) and Albert tant commissioner of higher education in ALLAN L. SERVICE Service, both of Belfast. The couples Indiana. As a consequence, Scott is one each met and married in New York City of the few people ever to hold all three top R. Allan Laurence Service is the where Service was born. positions in American higher education Dprovost at Regis University of Service feels a great closeness to his Irish — head of an independent university, a Denver, Colorado. The university, one of roots and has traveled to Ireland a dozen public institution, and a state higher edu- 28 American Jesuit colleges and univer- times, connecting there with many cousins, cation coordinating board. sities, serves over 12,000 students and oper- especially the Davises of Co. Limerick and He earned his bachelor of arts in ates with an annual budget in excess of the Feddises of Co. Dublin. English at Bucknell University and his PhD Service resides in Westminster, Colorado ROBERT A. SCOTT $130 million. at Cornell University. Service recently passed his 25th anniver- with his wife, Dr. Esther Ray Mills. Their Since joining Adelphi, he has received family includes three children — Nora, R. ROBERT A. Scott is the presi- sary at Regis, having previously served a number of prestigious awards, includ- Graham, and Soren — and 4.5 grand- Ddent of Adelphi University in in a succession of academic leadership roles ing being named as one of the 100 Most children, Sophia, Nathan, Abigail, Theo, Garden City, Long Island, New York. He including dean of career programs, aca- Influential Long Islanders by Long Island and Audrey (due in November). was appointed by the Adelphi University demic dean of the School for Professional Business News. Service is fond of describing himself, pro- Board of Trustees as the ninth presi- Studies and vice president for academic Scott’s paternal grandfather hailed fessionally and personally, as the result of dent and professor of anthropology and affairs. from Dromore, Co. Down. He is mar- “crossing a New York Irishman with a sociology in July 2000. Service has been particularly instrumen- ried with two children. Jesuit education.” He has built on Adelphi’s rich traditions tal in developing undergraduate and grad-

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S33 Council on He also holds a master of divinity and a Foreign Relations, licentiate degree in sacred theology from the Institute of the Dominican House of Studies in International Washington, D.C. Education and the Ordained a member of the Dominican Association for a Order of Preachers in 1987, Shanley taught Better New York. philosophy at Providence and was a visiting While dean of the professor at Emory University’s Candler Law School he School of Theology. He most recently was president of served as an associate professor of philos- the Association of ophy at the Catholic University of America. American Law A member of the Providence College Schools. Board of Trustees and Corporation — with Sexton received prior service as chair of the Board’s Strategic a bachelor’s in his- Planning Committee — Shanley also has tory (1963) from served on the executive committee of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. JOHN SEXTON Fordham College; a master’s in com- Shanley has served as associate editor and editor of The Thomist and as a member of OHN Sexton, the 15th president parative religion FATHER BRIAN J. the editorial board for the International Jof New York University, also is the (1965) and a PhD in history of SHANLEY Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Widely pub- Benjamin Butler professor of law and American religion (1978) from lished in philosophy-focused academic NYU Law School’s dean emeritus, Fordham University; and a JD magna ATHER Brian J. Shanley, O.P. is the journals, his research interests include having served as dean for 14 years. He cum laude (1979) from Harvard Law Fpresident of Providence College in Thomas Aquinas, philosophy of religion, joined the Law School’s faculty in School. Providence, Rhode Island. metaphysics, medieval philosophy, and 1981, was named the school’s dean in Sexton holds honorary degrees Shanley holds a doctorate in philosophy ethics. 1988, and was designated the univer- from Fordham University, St. Francis from the University of Toronto and complet- An opera aficionado, Shanley is a self- sity’s president in 2001. College, St. John’s University, ed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University described sports enthusiast who enjoys Sexton is chair of the Independent University of Rochester and Katholieke of Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of golf and incorporates Xing Yi martial arts Colleges and Universities of New Universiteit Leuven. Religion. After completing undergraduate into his daily routine. York, chair of the New York Academy Before coming to NYU, Sexton studies in history at Providence College in He traces his paternal Irish ancestry to of Sciences, and vice chair of the served as law clerk to Chief Justice 1980, he earned a licentiate degree in phi- Longford, where his grandparents originat- American Council on Education. He is Warren Burger of the United States losophy from the Catholic University of ed. His maternal grandparents were from a fellow of the American Academy of Supreme Court (1980-1981), and to America. Tipperary. Arts and Sciences and a member of Judges David Bazelon and Harold both the Association of American Leventhal of the United States Court University Presidents and the Council of Appeals (1979-1980). science in public administration from on Foreign Relations. For 10 years (1983-1993), he served Syracuse University Maxwell School, and He has served as the chairman of the as special master supervising pretri- Ed.D in educational leadership from Harvard. board of the Federal Reserve Bank of al proceedings in the Love Canal liti- Prior to his appointment at St. Rose, he was New York (2003-2006) and chair of gation. From 1966-1975, he was a pro- executive vice president and COO of Marist the Federal Reserve Systems Council fessor of religion at St. Francis College College from 1987 to 1996. He also served of Chairs (2006). He served as a board in Brooklyn, where he was depart- as vice president for administrative affairs member for the National Association ment chair from 1970-1975. at Southern Connecticut State University, of Securities Dealers (1996-1998), and Sexton’s grandfather hailed from and assistant commissioner for the was founding chair of the Board of Co. Sligo. He is a member of the advi- Connecticut Board of Governors for Higher NASD Dispute Resolution (2000-2002). sory board of NYU’s Glucksman Education. In 1980, he served as acting He also serves on the boards of the Ireland House. commissioner for higher education in Connecticut. He has received the Juvenile Diabetes challenges and opportunities that Research Foundation Angel Award; the lie in store.” Monsignor Burns Memorial Award from The Shea family originates in Catholic Central High School; the Educator Kerry, but his father’s family emi- of the Year Award from Progress Inc. and grated north to Longford in the Progress High School; the Catherine 16th century and settled on an McAuley Award for Distinguished Service island in the Shannon River at R. MARK SULLIVAN to the Capital District Community from Fermoyle, near Lanesborough. Maria College, the Citizen Laureate Award His great-great-grandfather, R. R. Mark Sullivan is the eighth from the University at Albany; the Patrick Shea, left for America from Community Partner Award from the Black Galway in May 1870 and settled Dpresident of the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York, a comprehensive, and Latino Achiever Program, Capital in Millerville, Minnesota. From District YMCA, the Bishop Hubbard Award there, his great-grandfather, Richard liberal arts college serving over 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students in near- from Living Resources and the YMCA Shea, homesteaded at Hazelton, President’s Award. North Dakota, at the farm where ly 111 degree programs. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Sullivan is married with three children and Shea was raised. three grandsons. Shea studied for two years at the University of Rhode Island, a master of Jamestown College (Wilson Scholar), then entered seminary for regard. Her mother is a native of Cork, while the Diocese of Bismarck in 1995 and her paternal grandparents hailed from went on to study philosophy at the counties Kerry and Fermanagh. Catholic University of America in Roberts owns a holiday cottage in Ireland Washington, D.C. There he was with her husband, United States Supreme FATHER JAMES awarded the Basselin Scholarship, Court Chief Justice John Roberts. They have two children. PATRICK SHEA the most prestigious academic schol- arship offered to Catholic seminary Roberts is on the board of trustees of her students in the U.S. alma mater, the College of the Holy Cross ATHER James Patrick Shea has in Worcester, Massachusetts, from which Fjust assumed the presidency of Shea completed his bachelor’s degree in 1997 and his master’s degree and she graduated with a bachelor of arts the University of Mary in Bismarck, degree in 1976. In 1977 she received an edu- North Dakota. At 33, he is the licentiate in philosophy the following year. While in Washington, he taught cation diploma from the University of youngest university president in the Melbourne in Australia. She received a U.S. religion in two inner-city elementary schools and worked with Mother master’s from Brown three years later, “I’m deeply honored and humbled to JANE SULLIVAN and a JD from Georgetown Law School in have been chosen to serve as the Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity at the Gift of Peace AIDS Hospice. ROBERTS 1984. sixth president of the University of Roberts also sits on the board of gover- In 1998, he was sent to live at the ANE Sullivan Roberts is the managing Mary,” said Shea. “It’s a surprising nors of the John Carroll Society, and the North American College at the Vatican, director of Major, Lindsey and Africa, choice to many, I know, including me. J board of directors of Citizens for Affordable where he studied theology under the one of the country’s leading attorney search But I am grateful to the board of Energy. She is a Rotary Foundation Jesuits at the Gregorian University. He consulting firms. trustees and the sisters for their con- Fellowship Partner with Pillsbury Winthrop was ordained a priest in 2002. She holds her Irish heritage in high fidence in me, and I look forward to the Shaw Pittman. IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S34 Management at Harvard University DWARD Thompson and its Seminar for New Presidents fur- Eis vice president for ther prepared Sweeny for his current advancement at Molloy position. College in Rockville Centre, At the college, Sweeny has strength- Long Island. ened the tradition of serving the under- Thompson received a served, proving that there is no contra- bachelor of arts degree diction between access and academic from Holy Cross, and a JD excellence. from St. John’s University. He was instrumental in instituting an He is a co-founder of the award-winning CNR image campaign Energeia Partnership, and which garnered a record number of cor- a co-founder of the porate and alumnae contributions to the Sustainability Institute. In college. Under Sweeny’s direction, 2008 he was named CNR also completed a multi-million Environmentalist of the dollar renovation of Gill Library, expand- Year by the Long Island ed its computerized research capabil- Neighborhood Network. ities on all six campuses, and began con- Thompson traces his Irish struction on a $28 million ancestry to Co. Antrim on interdisciplinary Wellness Center for his father’s side, and Co. STEPHEN J. SWEENY students and the local community. Wicklow on his mother’s. In more than two decades at the col- He is a member of the TEPHEN J. Sweeny, president lege, Sweeny has served in key posi- Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of the College of New Rochelle S tions including senior vice president for of Long Island, and the (CNR) in Westchester, New York, academic affairs (1981-1997), vice Irish Studies Institute at since 1997, traces his Irish ancestry to EDWARD THOMPSON president for planning and acting vice Molloy. Ballydehob, Co. Clare, where his ances- president for academic affairs (1980- tors left for America in the 1840s. 1981), executive assistant to the pres- also the founding chair and Sweeny obtained a bachelor of arts ident (1979-1980), assistant to the director of the Washington degree in Spanish literature from the president for government relations Jesuit Academy (1998-2003), Catholic University of America, two mas- (1978-1979), and assistant to the provost and a trustee of Gonzanga ter’s degrees in theology and coun- (1976-1978). He has also been a prin- College High School in seling psychology from Manhattan cipal and teacher at two New York Washington, D.C. (1993- College, and a PhD in higher education City Catholic elementary/junior high 2003). from New York University. Additional schools. Tuohey received a bache- studies at the Institute for Education Sweeny is married with one daughter. lor’s degree from St. Bonaventure University, and a JD from Fordham University. He is a director of the American Ireland Fund, a chair of Cooperation Ireland U.S., and a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. Tuohey is an Irish citizen whose maternal grandpar- ents Michael Slattery and Margaret Hoorigan hailed from Co. Tipperary. His pater- nal grandfather Mark H. Tuohey, Sr., came from Co. Galway. Tuohey was named as MARK H. TUOHEY lawyer of the year from the D.C. Bar Association in 2001 MARK H. Tuohey is a partner in the and Washingtonian of the year in law firm of Vinson & Elkins LLP in 2006. He was the grand marshal of the Washington, D.C. St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Washington, He holds several trustee positions D.C. in 2006. SISTER CONSTANCE TOUEY at universities across the country, He is married to Martha Keller SISTER JEANETTE LUCEY including Fordham University and Tuohey. They have three grown chil- Catholic University of America. He is dren. ISTER Constance Touey is the co- and it has become a model for others. Sprincipal of St. Francis de Sales The student body is multi-national OHN Waters is the School in Philadelphia, and Sister (43 countries represented), multi- Jdirector of studies at Jeanette Lucey is an eighth grade religious and from all socio-econom- New York University’s teacher and member of the develop- ic backgrounds. More than half live Glucksman Ireland House, ment team. below the federal poverty line. The and the director of the mas- Sister Constance received a bache- school is situated in the zip code with ter’s program in Irish and lor of arts degree from Immaculata the second highest homicide rate in Irish American studies at University, and a master’s from the City of Philadelphia. NYU. Kutztown University. Sister Jeanette Following the deaths of young grad- Waters received a bache- received a bachelor of arts degree from uates the sisters began what has lor’s degree from Johns Immaculata, and a master’s from become a model peace program to Hopkins, a master’s from Villanova. stem the tide of violence and create Trinity College in Dublin, St. Francis de Sales Parish was “The New Kind of Hero,” one who and a PhD from Duke founded in 1904 at the request of does not use violence to solve chal- University. His areas of Irish working girls who wanted to lenges and confrontations. The peace research and interest include attend Mass each day, but were too far program has been recognized with Irish studies, 18th Century away from a church. Since then, the numerous national, state and local British and Irish culture and parish and school have continued to awards and has been replicated in British Romantic literature. serve immigrants and refugees. many schools across the country Waters traces his Irish Sister Constance and Sister Jeannette The motto of St. Francis de Sales ancestry back three gener- have worked at St. Francis de Sales for School is “Magic Happens Here for ations to Co. Roscommon. the last 25 years and have moved Children,” and Sisters Constance and He is a member of the this inner-city school onto a firm Jeannette work very hard to make that American Conference for financial footing through their devel- magic happen. Irish Studies. opment efforts. Each year for the past Sister Constance traces her Irish He is married to Kate 12 years they have raised more than ancestry to Co. Cavan, while Sr. Hunter. They have one child, a half a million dollars for the school Jeanette traces hers to Co. Cork. JOHN WATERS a daughter Fiona.

IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 RENE Whelan is a professor of Free State, 1922- S35 Ihistory at Manhattanville College 1939. in Purchase, New York. In addition to A native of Co. Galway, she received classes in the Irish her degrees from the University of language, O’Leary Wisconsin-Madison. She came to the teaches courses on U.S. in the 1970s. Irish theater, fiction She is a member of the executive and poetry, includ- committee of the American ing a comparative Conference for Irish Studies, the course dealing with NUI Galway alumni group in New the drama of the York, and New York University’s Irish and Harlem Glucksman Ireland House. Renaissance. Whelan established an Irish stud- O’Leary guest ies minor at Manhattanville, and a edited a special issue cooperative exchange with NUI of Eire-Ireland on Galway. translation in 2000 Whelan is the author of The Bible and is currently con- IRENE WHELAN War in Ireland (2005). sulting editor of Eire- Ireland. He also maintains links earned bachelor and master’s degrees between Irish from the University of Missouri, and a Studies and the PhD from the University of Michigan. Celtic Department He is a member of the American at Harvard. Conference for Irish Studies, the Irish O’Leary received American Cultural Institute, the Political an honorary doctor Studies Association of Ireland, the of literature degree Celtic Studies Association of North from the National America, and the Irish Salon of PHILIP O’LEARY University of Ireland Cincinnati. Galway in June of White traces his Irish heritage to Co. HILIP O’Leary, a professor of this year. “By producing his gargantuan Tipperary, where his great-grandparents PEnglish at Boston College, received work in English he has introduced mod- emigrated from. his bachelor’s degree from Holy Cross ern Gaelic literature to a global audience For four years, he has served as the and his PhD from Harvard. and stressed the importance and central- chair of the Donnelly Committee select- His teaching integrates his current ity of Gaelic to Irish Studies,” his honorary ing the best book in history or social sci- research interests in the writing of the degree citation read in part. ence in the field of Irish studies. Gaelic movement with his knowledge of Previously he had served as an Irish White was twice elected social science Irish literary and cultural studies. O’Leary American Cultural Institute fellow at TIMOTHY J. WHITE representative for the American is an expert in Irish culture, particular- NUI Galway. Conference for Irish Studies. He is a win- ly literature and theater; Irish writers; Irish O’Leary has also been a distinguished IMOTHY J. White is professor ner of the Irish American Cultural poetry and the Gaelic language. He is visiting professor of Irish language and Tof political science at Xavier Institute’s visiting professorship at the author of the book Gaelic Prose in the Irish literature at Notre Dame University. University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He National University of Ireland-Galway.

IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009