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Professor Daniel Burt

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has been teaching literature courses at the undergraduate and graduate level for nearly 30 years at New York University and Wesleyan University. A former Director of Undergraduate Studies at New York University and an Associate Dean of the College at Wesleyan University, he currently offers courses in Dickens, Joyce, Austen, Tolstoy, the Modern Short Story, Modern Drama, and the Novel at Wesleyan’s Graduate Liberal Studies Program. He is the author of several books, including The Literary 100, The Novel 100, The Drama 100, The Chronology of American Literature, and The Biography Book. He is currently at work on a critical study of modern Irish literature. He has written extensively and published critical studies of Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, Synge, Beckett, Heaney, Friel, and others.

A former Director of the NYU in London program, Daniel has led study groups to Russia, Spain, Britain and Ireland. When he is not in Ireland, Daniel lives on the Cape Cod.

Deborah Felder

is a writer with a specialty in women’s history. She is the author of such books as A Bookshelf of Our Own: Works that Changed Women’s Lives, A Century of Women, The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time, and Fifty Jewish Women Who Changed the World.

Other Faculty Contributors from Past and Current Workshops

Stefan Bergh

is the Programme Director for the MA in Landscape Archaeology at the National University of Ireland in Galway. A graduate of the University of Stockholm, he first came to Ireland in 1978 as a student assisting on the excavations of the Carrowmore passage tombs in Sligo. His thesis, Landscape of the Monuments, was published in 1995. Professor Bergh is a recognized expert on Irish prehistory and County Sligo’s remarkable collection of Megalithic monuments.

Paul Bew

is chair of the Department of Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast and is one of the most respected authorities on Irish history and politics. A native of Belfast, Professor Bew earned his doctorate at Cambridge University and is the author of several books, including Between War and Peace: The Political Future of Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland: 1921-97: Political Forces and Social Classes.

Lorcan Collins

is a historian and writer. He is the co-author of The Easter Rising: A Guide to Dublin in 1916 and the founder of the popular 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour of Dublin.

Junior Davey

is a South Sligo native and a five-time winner of the All-Ireland Championships on the bodhrán, the most successful player on that instrument at the All-Ireland to date. His recordings including Skin and Bow and A Sound Skin.

Tommy Graham

is a graduate of Trinity College and the founder and editor in chief of History Ireland, Ireland’s only mass-circulation history magazine. He has lectured widely in Ireland, Britain, and the U.S. where he taught at New York University. He co-founded and still conducts the renowned Historical Walking Tours of Dublins.

Keith Haines

was from 1978 to 2000 head of the History department at Campbell College in Belfast. He is a specialist in the history of Belfast and is the author of Images of Ireland: East Belfast, North Down Memories, and Neither Rogues nor Fools: A History of Campbell College.

Brian Leyden

is the author of the best selling memoir, The Home Place (2002), the short story collection Departures (1992) and the novel, Death & Plenty (1996). He is a past winner of the Francis McManus Short Story Award. A popular reader at venues throughout Ireland he has recently been reading his work alongside music by Steve Wickham of the Waterboys.

Joe McGowan

is a native of Mullaghmore, County Sligo, an authority on Ireland’s folk traditions and rural customs. He is the author of several books, including the classic, In the Shadow of Benbulben, the best-selling Echoes of a Savage Land, Constance Markievicz: The People’s Countess, and Inishmurray: Gale, Stone and Fire.

Stella Mew

is the first full-time CEO of the Yeats Society, overseeing the Yeats Museum and world-famous Yeats Summer School. A graduate in English from Trinity College, she taught in schools in England and Wales before serving for many years as the headmistress of Rathdown School in Dublin.