Breandán O'Buachalla
Thomas J. and Kathleen O'Donnell Chair
Endowed Professor
Irish Languages and Literatures
Degrees
B.A., University College Cork; M.A., University College Cork; Ph.D., National University of Ireland
Research Profile
Breandán Ó Buachalla is the first Thomas J. and Kathleen O'Donnell Chair in Irish Language and Literature. He is a former Professor of Modern Irish in University College Dublin (1978-1996) and Professor of Irish in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1973-1978). Ó Buachalla has held the Parnell Fellowship at Cambridge University and visiting Professorships at Notre Dame, New York University and Boston College. The leading authority on the literature and ideology of early modern Ireland, he has published extensively on the impact of the Counter-Reformation on Irish political thought, early modern historiography and the cult of the Stuarts in Irish literature and has been editor and co-editor of numerous collections of verse. Besides cultural studies, literature and politics, he has published extensively in the field of linguistics; his most recent book being an analysis of the dialect of Irish spoken in Cape Clear, west Cork.
Contact Information
422
Flanner Hall
574-631-5122
O'Buachalla.2@nd.edu
