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Fullbright Fellows

New Fulbright Fellowships

Generous external funding from the Fulbright Program has allowed us to bring in a new teachers to meet the overwhelming demand for Irish language classes. The 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar is Anne Corbett, a native speaker from Connemara, Corbett is continuing the study of Irish after graduating from the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Tomás Ó Murchú a graduate of University College Cork, joins us as the 2007-08 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. This semester Tomás teaches Beginning Irish I and runs a weekly language club for undergraduate and graduate students seeking to practice and develop their language skills outside of the classroom. Tomás is taking graduate courses with Professor Breandán Ó Buachalla on the eighteenth-century lament Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire and studying contemporary Irish poetry with Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Senior Fulbright Irish-Language Professor. His own scholarly interests are in the Munster dialect and its regional literature.


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