Beginning as a tribute to a departed friend, John Kelleher ‘s reflections grew into a beguiling progress report on the decline or rise — lake your choice — of the Irish Americans to the point “when nobody felt very Irish anymore, or had much reason to.”Mr. Kelleher is professor of modern Irish literature and history at Harvard.
An American of Irish antecedents, JOHN V. KELLEHER has become an authority on Irish history and the Irish mind in the years of study that have brought him to his present professorship at Harvard. Mr. Kelleher is a native of Massachusetts and a frequent traveler to the land of his forefathers.
An American of Irish antecedents, JOHN V. KELLEHER has become an authority on Irish history and the Irish mind in the years of study that have brought him to his present professorship at Harvard.
Sean O’ Faolain, a Dubliner, is known through his writings as a sympathetic yet realistic interpreter of contemporary Irish life. His latest book, The Finest Stories of Sean O’Faolain, has just been published under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint. For a deeper understanding of Mr. O’ Faolain and of the problems confronting Irish writers, ice have turned to JOHN V. KELLEHER,Associate Professor of Literature at Harvard. Mr. Kelleher is of Irish descent and a frequent traveler in Ireland.