Breandán Ó Buachalla Papers

Collection

Identifier: BOB

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection includes course materials (syllabi, readings, notes, course packets); journal article and chapter reprints; grant application materials; scattered correspondence and reference letters; a letter box of travel brochures, transit maps, and booking confirmations; and miscellaneous published materials including newspapers, periodicals, press catalogs, and a phone directory.

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found within 2002 - 2010

Creator

Ó Buachalla, Breandán (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research. Advance notice is required. For more information, please contact the University of Notre Dame Archives.

Conditions Governing Access

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Biographical / Historical

Breandán Ó Buachalla was the world’s most authoritative scholar on the literature and ideology of early modern Ireland. Born in 1936 in Cork, Ireland, he earned degrees at University College Cork and taught at Queen's University Belfast, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and University College Dublin. He later held visiting professorships at New York University and Boston College and, from 2003 until his death in 2010, he served as Thomas J. and Kathleen O’Donnell Professor in Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame.