Irish Studies @ the University of North
Florida
Welcome
...to the Irish Studies website at the University
of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida.
The university regularly offers Irish
Studies courses in Celtic spirituality, literature, art history, history,
nursing, and political science, and will be adding courses in film, sociology,
and other disciplines. Such courses may count toward an appropriate major
or minor, including the International Studies major or minor, or as electives.
LIT3184, Introduction to Irish Literature and Culture, has been approved
as a foreign culture course.
Each fall and spring
semester a variety of public events — lectures, concerts, poetry
readings, symposia, etc. — are offered in the Irish Studies Performance and Lecture Series (see below for upcoming events). To encourage development
of courses with significant Irish Studies content,
John Francis Reilly Irish Studies Fellowships are periodically awarded
to UNF faculty (11 have been awarded to date). Each spring the Moriarty Prize of $250 is awarded at
the university convocation to the UNF undergraduate student whose work in
Irish Studies, in any academic discipline, has been judged most outstanding.
For information about Irish Studies
at UNF, contact Richard Bizot, Director of Irish Studies,
in Building 8, Room 2345, or e-mail rbizot@unf.edu or
phone (904) 620-1272, or contact Andrea Holcombe, Program Manager for Irish
Studies in Building 8, Room 2345 or e-mail aholcomb@unf.edu or phone (904)
620-1266.
This Semester in Irish Studies — Spring
2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008, at 7:30 PM -- A
Poetry Reading with Irish Poet Greg Delanty.
UNF Art Gallery, Building 2. (map)
Thursday, March 6, 2008, at 7:30
PM -- A Traditional Irish Music Concert: Mick Moloney with
John Doyle and Athena Tergis. UNF Robinson Theater. (map)
Thursday, April 3, 2008, at 7:30 PM -- A Fiction Reading by Frank Delaney. Recital Hall, UNF Fine Arts Center.
(map)
***Please note that all Irish Studies events are free and open to the public.
For those guests who do not have a UNF parking pass,
a $3.00 daily parking permit will need to be purchased for Irish Studies
events occurring on Thursday nights.***