Background
Angela Bourke was born in 1952 in Dublin, Ireland.
1983
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Angela Bourke received a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honors in Celtic Studies in 1972 from University College Dublin. She also earned a Master of Arts degree with first-class-honors in Celtic studies in 1974. She obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Celtic Studies in 1983 from it.
1983
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Angela Bourke received a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honors in Celtic Studies in 1972 from University College Dublin. She also earned a Master of Arts degree with first-class-honors in Celtic studies in 1974. She obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Celtic Studies in 1983 from it.
2017
Angela Bourke
Angela Bourke
3 Rue des Archives, 29238 Brest, France
Angela attended Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France.
(In this memorable collection the, salt water, is not only...)
In this memorable collection the, salt water, is not only the sea, but tears, sweat, and our amniotic pool. Often on the brink, Bourke's female characters encounter life's lessons in a wide variety of landscapes, shadows of cruelty and mortality in the back lanes of a 1960s Dublin to affairs of the heart in the U.S., Europe, and Ireland in the 1990s. These women are struggling to find their way, and themselves, in a world they cannot comprehend. In doing so, they discover many ways to tell a story.
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1996
(In 1895, Bridget Cleary, a strong-minded and independent ...)
In 1895, Bridget Cleary, a strong-minded and independent young woman, disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first, her family claimed she had been taken by fairies-but then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Bridget's husband, father, aunt, and four cousins were arrested and tried for murder, creating one of the first mass media sensations in Ireland and England as people tried to make sense of what had happened. Meanwhile, Tory newspapers in Ireland and Britain seized on the scandal to discredit the cause of Home Rule, playing on lingering fears of a savage Irish peasantry.
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1999
(To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday ...)
To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most coveted and influential seats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both in person and on the page. From 1954 to 1981 under the pseudonym, The Long-Winded Lady, Brennan wrote matchless urban sketches of life in Times Square and the Village for the, Talk of the Town column, and under her own name published fierce, intimate fiction tales of childhood, marriage, exile, longing, and the unforgiving side of the Irish temper.
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2004
(Famine commemorations began in 1995 and ended in 1997, ho...)
Famine commemorations began in 1995 and ended in 1997, however, suggesting that the effects of mass hunger, destitution, and widespread premature death could now safely be consigned to scholarship, sculpture, and oblivion. Intense social change in Ireland since the 1990s has coincided with new work by scholars and artists to raise awareness of the unacknowledged trauma suffered by those who survived famine, and by their descendants. Famine has left many traces in a landscape now best known through tourism. Less well known or understood, however, are its many reverberations in the minds and imaginations of individuals, families, and communities.
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2016
Angela Bourke was born in 1952 in Dublin, Ireland.
As a child, Angela Bourke learned Irish at primary school and in Carna, County Galway. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honors in Celtic Studies in 1972 from University College Dublin. She did one-year training in folklore cataloging with Seán Ó Súilleabháin, National Folklore Collection at University College Dublin. She earned a Master of Arts degree with first-class-honors in Celtic studies in 1974. She also obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Celtic Studies in 1983 from it. Angela attended Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France.
At the beginning of her career, Angela Bourke was a senior lecturer in Irish at University College Dublin, Ireland. She served as a visiting professor at Harvard University from 1992 to 1993 and the University of Minnesota.
Angela held visiting professorships and fellowships in the USA, Canada, Japan, Monaco, and the UK, delivered hundreds of invited lectures, contributed to and presented many TV and radio programs, and published extensively in Irish and English. Presently, Angela Bourke is a Professor of Irish-language Studies and Head of Modern Irish emerita at University College Dublin.
Bourke published widely in journals and literary magazines in both English and Gaelic. She has made an extensive study of the social structure of rural Ireland during the past 200 years, as reflected in songs, stories, proverbs, and riddles. Burke is also the editor of Field Day Anthology: Irish Women’s Writings and Tradition, published in 2002 by Cork University Press. Her first writing, Caoineadh na dTrí Muire: Téama na Páise i bhfílocht bhéil na Gaeilge, came out in 1983. She also wrote, The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story in 1999 and Maeve Brennan of the New Yorker in 2004. Her most recent book, Voices Underfoot: Memory, Forgetting, and Oral Verbal Art was written in 2016.
(Famine commemorations began in 1995 and ended in 1997, ho...)
2016(To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday ...)
2004(In 1895, Bridget Cleary, a strong-minded and independent ...)
1999(In this memorable collection the, salt water, is not only...)
1996Angela Bourke is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.