Background
Murphy, Maureen O'Rourke was born on December 8, 1940 in Long Beach, New York, United States. Daughter of Bernard Joseph and Louise Catherine (Sawner) O'Rourke.
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"THE THIRD EDITION OF A Guide to Irish Studies in the United States goes to press as ACIS returns from its twenty-fifth anniversary meeting in Dublin, a meeting hosted by the School of Irish Studies and University College, Dublin. It was an appropriate place to celebrate this milestone because the impetus for an organized approach to Irish Studies and for an American Irish Studies organization came from two University College, Dublin, historians. During Professor Eoin MacNeill's 1930 lecture tour to the United States he discussed the possibility of developing a systematic and informed study of Irish history and language in America; years later, MacNeill's student Professor R. Dudley Edwards suggested to Lawrence J. McCaffrey that American historians with Irish research interests form an organization like the Irish Historical Society. That idea, expanded to include scholars from other disciplines, became the American Commitee for Irish Studies. At the twenty-fifth anniversary conference, the name was formally changed to the American Conference for Irish Studies to reflect our continued growth and numbers..." (from foreword by Maureen Murphy, ACIS President, Hofstra University, 1987)
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Murphy, Maureen O'Rourke was born on December 8, 1940 in Long Beach, New York, United States. Daughter of Bernard Joseph and Louise Catherine (Sawner) O'Rourke.
Bachelor of Science in Education, State University of New York-Cortland, 1962. Master of Arts in Folklore, Indiana University, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy in Folklore, Indiana University, 1970.
English instructor Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 1969—1971. Assistant professor English, 1971—1979. Adjunct associate professor English, since 1980.
Associate dean of students, 1976—1979. Dean of advisement, 1980—1984. Dean of students and advisement, since 1984.
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Member of Master of International Affairs, Folklore Ireland Society, International Association for Study Anglo-Irish Literature, American Irish History Society, American Committee for Irish Studies, Sea Cliff Yacht, Hofstra University.
Married Donald H. Murphy, March 27, 1967.