The Irish Studies Institute at Molloy College will continue to teach and explore Irish Gaelic language and culture at its Rockville Centre campus this fall.
Beginner and intermediate Irish language classes will be offered on Saturdays from Oct. 15 through Dec. 10. Intermediate classes will run from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and beginning classes from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. The classes will be led by Jerry Kelly, former adjunct professor of Irish Language and Culture at Fordham University. His areas of research include pre-17th century Seanchas (the Brehon Law, history and genealogy of Ireland’s ancient clans and tribes) and the Irish in Colonial America. Each class will include, exploration of Ireland’s ancient Gaelic culture.
Also known as Gaeilge or Gaelic, the Irish language is the living warehouse of more than 2,500 years of Irish and Celtic oral history, genealogy, law, myth, religion, poetic art, song, epic tales, saga and science. For Irish-Americans who want to know how their ancient ancestors lived or thought, the Irish language has been recognized as a “window on the Iron Age.”
The Irish Studies Institute at Molloy College provides a venue not only for Irish Language classes, but also for traditional Irish music and storytelling, lectures by noted historians which illuminate and articulate the role Irish-Americans have played and continue to play in the United States, afternoons and evenings with noted Irish and Irish-American authors, its ongoing oral history project and celebrations of Gaelic sports, music, and dance such as the Ancient Order of Hibernians’ Nassau County Feis, that was held on Sept. 18.
For more information and to register for the Institute’s Irish Language and Culture classes, contact Catherine Tully Muscente at (516) 678-5000 ext. 6218 or cmuscente@molloy.edu.
