Kevin Whelan illustrated lecture on what makes Mayo distinctive, Digi Mart USA News (Castlebar, Ireland): Leading historian Kevin Whelan will address the Mayo Historical and Archaeological Society on Wednesday, November 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the ATU Campus, Castlebar.
The title of his talk is “What makes Mayo Mayo?” An illustrated lecture on what makes the county distinctive. The speaker is Director-Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, Dublin.
Whelan has visited every parish in Ireland and lectured in every county in Ireland, as well as in 15 countries, including at the Sorbonne, Cambridge, Oxford, Torino, Berkeley, Yale, Dartmouth and Louvain. He has written or edited over 20 books and more than one hundred articles on Ireland’s history, geography, literature and culture.
He has climbed Croagh Patrick on over 30 occasions, and the Mullet is one of his favourite places. His passions include hurling, poetry, book-collecting with over ten thousand volumes, the Irish language, talking and travel.
His most recent volume, written with Conchubhar Ó Crualaioch, is Gaelic Wexford 1400-1660: culture, landscape, settlement (Cork University Press, 2025). His forthcoming book, The Green Atlantic: United Irishmen in the USA, contains 14 biographies of Mayo men.
