Guest Instructors

Traolach O Riodain

Irish Language

Traolach Ó Riordáin is a native of County Cork, and currently works as a lecturer in Modern Irish language and literature and the Director of Irish Studies at the University of Montana. He received his Ph.D. in Modern Irish Literature from the National University of Ireland, and has lived in Missoula since 2001. He was first invited to Missoula to teach Irish by the Montana Gaelic Cultural Society, then taught at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana before returning to Montana to help establish the first program of Irish Studies there. Traolach's Irish Studies program includes an exchange relationship with University College, Cork, and draws students from both within and outside Montana. At the University of Montana he teaches courses in Elementary Irish, Irish Gaelic Literature, and Literature of Pre-Norman Ireland; the university also offers a minor in Irish Studies.