James Leslie Brooks (1919-1993)
1993; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 70; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3828/bhs.70.4.447
ISSN1478-3398
Autores Tópico(s)Irish and British Studies
ResumoBorn in Portarlington (a small Huguenot settlement some forty miles west of Dublin); educated at The King's Hospital, Dublin, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a Sizar, Junior Exhibitioner, Senior Exhibitioner, Foundation Scholar, First Class Moderator in Irish and Spanish and Supplemental Moderator in Celtic Languages; Part-time Assistant to the Deputy Professor of Spanish, TCD; Assistant Lecturer, Queen's University, Belfast; Assistant Lecturer, Manchester University; Lecturer, Sheffield University; Reader in Spanish, Durham University; Professor of Spanish, Principal of St Cuthbert's Society, Second Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Sub-Warden, Durham University: even omitting the Presidency of the Durham University Rugby Football Club such a career might be the envy of any ambitious conformist, especially if he were what used to be known as a ‘West Briton’. As the progress of a Gaelicspeaking iconoclast, mischievous deflator of al1 forms of pretentious...
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