Byrne, Cyril (Oral History Interview)

• Main Author: Byrne, Cyril J., 1940-
• Other Authors: Cook, Hansel Interviewer
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Saint Mary's University Faculty Union; Saint Mary's University Administration; Teaching Methods; Fundraising; Research; Reputation; Corner Brook; Canada; Fitzgerald; Saint-Vincent; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/23051

Professor, Department of English, Atlantic Canadian Studies Dr. Cyril Byrne speaks about or mentions: his early life and family in Newfoundland; Corner Brook; Gushue family; Wade family; Kitchuses, Conception Bay; Buckle family; his education in the United Kingdom and Ireland; St. Dunstan's University; Ken MacKinnon; University College Dublin; Dr. Jim O'Brien; Anglo-Saxon; Father Dunning; teaching at Mount Saint Vincent University; teaching in Newfoundland; attending Oxford University; doing a Phd at the University of Toronto; working as an announcer at CBC during summers; starting the Atlantic Canada Studies program; Nova Scotia Premier Gerry Reagan and his help to fund the Atlantic Canada Studies program; Don Keleher; President of the Bank of Montreal; A man named O'Hara, who was Secretary to the Prime Minister; Dick Walsh; Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald; Irish teacher Padraig at in the Atlantic Canada Studies program; University of Galway; Irish Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic; changes in the faculty and administration; his time spent on the Board of Governors and memories of the times; Terry Whalen; Unionization; speaks about class and student changes over the years