Staff Spotlight: Pádraig Ó Macháin

Seeing the municipal archives of Valencia.

Since coming here in 2012 I have had the opportunity to challenge myself every day in teaching and learning, and especially to establish and explore new frontier-areas of research, and do all of this with the enthusiastic support of a University that values innovation.

To gain or regain the energy that learning imparts. In the specific context of Gaelic Literature, to see how the history of a country and culture can be narrated through the story of its literary artifacts – texts and books – and to appreciate how energizing encounters with these artifacts, and with the ideas they inspire, can be.

Because no-one else offers a course like this.

If you want to challenge yourself with new, open-minded, carte-blanche learning, this is the place to be.

When our first student graduated, and told me, on that day, that the course had been a life-changing experience.

Personal communication between teachers and students in a spirit of courtesy, enquiry and mutual-learning.