Denis Donoghue Quotes
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn’t matter.
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| Birth: | 1928 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Profession: | Critic, Professor |
Denis Donoghue was born at Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland. He is an Irish literary critic and professor. He is the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. He studied Latin and English at University College Dublin, earning a B.A. degree in 1949, an M.A. in 1952, a Ph.D. in 1957, and a D.Litt. in 1989. He earned a M.A. at the University of Cambridge in 1964, and returned to Dublin, becoming a professor at University College Dublin. Since the late 1970s he has been a professor at New York University.
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