[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 80 (Tuesday, June 10, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1157]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     OCC PROF. JAMES MACKILLOP STEPS DOWN AS PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN 
                      CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES

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                          HON. JAMES T. WALSH

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 10, 1997

  Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, today I ask my colleagues to join me in 
congratulating James MacKillop as he steps down from his role of 
president of the American Conference for Irish Studies.
  Professor MacKillop is in the English Department of Onondaga 
Community College. He has led with great energy and devotion a cultural 
group which conducts six scholarly meetings a year, awards three book 
prizes of $500 each per year, and distributes publications on Irish 
civilization in all its aspects.
  With more than 1,600 members in the United States, Canada, and 
Ireland and a dozen other countries, the ACIS touches on a diverse 
range of instruction, from women's studies to archeology to discussions 
of recent Irish cinema.
  Professor MacKillop is well known in my district for his association 
with our shared Irish heritage as well as for his excellence in 
academic pursuits at our prized community college. I want to wish him 
well in his further studies of the Irish and their ancestry and customs 
which have contributed so much to the evolution of our American 
culture.

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