The Copula in Classification Sentences: Modern Irish Paradigms for Learners - Tapa blanda

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A graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Business School, Jerry Kelly is an Instructor in Irish Language & Gaelic Culture at Molloy College's Irish Studies Institute and a former Adjunct Professor of Irish Language and Culture at Fordham University. His coursework at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David to date has included Celtic linguistics, archaeology of the Western world and the Middle East, Old Irish, Minoan & Mycenaean archaeology, Modern Irish, the Indo-European expansion and its mythology, Celtic mythology, classical civilization including Greek and Roman religion and Homeric epic, Early Irish Historical Tales, historical research methods, the Celtic Arthur, and the early modern history of England and Celtic Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. He is currently working towards his Master's degree in Celtic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His favorite areas of research include the Irish in Colonial America, advanced Irish grammar, and Seanchas. Until the 17th century, Seanchas was the indivisible combination of Brehon law, history, and genealogy as applied to Irish clans and tribes. He taught Irish on behalf of The Irish Arts Center in New York from 1979 to 1981; plus mythology and Seanchas through the medium of the Irish Language at Scoil Ghaeilge Ghearóid Tóibín / The Gerry Tobin Irish Language School from 1989 to 2007; and Irish and Irish Gaelic culture at Fordham from 2008 to 2010. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Irish Institute of Molloy College, teaches Irish on behalf of Cumann Carad na Gaeilge / The Philo-Celtic Society (www.philo-celtic.com), writes the Seanchas column for the Irish Language magazine AN GAEL, and is a member of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the American Irish Teachers' Association. He is also the author of a number of books and articles in Irish and in English including "Before the Kilt: How the Irish and Scots Dressed in the 16th Century" (Druid Press, 2011) and "An Chopail in Abairtí Aicme" (Druid Press, 2012).