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Gift from Princeton U. alum endows new Irish studies committee

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From: University Wire
Date: 19990416
Author:Emily Bliss

Emily Bliss
University Wire
04-16-1999
(Daily Princetonian) (U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. -- If the ghosts of James Joyce and William Butler Yeats ever wander through Princeton University's gothic archways and turreted halls, they will finally have a home away from Ireland.

Pat Durkin '60 recently gave the University more than $200,000 to launch the Fund for Irish Studies -- a name particularly appropriate since the abbreviation, FIS, means "vision" in Gaelic.

Durkin, who is of Irish descent, said he had wanted to contribute to the 250th Anniversary Campaign and the Irish studies fund seemed like ...

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