The Irish Times published a wide-ranging interview with Declan Kiberd, the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, Professor of English and Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame.
In the text of the published interview, the headline explains, Kiberd dicusses "the Gaelic Revival's genius, culture as a site of struggle, the folly of compulsory Irish, today's shy students and his subversively happy childhood."