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Robert F. Lyons
Robert F. Lyons
B. 1937, youngest son of William & Mary Lyons, Yankton, SD.
Bob's father, William and mother Mary - she was a successful farmer's daughter - settled in South Dakota. The one-room schoolhouse he attended was on his father's farm. As he says, "The seeds of lifelong learning were well-rooted first in my home by my parents. We always had plenty of reading material with lively discussion at the table, and we had music too.".>>More from Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletter
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Over the past 20 years, Bob Lyons has led OLLI courses (Irish Short Stores, Irish Film Classics, Irish Readers Theatre) at University of Southern Maine
and Tufts University, as well as at Dartmouth College,
and while living in Ireland, at University College Cork and the Briery Gap Arts.
>>LIFELONG LEARNING COURSES - Robert F. Lyons 1998 to 2018 (23 courses)
Sketch by Cork artist 2001
Nona Plessner Lyons, Harvard educator & visiting researcher scholar, has worked in Ireland since 1999. Click>>
Sketch by Cork artist 2001
NONA LYONS
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Book Launches
University College Cork, IRELAND
November 2010
and
September 2017
Handbook of Reflection & Reflective Inquiry , Mapping a Way of Knowing for Professional Reflective Inquiry
Nona Lyons, editor
November 8, 2010Professionals urged to reflect more on their work. >>More
University College Cork>Click
- Book Interview UCC >Click
Bob's twin sister is Susan (Betty) Lyons Winckler. >Click
TWINS on the Farm >Click
Twins on Fence (1939)
Bob & Betty (Susan)
Ballynoneen, North Kerry, Ireland, home of Nona's grandmother, Kate Nolan
Reviews of IRISH STUDIES at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, taught
by Robert F Lyons.
"I feel connected to centuries of history and ancestors when in your presence."
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240 Letters, Opinion, Features published in regional, national, international newspapers and journals.
Low Gables, Kennebunkport, Maine June 2010
BLASKET ISLAND CENTRE DINGLE, IRELAND
September 2017
Nona Plessner Lyons
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Launch Remarks for
Learning Over Time, Nona Lyons & Carmel Halton, Editors
University College Cork, IRELAND
Blasket Heritage CenteR, DINGLE
Music of the Islands October 2006
NONA, BOB, PADDY
CHRISTMAS 2011
Gavin's Point, Yankton, SD June 2011
IRELAND'S LEGACY OF LEARNING: Epilogue
Robert F. Lyons, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Southern Maine
G.K. Chesterton was wrong when he said: "The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, for all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad." The great Gaels of Ireland gave us the tools to read words and to read notes; to sing songs and to create music.
>>READ NOTES by BOB - Words on WORDS
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BLOOMSDAY June 16, 2010
Buck Mulligan (Mark Rubin)
Stephen Dedalus (Bob Lyons)
Portland, Maine-Irish Heritage Center
FIRST DAKOTANS: The Lyons Experience by Thomas D. Lyons. Edited by Robert F. Lyons(1991)>Click eBook
Oklahoma Days: Dakota Son, Oil Country Lawyer by Thomas D. Lyons. Edited by Robert F. Lyons (1991)
--Notes on Thomas D. Lyons essays by Frank Lyons>Click
Letters to Editor: 1987 New York Times to Present by Robert F. Lyons (2010)
Go to >>PUBLICATIONS
A Sesquicentennial Anthology
James A. Donohoe - Moves family from Iowa to Yankton 1910. Yankton Press & Dakotan June 11, 2011 >>Click
Original story printed in P&D >>Click
Orphan Trains in Dakotas Irish Colony, Immigrants & Orphan Trains from Boston to Yankton, Dakota Territorial Capital 1861-1883, On its 150th Anniversary>>August 2011 IRISH AMERICAN NEWS