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Desmond Fennell (born 1929) is an Irish writer, cultural philosopher and linguist, whose most frequent form of writing is the essay. Throughout his career Fennell has repeatedly departed from prevailing norms. In the 1950s and early 1960s, with his extensive foreign travel and reporting and his travel book ''Mainly in Wonder'' passing from Berlin to Japan, he departed, himself a Catholic, from the norm of Irish Catholic writing at the time. From the late 1960s into the 1970s, in pioneering new approaches to the Northern Ireland problem and the Irish language revival, he deviated from Irish political and language nationalism, and with the wide philosophical scope of his ''Beyond Nationalism: The Struggle against Provinciality in the Modern World'', from contemporary Irish culture generally. Increasingly since the 1970s, with his criticism of the new American liberalism, Fennell has taken a dissident stance towards the West's reigning ideology. It has been much the same with lesser ventures. In 1991, in a pamphlet on the poet Seamus Heaney, Fennell challenged the prevalent critical view of Heaney as a poet of the first rank; in 2003 he devoted a small book to revising the standard account of European history, and in 2007, arising from his lifelong interest in European painting, his essay "Beyond Vasari’s Myth of Origin" offered a new version of its early history. As a result of Fennell's recurrent criticism of the neo-liberal framework for life, liberals in the media have often termed him a "conservative". But as his career shows, advocating the continuance of past ways, or a return to them, has not been Fennell's style. ==Background and education== Desmond Fennell was born in Belfast in 1929. He was raised in Dublin from the age of four—first in East Wall, and then in Clontarf. His father was a Sligoman who lost his job during the American Great Depression but who prospered in Dublin in the wholesale grocery business. His mother was the daughter of a Belfast shopkeeper. In Dublin, Fennell attended the Christian Brothers O'Connell School and Jesuit Belvedere College. In the Leaving Certificate Examination he obtained first place in Ireland in French and German and was awarded a scholarship in classical languages at University College Dublin, which he entered in 1947. While completing a BA in history and economics, he also studied English and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin. Inspired by the teaching of Desmond Williams, Fennell went on to pursue an MA in modern history from University College Dublin. After spending two semesters at (University ),Germany, he obtained this in 1952. He then spent three years teaching English in a new Opus Dei secondary school near Bilbao, Spain, and conducted a study tour of American schools on its behalf. In 1963 Fennell married Mary Troy, a Limerickwoman and student of Semitic languages at Trinity College. The couple went on to have five children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Desmond Fennell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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