Terence O'Reilly

Terence O'Reilly MRIA (1947–2023) was a professor of Spanish at University College Cork who undertook research on the literature, history and art of the Spanish Golden Age.

Career Terence O'Reilly received his B.A. Honours degree in Spanish and French in 1969 from the University of Nottingham, followed by a PhD for a thesis on the literature of meditation in early sixteenth century Castile and Aragon in 1972. In 1973, he was granted a research fellowship in the University of St Andrews, where he worked in the Spanish department. In 1975 he moved to University College Cork (UCC) to take up a college lectureship in Spanish. In 1968, he married the historian Jennifer O'Reilly (née Williams).

Honours

Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, British Columbia (2002) Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow (2004–2005) Veale Chair of Spirituality, Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin (2009) The Bible in the Literary Imagination of the Spanish Golden Age: Images and Texts from Columbus to Velázquez (Saint Joseph's University Press: 2010) The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola: Contexts, Sources, Reception (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2020) Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain: John of the Cross, Francisco de Aldana, Luis de León, ed. Stephen Boyd (Routledge: Variorum, 2022)