Margaret Heavey
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Margaret Heavey
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Margaret Mary Heavey was a polyglot and classics scholar. She taught in the Classics department at University College Galway from 1931 to 1980, and worked primarily in Irish, translating from Greek and Latin along with writing original works. She is now honoured and remembered through the Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture, an annual event held at NUI Galway, featuring a lecture by a chosen speaker. The last speaker, Prof. Hans van Wees spoke on 'The rise of a slave-owning society in early Greece'
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Irish polyglot and classics scholar
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