Franz Andres Morrissey
Andres Morrissey is a retired senior lecturer in English Linguistics at Bern University, He has a variety of presentations and activities to offer
Songs
Ballads of the British Isles
A talk on and performance of traditional and broadside ballads of Scotland and England
Songs of World War 1
A different historical perspective on the “War to End All Wars”
Robert Burns
Poet and Song Collector, the influence of the Scottish national poet on the “traditional” folk songs of Scotland and on his own songs
Songs of …
With some friends of the Swiss British Society Bern we perform songs on themes like emigration, work, sea-faring, love
and loss, drinking and merry-making, as well as communal singing of carols.
History of Ireland in Songs
The title speaks of itself
Historical Linguistics
Andres Morrissey presents also
- Talks on language
- Language change and language attitudes
- Varieties of English and origins of English idioms and sayings
- Readings of (light) poetry including my own collection Forty Pieces of Advice for the Lovelorn.
Memoir Writing
As a creative writing workshop moderator he has done workshops on memoir writing in the past and Anderes Morrissey would not mind reviving the idea.
Contact information HERE