Bob Callahan

In the 70s, the creator of the Turtle Island Foundation, and the editor and publisher of vital works by Jaime De Angulo, Edward Dorn, Carl Ortwin Sauer, Stan Brakhage, and Zora Neale Hurston, responsible for one of the era's finest American Studies small press publishing programs. "The best small press publishers of its day", Village Voice, Saturday Review of Books.

In the 80s, with Ishmael Reed and Victor Hernandez Cruz, a founding member of the Before Columbus Foundation; currently the Chairman of The Before Columbus Foundation; Irish American activity author/editor of Algonquin Woods, Callahan's Irish Quarterly, The Big Book of American Irish Culture and A Day In The Life of Ireland; a pioneer in the multicultural movement, and an early architect of the current resurgence and revival of Irish popular culture.