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Terence O'Reilly
Terence O’Reilly AIH MRIA (1947–2023) was Professor of Spanish at University College Cork known for his work on the literature, history, and art of medieval and Golden Age Spain.

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 under Professor L.J. Woodward. In 1975 he moved to University College Cork to take up a College Lectureship in Spanish. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1978, Associate Professor in 1989, and Professor Emeritus in 2007.

His principal field of research was the literature, history and art of Spain during the Golden Age (c. 1470–1700), especially the prose of the period (chivalric, pastoral and picaresque fiction), religious writings (Ignatius Loyola, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross), and the paintings of El Greco and Diego Velázquez.‍

Honours

 * Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, British Columbia (2002)
 * Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow (2004–2005)
 * Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2007)
 * Veale Chair of Spirituality, Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin (2009)

Selected publications

 * From Ignatius Loyola to John of the Cross (Routledge: 1995)
 * The Bible in the Literary Imagination of the Golden Age (Saint Joseph's University Press: 2010)
 * The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola: Contexts, Sources, Reception (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2020)
 * Saint John of the Cross: Wisdom Sayings (Cambridge: Iona, 2021)
 * Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain: John of the Cross, Francisco de Aldana, Luis de León, ed. Stephen Boyd (Routledge: Variorum, 2022)