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Speaker! Writer! Historian!

Steven Gerard Farrell is an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at Greenville Technical College in Greenville, South Carolina. His teaching career began in 1979, and it has included tours of teaching duties in the lecture halls of the University of South Carolina-Upstate, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Texas A&M University. Steven also spent a decade teaching overseas in Japan and Saudi Arabia.  His wanderings have taken him to five continents and thirty countries, as well as to all fifty states.

Professor Farrell is the author of seven books. Three of his books ("Liverpool Roared," "Zen Babe" and "Boston Knuckles") are currently available at www.Amazon.com.   Check-out the author's page for Steven G. Farrell.

He is also the author of numerous articles, reviews, short stories and poems.A collection of essays, short stories, reviews and one play, entitled "Farrell's Irish Papers," shall be released in the spring of 2010 by World Audience Publishers. 

His collected essays, "Professor Farrell's Irish Papers," were formally accepted by the Irish Film Institute Archives in Dublin, Ireland in March of 2009.

Professor Farrell has presented talks and papers at numerous conferences, symposiums and forums throughout the country. He has also addessed many clubs, historical societies and organizations in the southeast and the midwest. Steven Gerard Farrell has been a frequent guest on Lou Rugani's "Old Time Kenosha" program on WLIP am Radio.

These articles by Steven Gerard Farrell are now available on Goggle:

"Mickey Machine Gun Is Back!: The Return of the Irish-American Gangster to the Silver Screen. www.crimemagazine.com,

"Galloping Gallagher Deserves the Gallows!: the Irish Rogue on Film." www.talkingpix.co.uk  

"King Kelly & the Boston Strong Boy: Mass Communication & pop Culture in 19th Century America." See directions below the web page number.

www.worldaudience.org

(click on Audience Magazine and scroll down to Vol 4, No 1, Summer, 2009).

"A Technological Rebel's Journey:The Wild, Weird & Wonderful Worldview of M. Stefan Strozier." www.mstefanstrozier.org (scroll to the bottom of web page).

"Review of "La Revolucion by M. Stefan Strozier: Fools Searching for Wisdom When They Fight.' www.mstefanstrozier.org (scroll to bottom of web page). 

What We Do

 Steven Gerard Farrell is one of North America's foremost scholars in Irish-Americana & pop culture.

Professor Farrell's six Irish-Americana speeches include:

"Molly, Nellie, Anne and Mother: Four Irish-American Hell Cats!

"San Francisco's Shamrock Shake! San Francisco's Irish Community in 1906 at the time of the Earthquake.'

"King Kelly & the Boston Strong Boy! Mass Communication & Popular Culture in 19th Century America."

"Mickey Machine-Gun Is Back! The Return of the Irish-American Gangster to the Silver Screen."

"Galloping Galloping Gallagher Deserves the Gallows! The Irish Rogue on Film."

"Farrell's Irish Papers."

Professor also offers these five additional speeches:

"How Grandpa & Grandma Survived the Great Depression! Radio, Film & Pop Culture During the Thirties."

"The Global Gownies: International Students on Today's Campuses."

"Badgerland Gangland: Gangsters, Bank Robbers & Horse Thieves of Wisconsin."

"Reminders of the Rhetoricians: Aristotle and Cicero for Daily Living in the 21st Century."

"Steve Speaks: tthe creation of Steven Gerard Farrell's three books: "Boston Knuckles," "Zen Babe," and "Liverpool Roared."

Besides being a professional public speaker and a published author, Steven Gerard Farrell is available as a Communication Skills Trainer and a Speech Writer.

Call Us Today!

Call Steven Gerard Farrell  today at (864) 234-6837 or e-mail Steven.Farrell16@yahoo.com  

Professor Farrell is situated in Greenville, South Carolina, but he is able to travel throughout the United States and Canada.

The Professor's fees are set upon a fixed scale. Travel expenses and the scope of your events are always factored in.$2.500.00 to $3.5000.00 is the normal price range. 50% of the fee must be paid in advance as a retainer of his services.

The conducting of workshops and seminars, as well the writing of speeches, involves a hourly rate of $100.00 to $200.00 per hour and travel expenses (if necessary). A 50% retainer is required once an agreed upon total hours is reached.