Brian Cullen

Brian is from County Wicklow in Ireland. He first came to Japan as a civil engineer. However, he became interested in teaching and, after working at high school level, he now teaches full time at Nagoya Institute of Technology. As well as teaching, he is keen musician and plays guitar and mandoline with his band, 'Rising Pints'. Their music is available to download and is also on several CDs:

Brian has enlightened us on Ireland and its history and culture. He played the famous traditional songs 'Danny Boy' (Londonderry Air) and 'Molly Malone'. He also writes lyrics. Here he is with Yasuo Iida, whose hard rock band 'Black and Proud' recently released their new CD with lyrics written by Brian.

Among Brian's publications is a coursebook 'Humanity and Technology'.

He has visited us several times to talk about Ireland and play the country's music. Here he is on 10th July 2002:

Brian with second and third year students in 2003

Read what second year students found out in 2001

Brian with second year students in 2001

Brian with third year students in 2000

Find out about Hiromi's trip to Ireland

Find out about Takako's trip to Ireland

How about other visitors?