2025 HONORARY PARADE MARSHAL
Eamonn Wall
Eamonn Wall is a native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, who has lived in St. Louis since 2000. He is employed as the Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he is also a Professor of English. He received degrees from University College, Dublin; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York-Graduate Center.
At UMSL, Eamonn curates the monthly Irish Lectures, Readings and Concerts Series for UMSL Global, is the director of UMSL’s annual summer study abroad program at the University of Galway and teaches classes that focus on Irish writing and culture.
Eamonn Wall is the author of eleven books including My Aunts at Twilight Poker (2023), From Oven Lane to Sun Prairie: In Search of Irish America (2019); Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions (2011). He has published essays, articles, and reviews in many publications including The Irish Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Reading Ireland, New Hibernia Review, Prairie Schooner, and other publications.
Eamonn has received many honors for his writing and community service including the Durkan Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies for excellence in scholarship; the Irish Echo Award for distinguished service to Irish Arts and Culture in North America; and an award for distinguished community service to St. Louis and Missouri from the Mayor of St. Louis. He is past-president of the American Conference for Irish Studies, the first Irish-born academic elected to this position.
Married to Drucilla Wall and the parents of two children, and grandparents of a girl and two boys, his family lives in Webster Groves.
