Cahill is a man of learning himself, and his writing is in the great Irish tradition he describes: lyrical, playful, penetrating and serious, but never too serious,” New York Times critic Richard Bernstein wrote in 1995. But he gained a wide audience in the mid-1990s with the million-selling “How the Irish Saved Civilization,” in which he cited Ireland’s crucial - and unappreciated - preservation of classical texts after the fall of the Roman Empire. He wrote two books with his wife, Susan Cahill, in the early 1970s. The cause of death was not immediately known.Ī native of New York City, Cahill attended Jesuit school in his early years and became a dedicated student of Latin and ancient Greek, along with the Bible, philosophy and classical literature. Travis Loller, a family friend and Associated Press writer, says that Cahill died in his sleep Oct. NEW YORK (AP) - Thomas Cahill, a scholar of ancient languages and belief systems with a knack for popular storytelling who engaged history readers with such bestsellers as “How the Irish Saved Civilization” and “Desire of the Everlasting Hills,” has died at age 82. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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