The contribution that Emyr Estyn Evans (EE Evans) has made to Irish Studies is not only realized in his works and academic achievements, but is also realized in the present and will continue to do so be recognized in the future. For we all share, in one way or another, the same proud feeling for our Irish heritage in all its historical, geographical, oral and traditional forms. The author will try to discuss it in this essay; is largely attributed to the foundations laid and explorations undertaken by E. E Evans. While much of Evans' life and achievements were lived and achieved in Ulster and Belfast, his lasting legacy is felt as a whole on the island of Ireland. He believed that the nine counties of Ulster were just that rather than raising awareness of or highlighting the divide between north and south of the border. He once recalled how he saw the Irish heritage as a single theme with many variations (Hamlin, A, 1989). In 1928, at the incredibly young age of 23, Evans having studied geography in Aberystwyth under the guidance of H. J Fleure was appointed as the first lecturer in geography at Queens University Belfast (QUB). It is from here that Evans lays the foundation for his studies of the Irish landscape and its people. Evans began his research into the Irish landscape with a hands-on approach, immediately commencing fieldwork and excavations. In order for Evans to gain a better understanding and clearer picture of prehistoric Ireland, a subject which interested him greatly as he believed that we had to understand it before we could evaluate Ireland of that time. Fieldwork would become one of Evans' primary sources (Hamlin, A, 1989). Carrying out fieldwork Evans... half of the paper... the Association of American Geographers (1979), and honorary doctorates from UCD, TCD, NUI, QUB, Wales, and Bowdoin College in Maine, New England. For his public work on numerous advisory and statutory bodies he was awarded the CBE in 1970. He was one of the leading scholars of his generation, an academic who diligently dedicated his time and knowledge to public benefit, but who above all he was a brilliant lecturer and caring teacher, much loved by his students. Evans died in Belfast on 12 August 1989 (Queen's University Belfast, 2008). Qwyneth, Estyn's wife, said that "in her beautiful husband was a poet struggling to break free." He said he had "a poet's way with words, a drive of feeling in their arrangement, and the love of the Irish poets for the land, its changing vistas of light and wind and the history that had sunk in little hills" ( Glassie, H, 2008).