The contribution that Emyr Estyn Evans (EE Evans) has made to Irish studies is not only realized in her works and academic achievements, it is also realized in the present and will continue to do so. be recognized in the future. As we all share, in one way or another, the same sense of pride in our Irish heritage in all its historical, geographical, oral and traditional forms. The author will seek to discuss this in this essay; it is largely attributed to the foundations laid and explorations undertaken by E. E Evans. Although 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 or emphasizing the division between the north and south of the border. He once recalled how he viewed Irish heritage as a single theme with many variations (Hamlin, A, 1989). In 1928, at the incredibly young age of 23, Evans after studying geography at Aberystwyth under the tutelage of H. J Fleure. he was appointed as the first lecturer in geography at Queens University, Belfast (QUB). It was from here that Evans laid the foundations for his studies of the Irish landscape and its people. Evans began his research into the Irish landscape with a practical approach, immediately embarking on fieldwork and excavations. So that Evans could better understand and have a clearer picture of prehistoric Ireland, a subject which interested him greatly as he believed we needed to understand this before we could assess the Ireland of that era. Fieldwork would become one of Evans' main sources (Hamlin, A, 1989). In carrying out the fieldwork, Evans...... middle of article ...... the Association of American Geographers (1979), and honorary doctorates from UCD, TCD, NUI, QUB, Country of 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 academics of his generation, an academic who diligently devoted his time and knowledge for the benefit of the public, but who was above all a brilliant speaker and attentive teacher, much appreciated by his students. Evans died in Belfast on 12 August 1989 (Queen's University Belfast, 2008). Qwyneth, Estyn's wife, said that "within her beautiful husband there was a poet struggling to break free." She said he had "a poet's way with words, a yearning for feeling in their arrangement and an Irish poet's love of the land, its changing vistas of light and wind and the history that was swallowed up in little hills” (Glassie, H., 2008).