MA in Irish Studies Course Board

Irish Studies is a designated Area of Excellence at NUI, Galway, and the newly established Centre brings together some of Ireland’s leading academics in the contributing disciplines of Irish, English, History, Political Science and Sociology, and Archaeology. The Centre offers a broad range of interdisciplinary courses in Irish Studies for undergraduate and graduate students including a Summer School and the MA programme. The Centre is also engaged in developing primary research in all the related disciplines of Irish Studies.

Course Board / Bord an Chúrsa

Dr. Mary Harris

Mary Harris graduated with an M.A. in Irish from University College, Cork, and a Ph.D. in History from Cambridge.  She is the author of The Catholic Church and the Foundations of the Northern Irish State and articles on modern Irish history and culture.  She lectured in Irish history, culture, language and literature on the Irish Studies program at the University of North London before joining the History Department at NUI, Galway in 1996.  She now lectures on modern Irish History and Colonial Latin America, and her current research interests include Northern Ireland, religion and Irish culture history.

Dr. Gearóid Denvir
Gearóid Denvir was educated at University College Dublin where he taught for some years. He has also taught at the Universities of Hamburg and Toronto and at Boston College. He received a Ph.D. degree from the National University of Ireland for his pioneering study of the work of the 20th century writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain. His fields of research include 19th and 20th century Irish literature, oral literature, cultural critique and sociolinguistics. He is the author of eight books and of numerous articles in these areas.

Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh 
Niall Ó Dochartaigh graduated with an MA in history from NUI, Galway in 1989 and with a Ph.D. in politics from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1993. He is the author of From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles and of The Internet Research Handbook for the Social Sciences. He was responsible for setting up and authoring most of the content of the ’Conflict Data Service’, an Internet service on ethnic conflict run by the University of Ulster and the United Nations University. Current research interests include ethnic conflict, Northern Irish politics, the politics of territory, and the politics of the Internet.

Dr. Louis de Paor (Programme Director)
Louis de Paor was educated at University College Cork. He has published articles on a broad range of writing in Irish from the court poetry of medieval Ireland to the work of contemporary poets such as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Michael Davitt. His books include a study of narrative technique in the short fiction of Máirtín Ó Cadhain and an anthology of twentieth century poetry in Irish co-edited with Seán Ó Tuama. He is currently working on a study of the writings of Flann O’Brien and is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway.

Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan
Marie-Louise Coolahan graduated with an M.Phil. in English Literature from Oxford University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in English from Nottingham Trent University in 2000.  She is affiliated to the Perdita Project on women's manuscripts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She lectures on early modern literature, and her current research interests include seventeenth-century manuscript culture, Irish- and English-language women's writing.

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