ROINN NA GAEILGE / DEPARTMENT OF IRISH

Fáilte romhat! Welcome to the English-language website of Roinn na Gaeilge / the Department of Irish, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.This website is being developed continuously. We also have a Irish version of this website online.

Roinn na Gaeilge, the Department of Irish, is located in a dedicated building, Áras na Gaeilge (pictured) between the Education and Engineering Buildings and the James Hardiman Library.

Staff include leading scholars in Modern Irish language and literature, with specialists in Old and Middle Irish, and Welsh.

Biographical details are below. For further information about teaching responsibilities, research interests and recent publications, please see our Staff pages (Gaeilge).

STAFF INFORMATION

Dr. Máirtín Coilféir, MA, PhD - Tutor

Modern Prose, Cultural Criticism, Translation Studies, Drama Studies.

Prof. Gearóid Denvir, BA, MA, PhD - Professor of Modern Irish

20th Century literature; 19th Century literature; oral literature; sociolinguistics; cultural critic.

Dr. Clodagh Downey, BA, PhD - Lecturer

Language and literature of Old and Middle Irish; poetry of Middle Irish; work of Cúán Úa Lothcháin. 

Dr. Graham Isaac, BA, PhD - Lecturer & Head of Department

Comparative and general linguistics of Celtic languages and Indo-European; continental Celtic languages; literature of Old and Middle Welsh; metrics.

Prof. Micheál Mac Craith, MA, PhD - Professor Emeritus

Literature of 17th and 18th Centuries; development of Celticism; native spirituality; prose and poetry of 20th Century.

Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, BA, HDip, MA, PhD - Lecturer & Head of School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Context, performance and presentation of culture; theories of folklore studies; influence of nationalism on folklore; methods for folklore; folklore in a globalised world; the song in Ireland and Scotland; regional literature.

Dr. Feargal Ó Béarra, MA, PhD - Teaching and Research Fellow

Historical development of the Irish language; Middle Irish language and literature; Early Modern Irish; Tromdhámh Guaire (preparing a new edition); Palaeography; Lebor na hUidre; Cré na Cille; Non-Traditional Late Modern Irish.

Dr. Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MA, PhD, MRIA - Senior Lecturer

Placenames; genealogy; personal names and surnames; scholarly families; tradition of late manuscripts; life and work of great scholars.

Tomás L. Ó Murchú, BA, MPhil - Tutor

The heritage, the literature and the language of Corca Dhuibhne, Co. Kerry. The Irish language poets and scribes of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries – in particular those belonging to Munster. 

Dr. John Walsh, BA, MA, PhD - Lecturer and Vice-Dean for Research, College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies

Sociolinguistics of Irish; comparative sociolinguistics; language policy; language legislation; dialectology; the Breac-Ghaeltacht; minority language media; language and socio-economic development. List of publications here.  

Dr. Jeannine Woods, BA, MA, PhD – Language Executive

Irish-language film; gender and sexuality in Irish literature and discourse; postcolonial and cultural criticism; performance theory.

Full staff information available in Irish here.

COURSES

The Department offers a range of courses at undergraduate level (BA in Irish, BA in Celtic Studies, BA in Celtic Civilisation, BA in Applied Irish) and at postgraduate level (MA in Modern Irish; Diploma in Traditional Studies; MLitt & PhD in Modern Irish).

Please follow this link http://www.nuigalway.ie/oldirish/ for the following programmes: MA (Old and Middle Irish), MLitt. (Celtic Studies), MLitt. (Old and Middle Irish), PhD (Celtic Studies), PhD (Old and Middle Irish).

For further information on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, please see the Irish version of our website.

The Department has a record of excellence in Celtic Studies, Irish language literary studies, linguistics, sociolinguistics and folkloristics and is currently developing expertise in related emerging disciplines. Information on Celtic Civilisation courses is available through English here.

The primary working language of the Department is Irish, directed primarily at an Irish-speaking student base. The medium of instruction is also Irish except for courses in Celtic Civilisation. Consequently, most of the course information on our courses is currently available in Irish only. We intend to address this situation as time and other resources allow. In the meantime, please contact the administrator, Fiona de Paor at fiona.depaoroegaillimh.ie ( Tel: 091 492564) about any questions you may have. Alternately, other members of staff will be happy to answer your queries.

Last update: 5 November 2012

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