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.

Basic biographical details are below. For further information, please see our Staff pages (Gaeilge).

Áras na Gaeilge

STAFF INFORMATION

Prof. Gearóid Denvir, MA, PhD - Sabbatical leave 2009-10

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

Dr. Kicki Ingridsdotter, BA, MA, PhD (Uppsala)

The  aided as a genre in Old Irish; philology of Early Irish; editorial methodology, textual transmission.  

Dr. Graham Isaac, MA, PhD (University of Wales) - Head of Department

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

Prof. Nollaig Mac Congáil, BA, PhD (QUB) 

Dialectology; writers of Donegal; regional literature; grammar of Modern Irish; bibliography; literature of Modern Irish in translation; journals and newspapers in Irish.

Prof. Micheál Mac Craith, MA, PhD

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

Éadaoin Ní Mhuircheartaigh, BA, MA

Modern literature; drama; oral literature; 17th Century literature.

Dr. Donncha Ó hAodha, MA, PhD

Poetry and poetic essays of Old and Middle Irish; translation from Latin to Irish.

Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, HDip, MA, PhD - IRCHSS Scholar 2009-10

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. Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MA, PhD

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

Dr. John Walsh, MA, PhD (DCU) - Fulbright Irish Language Scholar and sabbatical leave 2009-10

Language legislation; language planning and policy for Irish and other languages; language policy in Scotland and Canada; minority language media; language and socio-economic development.

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) and at postgraduate level (MA in Modern Irish; Diploma in Traditional Studies; 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.

Latest update: 28 October 2009

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