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Dr Nessa Cronin BA, MA.,Ph.D

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Title Lecturer In Irish Studies / Co-Director MA In Irish Studies
Address Centre For Irish Studies
Room 205
Centre For Irish Studies
Martha Fox House
Distillery Road
NUI Galway
Telephone: +353 91 492893
Email:
ei.yawlagiun@ninorc.assen
Homepage: http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/centre_irish_studies/staff_nessa.htm
http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/centre_irish_studies/omos_aite.html
http://www.mappingspectraltraces.org/

 

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Biography:

Nessa Cronin read English and Philosophy for her undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Dublin (1998) and received an MA in Continental Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University (2000). Her doctoral thesis, The Eye of History: Spatiality and Colonial Cartography in Ireland, focused on the visual and linguistic construction of the modern Irish map through a critical examination of four key moments in Irish cartographic history. She was awarded a PhD in Irish Studies by NUI Galway in 2007, and was the recipient of an IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholarship, Arts Faculty Fellowship, and a Notre-Dame Summer School Fellowship for her doctoral research. She has subsequently been awarded fellowships and research awards by the IRCHSS (2007, 2011), European Science Foundation (2008) and Culture Ireland (2008) for her work in Irish cartographic history and Irish Place Studies.

Nessa is the author of several articles, reviews and conference reports on many aspects of Irish historical geography and literary geographies, including contributions to Irish Studies Review, New Hibernia Review, Journal of Nordic Irish Studies, European Journal of English Studies, Journal of Historical Geography, The Cartographic Journal and Dialogues in Human Geography. Her book chapters include contributions to Ireland: Myth and Reality (2012), Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts (2011), and India and Ireland: Colonies, Culture and Empire (2006). She is also the co-editor with Seán Crosson and John Eastlake of Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture (2009).

Her current work on Irish Literary Geographies has involved the development of the interdisciplinary Irish Place Studies network, Ómós Áite at NUI Galway. She is a committee member of the Geographical Society of Ireland, the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, and is also the Irish co-convenor of the Mapping Spectral Traces international network. 

Books

Nessa Cronin, Sean Crosson, John Eastlake (2009) Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]

Book Chapters

Cronin, N. (2006) '‘Monstrous hybridity: Kim of the ‘Eye-rishti’ and the Survey of India’, India and Ireland: Colonies, Culture and Empire' In: Tadhg Foley and Maureen O'Connor (eds). -. -: Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details]
Nessa Cronin, Sean Crosson, John Eastlake (2009) 'The Sea of Orality: An Introduction to Orality and Modern Irish Culture' In: Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]
Nessa Cronin (2011) 'Lived and Learned Landscapes: Literary Geographies and the Irish Topographical Tradition' In: Marie Mianowski (eds). Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
Nessa Cronin (2012) 'Ireland after Tara?: National Legacies and Changing Landscapes of Celtic Tiger Ireland' In: Irene Gilsenan Nordin (eds). Ireland: Myth and Reality. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details]

Edited Books

Cronin, N (Ed.). (2009) Orality and Modern Irish Culture, edited by Nessa Cronin, Seán Crosson and John Eastlake (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). -: -. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

Nessa Cronin (2007) 'Disciplinary Ghettoes: Irish Studies and Interdisciplinary Negotiations'. Nordic Irish Studies, 6 :1-16. [Details]
 

Conference Publications

Nessa Cronin (2007) Where’s the On-Switch?: Integrating Information Technology and Humanities Postgraduate Research . In: HERA Conference Committee eds. New Technologies in Humanities Research, HERA Conference Talinn, Estonia, , pp.77-79 [Details]
Nessa Cronin (2008) Exploring and Comparing Multidisciplinary Approaches Early Agricultural Remnants and Technical Heritages Summer School Conference Available Online [Details]
           

Book Review

Cronin, N (2005) Maps and map-making in local history. Book Review [Details]
                                                                   

Other Item

Cronin, N. (2009) Orality and Modern Irish Culture. Other Item [Details]
Cronin, N., Seán Crosson and John Eastlake (2009) ‘The “Sea of Orality”: An Introduction to Orality and Modern Irish Culture’, co-authored, Orality and Modern Irish Culture. Other Item [Details]
                     

Reviews

Cronin, N. (2003) Language Technologies and the Foreign Language (FL) Teacher'. Academic Exchange Quarterly. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. (2004) Mapping the Event: The Cartography of Globalization. Proceeds of Tamkang International Conference on Globalization, Education and Language. Tamsui: Tamkang University: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Mapping and Seanchas: Thomas Kinsella's The Táin'. Irish Studies Summer School Graduate Seminar. Centre for Irish Studies, NUI, Galway, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Invited Speaker: 'Visualising Time, Mapping Space: Exploring the Colonial Cartographic Archive'. Centre for Canadian Irish Studies. Concordia University, Montreál, Canada: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Collapsing Colonial Time: The Visual Politics of an Early Modern Map of Ulster'. Renaissance Society of America, International Conference. Chicago, USA: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Brian Friel's Translations and Cultural Translation'. Department of International Studies. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. The Ordnance Survey of Ireland and Friel's Translations'. Arts Faculty Postgraduate Reading Group. Centre for Irish Studies, NUI, Galway, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Locating the Cat Mara: The Collapse of 'Gaelic' Space and Time in Myles na gCopaleen's An Béal Bocht.'. Nordic Irish Studies Conference. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Irish Language Seminars. Department of English and American Studies, Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Invited Speaker: 'Old Landscapes, New Geographies: Decoding the European Colonial Map'. Renaissance Studies Seminar Series. Queens College, City University of New York, USA: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Brian Friel's Translations and the Politics of Cartography'. Centre for Irish Studies, Charles. University, Prague, The Czech Republic: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Where's the On-Switch?: Integrating Information Technology and Humanities Postgraduate Research'. (IRCHSS Irish Doctoral Representative) New Technologies in Humanities Research, Conference for Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA). Tallinn, Estonia: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Translating Geographies: The Languages of the Irish Colonial Map'. International Symposium of the Working Group on the History of Colonial Cartography in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, Old Worlds - New Worlds: History of Colonial Cartography from 1750 to 1950. Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Tractatus Philosophicus-Caféicus: Philosophy Café Review', Think: 1999-2000. Journal of the Dublin University Metaphysical Society. Dublin University: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Research Methodologies 1: A workshop on planning your PhD'. Arts Faculty Postgraduate Reading Group. Centre for Irish Studies, NUI, Galway, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Questioning the Frame: Irish Studies and Interdisciplinarity'. New Voices 2005. Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Poetry and Politics in Northern Ireland: Seamus Heaney and the Government of the Tongue'. The Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Juniata College, at Centre for Irish Studies. NUI Galway, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Monstrous hybridity: Kim of the 'Eye-rishti' and the Survey of India', India and Ireland. Fourth Galway Conference on Colonialism. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Mind the Gap! Irish Studies and Interdisciplinarity'. Arts Faculty Postgraduate Reading Group, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI, Galway, Ireland. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Ireland and Postcolonial Theory, eds. Clare Carroll and Patricia King, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. New Hibernia Review. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Invited Speaker: 'Geographies of Trauma or Triumph?: The Politics of Colonial Maps of Early Modern Ireland'. Centre d'Études Celtiques, Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Invited Speaker: 'Geographies of Trauma or Triumph?: Maps, memory and meaning in Early Modern Ireland'. . Humanities Institute of Ireland Seminar Series, University College Dublin, Ireland. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Invited Speaker: 'An Irish Poetics of Place?: Poetry, Topography and the Irish Literary Tradition. Public Lecture for Canadian Irish Studies, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreál, Canada. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Tzvetan Todorov. English Studies Forum. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry, Sarah Fulford, Bern, Peter Lang. Irish Studies Review. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Desocialising Native Space: Renaissance Maps of the West of Ireland'. Renaissance Society of America. University of Cambridge, England: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Decorating a Room of One's Own: Reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper', Think: 1999-2000. Journal of the Dublin University Metaphysical Society. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Translating the Land: Mapping Language in Brian Friel's Translations'. Space, Text, Time, International Conference at the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages. University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Derry, Northern Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Setting up a Postgraduate Forum'. workshop co-facilitated with Ms. Mairéad Ní Bhriain to the Postgraduate Society. Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models and Fantasy Travels, Burke O. Long Making Contact: Maps, Identity and Travel and, The King's Two Maps: Cartography and Culture in Thirteenth Century England, Daniel Birkholz. European Journal of English Studies. London and New York: Routledge: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Geographies of Trauma or Triumph?: Early Modern Colonial Maps of Ireland', Meitheal. Irish Studies Reading Group, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI., Galway, Ireland. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Gaining Ground and Mapping Time: A Cartographic Response to William J. Smyth's, Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland'. Journal of Historical Geography. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Your Place or Mine?: A Roundtable Discussion of Current Trends in Cultural Geography'. Co-presented by Dr Nessa Cronin and Mr Tim Collins. Meitheal: Irish Studies Reading Group. Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Invited Speaker: 'Sin é do dhoras: Dún Chaoin faoi sholas an tráthnóna': (Re)entering the Irish landscape'. joint presentation with Dr Louis de Paor as part of the Roundstone Public Lecture Series, Unfolding Ideas, Folding Landscapes. Roundstone, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Invited Speaker: Post-performance Irish Theatre Panel Discussion on The Playboy of the Western World. The Irish Studies Programme and Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance. Queens College, City University of New York, USA: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Invited Speaker: 'From Ploughmen to Princes: Translating the Ancient Territories of John O'Donovan's Map of Mayo, (Royal Irish Academy MS 23 H 37, f. 18.)'. as part of the Research Seminar Series, Historical and Cultural Geography Research Group, University of Cambridge, England. Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Transfiguring the Landscape: Cultural Translation and Irish Historical Geography',. Meitheal: Irish Studies Reading Group. Centre for Irish Studies, NUI., Galway, Ireland: Reviews [Details]
Cronin, N. Blistered Toes and the Eye of History: Continuity and Change in the Cartographic Narratives of Giraldus Cambrensis'. . Mapping Medieval Geographies: Cartography and Geographical Thought in the Latin West and Beyond: 300-1600. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. University of California, Los Angeles: Reviews [Details]
                     

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