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Mr. Ruadhán Cooke M.A., LL.B., D.E.A.

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Title University Teacher
Address French
Office 319
Arts Millennium Building
National University of Ireland, Galway
Telephone: 091 493398 / Ext.3398
Fax: 091 494508
Email:
ei.yawlagiun@ekooc.nahdaur

 

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Biography:

Ruadhán Cooke is a University Teacher in French at the National University of Ireland Galway and is the coordinator of the language component of the B.Comm. International (French) degree programme.

He is a triple graduate of UCG / NUIG with a First Class Honours M.A. in French and has also obtained a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies from the Centre International d’Études Francophones, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is currently working on a Ph.D. project on the sports journalism of Antoine Blondin.

Other activity includes being the area coordinator for the Certificate and Diploma exams in French for Specific Purposes of the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris and academic supervisor of the Erasmus / Socrates year abroad in 6 partner institutions in France.

He is involved in a number of University committees with a special interest in NUI Galway Boat Club, both as a member of the coaching panel and Cox of the Senior Men’s rowing squad.

 

Book Chapters

Cooke R., Dine P. (2007) 'Un forçat de la plume : Antoine Blondin, écrivain du sport : genèse et évolution d’une forme journalistique' In: Sport et Presse en France (XIXe-XXe siècles). Paris: Bibliothèque Universitaire et Francophone. [Details]
   

Other Journals

Cooke R. (2005) 'The Green Fields of France: Ireland’s sporting heroes and the Tour de France' Sport in History 25 (2) :205-219. [Details]
         

Conference Paper

Cooke R. (2007) Sports Journalism as History / Sports Writing as Literature: Antoine Blondin and the Tour de France. Third Annual Sports History Ireland Conference, hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies. National University of Ireland, Galway: Conference Paper [Details]
Cooke R. (2007) Mapping the Tour de France: Antoine Blondin's Chroniques de l'Équipe. Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France. Reading (UK): Conference Paper [Details]
Cooke R. (2008) Sport and spectacle: The Tour de France as a media creation, Representing Sport: Forms and Issues. International Conference hosted by the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. National University of Ireland, Galway: Conference Paper [Details]
Cooke, R. (2011) « L’anglais tel qu’on le court »: Antoine Blondin’s “clichéd view of Englishness” in Chroniques de L’Équipe 1954-82, French Media Research Group 20th One Day Conference. Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK): Conference Paper [Details]
Cooke, R. (2011) « Pour le Tour de France, j’ai la fête qui tourne », Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France. Stirling (UK): Conference Paper [Details]
                             

Teaching Interests

  • French for Business Purposes (FOS)
  • Current Affairs & Contemporary Issues in France and the wider French-speaking World (Francophonie)
  • French Language (Translation, Interpretation)
     

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