Welcome to the Office of the Registrar and Deputy-President

  An Meabhránaí agus Uachtarán Ionaid: An tOllamh Pól Ó Dochartaigh, MRIA, FRHistS

 Registrar and Deputy President: Professor Pól Ó Dochartaigh, MRIA, FRHistS

We are pleased to welcome you to the website for the Office of the Registrar and Deputy President (Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh). We hope you will find it useful, and that it will help to facilitate communication between this Office and the academic community. If you have any comments on the site, or wish to make any suggestions relating to it, you can e-mail us at:  registrar nuigalway.ie

As Registrar and Deputy President, Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh reports to the President and deputises for him in his absence. He has overall responsibility for all academic operations of the University. He is a member of the University Management Team and of the University’s Governing Authority, Údarás na hOllscoile, and he chairs a range of university committees, including the Academic Management Team, Priorities Committee (academic posts), Research Committee, Graduate Studies Board and the boards of the five Colleges. His line reports include the VP for Research, VP for the Student Experience, the Academic Secretary, the Deans of the five Colleges, the Dean of Internationalisation, the Dean of Graduate Studies, the University Librarian, the Chief Executive of Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, the Director the the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and the Director of the Centre for Adult Learning and Professional Development.

Externally, he is a Director of the Central Applications Office (CAO), the Postgraduate Applications Centre (PAC) and the Galway University Foundation. He currently chairs the CAO Audit Committee. He is also a member of the Senate of the National University of Ireland.

Prof. Ó Dochartaigh is a German scholar whose work in literature and history is interdisciplinary in a German-Jewish-Irish triangle. He has worked on the legacy of the Holocaust, the German involvement in Celtic Studies and, more recently, on Jews in Irish literature and history. He has published five monographs, including the first comprehensive study of Jews in GDR literature, a biography of the Austrian Celticist Julius Pokorny and a study of relations between Germans and Jews since the Holocaust as well as six edited collections and over forty articles and chapters.

He holds a BA (Hons) in German from University College Cardiff, a BA (Hons) in Irish Language and Literature and a Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching from Ulster University, and a PhD in German cultural history from Nottingham University. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former President of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland and a former Chair of the Royal Irish Academy’s Committee for Modern Langauges.

He is married to Geraldine and they have twin daughters.

Fáilte chuig an suíomh idirlín seo ag Oifig an Mheabhránaí agus an Uachtaráin Ionaid (An tOllamh Pól Ó Dochartaigh). Tá súil againn go mbainfidh sibh tairbhe as, agus go gcuideoidh sé go mór le feabhas suntasach a chur ar an gcumarsáid idir an Oifig seo agus comhluadar na hOllscoile agus an pobal i gcoitinne. Má tá moladh ar bith le déanamh agat maidir leis an suíomh seo, cuir scéala chuig an seoladh ríomhphoist seo:  registrarnuigalway.ie

Ina ról mar Mheabhránaí agus Uachtarán Ionaid, tuairiscíonn an tOllamh Pól Ó Dochartaigh chuig an Uachtarán agus déanann sé ionadaíocht air nuair a bhíonn sé as láthair. Tá freagracht iomlán air as gach oibríocht acadúil de chuid na hOllscoile. Is ball é d’Fhoireann Bainistíochta na hOllscoile agus d’Údarás na hOllscoile, agus tá sé ina chathaoirleach ar réimse coistí ollscoile, lena n-áirítear an Fhoireann Bainistíochta Acadúil, an Coiste Tosaíochtaí (poist acadúla), an Coiste Taighde, an Bord Staidéir Iarchéime agus boird na gcúig Choláiste. I measc na ndaoine a thuairiscíonn chuige tá an Leas-Uachtarán Taighde, an Leas-Uachtarán d’Eispéireas na Mac Léinn, an Rúnaí Acadúil, Déin na gcúig Choláiste, an Déan don Idirnáisiúnú, an Déan Staidéir Iarchéime, Leabharlannaí na hOllscoile, Príomhfheidhmeannach Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, Stiúrthóir an Ionaid Sárchaighdeáin Foghlama agus Teagaisc agus Stiúrthóir an Ionaid Foghlama agus Forbartha Gairmiúla d'Aosaigh.

Go seachtrach, tá sé ina Stiúrthóir ar an Lár-Oifig Iontrála (CAO), ar an Ionad Iarratas Iarchéime (PAC) agus ar Fhondúireacht Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Faoi láthair, tá sé ina chathaoirleach ar Choiste Iniúchta an CAO. Is ball é chomh maith de Sheanad Ollscoil na hÉireann.

Scoláire le Gearmáinis é an tOllamh Ó Dochartaigh a bhfuil saothar ildisciplíneach litríochta agus staire curtha i gcrích aige i réimse na Gearmáine-na nGiúdach-na hÉireann. Tá dua caite aige le hoidhreacht an Uileloiscthe, le tionchar na Gearmáine ar an Léann Ceilteach agus le gairid leis na Giúdaigh i litríocht agus i stair na hÉireann. Tá cúig mhonagraf foilsithe aige, ina measc tá an chéad staidéar cuimsitheach ar na Giúdaigh i litríocht Phoblacht Dhaonlathach na Gearmáine, beathaisnéis an Scoláire Ceiltise ón Ostair, Julius Pokorny agus staidéar ar an chaidreamh idir na Gearmánaigh agus na Giúdaigh ón Uileloscadh i leith. Ina theannta sin, tá sé bhailiúchán curtha in eagar aige mar aon le breis is daichead alt agus caibidil.

Tá BA Onóracha sa Ghearmáinis aige ó Ollscoil Caerdydd, BA Onóracha sa Ghaeilge agus i Litríocht na Gaeilge agus Teastas Iarchéime i dTeagasc Ollscoile ó Ollscoil Uladh, agus PhD i stair chultúrtha na Gearmáine ó Ollscoil Nottingham. Tá sé ina bhall d’Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann agus ina Chomhalta den Chumann Ríoga Staire, is iar-Uachtarán é ar an Chumann do Léann na Gearmáinise sa Bhreatain Mhór agus in Éirinn agus is iar-Chathaoirleach é ar Choiste Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann do Nua-Theangacha.

Tá sé pósta le Geraldine agus tá cúpla acu – beirt iníonacha.

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