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	(opens in a new window)Dr Cathal Billings The Irish Revival Period The Gaelic Athletics Association and the Irish Language The history of the Gaelic Athletics Association Nationalism and language, cultural nationalism The use of Irish in public Nationalist societies and organisations and the Irish language Translation and translation theory
	(opens in a new window)Associate Professor Caoimhín Breatnach Early Modern Irish language, literature and metrics
	(opens in a new window)Dr Tiber Falzett Ethnographies of speaking (seanchas), aesthetics and sensory metaphor Scottish Gaelic and Irish narrative and verbal art Performance and representation of song, story, music and dance Diasporic memory and creativity Endangered and minoritised ethnolinguistic communities Intersectionality, identity and modes of cultural expression Contemporary folklife and everyday experience Ethnoecology, interspecies relationships, and the supernatural
	(opens in a new window)Dr Kelly Fitzgerald The emergence and development of folklore Memory and narrative Oral History in an urban context Analysis of the ethnographic and archival process Oral tradition and the arts
	Dr Fintan Keegan Lámhscríbhinní malla Chúige Uladh agus Thuaisceart Laighean; Litríocht Oirialla agus na gceantar máguaird.
	(opens in a new window)Associate Professor Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith The language and literature of Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Literary theory and criticism Contemporary visual art
	(opens in a new window)Dr Connor McCabe Phonetics and phonology Prosody, especially lexical stress Change and development in Irish (historical and current) The linguistic context of Ireland
	(opens in a new window)Dr Roisin McLaughlin Early Irish language, literature and metrics Latin-Irish texts Palaeography
	(opens in a new window)Dr Jamie Murphy Terminology Studies Queer Terminology Translation Studies Translation Theory Irish-Language Drama Hiberno-English Playwrights Digital Humanities
	(opens in a new window)Associate Professor Ríona Nic Congail Irish Revival Period History of Childhood and Youth History of Education Irish Women's History Children's Literature Irish Language Women's Literature Contemporary Irish Language Literature Utopian Studies Minority Language Studies
	(opens in a new window)Professor Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail The Irish manuscript tradition Ireland's vernacular written tradition from medieval times to the nineteenth century Evidence for the dynamic role of the scribe as creator and re-creator of narrative in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland Narrative discourse and historical representation The complementary relationship between script and print in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland Contemporary Irish writing and its heritage
	(opens in a new window)Dr Fangzhe Qiu Early Irish language, esp. its morphosyntax Medieval Irish literature and the history of ideas Early Irish law Comparative historical linguistics Corpus linguistics
	(opens in a new window)Professor Regina Uí Chollatáin The Revival Period - literature, journalism, criticism Irish journalism and media from 1795 to present day (print, broadcast, online) Urban Irish writing 1700+ and Print Culture Irish on Screen and Film Studies Major historical figures of the Irish Revival period including in-depth analysis of Patrick Pearse Trends in Donegal urban writing 1700-1900 Laois Heritage and James Fintan Lalor
	(opens in a new window)Dr Aoife Whelan Irish language media The Irish Revival Film studies Philosophy of Irish-Ireland Irish revolutionary history