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	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
	Associate Professor Caoimhín Breatnach Early Modern Irish language, literature and metrics
	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 Darragh Gannon Modern Irish History Global Irish Studies Irish Revolution Irish Diaspora Global/Transnational History Museum Studies Digital Humanities
	Associate Professor Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith The language and literature of Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Literary theory and criticism Contemporary visual art
	Dr Roisin McLaughlin Early Irish language, literature and metrics Latin-Irish texts Palaeography
	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
	Dr Bairbre Ní Fhloinn Occupational belief and practice The role of tradition in contemporary popular culture and the persistence of themes from past to present Vernacular architecture and conservation issues relating to it Irish Travellers and the oral tradition Folk medicine and its role today Seasonal and calendar observance and practice Applied Folkloristics The history and methods of collecting and documenting Irish popular tradition
	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
	Associate Professor Diarmuid Ó Sé Gaelic dialects of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man Historical development of the language since c. AD 1200 The verbal systems of Irish and other Celtic languages Pedagogical grammar of Irish Language and literature of west Kerry Accentuation, the vowel system of Irish, the 'autonomous verb', the dative singular forms of a-stems in -ch in Munster dialects; and the colour terms of Irish.
	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
	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
	Dr Aoife Whelan Irish language media The Irish Revival Film studies Philosophy of Irish-Ireland Irish revolutionary history