Publications

2025

• Hannah Sams, 'Dod i Oed: Llenyddiaeth i Oedolion Newydd yn
  Gymraeg' Gwerddon (2025). (opens in a new window)https://gwerddon.cymru/storfa-erthyglau/dod-i-oed-llenyddiaeth-oedolion-newydd-yn-gymraeg/   
• Máire McCafferty, ‘Ag teacht in inmhe: na Coláistí Gaeilge agus Cruthú an Chultúir Náisiúnta Éireannaigh, 1904-1940.’ An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath: Tráchtas PhD 2025.
• Máire McCafferty, ‘The Role of the Irish Language Summer College in Revolutionary Ireland, 1913-1921’, Irish Historical Studies (forthcoming).
• Máire McCafferty, ‘Teanga gan Teorainn? Léargas ar Ról na gColáistí Gaeilge i ngluaiseacht teanga Chúige Uladh sna 1920idí & 1930idí’, An Léann Teanga: An Reiviú (forthcoming).

2024

• Adriana Raya Palmer, ‘Youth speech in translated fiction: a corpus-based
  comparison of selected pragmatic markers in Catalan and Spanish’/ ‘El lenguaje juvenil en la ficción traducida: una comparación basada en corpus de una selección de marcadores pragmáticos en catalán y español’, Biblioteca De Babel: Revista De
  Filología Hispánica, Extraordinario 2 (2024): 291–305.
  (opens in a new window)https://revistas.uam.es/bibliotecababel/article/view/19848.
• Máire McCafferty & Ríona Nic Congáil, ‘120 Years of the Irish College: Introduction’ Éire-Ireland 59.3-4 (Fómhar/Geimhreadh 2024): 127-135.
  (opens in a new window)https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/41/article/952528
• Ríona Nic Congáil, ‘Litríocht na gColáistí Samhraidh / Irish College Literature’ Éire-
  Ireland 59.3-4 (Fómhar/Geimhreadh 2024): 136-159.
  (opens in a new window)https://muse.jhu.edu/article/952529
• Hannah Sams, ‘Rhoi Llwyfan i Leisiau’r Ifanc: Medal Ddrama Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd 1975-2023’, Llên Cymru (2024): 85-116 (opens in a new window)https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/uwp/llen/2024/00000047/00000001/art00004
• Lydia Uí Ruairc, ‘Ní haon ní é a insíonn tú do pháiste’: Comhar (November 2024) (opens in a new window)https://comhar.ie/iris/84/11/ni-haon-ni-e-a-insionn-tu-do-phaiste/
• Hannah Sams, ‘Finding their Voices: The Young-Adult Poets of the Urdd National Eisteddfod’, International Journal of Young Adult Literature (2024)  (opens in a new window)https://ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.24877/IJYAL.138
• Richard Huddleson, ‘(opens in a new window)Born to blossom, bloom, then perish? The rise and fall of the Pomells de Joventut de Catalunya (1920–1923)’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (2024)
• Ríona Nic Congáil agus Máire McCafferty, ‘(opens in a new window)The Irish Language Summer College, 1904- 2023’, Linguistic Minorities in Europe (2023)
• Hannah Sams, '(opens in a new window)Creating breathing spaces for teenagers in the Welsh language: the case of theatre-in-Education', Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (July 2023).
• Máire McCafferty, (opens in a new window)‘Gael Linn sa Ghaeltacht’, Comhar (May 2023).
  
• Máire McCafferty, (opens in a new window)"‘You cannot teach the children of Ireland Irish until the teachers have got Irish themselves’: na Coláistí Samhraidh agus Modhanna Múinte na Gaeilge, 1904–1922", ComharTaighde 8 (2022).
  
• Ríona Nic Congáil, (opens in a new window)"Litríocht Ghaeilge na nÓg, 1900–2022", ComharTaighde 8 (2022).
  
• Ríona Nic Congáil, (opens in a new window)"The Three Stack Sisters: A New Perspective on 20th-Century Irish-Language Women’s Writing", Études Irlandaises 47.2 (2022): 71-87.
• Ríona Nic Congáil, (opens in a new window)An Óige agus an Athbheochan. Baile Átha Cliath: Cló Léann na Gaeilge. (2022)

An Óige agus an Athbheochan by Associate Professor Ríona Nic Congáil is the first monograph which focuses on the relationship between young people and the history of the Irish language.

During the Revival period, adults came to understand that the survival of Irish depended on the younger generations and they seized the opportunity to attract young people towards the language. Drama and sport societies were founded; newspaper columns and literature for young people were published; feiseanna were set up and the practice of sending young people to the summer colleges in the Gaeltacht was established. The gap between the experience of young people in urban areas and the Gaeltacht areas was considerable, however, and this book gives an insight into the way the Revival movement affected both groups.

This book provides a close examination of the efforts of the Revival proponents to recruit young people to the movement and to encourage them to work on behalf of the movement for Irish.

This monograph was awarded a prize in the Literary Competitions of Oireachtas na Gaeilge 2021.