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The Metastasio moment: language, music and translation
(Palermo University Press, 2018)The production, circulation and reception of translations are deeply embedded in the historical circumstances of the society that chooses to translate such texts. According to Lawrence Venuti, changing interpretations of ... -
Michel Déon: un grand périple a great voyage
(NUI Galway, 2017)An illustrated tribute to académician Michel Déon published by NUI Galway to mark his generosity and support for French in the University and his contribution to Franco-Irish relations -
Migrating myths: From Greece to Nicaragua, Mexico and Ireland
(Society for Irish Latin America Studies (SILAS), 2018)Michèle Najlis is a Nicaraguan poet associated with the Sandinista Revolution; her 1991 collection of poems Cantos de Ifigenia (Songs of Iphigenia) has had a deep and lasting impact on my academic and creative work. ... -
Military participation and moral authority: women's political participation in Nicaragua, 1975-1995
(Women's Studies Centre, University College Galway, 1995)The growth of a dynamic and assertive constituency of women in Nicaragua is inseparable from the most recent phase of 'Sandinismo' in Nicaraguan history. An examination of the complex and ever-changing relationship between ... -
Moving online: Zoom and audiovisual translation tasks to teach foreign languages to children
(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2022-12-12)Este artículo explora la estructura de un curso de idiomas basado en Traducción Audiovisual (TAV) con el objetivo de adecuarlo para su impartición a niños en un entorno virtual. Dado el potencial de los programas audiovisuales, ... -
Murder in a meadow: Environmental and cultural extinction in Cathal Ó Searcaigh's "Scrúdú Coinsiasa Roimh Dhul Chun Suain"
(Brill, 2017-11)An ecocritical reading of a poem by Cathal Ó Searcaigh -
The nation in Its labyrinth: An introduction to contemporary Spain since 1898
(Pressbooks, 2019)This is guide specifically written for first year undergraduates taking Spanish, but it will be useful to many other readers, whether university students or the public in general. It aims at navigating the recent ... -
National identity and belonging among gay ‘new speakers’ of Irish
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2019-03)New speakers refer to people who use a language regularly but are not traditional native speakers of that language. Although this discussion has been going on for some time in other sub-disciplines of linguistics, it ... -
National identity and local ethnicity: the case of the Gaelic League's Oireachtas sean-nós singing competitions
A discussion of traditional singing as a cultural phenomenon in contemporary Ireland, together with a brief historical overview. -
Neo-Assyrian relief in the Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities, Trinity College Dublin; a case study in artefact acquisition.
(2012)The focus of this paper is a neo-Assyrian relief discovered in the Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities at Trinity College Dublin (hereafter the Weingreen Museum). The shallow relief depicts a pictorial vignette of a ... -
A new citation from a work of Columbanus in BnF lat. 6400b
(Brepols, 2014)The author argues that a section of the newly-discovered eighth-century Irish computistica in Paris, BnF, lat. 6400b may contain a citation from a (lost?) work of Columbanus. -
New speakers of Irish and identities
(Routledge, 2020-03-03)This chapter examines the links between the Irish language and identity in the discourses of new speakers. Despite the strong historical association of Irish with national ethnocultural identity, the chapter identifies a ... -
New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space
(De Gruyter Open, 2014-12-18)While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half million speakers of Irish just over 66,000 now ... -
‘New speakers’ of Irish in the United States: practices and motivations
(De Gruyter, 2015-05-28)This paper examines the experiences and motivations of 'new speakers' of Irish in the United States. 'New speakers' of Irish refer to those whose first language is not Irish but who use the language regularly and fluently. ... -
‘New speakers’ on Irish language community radio: new understandings of linguistic variation on Raidió na Life
(Routledge, 2021-07-19)This article examines the use of Irish on the community radio station Raidió na Life which has broadcast to Dublin since 1993. By admitting and indirectly valorising a variety of linguistic styles, Raidió na Life can be ... -
Nicolas Sarkozy: Performing the French presidency
(Intellect, 2021-03-01)A presidential election can be viewed as a national drama in which a candidate casts herself/himself as a courageous protagonist who seeks to become a collective symbol that embodies the best qualities of the nation. Drawing ... -
Nicole Gilles and literate society
(Peter Lang, 2019-02-05)Nicole Gilles was active in the literate society of Paris in the last quarter of the fifteenth century in a number of ways: as a reader and patron of books, as a publisher and as a writer whose work may have circulated ... -
Novels of ripening: The maturation of the bildungsroman
(Bloomsbury, 2023-06-29)This chapter explores how the Bildungsroman, originally associated with young protagonists’ coming-of-age, has been revised in recent fiction to incorporate the continuing development and growth of characters well ... -
Okra in translation: Asylum seekers, food, and integration
(John Benjamins, 2021-06-18)This article explores the theme of food translation, based on research conducted in Italy in 2018 with a group of asylum seekers from different West African countries. It concentrates on a community gardening project ...