research

Note: abstracts for many of the following items can be found at my academia.com website.

Articles

"Siombalachas, Fíorú, agus Teoiric in Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre le Máirtín Ó Cadhain" ("Symbolism, Figuration, and Theory in Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre"). Forthcoming in the New Hibernia Review 15 (2011).

"The Irish Language Researcher". Forthcoming in Proceedings of the First New Jersey Irish History Symposium, 2011.

"Using Northern Irish Teaching Strategies with North American Evening Class Students of Irish". Journal of Celtic Language Learning 15 (2011). 175-210.

"'Ní hionadh go bpósann ár gcuid clainne eiricigh agus Blacks.' Racism and Xenophobia in Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille." Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 97 (2008). 275-285.

"Old Irish *desgabál and the Concept of Ascension in Early Irish Texts." Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 2003. 249-256.

"Narratological Theory and the Apparently Anonymous Narrator of Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille." Irish University Review (Fall 2006). 280-303.

"Some Ascension Motifs in the Early Irish Saints' Lives." Eolas: Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (2006). 97-118.

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries:

Review of Martin Weisser, Essential Programming for Linguistics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010) in Computational Linguistics, Winter, 2010.

Review of Margaret Kelleher and Philip O'Leary (eds.) The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, Volume I: to 1890 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) in Sixteenth Century Journal (2008).

Review of Robert Olwell and Alan Tully's Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) in Sixteenth Century Journal ( 2007).

Review of James Muldoon's Identity on the Medieval Irish Frontier: Degenerate Englishmen, Wild Irishmen, Middle Nations (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003) in Sixteenth Century Journal (2006).

The following sixteen entries for Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (University of Wales, 2006): Aisling, Amhrán, Caoineadh, Daniel Corkery, Cúirt, Dubhghlas De hÍde, (Douglas Hyde), Diarmaid Ua Duibhne, Feiseanna and the Oireachtas, Brian Friel, Lady Augusta Gregory, Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh, Micheál Ó Cléirigh, Ó Dálaigh Family, Seán O’Faolain, Standish James O’Grady, Sean-Nós.

Review of the Irish language textbook Abair Leat by Éamonn Ó Dónaill and Siuán Ní Mhaonaigh (Béal Feirste, 1996) in The Journal of Celtic Language Learning 4 (1998). 90-94.

Review of Colm Breathnach’s Cantaic an Bhalbháin ("The Mute's Song", a poetry collection) in The Steeple, a Cork Journal of Prose and Poetry, Vol. 3 (Autumn 1991). 30-33.

Journalism and Selected Non-Academic Material:

Print/Online Journalism

"An Straitéis 20 Bliain agus Cainteoirí Neamhghaeltachta" ("The [Irish Government's] Twenty-Year Strategy for the Irish Language as it Affects Non-Gaeltacht Speakers"). Feasta 63.10 (October 2010). 26-27.

"Schism fears for Gaeilgeoirí" (Substantial Feature Article). The Irish Times. Jan 16, 2010. Weekend Review. 6.

c.50 research articles (mostly on American affairs) in the monthly Irish journal Beo (2002-2010), including the following select examples:

· "Spiairí Inár Measc" ("Spies Amongst Us"), on the Russian Spy Scandal, August, 2010.

· "Mosc in Aice Láthair an Ionaid Trádála?" ("A Mosque Next to the World Trade Center Site?"), September, 2010.

· "Sonia Sotomayor - An Bhrionglóid Mheiriceánach" ("Sonia Sotomayor - The American Dream", on the Supreme Court's first Hispanic member), June, 2009 (c.1500 words).

· “Iadsan a Snámhann Lomnocht” (“Those who Swim Naked”, on investment malfeasance), February, 2009 (c.1500 words)

· "Claochlú agus Cúlú i nGeilleagar Mheiriceá" ("The Collapse of the American Economic System"). November 2008 (c.1500 words).

· "Stair Chasta Achrannach na Mormannach" ("The Long Complicated History of Mormonism"), April 2008 (c. 1500 words).

· "Na Chéad Sasanaigh i Meiriceá" ("The First English Settlers in America," on the Jamestown Settlement, Virginia). April 2007 (c. 1500 words).

· "Cur chuige nua ag teastáil i bhFoclóireacht na Gaeilge" ("New Energy Needed in Irish Lexicography"). April 2002 (c.1500 words).

"Metropolitan Diary". Short colour article in the New York Times about the Irish Language in New York City. February 2004.

"Stádas na Gaeilge sa Chomhphobal Eorpach." ("The Status of the Irish Language in the European Union"). Feature article in the Irish Echo. March, 2004 (c.750 words).

3 short articles in An Doras: An American Journal of Gaelic Culture, including:

· "An Págánachas i gCaitliceachas na hÉireann" ("Paganism in Irish Catholicism"). Spring 1998 (c. 500 words).

· "Teacht an Gheimhridh" ("The Arrival of Winter"). Winter 1996.

· "Na hÉireannaigh i mBun Spóirt" ("Irish Sports"). Autumn 1996.

· "Rogha an Deoraí" ("The Emigrant's Choice"). Summer 1996.

Broadcast Journalism

Some Recent Selections:

· Interview on Raidió na Gaeltachta (Irish National Radio Station), concerning new urban dialects, September 12th, 2010.

· Interviews on BBC Ulster radio program "Blas" on my linguistic research concerning the new urban dialects of Irish Gaelic (January, March, 2010).

· Interview on Raidió Fáilte, Belfast, on my linguistic research concerning the new urban dialects of Irish Gaelic (March, 2010).

· Interview on TG4 (Irish National Television Station), on my linguistic research concerning the new urban dialects of Irish Gaelic (February, 2010).

· February 2009: Appeared on Minnesota Public Radio's "Grammar Grater" program to discuss a particularly Irish usage of the "self" pronouns in Ireland.

· Featured Speaker on internationally-syndicated Wisconsin Public Radio Program "Here on Earth with Jean Feraca" (Topic: Endangered Languages and Public Policy). July 2005.

Creative Writing and Literary Translation:

Joint First Prize for full-length play Na hEorpaigh ("The Europeans") in the Oireachtas, the Irish national literary competion, October 2001.

Performance of play Na hEorpaigh at national Irish-language theater An Taibhdhearc (2002)

"An Lucht Thíos." Translation of Gerhard Amanshauser's German short story "Die Unteren" in Comhar, an Irish-language journal of literature and current affairs, Dublin, Ireland, April 1994.

"Filleadh na nÉan" ("The Bird's Return") and "Cogadh na nAdharcán" ("Antenna Wars") - poems in Comhar, an Irish-language journal of literature and current affairs, Dublin, Ireland, April 1991.

Selected Recent/Upcoming Conference Papers:

"Contrasting Accounts of Olaf Cuarán and his Dublin Family in the Eleventh-Century Irish and Norse Sources". Conference of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS), Glenstal Abbey, October 2011.

"The Acquisition of Irish in Multilingual Native Speakers of Irish: An Analysis of their Syntax and Morphology". Fifteenth Conference of Gaelic Linguistics, Magee College, Derry (UK). April 2011.

Organizer: "Treonna Nua i Nualitríocht na Gaeilge / New Directions in Irish Gaelic Literature", American Conferenc e of Irish Studies (ACIS), Madison, Wisconsin, April 2011.

"Fontenoy: Metafiction comes to Irish". American Conference of Irish Studies (ACIS), Madison, Wisconsin, April 2011.

" Pilgrimage in deed, but perhaps not word: The Ailithrech as Servant of Rome." 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan. May, 2011.

"Urban Irish Systematically Analyzed - Dialect? Pidgin? Creole?" 11th September, 2010. The 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference [CLC6], Dublin, Ireland.

"Urban Irish Systematically Analyzed from a Linguistic Perspective" Graduate Studies Symposium, University of Ulster, Belfast. March, 2010.

"Urban Irish - A New Dialect Being Spoken in Irish Cities?" McCracken Cultural Society, Belfast. March, 2010.

"The Irish Language Researcher: Tips, Tricks and Tribulations from the Trenches." New Jersey Irish Studies Conference, November 2009.

"The Theology of Cynewulf's Poem Christ II." International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2007.

"Siombalachas in Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre" ("Symbolism in Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre"). American Congress on Irish Studies, April 2007.

"Russian Literary Theory and Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille." Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar, February 2007.

"19th and early 20th Century Use of Irish Medieval Texts as Vehicles for Irish Nationalism and Language Promotion in America." International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2006.

"Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Literature and the Political Situation of Post-War Ireland." Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Cambridge, MA, October 2005.

"Some New Resources in the Teaching of 'History of the English Language.'" Annual Conference of the International Linguistics Association, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, April 2005.

Additional Scholarly Activity:

February 2010: delivered keynote address to General Meeting of Society for the Education of the American Sailor (SEAS) on "Medieval Origins of the Modern English Nautical Vocabulary.

Summer 2010: extensive consultation work for Eolas - the Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies.

September 2006: linguistics reader for Routledge publishers.

August 2005 - December 2006. Consultant for Irish-language localization project of office software suite OpenOffice.org.

May 2005: Organized two sessions in Pre-Norman and Post-Norman Medieval Irish Texts at the Kalamazoo International Congress on Medieval Studies.

May 2005: Founder Member of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies.

Reader for the Journal of Celtic Language Learning (2004).