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June 2026 Have you been watching the World Cup? Interested in the etymology of hooligan? Take a look at my latest blog post: In Search of Hooligans

June 2026 On June 16th I'll be giving a talk at the Oxford Sociolinguistics Seminar on my research on Irish English in the Connemara Gaeltacht. https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/research/sociolinguistics

June 2026 On June 2nd I'll be giving a guest lecture on  "English and Irish in Contact: Sociophonetic Perspectives" at Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ), University of Würzburg.

April 2026 Honoured to receive the Eugenie Henderson Stage Presentation Prize at BAAP for my presentation on /l/-velarisation in Connemara English https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/baap2026/awards/

April 2026 Catch me at BAAP on April 8th at the Uni of Warwick, where I'll be giving an oral presentation on /l/-velarisation in Irish-English bilingual speakers. 

Dec 2025 I was recently featured in the Irish Indepedent after speaking with journalist Kate Demolder about the ever-changing Irish accent: https://www.independent.ie/life/people-no-longer-wanted-to-be-associated-with-the-traditional-local-way-of-speaking-are-irish-accents-as-we-know-them-dying-out/a1499886221.html

July 2025 During the summer I'll be working on the John Fell funded project Methodologies for the study of glottalic consonants, with Prof. Elinor Payne, Dr Maida Percival, Prof Ian Watson and Dr Jose Elias-Ulloa at the Phonetics Lab in Oxford. Read more here.

June 2025 Catch me at PaPE 2025 (6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) in Mallorca, where I'll be giving an  oral presentation on sociophonetic variation of /t/ in Irish English. "'How do you take your /t/?' Investigating /t/-variation in Irish-English bilinguals."

May 2025 Take a look at my latest blog post: 'Modren times: why we shouldn't be so quick to judge 'non-standard' pronunciation'