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Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Overview

Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost Position: Reader Email: MacGiollaChriostD@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44(0)29 208 79180
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74604
Extension: 79180
Location: Humanities Building

Research Interests

Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost, appointed as Lecturer in the School in 2004 and Senior Lecturer in 2007, is a member of the School’s Research Unit on Language, Policy and Planning. He is a native of Ireland and an authority on linguistic minorities and language planning, and, in particular, the situation of the Irish language. He has research interests in certain other specific fields. These include the nature of the relationship between language and conflict, from a comparative, European perspective, and, also, language in city contexts. He has a number of publications in the Social Sciences, Human Geography and the Sociology of Language. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is a member of the research group EGIPP (European Governance, Identity and Public Policy), and also a member of the Cardiff University research networks ‘Wales-Ireland’ and ‘Crime Narratives’.

Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost is head researcher of the substantial project on Welsh as second language amongst adults. The project is funded by DCELLS and other researchers at Cardiff University, Oxford University and Swansea University are working on the project. For more information about the project follow this link.

Teaching Profile

BA in Welsh: Year One
  • CY1745 Cymru a’i Diwylliant [Wales and its Culture]
BA in Welsh: Year Two and Final Year
  • CY2166 Cyflwyniad i Hanes yr Iaith [An Introduction to the History of Welsh]
  • CY3595 Cymdeithaseg yr Wyddeleg [A Sociology of the Irish Language]
  • CY3591 Iaith, y Ddinas a Chymdeithas [Language, the City and Society]
  • CY3593 Iaith, Gwleidyddiaeth a Gwrthdaro [Language, Politics and Conflict]
  • CY3598 Sosioieithyddiaeth [Sociolinguistics]
MA in Welsh/MA in Welsh Ethnological Studies
  • CYD030 Sgiliau Ymchwil [Research Skills]
Programme for resident Colgate University students
  • 'Wales and the Welsh Language' (Contributor)

Publications

Selection of Publications

(2012) ‘The Welsh Language. Devolution and International Relations’ Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 13.1 pp. 15-21.

(2011) ‘The Irish language and religion in Northern Ireland’ Sociolinguistica pp. 113-126.

(2011) ‘Language as political emblem in the new culture war in Northern Ireland’ In Norrby , C. & Hajek,J. (eds.) Unity and Diversity in Language Policy (Bristol: Multilingual Matters Ltd) pp.195-209.

(2010) Guest co-editor Études Irlandaises 35.2 Special Issue ‘Traduction: pratique et poétique / Translation: Praxis and Poetics’ pp. 210.

(2010) ‘The turn to rights in the language question’. In Hutchinson, W. & Ní Ríordáin, C. (eds.) Language Issues. Ireland, France, Spain (New York: Peter Lang Publishing) pp.59-76.

(2010) ‘The Origins of the Jailtacht’ In Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 2007 and 2008 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press) pp.317-336.

(2008) gyda H.Thomas ‘Linguistic Diversity and the City: Some Reflections, and a Research Agenda’ International Planning Studies13.1 pp.1-11.

(2008) ‘The language question’. Yn R.Allen & S.Regan (eds.) Ireland: the word, the icon, the ritual (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press) pp.50-72.

(2008) ‘Irish gets out of jail' The Linguist [Journal of the Chartered Institute of Linguists] 47.4 August / September 2008 pp.22-23.

(2008) ‘A language of our own’ Overseas [Journal of the Royal Over-seas League] 3 September / November 2008 pp.12-13.

(2007) Language and the City (Houndmills & New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

(2007) ‘Marketing and the Welsh Language’, Contemporary Wales 20 pp.71-81.

(2007) ‘Globalisation and Transformation: Language Planning in New Contexts’. In M.Nic Craith (ed.) Language, Power and Identity Politics (Houndmills & New York: Palgrave Macmillan) pp.21-42.

(2007) ‘Dinasyddiaeth, Bwrdd yr Iaith a Marchnata'r Gymraeg’, Gwerddon 1.1 pp.47-57.

(2006) ‘Micro-Level Language Planning in Ireland’, Current Issues in Language Planning 7.2 & 3 pp.230-250.

(2005) The Irish Language in Ireland: from Goídel to Globalisation (London & New York: Routledge).

(2003) Language, Identity and Conflict: a Comparative Study of Language in Ethnic Conflict in Europe and Eurasia (London & New York: Routledge).

(2003a) ‘Languages: Modern Irish’. Yn Loades, D. (gol.) Reader’s Guide to British History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn).

(2003b) ‘National Identities: Irish’. In Loades, D. (gol.) Reader’s Guide to British History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn).

(2003c) ‘Local Councils and the Welsh Experience’. In Cearta Teanga agus an Chomhairle Áitiúil. Language Rights and the Local Council (Foras na Gaeilege/Pobal: Belfast) pp.30-36.

 

Research

Research Projects

Linguistic Diversity and Sustainability: Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost researched further in this area as a Visiting Scholar to the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne in Australia in 2008.

He also gave a talk at Groupe de Recherche en Études Irlandaises de l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (an Irish Studies Research Group at the Sorbonne) on:  ‘The Turn to Rights in the Language Question in Ireland and Wales’ at the end of 2008.

The Jailtacht: Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost has been researching this linguistic phenomenon for some time and has presented some of the fruits of this research at the Annual Celtic Colloquium at Harvard University in 2007 and as a part of the ‘Wales-Ireland’ research seminars at Cardiff University, sponsored by the AHRC.

In addition, he delivered a paper on 'Jailtacht - The rebirth of the Irish language in prisons in Northern Ireland' at the Carnhuanawc Society in 2008.

Postgraduate Students

Current Research Students

Sonia Benghida: Language and Spatial Planning, Richard Whipp Interdisciplinary PhD Scholarship (with Dr Neil Harris, School of City and Regional Planning)

Robert Bevan: Monmouth and Berwick-Upon-Tweed local and national identities across the Celtic borders - A contextual and methodological development

John Caulfield: iGaeltacht: replicating a rural linguistic community in an online and cross-platform world

Lucy Morrow: Language and Celtic Ethnicity in Contemporary Ireland and Wales (with Prof Colin Williams)

Seán Ó Conaill: The Irish language and the Law, Republic of Ireland Government PhD Graduate Teaching Assistant Scholarship (with Prof Colin Williams)

Manuel Urrutia: The foreign perception of the Catalan language (with Dr Andrew Dowling, School of European Studies)

Caroline Walters: ‘Cyfalaf Iaith’, Welsh Language Board PhD Scholarship (with Prof Colin Williams)

Sarah Williams: 'Ffin y Lansker' (with Prof Colin Williams)