
Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost
Director of Postgraduate Research Studies
- macgiollachriostd@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 9180
- 1.66, John Percival Building
- Welsh speaking
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost 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. 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.
Biography
Publications
2022
- Mac giolla chriost, D. 2022. Language politics and linguistic justice: A response to 'Politics of Language in a (Dis)United Ireland' by Brian Ó Conchubhair. Irish Studies in International Affairs 33(2), pp. 68-70. (10.1353/isia.2022.0003)
2018
- Mac Giolla Chriost, D. and Bonotti, M. 2018. Brexit, language policy and linguistic diversity. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-319-78726-8)
2017
- Mac Giolla Chriost, D. 2017. Language commissioners and their independence. In: Nason, S. ed. Administrative Justice in Wales and Comparative Perspectives. The Public Law of Wales Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 107-124.
2016
- Mac Giolla Chriost, D. 2016. The Welsh Language Commissioner in context: roles, methods and relationships. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
2015
- Mac Giolla Chriost, D. 2015. Gwenallt yn Wormwood Scrubs a Dartmoor. Llên Cymru June, pp. 58-69.
2014
- Evas, J., Williams, C., Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. and Campbell, C. 2014. Adolygiad o Waith y Mentrau Iaith, y Cynlluniau Gweithredu Iaith a Chynllun Hybu'r Gymraeg Aman Tawe/A review of the work of Mentrau Iaith, Language Action Plans and the Aman Tawe Language Promotion Scheme. Technical Report.
2013
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2013. Welsh writing, political action and incarceration: Branwen's starling. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2012
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2012. A question of national identity or minority rights? The changing status of the Irish language in Ireland since 1922. Nations and Nationalism 18(3), pp. 398-416. (10.1111/j.1469-8129.2011.00508.x)
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2012. The Welsh language: devolution and international relations. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 13(1), pp. 15-21.
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2012. Jailtacht: the Irish language, symbolic power and political violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. et al. 2012. Welsh for adults teaching and learning approaches, methodologies and resources: a comprehensive research study and critical review of the way forward. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Welsh Government. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/welsh/resources/FINAL%20WHOLE%20Drafft%20Ymgynghorol.pdf
2011
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2011. Language as a political emblem in the new culture war in Northern Ireland. In: Norrby, C. and Hajek, J. eds. Uniformity and diversity in language policy : global perspectives. Bristol: Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, pp. 195-209.
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. and Ni Riordain, C. eds. 2011. Traduction: pratique et poétique / Translation: Praxis and Poetics. Études irlandaises Vol. 35-2. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2011. The Irish language and religion in Northern Ireland. Sociolinguistica 25, pp. 113-126.
2010
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2010. The origins of "the Jailtacht". Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 27, pp. 317-336.
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2010. The turn to rights in the language question. In: Hutchinson, W. and Ní Ríordáin, C. eds. Language Issues: Ireland, France, Spain. Brussels: Peter Lang, pp. 59-74.
2008
- Mac Giolla Chriost, D. 2008. A language of our own. Overseas : Journal of the Royal Over-Seas League 2008(3), pp. 12-13.
- Mac Giolla Chriost, D. 2008. Irish gets out of jail. The Linguist 47(4), pp. 22-23.
- Mac Giolla Chriost, D. and Thomas, A. H. 2008. Linguistic Diversity and the City: Some Reflections, and a Research Agenda. International Planning Studies 13(1), pp. 1-11. (10.1080/13563470801969624)
- Mac Giolla Chriost, D. 2008. The language question. In: Allen, R. C. and Regan, S. eds. Irelands of the mind: memory and identity in modern Irish culture,. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 50-72.
2007
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2007. Language and the city. Language and Globalization. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2005
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2005. The Irish language in Ireland: from Goídel to globalisation. Routledge Studies in Linguistics. London: Routledge.
2003
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2003. Language, identity and conflict: a comparative study of language in ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia. Routledge Advances in Sociology. London: Routledge.
2001
- Mac-Giolla Chriost, D. 2001. Implementing political agreement in Northern Ireland: Planning issues for Irish language policy. Social & Cultural Geography 2(3), pp. 297-313. (10.1080/14649360120073879)
Teaching
I offer the following UG modules:
Cyflwyniad i Hanes yr Iaith [An Introduction to the History of Welsh]
Iaith, Gwleidyddiaeth a Gwrthdaro [Language, Politics and Conflict]
Sosioieithyddiaeth [Sociolinguistics]
I am currently writing up the results of a major project on the office of language commissioner in Canada, Ireland and Wales, sponsored by the ESRC.
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/ES.J003093.1/read