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Episode 9

In this episode Professor Richard English speaks with Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín, of QUB's school of Arts, English and Languages. Professor Ó Mainnín's research interests include language and identity in Ireland and Scotland, language and conflict.

Professor Ó Mainnín was first employed in Queen’s in 1987 as a research associate in the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project and has been a lecturer in Irish & Celtic Studies since 1997. His principal research interests lie in the areas of linguistics (particularly onomastics); Irish and Scottish Gaelic literary texts; and Irish and Scottish identity and relations in the medieval and modern periods. Professor Ó Mainnín is Director of the Northern Ireland Place-Name project.

Podcast produced by Colm Heatley.

 

 Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín

Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín

Professor Ó Mainnín's research interests lie in the areas of linguistics (particularly onomastics); Irish and Scottish Gaelic literary texts; and Irish and Scottish identity and relations in the medieval and modern periods.

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Professor Richard English

Professor Richard English

Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Professor Richard English is an internationally recognised historian, academic and author having conducted extensive research in Irish politics and history, political violence and terrorism.

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