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Conchúr Ó Giollagáin was appointed to the Gaelic Research Professorship in the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland in April 2014. He is also the academic director of Soillse, a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research project. He is based at Scotland’s national college for Gàidhlig, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, on the Isle of Skye.
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin has led extensive research projects and post-graduate initiatives in language planning and minority language culture and sociology. He has written extensively on issues concerning the sustainability of minority cultures, especially the Gaeltacht communities in Ireland.
Conchúr previously lectured in the School of Political Science and Sociology in the National University of Ireland Galway on the sociology of language. His teaching and research interests include language planning, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Previously, he was the Head of the Language Planning Unit in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, where he devised and lead Ireland’s first MA programme in Language Planning. He also contributed to the development of the Acadamh’s MA in Language Sciences. He co-authored the government-commissioned Gaeltacht survey Comprehensive Linguistic Study of the Use of Irish in the Gaeltacht (2007). Conchúr received his PhD in Modern Irish from UCD and he also lectured in the Department of Irish in St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, and in the Department of Celtic Studies in the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He is an external fellow of the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where he has contributed to a variety of research projects examining different aspects of the language dynamics and linguistic anthropology of minority language culture.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Stairsheanchas Mhicil Chonraí: Téacs cóirithe dá chuntas saoil, National University of Ireland Galway
Award Date: 1 Jan 1997
External positions
Adjunct Professor in Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland Galway
28 Oct 2015 → 27 Oct 2018
Keywords
- P Philology. Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Sociology of Language
- Language Planning
- Minority Languages
- Irish Language
- Language attrition
- Cultural Minoritisation
- Language Revival
- Scottish Gaelic Research
- Linguistic Demography
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Projects
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Including the Threatened First-language Gaelic Vernacular Community in Gaelic Promotion and Protection: A Rebuttal to McLeod et al.
Ó Giollagáin, C., Caimbeul, I., Ó Curnáin, B., Camshron, G. & Moireach, P., 10 Feb 2022, In: Scottish Affairs. 31, 1, p. 122 132 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Moving beyond Asocial Minority-Language Policy
Ó Giollagáin, C. & Caimbeul, I., 7 May 2021, In: Scottish Affairs. 30, 2, p. 178-211 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reply to Claire Nance’s review: The Gaelic crisis in the vernacular community: a comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic by Conchúr Ó Giollagáin, Gòrdan Camshron, Pàdruig Moireach, Brian Ó Curnáin, Iain Caimbeul, Brian MacDonald, and Tamás Péterváry, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 2020
Ó Giollagáin, C. & Ó Curnáin, B., 27 May 2021, 2 p. Clevedon. U.K. : Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.Research output: Other contribution
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The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community: A comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic
Ó Giollagáin, C., Camshron, G., Moireach, P., Ó Curnáin, B., Caimbeul, I., MacDonald, B. & Péterváry, T., 2 Jul 2020, Abrdeen: Aberdeen University Press. 480 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Beartas Úr na nGael: Dálaí na Gaeilge san Iar-Nua-Aoiseachas
Ó Giollagáin, C. & Ó Curnáin, B., 27 Apr 2016, Galway, Ireland: Leabhar Breac. 112 p.Translated title of the contribution :New Deal for the Gaels: The Irish Language in Postmodernity Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Iniúchadh ar an gCumas Dátheangach: An sealbhú teanga i measc ghlúin óg na Gaeltachta.
, 20 Nov 2015, Dublin: An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta / Council for Irish-medium Education, Ireland. 306 p.Translated title of the contribution :Analysis of Bilingual Competence: Language acquisition among people in the Gaeltacht Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Nuashonrú ar an Staidéar Cuimsitheach Teangeolaíoch ar Úsáid na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht: 2006-2011
, 29 May 2015, Na Forbacha, Co. Galway: Údarás na Gaeltachta / Gaeltacht Development Authority, Ireland. 240 p.Translated title of the contribution :An Update of the Comprehensive Linguistic Study of the Use of Irish in the Gaeltacht: 2006-2011 Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Address to Committee of the Scottish Parliament, Holyrood, Edinburgh
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (Speaker)
27 Jun 2023Activity: Talk / Presentation / Podcast / Webinar › Invited talk
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Early exposure to English is damaging the standard of Irish among Gaeltacht young
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (Article Author)
9 Dec 2014Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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New PhD Opportunity Will Examine Gaelic Development in Hebrides
21/09/23
1 item of Media coverage
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3rd anniversary of the publication of the Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community study
27/06/23
1 Media contribution
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Scottish Gaelic supporters seek to reverse language’s rapid decline
26/12/21
6 items of Media coverage
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Scottish Gaelic supporters seek to reverse the language’s rapid decline
26/12/21
1 item of Media coverage
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Prof Conchúr Ó Giollagáin: Political leadership needed to break Gaelic impasse
18/07/21
1 item of Media coverage
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Scotland's official bodies 'in denial' over Gaelic crisis, expert warns
18/07/21
1 item of Media coverage
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