Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Irish academic

Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost is an Irish academic in the area of linguistics.

Life

Born and raised in Ireland, Mac Giolla Chríost became a lecturer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University in 2004. As of 2016 he is a Reader there and 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 is now a professor at the university.

Selected bibliography

Articles

• "Implementing political agreement in Northern Ireland: Planning issues for Irish language policy" (2001).^[1]
• "The Language Question" (2009).^[2]
• "Linguistic Diversity and the City: Some Reflections, and a Research Agenda" (2008).^[3]
• "Irish gets out of jail" (2008).^[4]
• "A language of our own" (2008).^[5]
• "The origins of "the Jailtacht" (2010).^[6]

Books

• Language, identity and conflict: a comparative study of language in ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia, Routledge, London, 2003.
• The Irish language in Ireland: from Goídel to globalisation, Routledge, London, 2005.^[7]
• Language and the city. Language and Globalization Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007.
• Jailtacht: the Irish language, symbolic power and political violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008, Cardiff, 2012.
• The Welsh Language Commissioner in context: roles, methods and relationships, Cardiff, 2012

References

1. Chríost, Diarmait Mac Giolla (1 January 2001). "Implementing political agreement in Northern Ireland: Planning issues for Irish language policy". Social & Cultural Geography. 2 (3): 297–313. doi:10.1080/14649360120073879. ISSN 1464-9365. S2CID 144271563.
2. Allen, Richard C.; Regan, Stephen (14 January 2009). Irelands of the Mind: Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 50–72. ISBN 9781443804424.
3. Chriost, Diarmait Mac Giolla; Thomas, Huw (1 February 2008). "Linguistic Diversity and the City: Some Reflections, and a Research Agenda". International Planning Studies. 13 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1080/13563470801969624. ISSN 1356-3475. S2CID 145518529.
4. Mac Giolla Chriost, Diarmait (August 2008). "Irish gets out of jail". The Linguist. 47: 22–23. ISSN 0268-5965.
5. "A language of our own". Journal of the Royal Over-Seas League: 12–13. 2008.
6. Mac-Giolla Chriost, Diarmait (2010). "The origins of "the Jailtacht"". Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. 27: 317–336. ISSN 1545-0155.
7. "The Irish Language in Ireland: From Goídel to Globalisation, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.

External links

• Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost
• Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost
• Diarmait Mac Golla Chríost
• Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration
• Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost's "Jailteacht": Book Review