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Dr. Noel Ó Murchadha

Associate Professor (Education)
ARTS BUILDING

 murchadn@tcd.ie

 3531896 2216


Biography

I am a sociolinguist interested in investigating the conditions in which linguistic diversity is promoted, maintained or lost. This includes aspects of language policy around minority language maintenance, revitalisation and revival, but also pathways towards bi/multilingualism in a broader sense. I explore these issues both at an individual level and at a societal level. My current research focus is on aspects of language policy and language education policy. I have published on the standardisation of modern Irish and on perceptions of linguistic variation in Irish among teachers and students (primary, post-primary, third level). I am interested in the changing relationship between self and society in the late modern age and in the ways that these changes interact with language. Research supervision: I am available to supervise research projects in sociolinguistics and in a range of areas across language and language education studies, including research on language and language education policy. I am particularly interested, though not exclusively, in research on Irish and other minority languages. Tá suim faoi leith agam taighde ar ghnéithe de shochtheangeolaíocht na Gaeilge a stiúradh. Tá mé ar fáil mar stiúrthóir ar thaighde ar an nGaeilge agus fáiltím roimh thionscnaimh a scríobhfar i nGaeilge chomh maith.

Research Tags

  Applied Linguistics   Celtic Linguistics   Folk Linguistics   Language education   Language Policy   LINGUISTICS   SOCIOLINGUISTICS   Sociology of Language

Research Projects

 

Representations

Details Date
External Examiner, University of Limerick
Member of Advisory Committee for project on 'Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Society'
Member of Management Committee for Cost Action IS1306: New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges
Working Group Leader for COST Action IS1306 (WG 1 and WG7)
External Examiner National University of Ireland, Galway - MA in Language Planning.

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Irish Fluent Fluent Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Irish Association of Applied Linguistics 2010 Present
Centre for Applied Language Studies 2008 Present
Ó Murchadha N., Flynn C.J., Teachers as new speakers of a minority language: Identity, speakerness, and ideologies on variation in Irish, International Journal of Bilingualism, 26, (5), 2022, p584 - 600, p584-600 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Noel Ó Murchadha & Lauren Kavanagh, Language ideologies in a minority context: An experimental study of teachers' responses to variation in Irish, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 26, (2), 2022, p197 - 220, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Opportunities and challenges in the reform of Junior Cycle language curricula in, editor(s)Murchan, D & Johnston, K. , Curriculum Reform within Policy and Practice: School and system change at second-level in Ireland., London, Palgrave, 2021, pp105 - 124, [Devitt, A. & Ó Murchadha, N.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Standardization, new speakers and the acceptance of (new) standards in, editor(s)W. Ayres-Bennett & J. Bellamy , The Cambridge handbook of language standardization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp347 - 370, [Michael Hornsby & Noel Ó Murchadha], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Standardization, new speakers and the acceptance of (new) standards in, editor(s)W. Ayres-Bennett & J. Bellamy , The Cambridge handbook of language standardization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp347 - 370, [Michael Hornsby & Noel Ó Murchadha], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Ó Murchadha, N., Review of Immersion Education: Lessons from a Minority Language Context, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021, p909 - 912, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Noel Ó Murchadha, The Irish language in Ireland: An overview, Linguistic Minorities in Europe, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Natasha A. Spassiani, Maria Clince & Noel Ó Murchadha, 'It will make more people feel included if they can talk to them in their first language': The experience of university students with an intellectual disability engaging in a formal Irish Sign Language Course, British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 49, (4), 2021, p467 - 474, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Noel Ó Murchadha, Múnlaí teanga na Gaeilge agus an idé-eolaíocht teanga, TEANGA: The journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 27, 2020, p44 - 64, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
An Aird ar an Éagsúlacht Teanga, an Daonteangeolaíocht agus Canúintí na Gaeilge [Folk linguistics and the dialects of Irish] in, editor(s)Ó hIfearnáin, T. , An tSochtheangeolaíocht: Taighde agus Gníomh [Sociolinguistics: Research and Practice, Dublin, Cois Life, 2019, [Ó Murchadha, N.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Walsh, J. & Ó Murchadha, N. et al., Position paper on research themes and profiles related to new speakers of indigenous minority languages, 2015, Report, PUBLISHED
Ó Murchadha, N., Caighdeánú na Gaeilge' [The Standardisation of Irish], An Linn Bhuí: Iris Ghaeltacht na nDéise, 15, 2011, p109 - 125, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ó Murchadha, N., Caomhnú agus cothú na Gaeilge i gceantar Gaeltachta de chuid Chatagóir B: Cruthú pobal labhartha Gaeilge' [Preserving and sustaining Irish in a Category B Gaeltacht area, An Linn Bhuí: Iris Ghaeltacht na nDéise, 14, 2010, p183 - 188, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ó Murchadha, N., Staid reatha na Gaeilge i nGaeltacht na nDéise' [The current state of Irish in the Déise Gaeltacht], An Linn Bhuí: Iris Ghaeltacht na nDéise, 13, 2009, p140 - 154, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Postgraduate Researcher 2009-2012
FAHSS, Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Limerick 2008
Advanced Scholar, University of Limerick 2008