Kerron Ó Luain (Professional Historian)
2016
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| Bio | Between 2023-2024 I was a Research Fellow in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, University of Galway, where myself and my colleague, Colm Ó Cinnseala, conducted research on Irish-language services within the public sector on behalf of The Department of the Gaeltacht. The research assisted in the drafting of the National Plan for Irish Language Public Services, which will come into effect in the Autumn of 2024. The Plan provides the framework for the public sector to move towards a goal of having 20% of recruits to public bodies proficient in Irish by 2030. Prior to that I was engaged in postdoctoral research funded by the Irish Research Council and An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG), and working in partnership with DCU, on a project entitled “Stair Ghluaiseacht na Gaelscolaíochta, 1973-2023” (The History of the Gaelscoil Movement, 1973-2023). The project centred on the oral history of the activists involved in founding and promoting gaelscoileanna throughout Ireland over the last fifty years. Incorporating public history and the digital humanities, the end result will be a book publication, a number of articles, and an interactive digital map and archive to coincide with the fiftieth commemoration of the founding of the movement in 1973. — |
| Areas of expertise | The gaelscoil movement |
| Keywords | {Social movements and revolution}, {Decolonisation}, {Fenianism}, {Ribbonism}, {Gaelscoileanna}, {Gaeilge}, {Irish language}, {Social history}, {Politicisation}, {Irish Associational Culture}, {Irish Republicanism}, {19th Century History}, {Irish Nationalism}, {Modern History}, {1798}, {United Irishmen}, {Agrarian violence}, {Young Ireland}, {Communal violence in Ulster}, {Hiberniansim}, {Ancient Order of Hibernians} |
| Nickname | Kerron Ó Luain (Professional Historian) |
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| Education | 2018-2019 – Graduate classes in Political Science, Villanova |
| Employment | • Research Fellow, University of Galway, 2023-2024 |
| Consultancy work | • 2019, privately commissioned by Deirdre Colgan, relative of Michael Colgan, IRA Volunteer, trade unionist, and later Labour and Fianna Fáil politician, to research his life. |
| Management & Administrative experience | Historical/Sociological talks or public events organised: |
| Teaching | • History Lecturer, Scoil na hAthghabhála, 2023 • History Tutor, Queen’s University Belfast, 2012-2014 |
| Outreach activities | I have spoken widely on various media platforms for different producers and companies in both English and Irish, and have organised and spoken at various public history events, both in Ireland and overseas. |
| Committees & Associations | Committee member, Irish Association of Professional Historians, 2021- |
| Awards | • 2021, IRC-EPS postdoctoral fellowship. |
| Other activities | Conference papers and seminars |
| Books | • “Cath idir an pobal agus an murder machine”’: Gluaiseacht na Gaelscolaíochta c. 1973-2023 (2025). |
| Book Chapters | • “Gaelic League resistance to clerical social control: ‘The Battle of Portarlington’, 1905”, in Conor Morrisey and Fionnuala Walsh (eds.), Godlessness in Ireland: atheism and anticlericalism since the eighteenth century (Forthcoming, 2026). |
| Peer Reviewed Journals | • “Sure why would they need Irish?”: Scoil an tSeachtar Laoch, Ballymun, and working-class decolonisation, c.1970-73, in The Journal of Working Class Studies (June 2023). |
| Other Journals | • ‘Oilimpeachaí an Chóilíneachas’ and ‘An Puball’, poems published in |
| Electronic Publications | • Article on the state of the Irish language for the International Commission of European Citizens, ICEC website (15/6/2023). |
| Reviews | • ‘Tom O’Donoghue agus Theresa O’Doherty, Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present’, i ComharTaighde (Samhain, 2021) |
| Other | Magazine or newspaper articles • Regular contributor to An Páipéar, Irish-language weekly newspaper, since November 2024. |
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