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Colm Mac Gearailt
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Colm Mac Gearailt

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Professional Historian

Experience

Employment

2023-24: Postdoctoral Researcher on ‘CARTLANN: Gníomhaíochas, teanga agus na meáin – ag baint úsáid as cartlanna Chonradh na Gaeilge chun tuiscint a fháil ar pholasaithe i leith na Gaeilge ar an dá thaobh den teorainn’, led by Dr John Walsh, School of Languages, Literature, and Culture.

The research is funded by The HEA North-South Research Programme 2021, under theShared Island Initiative. CARTLANN engages with the Conradh na Gaeilge archival papers, housed in the University of Galway. The project investigates the campaigning work of the all-Ireland Irish language voluntary organisation, Conradh na Gaeilge, with a specific focus on the role of media as part of their language activism.

 

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

Colm Mac Gearailt, ‘Examinations and Irish history – Intermediate Certificate history and gauging the official historical narrative, 1926–1968’, Irish Educational Studies, (2021), Open Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03323315.2021.1964560

Colm Mac Gearailt, ‘Writing the Irish past: An investigation into post-primary Irish history textbook emphases and historiography, 1921–69’, History Education Research Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, (2018)
Open access https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=3cfbe7e4-7c21-42b6-a479-830dd8086f06

Other Journals

Colm Mac Gearailt, ‘“They’re at it again”: The ‘English’ in Irish Textbooks’ in Public History Weekly, Vol. 11  No. 5, ,(2023) [LINK]

Published reports

Mac Gearailt, C. & Ó Duibhir, P. (2023) Athbhreithniú luath ar chur i bhfeidhm na Sonraíochtaí Gaeilge T1 agus T2 don tSraith Shóisearach / Early enactment review of Junior Cycle Irish L1 and L2. National Council for Curriculum and Assessment,

https://ncca.ie/media/5972/athbhreithni%C3%BA-luath-ar-chur-i-bhfeidhm-na-sonra%C3%ADochta%C3%AD-gaeilge-t1-agus-t2-don-tsraith-sh%C3%B3isearach.pdf

English Version: https://ncca.ie/media/5971/early-enactment-review-jc-irish-l1-and-l2-specifications_en_fv.pdf

Reviews

‘REVIEW: Deirdre Raftery and Karin Fischer (eds), Educating Ireland: schooling and social change, 1700–2000 (Kildare, 2014)’ in History Ireland , Vol. 26. 2, March/April 2016

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