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 IslandInitiative. 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.
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,
‘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
