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Exhibition commissioned by Foras na Gaeilge, was compiled by Dr Fionntán de Brún, lecturer in Irish at the University of Ulster and Dr Eamon Phoenix, Stranmillis University College. Research Strengths and Specialisms supported by the Institute include:


Medieval and Early Modern Irish language and literature


[1] Textual scholarship
[2] The Ulster Cycle of tales
[3] Medieval Irish historiography
[4] Medieval Irish voyage literature
[5] Religion and Belief in Medieval Ireland
[6] 'Fate' in medieval Irish texts
[7] Bardic poetry


Modern Gaelic literature


[1] Textual scholarship
[2] Sermon literature
[3] 17th to 19th century Irish language, literature and learning with particular reference to the province of Ulster
[4] Modern and Contemporary Irish literature
[5] Scottish Gaelic literature of emigration/immigration
[6] Creative writing in Irish and Scottish Gaelic
[7] Gaelic literature in translation


Comparative literature and religion


[1] Comparative Celtic and Indo-European language and culture
[2] Celtic cosmology


Onomastics, Corpora and Lexicography


[1] Irish and Welsh place-names
[2] Irish lexicography
[3] Computing in the Celtic Languages
[4] Language corpora
[5] Bibliographical studies


Celtic linguistics


[1] Irish, Welsh and Breton dialectology
[2] The syntax and semantics of the verb in Irish
[3] The sociolinguistics of the Celtic languages
[4] Stylistics
[5] Late Cornish


Applied language studies


[1] Computer-assisted language learning
[2] Blended learning
[3] Task-based language learning

 

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