Marcas Mac Coinnigh

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Marcas Mac Coinnigh

Senior Lecturer, School of Arts, English and Languages
Modern Languages

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7778-1584

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 5307
Emailm.maccoinnigh@qub.ac.uk
Room 02.002 - 10 University Square

United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:\ - Linguistics: formulaic language, multiword-fixed expressions in Irish\ - Memory Studies: ideas of collective and cultural memory in linguistic landscapes\ - Folkloristics: the narrative tradition and verbal arts.

2005Research output 2005: 1Research output 2006: 1Research output 2007: 2Research output 2008: 1Research output 2009: 1Research output 2010: 2Research output 2012: 1Research output 2013: 3Research output 2015: 2Research output 2016: 1Research output 2017: 2Research output 2019: 2Research output 2020: 1Research output 2021: 1Research output 2025: 42025

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Research Interests

My research focuses on Irish language phraseology, particularly the form and function of phraseological units, the codification of phrasemes in lexicographic sources, and the promulgation of stereotypes and slurs in proverbial material. I have published extensively in leading journals, including Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, International Journal of Lexicography, and Folklore. My current research examines the intersections of language and social memory, specifically the impact of linguistic memory on identity formation.

I served as a Visiting Fellow at The Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London (2017–18), and as a Senior Fulbright Irish Language Scholar at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame (2010–11). Prior to my lectureship at QUB, I held research positions in the Department of Modern Irish at University College Cork (2006–7) and in Ulster University (2003–6).

I am an Associate Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at QUB and a member of Coiste Léann na Gaeilge agus an Léinn Cheiltigh at The Royal Irish Academy. Additionally, I serve on the international steering committee of Cló Léann na Gaeilge and the Irish Conference of Folklore & Ethnology.

PhD Supervision: I have supervised a range of theses across my research specialisms, both as 1st and 2nd supervisor. These include:

'Youth engagement in the Irish-language revival movement in Belfast since 1998' Róisín Nic Liam (2023-, 2nd)
'Contemporary Irish-language literature regarding the Troubles' Amber Mc Daid (2021-, 2nd)
'The Irish Dialect of South Leinster: The Onomastic Evidence' Annie Jowett (2020-, 2nd)
'Translating from Arabic Rhetoric into English: A Case Study of Nahjul Balagha' Ruqaya Al-Taie (2015-19, 2nd)
'Éamon de Valera, the Irish Language and Linguistic Nationalism' Pádraig Mac Congáil (2015-18, 1st)
'Legal Translation and Terminology in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937' Órla Mc Grory (2013-18, 2nd)
'A Linguistic Analysis of Spoken Irish in Belfast and the Donegal Gaeltacht' Colm Mc Guigan (2011-15, 1st)
'Serving Two Masters: Irish Translations of Formal Registers of English' John Dorins (2009-18, 2nd)

Teaching

I convene and teach a range of undergraduate modules in Irish Language and Literature across all levels. These include:

Gaeilge 1
Béaloideas na hÉireann
Scannánaíocht na Gaeilge
Dúchas na Gaeilge
An Gearrscéal sa Ghaeilge
An Béal Beo
An Miontráchtas

At postgraduate level, I teach on the MA module Language Revival, Reconcilitaion and Politics in Ireland and supervise students on the MRes in Languages.

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