Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 4/9 Can you dig it? The influence of Irish on English

    COLM McGINLEY
    12.30pm
    AUST 163


    Colm McGinley is UConn’s 2014-15 Fulbright Modern Irish Language Instructor. He is a recent MA graduate whose thesis considered the dialectal impacts of Irish in remote Gaeltacht (historically Irish-speaking) areas in which English is becoming the predominant language. His talk will examine the influence of the Irish language on the English used in Ireland and in English-speaking countries with a large Irish immigrant population, with a focus on the Irish communities that came to North America. FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

    For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu