Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium in collaboration with
COST Action IS 1306: New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges
Wednesday 24th June 2015
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 Bernadette O'Rourke & Noel Ó Murchadha: The Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium in
collaboration with COST Action IS1306
10.15 – 10.30 Opening of Symposium by Regina Uí Chollatáin (University College Dublin)
10.30 – 11.30 Plenary 1: John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University)
The Celtic languages in current sociolinguistic perspective
Chair: Bernadette O’Rourke
11.30 – 12.00 Tea/Coffee/Refreshments
12.00 – 1.30 Session 1: Language practices and ideologies around linguistic practices
Chair: Máiréad Moriarty
12.00 – 12.30 Siobhan Nic Fhlannchadha & Tina Hickey (University College Dublin): What multiple
perspectives on accuracy in speaking an endangered minority language reveal about language
ownership and authority
12.30 – 1.00 Brian Ó Curnáin (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies) and Conchúr Ó Giollagáin
(University of the Highlands and Islands) New Speakers of New Irish and globalised English through
the deterritorialised autochthony of modernity at large
1.00 – 1.30 Hannah Simms (SOAS, University of London): The shifting attitudes towards Irish as a
language of shared heritage in Northern Ireland
1.30 – 3.00 Lunch
3.00 – 4.30 Session 2: Language attitudes, ideologies and stances
Chair: John Edwards
3.00 – 3.30 Maggie Bonsey (National University of Ireland, Galway): Experimental Irish Language
Theatre: A New Beginning?
3.30 – 4.00 Torsten Dörflinger (Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz): Language Use and Attitudes
towards Irish among Gaeltacht School Children in Co. Donegal: Evidence from a survey
4.00 – 4.30 Kevin Petit (Université Lumière Lyon 2): Language, Identity, and Motivation: the Irish
Summer College
4.30 – 5.00 Tea/Coffee/Refreshments
5.00 – 6.00 Plenary 2: Máiréad Moriarty (University of Limerick)
Globalizing Gaeilge: Orders of Irish language LPP
Chair: Bettina Migge
6.00 Reception
Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium in collaboration with
COST Action IS 1306: New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges
Thursday 25th June 2015
Venue: UCD HI, unless otherwise stated
9.30 – 10.30 Plenary 3: Fiona O’Hanlon (University of Edinburgh)
Gaelic-medium education in Scotland: current contexts and future directions in language policy,
practice and research
Chair: Máire Ní Chiosáin
10.30 – 11.00 Tea/Coffee/Refreshments
11.00 – 12.30 Session 3: Language and education
Chair: Lauren Kavanagh
11.00 – 11.30 Wilson McLeod (University of Edinburgh) and Bernadette O’Rourke (Heriot-Watt
University, Edinburgh): Irish parents and Gaelic-medium education in Scotland
11.30 – 12.00 Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh): Bilingual life after school? The language
practices and social profiles of Gaelic-medium educated adults
12.00 – 12.30 Karen Ní Chlochasaigh (University of Limerick): Effective Second Language Acquisition
among learners of the Irish Language: Bua nó Dua?
12.30 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 Session 3: Language policy and language planning
Chair: Cassie Smith-Christmas
2.00 – 2.30 Christopher Lewin (Aberystwyth University): Comparisons between corpus planning for
Scottish Gaelic and Manx: a response to the Dlùth is Inneach project
2.30 – 3.00 Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (University of the Highlands and Islands): Post-language planning:
A new deal for Gaelic identity in Ireland
3.00 – 3.30 Laoise Ní Dhúda (National University of Ireland, Galway): Language Management and
Language Managers: Who are the Irish language managers in an Breacbhaile?
3.30 – 4.00 Tea/Coffee/Refreshments
4.00 – 5.00
Plenary 4: Michael Hornsby (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
To what extent is postvernacularity a useful (socio)linguistic concept for minority languages such as
Breton?
Chair: Noel Ó Murchadha
8.00 Conference Dinner, Keshk Café Restaurant, 71 Mespil Road, Dublin 4 (http://www.keshk.ie/)
Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium in collaboration with
COST Action IS 1306: New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges
Friday 26th June 2015
9.30 – 10.30 Plenary 5: Cassie Smith-Christmas (University of Edinburgh)
Doing Motherese in a Minority Language: Attempting to resist the realities of bilingualism
Chair: Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
10.30 – 11.00 Tea/Coffee/Refreshments
11.00 – 12.30 Session 5: Language ideological debates and language management
Chair: Siobhán Nic Fhlannchadha
11.00 – 11.30 Ingeborg Birnie (University of Aberdeen): Gaelic in the public domain – Management,
Usage and Ideologies
11.30 – 12.00 Hugh Rowland (National University of Ireland, Galway): ‘The curse of Babel’: language
debates in Ireland of the 1960s
12.00 – 1.00 Plenary 6: Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin (University of Limerick)
Sociolinguistic vitality after language shift and without intergenerational transmission
Chair: John Walsh
1.00 – 2.30 Lunch
2.00 Closing