Deirdre Ní Chonghaile

Biography

Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (BA Oxon, MA Oxon, PhD) is NUI Fellow in Irish/Celtic Studies at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. Previously, she was NEH Keough Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Alan Lomax Fellow in the Library of Congress, and Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at NUI Galway, where she also worked more recently with the Digital Cultures Initiative. 

Research Interest

Archival assets management; digital humanities resource development, strategy, funding; community partnership and engagement; C19-20th cultural and social history of: West of Ireland, Aran Islands, Irish traditional music, song, dance, folklore, performance, Irish language, An Ghaeltacht, manuscript/recorded archival collections, broadcasting