Padraig O Riagain
Research Fellow
Linguistic, Speech and Communication
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
I am a Visiting Research Fellow in CLCS, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Language. Previously I held the post of Research Professor (Sociology of Language) at the Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann (Linguistics Institute of Ireland) for twenty six years. In that time, I directed a series of sociolinguistic surveys at national, regional and local levels and published research reports and papers on topics arising from this research. In addition, I was a Member of the Committee on Irish Language Attitudes Research, appointed by the Minister of Finance in 1970. I was also Member of the Advisory Planning Committee, appointed by Bord na Gaeilge (Irish Language Board) in 1986, which prepared and published a range of reports on language planning topics. Internationally, I was appointed a member a member of the Scientific Committee for the 'Euromosaic' project sponsored by the EU 1993-4, and subsequently principal contractor and project co-ordinator of several other Minority language contracts commissioned by the Commission's DGXXII. These contracts also involved partners in Catalonia, Wales, The Basque Region, Galicia and Friesland. Since 1996, I have been a Consultant/Advisor to the Council of Europe and OSCE on a number of scientific committees, projects and missions relating to language policy and minority rights issues in post-Soviet member states in Central and Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia. Following my retirement in 2007, I was appointed Research Associate in CLCS.
Research Interest
Sociology of Language, Language Policy, Sociology of European Minorities, Globalisation, Bilingualism, Multicultural Society, Cultural Identity, Surveys and Survey Research, Bilingual Education.
Publications
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P. Ó Riagáin & G. Ludi, Bilingual Education: Some Policy Issues, Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 2003, 47pp
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The Role of the Sociolinguistic Survey in the Language Policy Process: Some Reflections on the Irish Experience in, editor(s)L. Mondala and S.P. Doehler , Plurilinguisme, Mehrsprachigkeit, Plurilingualism (Festschrift for Georges LUdi), Basel, Franke Verlag, 2003, pp39 - 49, [P. Ó Riagain]
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Language and Literacy: Irish Language since 1922 in, editor(s)J.S. Donnelly , Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture, New York, Macmillan Reference, 2004, pp375 - 377, [Ó Riagáin, P.]
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Irish Language Revival in, editor(s)J.T. Koch , Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2005, pp1094 - 1096, [Ó Riagáin, P.]
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Gaelic Revivals (Ireland and Scotland), Merriman J. & J. Winter , Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, Vol 3, Detroit, Charles Scribners Sons, 2006, pp1160 - 1163, [P.Ó Riagáin]
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Minorities in Lithuanian Society and Schools in, editor(s)Council of Europe , Lithuania: Language Education Policy Profile, Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 2006, pp40 - 88, [P. Ó Riagain]
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P. Ó Riagáin, Relationships between Attitudes to Irish and Social Class, Religion and National Identity in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 10, (4), 2007, p1 - 25
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Irish in, editor(s)Britain, David , Language in the British Isles, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp218 - 236, [P.Ó Riagáin]
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Ó Riagáin, P., Review of Language, Religion and national identity in Europe and the Middle East, by John Myhill , Multilingua, 27, (2), 2008, p289-291
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Language Attitudes and Minority Languages in, editor(s)Cenoz, J. & N.H. Hornberger , Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 6: Knowledge about Language, New York, Springer, 2008, pp329 - 342, [Ó Riagáin, P.]
