Prof. Rióna Ní Fhrighil

Prof. Rióna Ní Fhrighil

Prof. Rióna Ní Fhrighil lectures in Modern Irish in the University of Galway. She is an Irish Research Council Laureate and is Principal Investigator of the research project ‘Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry’. This project includes an examination of literary translation through a human rights lens. She is also co-director of the large-scale translation project Aistriú: Crossing Territories, Languages, and Artforms ( www.aistriu.eu ), a project funded as part of Galway’s European Capital of Culture 2020 programme. She has published widely on Irish-language literature, literary translation, and computer assisted language learning. She is co-editor of the peer reviewed journal LÉANN.


Email me: riona.nifhrighil@universityofgalway.ie