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Last week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Yairen Perez González on her new radio show, the Postgrad Wave, being broadcast every Monday between 2-3. Fantastic experience to be able to talk about my research in public for the first time. You can listen to the interview here. https://soundcloud.com/yairen-jerez/the-postgrad-wave-1-conversation-with-craig-neville-irc-phd-candidate-in-cacsss-ucc?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook 

I received official notification this morning that I have been awarded Irish Research Council Funding for the duration of my project whilst at UCC! Evidently, this is a great support for me (and my family) and enables me to focus more time on producing a high-quality research project. I am extremely grateful to the IRC … Continue reading Irish Research Council Funding

Examples of original material published in daily magazines advertising the then forthcoming broadcast of Dallas in Catalan on TV3. The first reads "When I'm not there, you'll miss me" advertising the forthcoming death of JR. The second urges people to tune in their televisions to receive TV3 in the 1980s. "If JR wants to watch … Continue reading Dallas in Catalonia

“Bilingual Blues,” the Cuban-born Gustavo Perez-Firmat writes: You say tomato, I say tu madre; You say potato, I say Pototo. Let’s call the hole un hueco, the thing a cosa, and if the cosa goes into the hueco, consider yourself en casa, consider yourself part of the family.

During a Supervisor meeting this week, my supervisor gave me a copy of an document (almost in the form of an annual) promoting "La Campanya per la normalitzación lingüística de Catalunya - 1982-". The front of the book has the character of 'Norma' who was used as the friendly face of language normalisation in Catalonia … Continue reading “Sóc la Norma”

I have begun compiling the possible data that can form the basis of my corpus. The next stage in this process is to begin contacting organisations in Spain to acquire the scripts so that they can be digitised and processed in preparation for analysis. Eventually, when the data is set. I will set about creating … Continue reading Audiovisual Data – GalCat Catalogue

Last Friday, I attended the Postgraduate Seminar hosted by DSPLAS (@UccSplas) and delivered by Gabriela Saldanha. The session focused on her research regarding translated literature as armchair travelling and her new research focusing on translator style. It was extremely interesting to think about how translator style is an embodied experience and should not be attributed … Continue reading Gabriela Saldanha – Armchair Travelling

I was less then two weeks into my PhD (26th January 2017) and I was lukcy enough to meet An Uachtarán na hÉireann who came to open the exhibition showcasing the role that Irish figures have played in Latin America. A collaborative venture hosted by the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at UCC (@UccSplas), the … Continue reading Irish in Latin America Exhibition @ UCC