Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, Irish academic and scholar. A native of the Breac-Ghaeltach in

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, Ní Mhunghaile was educated at the

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. She worked in

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(1996-2001), and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Moore Institute, NUI, Galway (2001-2004), working on the Ascendancy and the Gaelic World Project. Between 2005 and 2013 she lectured in Irish at

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, returning to Galway to lecture since September 2013.

Selected bibliography

* "Carolan’s Verse" in ''Amhráin Chearbhalláin/The Poems of Carolan: Reassessments'', London,

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, 2007 * '' Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry'', Dublin, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2009 * "The Irish language in County Meath, 1700-1900" in '' Meath. History and Society: Interdisciplinary essays on the History of an Irish County'', Dublin, 2015. * ''Amhráin na Midhe le h Énrí Ó Muirgheasa'', Navan, Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2015

External links

* http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/languages-literatures-and-cultures/lesanimhunghaile/ * http://www3.ul.ie/ecrg/about-lesa-n%C3%AD-mhunghaile * http://heritage.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/people/padraic-o-conaire * http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/how-could-we-forget-brooke-1.645565 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ní Mhunghaile, Lesa 21st-century Irish women writers Living people Linguists from Ireland Irish-language writers Academics of the University of Limerick Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of the University of Galway