MPhil Thesis: “Gan Teanga, Gan Tír”:  The Jailtacht and Republican Nationalism during the Irish Revolutionary Period, 1916-1924.

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Abstract: The learning and use of the Irish language in prison by Irish republican political prisoners – also known as the “jailtacht” – has long been associated with HMP Prison Maze in Belfast during the Troubles. There has been less scholarship regarding cases that predate the second half of the 20th century. This dissertation will address this gap by investigating the phenomenon of carceral spaces – primarily prisons, but internment camps and a prison ship, as well – operating as a site of Irish language learning rooted in republican ideology around the period of the Easter Rising and the War of  Independence. Through the examination of diaries, autograph books, letters, poems, songs, photographs, micro press publications, and learning materials, this paper will establish the Irish Revolutionary period as a crucial predecessor to republican Irish language learning in both the Prison Maze and the modern nationalist Irish language rights movement.

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Undergraduate Capstone: The Geography of the Digital Courtroom: Law, Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Internet.

 

In the Spring of 2021, I completed an undergraduate capstone under the instruction of distinguished legal scholar and Critical Race Theory proponent Patricia J. Williams as part of a special topics seminar entitled Justice and Aesthetics in collaboration with University College London and the London College of Communication.