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Generous external funding from the Fulbright Program has allowed us to bring in a new teachers to meet the overwhelming demand for Irish language classes.

Gráinne Ní Mhuirí is the 2009-2010 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. She is from Dublin and received a BA in Celtic Studies and H. Dip in Education from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.. This semester Gráinne will teach Beginning Irish 2 and run the conversation table for students who wish to practice their language skills outside of the classroom.

The 2008-2009 Fulbright Scholar, Anne Corbett is a native Irish speaker of Carna, Connemara, Co. Galway. She was awarded a degree in Irish and English from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2004 where she continued to advance to a Higher Diploma in Education that was awarded to her in 2005. Following this, she was employed by the Irish Department at the National University of Ireland, Galway, as an Irish tutor and has continued to teach the Irish language at various levels since then. She completed a Masters in Nua-Ghaeilge in 2007, majoring in Sociolinguistics, and hopes to proceed to a Phd in the Irish language, regarding this field of study, in the future.

Tomás Ó Murchú a graduate of University College Cork, joined us as the 2007-08 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. This semester Tomás teaches Beginning Irish I and runs a weekly language club for undergraduate and graduate students seeking to practice and develop their language skills outside of the classroom. Tomás is taking graduate courses with Professor Breandán Ó Buachalla on the eighteenth-century lament Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire and studying contemporary Irish poetry with Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Senior Fulbright Irish-Language Professor. His own scholarly interests are in the Munster dialect and its regional literature.

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