Terence Dolan
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Terence Dolan is an Irish lexicographer and radio
Radio
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 personality. He is currently Professor
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 of Old
Old English language
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 and Middle English
Middle English
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 in the School of English and Drama, University College Dublin
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. He acts as the School's Research Co-ordinator, and is the director of the Hiberno-English
Hiberno-English
Hiberno-English is the dialect of English written and spoken in Ireland .English was first brought to Ireland during the Norman invasion of the late 12th century. Initially it was mainly spoken in an area known as the Pale around Dublin, with Irish spoken throughout the rest of the country...

 Archive
website. He has a weekly spot on Seán Moncrieff's
Seán Moncrieff
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 radio show (Mondays) on Newstalk 106
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. Podcast
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s of Terry's appearances are available from Newstalk's website.

Life

Terence Patrick Dolan was born in London
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 of Irish parents, both of whom hailed from Co. Cavan
Cavan
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. He was formerly a Hastings Senior Scholar of The Queen's College, Oxford
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. He was twice the National Endowment for the Humanities
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 Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, University of Richmond
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, Virginia
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 (in 1986 and 1992). He is a former director of the international James Joyce
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 summer school, Dublin. He is perhaps best known for his Dictionary of Hiberno-English which gives a comprehensive account of the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 as it is spoken in Ireland
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.

Research interests

  • Medieval English Literature
    Medieval literature
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  • Hiberno-English
    Hiberno-English
    Hiberno-English is the dialect of English written and spoken in Ireland .English was first brought to Ireland during the Norman invasion of the late 12th century. Initially it was mainly spoken in an area known as the Pale around Dublin, with Irish spoken throughout the rest of the country...

  • Lexicography
    Lexicography
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  • James Joyce
    James Joyce
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Selected publications

  • Dolan, T. P., 1998. A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1999 (paperback).
  • Dolan, T. P., 2004. 'Is the Best English Spoken in Lower Drumcondra?', in A New & Complex Sensation: Essays on Joyce's Dubliners (ed.) Oona Frawley, 1-9, Dublin: Lilliput Press.
  • Dolan, T.P., The Compilation of A Dictionary of Hiberno-English Reviewed: Proceeding of the 2002 Symposium on Lexicography, University of Copenhagen.
  • Dolan, T. P., 2003. 'The English Language in an Irish Context' in Millennium Essays (ed. Michaeil Cronin).
  • Dolan, T. P., 2002. ‘Language Policy in the Republic of Ireland’ in Language Planning and Education (eds. J. M. Kirk & D. P. Ó Baoill) Belfast 144-156.
  • Dolan, T. P., 2002. ‘Devolution and Cultural Policy: A View from the Republic of Ireland’, in Ireland (Ulster) Scotland: Concepts, Contexts, Comparisons (eds. E. Longley, E. Hughes, & D. O’Rawe) Belfast, 50-53.
  • Dolan, T. P., 2003, 'The Theft of Joyce', James Joyce Bloomsday Magazine 33-35.
  • Dolan, T. P., 1999. 'Writing in Ireland', in The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (ed. David Wallace). Cambridge University Press, 208-228.
  • Dolan, T. P. (ed.). 1990. 'The English of the Irish'. Special Issue: The Irish University Review, vol. 20, no. 1.
  • Dolan T. P. & Diarmaid O'Muirithe, 1996. The Dialect of Forth and Bargy, Co. Wexford, Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
  • Dolan, T. P., 1991. 'Language in Ulysses' in Studies on Joyce's Ulysses. Jacqueline Genet—Elisabeth Hellegouarc'h (eds.). 131-142. Caen: G.D.R. d'Etudes anglo-irlandaises, Université de Caen.
  • Dolan, T. P., 1990. 'The Language of Dubliners' in James Joyce: The Artist and the Labyrinth. Augustine Martin (ed.), 25-40. London: Ryan Publishing.
  • Dolan, T. P., 1985. 'Sean O'Casey's Use of Hiberno-English' in Irland: Gesellschaft und Kultur IV. D. Siegmund-Schultze (ed.). 108-115. Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther Universität.
  • Dolan, T. P., 1991. 'The Literature of Norman Ireland' in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Seamus Deane (ed.), vol. 1, Derry: Field Day Publications.
  • Dolan T. P., 1994. 'Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Use of Hiberno-English', Irish University Review, 14, 45-56.

Radio appearances

  • 2002–Presenter, RTÉ Radio Series: 'Talking Proper: The English of the Irish'.
  • 2002 - Contributor, RTÉ Radio Series, 'The Odd Word'.
  • 2002 - 'Hiberno-English Lexicography', University of Joensuu, Finland.
  • 2002 - 'Hiberno-English in Translation', University of São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 2002 - 'The Compilation of A Dictionary of Hiberno-English Reviewed' University of Copenhagen.
  • 2002 - 'Hiberno-English in the Context of Globalisation and Immigration', Ross Institute, East Hampton, New York.
  • 2002 - 'Language Policy in the Republic of Ireland', Queen's University, Belfast.
  • 1999 - 'Dictionary Joyce: Joyce and Lexicography', James Joyce Centre, Dublin.
  • 1998 - 'The Compilation of a Dictionary of Hiberno-English', University of Potsdam.
  • 1996 - For the Translation Service of the European Commission, in Brussels and Luxembourg. 'Why and How the Irish Speak English' ( to mark Ireland's Presidency of the European Commission ).
  • 1992 - 'English and Irish in Competition', Jefferson Smurfit Fellowship Lecture, University of Missouri-Rolla.

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