Professor Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín

Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín

  • Visiting Professor of Linguistics (2026 - )

Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín works within the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen's University Belfast.

His principal research interests lie in the areas of linguistics (particularly onomastics and historical linguistics); Irish and Scottish Gaelic literary texts; language politics; Irish and Scottish identity and relations in the medieval and modern periods.

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