Liam Mac Mathúna is a noted scholar of Irish. He is an emeritus Professor of Irish at

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previously, 2006 to 2013, having been head of their School of Irish, Celtic Studies,

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and Linguistics. He has published extensively on the

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and

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. He is also the editor of Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies.

Selected publications

* Mac Mathúna, L. (2006). What's in an Irish name?. In The Celtic Englishes IV: the interface between English and the Celtic languages; proceedings of the fourth international colloquium on the" Celtic Englishes" held at the University of Potsdam in Golm (Germany) from 22 to 26 September 2004 (pp. 64–87). Universitätsverlag Potsdam. * Mac Mathúna, L. (2007) Cabhair Choigríche: An Códmheascadh Gaeilge/Béarla i Litríocht na Gaeilge 1600–1900 (An Clóchomhar), a study of Irish/English code-mixing in literature composed in Irish 1600–1900 * Mac Mathúna, Liam (2021) The Ó Neachtain window on Gaelic Dublin, 1700–1750" Cork studies in Celtic literatures 4. CorkNic Cathmhaoil, Máire. "Mac Mathúna, Liam: The Ó Neachtain window on Gaelic Dublin, 1700–1750" Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, vol. 70, no. 1, 2023, pp. 211-215. https://doi.org/10.1515/zcph-2023-0013

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