About this Event
Dr Colm Mac Gearailt currently lectures in Marino Institute of Education and for Hibernia College. His research focusses on history education, the Irish language, and state examinations as they pertain to Irish history. He holds a PhD from TCD (2019) and was awarded a Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Postgraduate scholarship in 2017 to complete his doctoral thesis. In 2019 he completed a postdoctoral research placement, as part of a forthcoming biography of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, under Dr John Walsh. He previously conducted a major translation of the autobiographies of Ernest Blythe, from Irish to English, as a contribution towards the late Prof David Fitzpatrick’s Ernest Blyth: A Double Life (Cork 2018).