Ailbhe Nic Giolla Chomhaill has worked at the University of Limerick since January 2018. She was appointed Lecturer in Irish in September 2018. She teaches courses on Irish language and literature at UL, including 20th Century literature from the Donegal Gaeltacht, Celtic civilisation, dialectology, and sociolinguistics.Ailbhe studied Irish and French at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and graduated with a BA International degree in 2012. She completed her PhD thesis, which was funded by the Irish Research Council, under the supervision of Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, NUIG, in 2017. She is particularly interested in the folklore and storytelling tradition of the Joyce Country and has presented her research on this topic at national and international conferences in recent years. Her first book to date, An Chaora Ghlas agus Scéalta Eile as Seanadh Farracháin, is a study of the international folktales collected in Seanadh Farracháin National School in 1937-38. It was published by Leabhar Breac in 2016 and was awarded the Phelan Conan Prize, NUIG, in 2017.
Research Interests
Irish language folklore and storytelling; International folktales; the dynamics of folklore collection in Ireland; the representation of women in Irish folktales; the contribution of women to the National Folklore Collection
Nic Giolla Chomhaill, Ailbhe (2019) An Saol i Scáthán an Scéil: léamh soch-chultúrtha ar scéal iontais a d'inis Mícheál Breathnach ón Mhám, Contae na Gaillimhe'. .
Dublin :2-17
Nic Giolla Chomhaill (2016) Cinderella Chonnacht: An léargas a fhaightear ar bhanlaochra na sraithe ATU 510A i dtraidisiún scéalaíochta Chonnacht'. .
Béaloideas: The journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland :144-169.
Nic Giolla Chomhaill, Ailbhe (2021) Scéal Rí na Gréige' (review article of Ludwig Mühlausen, Séamus Ó Caiside and Scéal Rí na Gréige: the tale of Three Golden Children' (ATU 707) in 1937 Donegal, by Maxim Fomin.
Cork Béascna
Nic Giolla Chomhaill, Ailbhe. (2020) The Joys of Fieldwork' (review article of Life, lore and song/Binneas an tSiansa: Essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin by Kelly Fitzgerald et al, Dublin: Four Courts Press 2019)..
Dublin The Dublin Review of Books
Nic Giolla Chomhaill, Ailbhe (2019) Cold Iron' (review article of Cold iron: aspects of the occupational lore of Irish fishermen by Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Dublin: Four Courts Press 2018)..
London Folk Life :74-76
Nic Giolla Chomhaill, Ailbhe (2018) Review of 'The Classic Fairy Tales: Second Norton Critical Edition' by Maria Tatar. Published by Norton (2017)..
: Taylor & Francis Folklife: the journal of the Society for Folklife Studies
Nic Giolla Chomhaill, Ailbhe (2018) An Páiste i dTír na nIontas': Máirtín Ó Direáin agus scéalaithe an tSrutháin' Alt a foilsíodh in Comhar [Márta 2018], .
Comhar :28-31
Conference Publications
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