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Marie Whelton

Marie Whelton is a native of Courtmacsherry, West Cork, and it was there that her interest in language and learning was first awakened by her mother, Noreen, and by her primary school teachers at Scoil Mhuire, Barraigh Rua. She is a Lecturer in Irish (Language and Literature) at Marino Institute of Education, an associated College of Trinity College Dublin. Before she was appointed to that role, she worked as a secondary school teacher (Irish and Religious Education) in Scoil Mhuire, Longford, and as an Irish-language tutor in Maynooth University. She was awarded a Government of Ireland Scholarship by The Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences to undertake her doctoral studies under Professor Máire Ní Annracháin and a book based on her dissertation was published as Teagmháil agus Tnúthán: Staidéar ar an Apastróf i bhFilíocht na Nua-Ghaeilge (An Sagart, 2008). She was awarded a prize for her first novel, Nuair a Stadann an Ceol: Úrscéal don Fhoghlaimeoir Fásta (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2013), at the Oireachtas Literary Awards and in 2014, she was awarded the ‘The Seamus Heaney Memorial Prize’ by Poetry Ireland/INTO. She is also the author of Leathbhádóirí: Úrscéal don Fhoghlaimeoir Fásta (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2017); Giolcaireacht sa Ghairdín: Pictiúrleabhar do Pháistí (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2018) and Dún do Shúile: Pictiúrleabhar do Pháistí (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2021). In collaboration with Aodán Mac Suibhne, she co-wrote three textbooks (IOM, 2006, 2008, 2009) for primary teachers who qualify abroad and who undertake The Irish-Language Requirement examinations, and, in 2018, she co-authored the successful tender which resulted in a Bachelor in Education Through the Medium of Irish Degree Programme being offered at Marino Institute of Education. She was co-editor of two collections of short essays (IOM, 2016; Réalta an Deiscirt, 2022) as well as a special issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal, COMHARTaighde (2020). As Chairperson of Coiste Comhairleach na nEaspag Caitliceach um an Liotúirge i nGaeilge, Marie is part of a team which is involved in reviewing and editing Irish-Language liturgical books. Source: Commons

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