Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost is an Irish academic in the area of linguistics.

Life
Born and raised in Ireland, Mac Giolla Chríost became a lecturer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University in 2004. As of 2016 he is a Reader there and a member of the School's Research Unit on Language, Policy and Planning. He is a native of Ireland and an authority on linguistic minorities and language planning, and, in particular, the situation of the Irish language. He is now a professor at the university.

Articles

 * "Implementing political agreement in Northern Ireland: Planning issues for Irish language policy" (2001).
 * "The Language Question" (2009).
 * "Linguistic Diversity and the City: Some Reflections, and a Research Agenda" (2008).
 * "Irish gets out of jail" (2008).
 * "A language of our own" (2008).
 * "The origins of "the Jailtacht" (2010).

Books

 * Language, identity and conflict: a comparative study of language in ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia, Routledge, London, 2003.
 * The Irish language in Ireland: from Goídel to globalisation, Routledge, London, 2005.
 * Language and the city. Language and Globalization Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007.
 * Jailtacht: the Irish language, symbolic power and political violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008, Cardiff, 2012.
 * The Welsh Language Commissioner in context: roles, methods and relationships, Cardiff, 2012