Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn

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Is as Contae Aontroma do Chaoimhe Nic Lochlainn. Rinne sí BA comhonóracha sa Ghaeilge agus sa Fhraincis, agus MA sa Ghaeilge in Ollscoil na Banríona, Béal Feirste. Rinne sí céim dochtúireachta san ollscoil chéanna; “Cruthú Corpais agus Cultúir: Aistriúcháin agus Athinsintí i Litríocht na bPáistí, 1922-2012” is teideal don tráchtas.

Bhí sí ina comheagarthóir ar Laethanta Gréine & Oícheanta Sí: Aistí ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg le Ríona Nic Congáil (2013) agus ar Thar an Tairseach: Aistí ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg (2014) le Róisín Adams agus Claire Dunne. Chomh maith leis sin, tá ailt agus léirmheasanna foilsithe aici ar ghnéithe éagsúla de litríocht agus de chultúr na n-óg. Tháinig an chéad leabhar do pháistí óna peann in 2018: Scéalta le hInsint don Ghealach. 

Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn is from Co. Antrim. She completed a BA Joint Honours in Irish and French (2009), as well as an MA in Irish (2010) in Queen's University, Belfast, before doing her PhD in the same institution. Her thesis was entitled "Creating Corpus and Culture: Translations and Retellings in Children's Literature, 1922-2012".

She has co-edited Laethanta Gréine & Oícheanta Sí: Aistí ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg (2013) with Ríona Nic Congáil, as well as Thar an Tairseach: Aistí ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg (2014) with Róisín Adams and Claire Dunne. She has also published articles and reviews on various aspects of children's literature and culture. Her first children's book, Scéalta le hInsint don Ghealach, came out in 2018. 

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2023) 'Dáimh le hAlbain?: Depictions of Scotland in Twentieth-Century Irish-Language Prose'. Litteraria Pragensia, 33 (65):62-84.

Book Review

Year Publication
2023 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2023) An Óige agus an Athbheochan.

Book

Year Publication
2018 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2018) Scéalta le hInsint don Ghealach. Baile Átha Cliath: Cois Life.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2018 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2018) '‘For Children or Nuns’: Language and Ideology in Irish-Language Translations and Retellings for Children, 1922–1940' In: Constructions of the Irish Child in the Independence Period, 1910-1940. London : Palgrave Macmillan.
2016 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2016) 'Tragedies for Children? Retelling traditional stories in Irish Gaelic' In: Cultural Minorities in Children's Literature and Verbal Culture. Santiago de Compostela : Santiago de Compostela University Press.
2014 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2014) 'Larks and Lapses of Lingy: Aistriúcháin le Nioclás Tóibín ar théacsanna canónta do pháistí' In: Thar an Tairseach: Aistí ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg. Baile Átha Cliath : LeabhairCOMHAR.
2013 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2013) 'Asal Fhear na Mónadh: Aistriúchán Mhaighréad Nic Mhaicín ar Shaothar Patricia Lynch' In: Laethanta Gréine agus Oícheanta Sí: Aistí ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg. Baile Átha Cliath : LeabhairCOMHAR.
2013 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2013) 'Tarts and Treacle, Roast Potatoes and Buttermilk: Domestication in Irish-language translations of children's literature' In: Children's Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations. Dublin : Four Courts Press.

Edited Book

Year Publication
2014 Róisín Adams, Claire Dunne & Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (Ed.). (2014) Thar an Tairseach: Aistí ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg. Dublin: LeabhairCOMHAR,
2013 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn & Ríona Nic Congáil (Ed.). (2013) Laethanta Gréine & Oícheanta Sí: Aistí ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg. Dublin: LeabhairCOMHAR,

Other Journal

Year Publication
2016 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2016) 'A work of national importance: Child-Adult Dynamics in Bailiúchán na Scol/The Schools' Collection, 1937-1939' 9 (2) :203-213.

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2022 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2022) Knots, thorns and thistles: challenges and successes of translating into and out of Gaelic and Irish Ionnanas spiorad Ceiltice: An Gúm's Translations from Scotland University of Aberdeen, .
2022 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2022) Comhdháil na Gaillimhe Gael malgré lui: Drámaí Molière i nGaeilge NUIG, .
2022 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2022) An Dearcadh Éireannach Gaelach Anáil na Scoile: An Gúm, Schoolchildren and their Reading Matter Trinity College Dublin, .
2017 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2017) Betwixt and Between:boundaries and peripheries in children’s culture Canablaigh, Dúnmharfóirí agus Sagairt: Tuiscintí ar “Ábhair Choiscthe” sna Scéalta Traidisiúnta do Pháistí All Hallows Campus, DCU, 28/04/2017-29/04/2017.
2017 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2017) Ar an Imeall i Lár an Domhain? An Tairseachúlacht i Litríocht agus i gCultúr na hÉireann Idir Eatarthu: Tairseacha i Saothair Aistrithe Robert Louis Stevenson Prague, .
2015 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2015) Constructing childhoods and texts for children ISSCL Conference dlr LexIcon, Baile Átha Cliath, .
2015 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2015) Còmhdhail Eadar-Nàiseanta na Ceiltis Celtic Congress University of Glasgow, .
2014 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2014) Be Merry and Wise: Children’s Literature from Chapbooks to the Digital Age ISSCL Conference Maynooth, .
2014 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2014) American Conference for Irish Studies American Conference for Irish Studies UCD, .
2013 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2013) Mionteanga, Mórscéalta: An Tríú Comhdháil ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg Comhdháil ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg Institiúid Oideachais Marino, .
2013 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2013) Cultural Minorities in Children’s Literature and Verbal Culture Cultural Minorities in Children’s Literature and Verbal Culture The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages, Reykjavík, .
2012 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2012) Modern Languages School Seminar Series Modern Languages School Seminar Series Queen's University Belfast, .
2012 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2012) Legitimate Ireland: New Voices in Irish Studies New Voices Conference Queen's University Belfast, .
2012 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2012) Forbairt Litríocht agus Chultúr na nÓg: An Dara Comhdháil Comhdháil ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na nÓg Coláiste Phádraig, .
2017 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2017) Betwixt and Between: Boundaries and Peripheries in Children's Culture ISSCL Conference All Hallows Campus, DCU, .

Book Review

Year Publication
2014 Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn (2014) Séimhfhear Suairc: Aistí in Ómós don Ollamh Breandán Ó Conchúir”. BREV
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Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/01/2010 Scoláireacht Taighde/Research Scholarship AHRC

Committees

Committee Function From / To
An Cumann Éireannach um Staidéar ar Litríocht na nÓg -

Research Interests

Modheolaíochtaí agus idé-eolaíochtaí san aistriúchán; an t-aistriúchán ón Fhraincis go Gaeilge; litríocht agus cultúr na bpáistí; athinsintí ar an mhiotaseolaíocht agus ar an bhéaloideas; stair chultúr na bpáistí.

Methodologies and ideologies in translation; translation from French to Irish; children's literature and culture; retellings of mythology and folklore; the history of children's culture.