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Dr. Sile de Cléir
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in Irish
- Course Director: BA in Irish and New Media/Gaeilge agus sna Meáin Úra
Academic background
- Graduate of University College Cork
- Participant in the Folklore Fellows’ Summer School in Finland in 1993
- Has lectured in Folklore and Ethnology in University College Cork, and various other colleges
- Has been a full-time lecturer in University of Limerick since 2008
Research Interests
Cloth and dress in the Irish tradition
Catholic publications and literacy in early twentieth-century Ireland
Popular devotion and cultural creativity in Limerick City 1925-1960
Publications
Forthcoming in 2010:
‘Ireland’, in Vol. 8: Europe: Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion