Dymphna Lonergan

Acadóir agus údar Astrálach is ea **an Dr Dymphna Lonergan**. Éireannach ó cheart í agus í ar an dream is mó a tharraing aird an phobail ar úsáid na Gaeilge san Astráil sa 19ú haois.

Rugadh í i mBaile Átha Cliath, áit ar fhoghlaim sí Gaeilge ar scoil. Bhain sí amach an Astráil sa bhliain 1972, agus sa bhliain 1994 fuair sí MA ó Ollscoil Flinders san Astráil Theas as staidéar a rinne sí ar fhocail Ghaeilge i dtéacsanna Angla-Éireannacha. Bhronn Ollscoil Flinders PhD uirthi sa bhliain 2002 as a tráchtas "The Irish language in Australia". Faoi láthair tá sí ina léachtóir i Roinn Béarla Flinders. 

Déanann sí Gaeilge a mhúineadh in Adelaide agus a shaothrú ar fud na tíre. 

## Saothar
Tá a lán taighde déanta aici ar an rian a d'fhág an Ghaeilge ar Bhéarla na hAstráile, scéal a bhfuil dlúthbhaint aige le neart na teanga i measc inimirceach ó Éirinn ag an am. Tá Dymphna Lonergan ar dhream scoláirí, idir Astrálaigh agus eachtrannaigh, atá i mbun taighde ar theanga agus ar dhúchas na nGael san Astráil. Is é an saothar is tábhachtaí dá cuid *Sounds Irish: The Irish Language in Australia*, leabhar a chuireann síos ar lorg stairiúil na Gaeilge ar ghnáthchaint agus ar litríocht na tíre.

## Leabhair agus ailt

•	Lonergan, D. (2002).'Native Voices: Irish Language Speaking Characters in Thomas Keneally's "The Great Shame" and Christopher Koch's "Out of Ireland"' in *New Voices in Irish Criticism 3*. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, lgh 88-93. 

•	Lonergan, D. (2003). 'An Irish-centric view of Australian English' in *Australian Journal of Linguistics*, 23(2) lgh 151-159. 

•	Lonergan, D. (2003). 'Music out of their mouths: Irish language speakers in Colonial Australia' in *Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 3* lgh 23-32. 
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•	Lonergan, D. (2004). *Sounds Irish: The Irish Language in Australia*. Adelaide, SA: Lythrum Press. 

•	Williams, S.M., Lonergan, D., Hosking, R.G., Deane, L.I. agus Bierbaum, A.V. (2004). Introduction to *The regenerative spirit*, Volume 2: (Un)settling, (dis)locations, (post-)colonial, (re)presentations. Adelaide, SA: Lythrum Press, lgh ix-xv. 

•	Lonergan, D. (2004). 'Away from Home: Fionan Mac Cartha's poetry' in Sue Williams, Dymphna Lonergan, Rick Hosking,Laura Deane and Nena Bierbaum (eag.). *The regenerative spirit*, Volume 2: (Un)settling, (dis)locations, (post-)colonial, (re)presentations. Adelaide, Australia: Lythrum Press, lgh 200-205. 

•	Lonergan, D. (2008). 'Language in a Boat' in *Irish Family History*, 24, lgh 23-33. 

•	Lonergan, D. (2009). 'Australia's Irish place names' in *The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies*, 9, lgh 112-129. 
[Scopus]

•	Lonergan, D. (2009). 'Place names: a tool for finding the Irish in South Australia' in *Journal of Historical Society of South Australia*, 37, lgh 113-116. 
[Scopus] 

•	Lonergan, D. (2010). 'The Irish language in Australia: survey of a community language' in Pamela O'Neill (eag.), *Celts in Legend and Reality*. Sydney, NSW: The Celtic Studies Foundation University of Sydney. 6th Australian Conference of Celtic Studies. Sydney, NSW. Jul 2007, lgh 401-413.

## Nótaí

## Naisc
* Niall Ó Ciosáin

* Nicholas M. Wolf

* Val Noone 

## Naisc sheachtracha
* Léirmheas le Dymphna Lonergan ar ''The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives'', Brad Patterson (ed.) (2003), Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
* Léirmheas le Val Noone ar ''Sounds Irish: The Irish Language in Australia''.
* Dymphna Lonergan ag Ollscoil Flinders. 
* [Trascríobh d’agallamh ar “Lingua Franca,” clár de chuid an [Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (2006).]

Catagóir:Scoláirí Gaeilge