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Ó Laoire, Muiris

Muiris who is from Ireland has worked as senior lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Tralee and before that at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is a speaker of Irish (Gaelic) and French. Beginning as a teacher of Irish, he has worked for nearly 30 years as a teacher and researcher in the areas of Irish language revitalisation, bilingualism and multilingualism. His PhD published in Irish explored insights into the revitalisation of Hebrew in Israel 1889-1922 and applied these comparatively to the case of Irish. Muiris is still driven by the same questions he began his journey with, such as, “What does it take for people to really live and love a language?” Additionally, he is motivated by exploring the idea of how people acquire a language versus learn a language. He is also continually fascinated by the connections he sees between language groups globally as they each live their languages on a daily basis and work towards their regeneration and revitalisation.