Fiona Lyons

Dr Fiona Lyons is an occasional lecturer in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, UCD, and an Irish language tutor in Fiontar agus Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU. Fiona successfully defended her PhD thesis in December 2021 entitled ‘“Thall agus Abhus”: Irish Language Revival Media and the Transatlantic Influence 1857-1897’. This research identified the role of these media fora and cultural organisations in the Irish language revival movement on a transatlantic basis. She is research assistant on the European Research Council funded research project ‘Youth Engagement in European Language Preservation, 1900-2020’, which focuses on the Irish, Welsh and Catalan languages.