The Place Where Your Face is Known
A podcast about the Townland and Placenames of Coalisland County Tyrone and it's hinterland on the south west shore of Lough Neagh. This is part of the Coalisland & East Tyrone – Great Place Scheme supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and curated by Lough Neagh Partnership.
The Place Where Your Face is Known
Mícheál Ó Mainnín & Frances Kane
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Oliver Corr Craic Theatre
Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín is a lecturer in Irish and Celtic Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is Director of the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project and chair of the Ulster Place-Name Society. His broad research interest is in Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature, and he has a particular interest in language in society, Irish-Scottish connections, dialectology, and name studies.
Dr Frances Kane is a researcher in Queen’s University, Belfast, where she works on The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project. She is also the secretary of the Ulster Place-Name Society, also based at Queen's. Her background is in Irish and linguistics, and she has a particular interest in what place can tell us about