Dr. Rosemary Day
Head of Department
Course Director of Masters in Irish Media Studies
Director of Radio Research Centre
Ph: 061 204327
Email: rosemary.day@mic.ul.ie
Dr. Rosemary Day is the Head of the Department of Media and Communication Studies in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
She is also the director of the Radio Research Centre, the only such centre in the country, RRC
She was the first Chairperson of the Radio Research Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and the founder of Radio Research Ireland (RRI).
Her publications include:
Day, Rosemary. (2008). Community Radio in Ireland: Participation and Multi-Flow Communication.Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press
Day, Rosemary. (2007). (Ed) Bicycle Highway: Celebrating 10 Years of Licensed Community Radio in Ireland. Dublin: LIffey Press. A collection of reflections on the development of Irish Community Radio.
Day, Rosemary. (2006). Droichead: Lámhleabhar do Chraoltóirí Gaeilge ar Raidióanna Pobail. An Irish language radio handbook published by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland in 2006 . Dublin: BCI.
Book chapters include:
Day, Rosemary.(2009) “Radio and Identity in Ireland” in: Barlow, D. (Ed.) Radio and Small Nations. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. (Forthcoming).
Day, Rosemary.2007 “Community radio and community development”. In Day, R. (Ed.)
Bicycle Highway: Celebrating Community Radio In Ireland.
Dublin: Liffey Press. (56-87).
Day, Rosemary.(2005) “Listen to yourself: The audience as broadcaster in community
Radio”. In: Horgan, J, O’Connor, B and Sheehan, H. Mapping
Irish Media: Critical Explorations. Dublin: UCD Press. (237-253).
Day, Rosemary.2000 “Radio and the Irish language” . In: Kelly-Holmes, H. (Ed)
Minority Language Broadcasting: Breton and Irish. Clevedon:
Multilingual Matters. (73-82).
She was one of the founders of Raidió na Life, the Irish language community radio station in Dublin, of Wired Fm, Limerick’s cross campus student community radio, of Wired Luimnigh, a community radio project for Irish speakers in the Republic of Ireland’s third largest city and of CRAOL, the community radio forum of Ireland. She won a national award for the radio series Fonn na Seachtaine in 2004 and is on the editorial board of Foinse, the national weekly Irish language newspaper
Nicky Fennell
Ph: 061 204523
Email: Nicky.Fennell@mic.ul.ie
Nicky Fennell lectures in Media and Communications at Mary Immaculate College. He completed his BA at UCG and undertook a Post Grad Diploma in Video Production at GMIT before completing a research MA at DCU. Prior to joining the Department in MIC he worked as a freelance editor and was Education Officer for the Galway Film Centre. He also worked as a staff writer for Film West magazine and has written for The Irish Review, Film Ireland and The Irish Film and Television Network. He specialises in the practical end of Media Training – teaching the students camera, sound, lighting, editing and production techniques.
Currently his research interests are Irish Film; the relevance of indigenous Irish film, the impact of new technologies and the effects of globalisation on the modern Irish industry.
Dr. Marcus Free BA PhD
Ph: 061 204544
Email: Marcus.Free@mic.ul.ie
Marcus Free is a Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Mary Immaculate College. He completed his BA and PhD at Dublin City University, and has taught previously at the Universities of Sunderland and Wolverhampton.
He currently teaches Film and Television Studies on the BA Liberal Arts and on a variety of modules on the MA in Irish Media Studies, including ‘Critical Issues in Media Theory’, ‘The Development of Irish Media’, ‘Research Methods’ and ‘Television Drama: Industry, Form and Audience’.
His research and publications to date have ranged in scope from an historical study of late nineteenth century comics and British popular culture, to an ethnographic study of Irish migrant football supporters in Britain, to textual analysis of constructions of gender and nationhood in sport media, and in television drama and film.
He has also published theoretical articles on the psychodynamics of sports participation and fandom, on sport as a cultural commodity, and on gender issues and the psychodynamics of research practices in ethnographic methodology.
His current research interests are in gender, identity, sport and the body in popular culture, psychoanalytic applications to the study of sport and sport fandom, and representations of gender, sport and national identity in film, television and print media.
Recent publications include:
Free, M. (forthcoming, 2009). Anti-Hero as National Icon? The Contrariness of Roy Keane as Fantasy Embodiment of the 'New Ireland'. In: P. Dine (Ed.), Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Free, M. (2008). 'Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sport: A Critical Review', International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 5 (4): 273-296.
Free, M. (2008). ‘Tales from the Fifth Green Field: The Psychodynamics of Migration, Masculinity and National Identity amongst Republic of Ireland Soccer Supporters in England’. In: P. Darby and D. Hassan (Eds.), Emigrant Players: Sport and the Irish Diaspora. London: Routledge: 144-162.
Free, M. (2007). ‘From Barrytown to Ballymun: The Problematics of Space, Class and Gender in Roddy Doyle’s Family (1994)’. Critical Studies in Television, Volume 2 (1): 57-73.
Free, M. (2007). ‘Tales from the Fifth Green Field: The Psychodynamics of Migration, Masculinity and National Identity amongst Republic of Ireland Soccer Supporters in England’, Sport in Society, Volume 10: 476-494.
Free, M. & P. Walsh. (2006). Papa Don’t Preach: Irony, Contradiction and the Unmarried Mother in December Bride and The Snapper. In: M.C. Ramblado-Minero & A. Perez-Vides (Eds.), Single Motherhood in 20th Century Ireland: Cultural, Historical and Social Essays. NY: Edwin Mellen Press:
Free, M. & J. Hughson. (2006). Common Culture, Commodity Fetishism and the Cultural Contradictions of Sport. International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 9 (1): 83-104.
Free, M. & J. Hughson. (2006). Paul Willis, Cultural Commodities and Collective Sport Fandom. Sociology of Sport Journal, Volume 23: 72-85.
Free, M. (2005). Keeping them under pressure: masculinity, narratives of national regeneration and the Republic of Ireland soccer team. Sport in History, Volume 25 (2): 265-288.
Free, M. With J. Hughson & D. Inglis. (2004). The Uses of Sport: A Critical Study. London: Routledge.
Free, M. (2004). Preparing to fail: gender, consumption, play and national identity in Irish broadcast coverage of the ‘Roy Keane Affair’ and the 2002 World Cup. In: R. Barton & H. O’Brien (Eds.), Keeping it Real: Irish Film and Television. London: Wallflower Press, 172-184.
Free, M. & J. Hughson. (2003). Settling Accounts with Hooligans: Gender Blindness in Football Supporter Subculture Research. Men and Masculinities, Volume 6 (2) 136-155.
Free, M. (2001). From the ‘Other’ Island to the one with ‘no west side’: the Irish in British soap and sitcom. Irish Studies Review, Volume 9(2) 215-227.
Free, M. (1998). 'Angels' with Drunken Faces?: Travelling Republic of Ireland Supporters and the Construction of Irish Migrant Identity in England’. In: A. Brown (Ed.), Fanatics! Power, Identity and Fandom in Football. London: Routledge. 219-231.
Dr. Tony Langlois
Ph: 061 204981
Email: tony.langlois@mic.ul.ie
Tony Langlois received his Phd in 1997 from The Queen's University, Belfast , for his thesis on the Rai Music of Algeria and Morocco .
He has since taught at the University of Ulster , Trinity College , Dublin ; the Open University and University College , Cork . He has also worked in the cultural diversity section of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council.
Research interests include: Music and New Media, North Africa, Film Sound, Islam and Globalisation, Ireland , Cultural Politics.
Please visit my website at tonylanglois.wordpress.com/
Susan Liddy
Ph: 061 204918
Email: Susan.Liddy@mic.ul.ie
Susan Liddy holds a BA from NUIG in English and Philosophy, a research MA from
the University of Limerick and an MA in Screenwriting from Huston School of Film
and Digital Media, NUIG.
My principal research interests lie in the field of screenwriting/production. I have worked on the following projects.
- Producer/Researcher, ‘Black Tunnels’, (Tollain Dhubha), Irish Film Board & TG4, 2004.
- Producer/Researcher, ‘Ar Meisce’, TG4, 2002.
- Producer/Researcher, ‘Scaruint’, TG4, 2000.
- Production Assistant, ‘Images of Ourselves’, TG4, 1999.
In 2006, I received script development funding from the Irish Film Board for a feature
length script, ‘Curious’. That script is now coming to the end of the development process
with Blinder Films, Dublin. More recently, I have become interested in writing for
television and have developed specific skills in that area.
My project, ‘Sins of Omission’, a two-part television drama, was selected for inclusion in an intensive, course called ‘Writing for Television’ in which television projects were developed over a number of months in conjunction with experienced international script editors.