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Philosophy

Name: Barty Begley
Position: PhD Student
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Biography

Biography


Education

BA in English and Sociology & Politics (University College Galway)

MA in English (University College Galway)

BA in Philosophy (Montpellier)

MA in Philosophy (Montpellier)

MA in Translation: French and German (Leeds)

 

Research interests:

The links between epistemology, metaphysics and politics in British and Continental Early Modern philosophy.
Translation practice over history.
 

Publications.

Book

 

Le Christianisme sans mystères, commentary and translation into French of Christianity Not Mysterious (1696) by John Toland. Neuchâtel (Switzerland): Arbre d’or, 2007.

 

Book chapter

“La tristesse du traducteur” in Anne Marie Costalat-Founeau (ed.), Sujet, Langage et Complexité. Paris: Harmattan, 2001.

 

Book review

Christianity not Mysterious, ed. P. McGuinness et al. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1997, in The Irish Times, 21 February 1998.

 

Short stories: awards

Galway Cúirt New Writing Award for “Hurling and Football” (2006)

Aidan Higgins Award for “From an Abandoned Trip, Years Ago” (2007)

Irish Arts Council award for short stories (2008)

 

Articles

“Selective Memory: A comparative study of three translation software tools”, in The Linguist Magazine, vol. 46.2, April 2007

“Nature, Time and Change in Robert O’Flaherty’s Man of Aran”, Galway Review of Postgraduate Studies No. 5 (1996).

 

Literary translations

Texts, in various reviews, by François Villon, Charles Nodier, Jules Vallès, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Hebbel, Justus Möser and Heinrich von Kleist

  

Academic translations

Numerous translations from French and German of philosophy, psychology and politics texts

 

Conference contributions

Deriving Human RghtsFrom Human Duties
UCC Graduate School Conference, 2011
Space in the Films of Martin Scorsese
Space and Place in Cinema and Literature, UCC, 1998

 

Languages

 

French, German, Spanish, Latin, Greek


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