DASG Team

Current Team

Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh
Director

Rob(by) is originally from Dublin where he studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at University College Dublin. He graduated with a PhD in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh. He has worked at University College Dublin, the University of Edinburgh and the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where he was Assistant Professor. He has worked as Professor of Gaelic at the University of Glasgow since January 2005 and was appointed to the established Chair of Gaelic in April 2010. He set up the project Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic in 2006 and Corpas na Gàidhlig in 2008. Other digital projects in which he has been involved include Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature and People of Medieval Scotland 1093–1314. Visit his page here.

Stephen Barrett
Research Systems Developer

Stevie is responsible for creating and maintaining DASG's web applications. He has 18 years experience as a developer and has created sites and systems for a wide range of organisations including The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Glasgow Housing Authority, and Deutsche Bank.
Garry Cooke
Corpus Assistant

Garry was born in Glasgow and raised nearby in Kirkintilloch in East Dunbartonshire. It was at the University of Glasgow and at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye that he learned Gaelic. Before coming back to DASG, where he had worked previously, he was working with the team at the ‘Faclair na Gàidhlig’ project. When he’s not immersed in the world of Gaelic, Garry pursues his obsession with the structure of competitions in professional football, a subject about which he has written much over the years.
Steven Ritchie
Senior Corpus Assistant

Steven previously managed Gaelic translations on the Isle of Skye and wrote a weekly news roundup ‘Boinne am Beul na Gaoithe’ for the Scotsman newspaper’s Saturday Gaelic page. He was lead consultant and translator for the learner’s dictionary & phrase book, ‘Gaelic Gold’ and has also been employed in Tokyo as an in-house Japanese to English proofreader, translations coordinator and instructor on cross-cultural communication courses. He has a deep interest in Gaelic’s unique idioms, sayings and vocabulary, and enjoys sharing this with like-minded scholars of the language.