As part of our course Perspectives on Multilingualism at the University of Vienna, we warmly invite you to a guest lecture dedicated to Irish language, identity and contemporary questions of minority language education.

Our guest speaker, Dr. Clíona Murray, is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Galway. Her work focuses on minority languages and multilingual realities in schools, with a particular emphasis on Irish language education and the sociolinguistic relationship between language policy and collective identity in Ireland.

Her talk, Identity, Minority Language, and Multilingualism: The Case of Irish in a Diverse Society, explores how the Irish language is situated today in a rapidly changing linguistic landscape, how schools respond to multilingual classrooms, and how language shapes social belonging.

Date: December 9, 2025

Time: 5 pm Vienna Time (UTC+1)

Location and registration: Please register via Zoom

https://univienna.zoom.us/j/67680830682?pwd=gbDsgzaGD9QrfqmDTh6547K4GsEask.1

Registration is required via the link above or by email to mohamed.abdel.keream@univie.ac.at We look forward to welcoming all participants interested in minority language rights, sociolinguistics and contemporary debates on language and identity in education.