Anne O''Connor

Biographic Data

ID3857972
NAMEAnne O''Connor
GIVEN NAMESAnne
FAMILY NAMEO''Connor
SIGNATURECONNOR A O
AFFILIATIONSOllscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
ORCID0000-0002-2458-2223
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Institutional translation

    Open AccessAnne O''ConnorARTICLETranslation Studies2026

    This article argues for the centrality of infrastructural and material factors in understanding institutional translation, highlighting how translation practices are shaped by historically embedded systems that often remain invisible. Bringing together hard infrastructures (such as buildings, technologies and spatial arrangements) with soft infrastructures (including norms, regulations, routines and organisational cultures), the study demonstrate…

  • Translation and infrastructure

    Open AccessAnne O''Connor, Raluca TanasescuARTICLETranslation Studies2026

    Engagement with infrastructural thinking, prominent in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology, has received little attention in translation studies. This article argues that translation is surrounded by, embedded in, and inextricably bound to infrastructures and highlights the benefits of exploring the conceptual and analytical affordances of infrastructural thinking in relation to translation. The authors demonstrate how an …

  • Building communities and empowering individuals through multilingual storytelling

    Open AccessIryna Andrusiak, Piotr Blumczyński et al.ARTICLEEncounters in translation2025

    This study focuses on the potential of multilingual storytelling practices as tools for both individual development and for building connections in an urban setting. We present the results of practice-based research carried out with multilingual individuals in two different settings on the island of Ireland (Galway and Belfast) between October 2023 and May 2024. Two teams of researchers organized multilingual storytelling workshops with the goal …

  • Synopsis

    Open AccessIryna Andrusiak, Piotr Blumczyński et al.ARTICLEEncounters in translation2025

  • Streszczenie

    Open AccessIryna Andrusiak, Andrea Ciribuco et al.ARTICLEEncounters in translation2025

  • Synopsis

    Open AccessIryna Andrusiak, Piotr Blumczyński et al.ARTICLEEncounters in translation2025

  • Translation and religion

    Open AccessAnne O''ConnorARTICLETranslation Studies2021

    This article argues that the study of religious translation can greatly benefit from a material turn, that attention needs to be paid to the carriers and forms of religious translations, and that such an approach can ultimately add different understandings of the translation process and alternative readings of religious texts. Drawing on theories of material culture, it proposes engagement with the material structures, practices and spaces that a…

  • Challenges for people with intellectual disabilities in law enforcement interactions in Ireland; thematic analysis informed by 1537 person-years' experience

    Open AccessG Mitu Gulati, Gautam Gulati et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Law and…2021

    BACKGROUND: People with intellectual disabilities (PWID) are over-represented in criminal justice systems globally. This over-representation reveals itself at once in the demographic make-up of prison populations, as well as those detained in police settings as suspects of crime. While it is well-established in international literature that individuals who find themselves in the latter scenario face particular challenges in negotiating the forens…

  • Translation in Ireland

    Rióna Ní Fhrighil, Anne O''Connor et al.ARTICLETranslation Studies2020

    The Republic of Ireland along with Belarus, Finland, Kosovo, Malta and Norway is one of Europe’s six officially bilingual states; Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Luxembourg and the Swiss Confedera

  • Italian Material Cultures

    Rhiannon Daniels, Anne O''Connor et al.ARTICLEItalian Studies2020

    This article explores research related to material cultures and the role played by material objects in the construction of italianità. A survey of critical concerns and historical perspectives on the intersections between Italian Studies and Material Culture Studies locates material culture within the evolving interdisciplinarity of Italian Studies and highlights the methodological approaches adopted in the field. This is followed by three new ca…

  • Popular print, translation and religious identity

    Anne O''ConnorARTICLEReligion2019Cited by: 1References: 20

    This article examines the circulation of popular religious translations in the 19th century, illustrating how the intersection of religion, print and popular culture fostered greater orthodoxy in religious practices and greater devotion in personal piety. Using a case study of the Marian tradition in Ireland in the mid-19th century, the article questions how the wide circulation of translated religious texts could serve to create a sense of natio…

  • Petrarch Goes West

    Mike Hodder, Anne O''Connor et al.ARTICLEItalian Studies2017

    This article addresses the translation of Petrarch’s work on the Western fringes of Europe demonstrating how the appropriation and transformation of the European literary canon served domestic ends in Ireland in the nineteenth century. The afterlives of Petrarch’s texts contribute to understanding how translation can introduce novel material to a target culture which in turn transforms the literature in a new social and cultural context. These tr…

  • A voyage into Catholicism

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O’ConnorARTICLEStudies in Travel Writing2016

    The analysis of travel writing and Italy has often focused on the beauty, the history and the heritage of the country; this essay argues that religion was a key element in depictions of the country and that this was especially the case for Irish writers. Italy was a conflictual site for Irish religious debates in the nineteenth century and narratives of Italian travel developed against the background of Irish sectarian religious tensions in this …

  • Translating the Vatican

    Anne O''ConnorARTICLEIrish Studies Review2014References: 2

    This paper examines how one of the most influential figures in nineteenth-century Ireland, Cardinal Paul Cullen, used language and translation to further his career and his vision for the Catholic Church in this period. It shows how Cullen's language skills served him throughout his life in his role as an agent and liaison, a linking figure between different worlds. The paper demonstrates how Cullen's linguistic abilities and translations gave an…

  • Dante Alighieri — from Absence to Stony Presence

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O’ConnorARTICLEItalian Studies2012

    The Dante narrative is one of the key narratives of nineteenth-century Italy in the self-fashioning of Italian patriotism. This article looks at the ­momentum behind the project to commemorate Dante in Florence in the early decades of the nineteenth century; it also considers the effect of the outsider gaze on remedying the absence of reminders of the poet in the city; and the beginnings of the utilization of Dante for political and national purp…

  • Exiles, Emigrés and Intermediaries

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O'ConnorARTICLEImmigrants & Minorities2012

    Barbara Schaff (Ed.), Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York, 2010, 407 pp, ISBN: 9789 0 4203 068 8,, €80 (cloth) As Barbara Schaff explains in the introduction to this volume, the condition of exile is a

  • The War on Poverty

    Anne O''Connor, A O'ConnorARTICLEJournal of American History2012Cited by: 2

    Journal Article The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964–1980 Get access The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964–1980. Ed. by Annelise Orleck and Lisa Gayle Hazirjian. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. xii, 503 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $26.95.) Alice O'Connor Alice O'Connor University of California, Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, California [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…

  • That dangerous serpent

    Open AccessAnne O''ConnorARTICLEModern Italy2010Cited by: 2References: 3

    This article analyses the reaction to Garibaldi in Ireland during the Risorgimento, a reaction which, in its negativity, generally contrasted with the Italian's heroic depiction elsewhere. Attitudes towards Garibaldi reflected existing religious divisions in Ireland, with Protestants supporting him and Catholics condemning his actions in Italy. The study examines ballads, pamphlets and newspapers to illustrate the pro-papal fervour felt in Irelan…

  • Before the Stone Age Existed

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O'ConnorCHAPTERFinding Time for the Old Stone Age2007

    What is the difference between temptation and geological time? The one is a wile of the devil and the other is a devil of a while. (Dawkins to Hughes, 17 March 1870: SMC: TMH) In the early eighteenth century, John Conyers, an apothecary and antiquary of London, discovered the body of an elephant as he was digging for gravel at Gray’s Inn Lane. Nearby lay a flint implement (Fig. 1.1). Today we might well call his elephant a ‘mammoth’ and refer the…

  • Geological Re-shuZing and the Growth of Suspicion

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O'ConnorCHAPTERFinding Time for the Old Stone Age2007

    A song written for the last day of the 1973 conference on Quaternary geology held at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, offers an unintentionally accurate description of the atmosphere that surrounded British geological research in the 1930s. The words were intended to be sung to the tune of Clementine: . . . In a valley in die Alpen in neunteen-hundred neun Oh, there werkte Penck and Bruückner, carving up the Pleistoceun. They had Günzes, they had Würms…

  • Arguments over the Ice Age

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O'ConnorCHAPTERFinding Time for the Old Stone Age2007

    The acceptance of human antiquity in the mid-nineteenth century fed a desire to know more about the age of these chipped stone tools from the drift. In 1863, Canon William Greenwell (1820–1918), the antiquary, archaeologist, and collector from Durham, declared: ‘The great question which has yet to be settled is this—at what period was the drift in which the flints are found deposited? And side by side with this was another important query—down to…

  • Chronologies of the Early Twentieth Century

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O'ConnorCHAPTERFinding Time for the Old Stone Age2007

    Dr Allen Sturge spelled out some of the problems facing researchers who worked on the British Palaeolithic in his first Presidential Address to the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. For the Drift period, the main task was ‘to ascertain the relative ages of the humanly-worked stones, and the number of the periods concerned’.1 In 1908, when Sturge made this suggestion, he was troubled by suspicions that the French divisions—Chellean, Acheulian, a…

  • The Advent of the Abbé Breuil

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O'ConnorCHAPTERFinding Time for the Old Stone Age2007

    In 1930, Boswell made a compelling statement of his faith in the British Palaeolithic sequence as a reliable guide to geological time. The archaeologist Harold Peake (1867–1946), honorary curator of Newbury Museum whose interests ranged from earliest prehistory to the Bronze Age, had attended the same session at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He was provoked by Boswell’s conviction to offer a cautiou…

  • Swanscombe

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O'ConnorCHAPTERFinding Time for the Old Stone Age2007

    In the early twentieth century, Palaeolithic research seemed to be flourishing on the Continent. Commont was carrying out groundbreaking work in the Somme, and rich hauls were being recovered from the reindeer-caves of France and Spain. France could also boast a research centre: the Institute of Human Palaeontology, where Boule, Breuil, and Obermaier held posts. Britain, though, was weighed down by nostalgia: unfavourable contrasts were being dra…

  • Conclusion

    Anne O''Connor, Anne O'ConnorCHAPTERFinding Time for the Old Stone Age2007

    Ideas about the British Palaeolithic and its connections to geological time changed enormously between the days of the early eighteenth century, when Bagford wondered whether the implement found by Conyers at Gray’s Inn Lane had been left by an Ancient Briton near the bones of a Roman elephant, and the century covered in this book. In the hundred years that followed the acceptance of human antiquity—between c.1860 and c.1960— similar tools were s…