Fiontar

Biographical Details:

PhD in Entrepreneurship, School of Business, TCD, 2008. Grad Dip in Statistics, TCD, 2002. MBS (Hons) International Marketing, UCD, 1998. BA (Hons) Irish & German, UCD, 1986. Fellow of National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, 2010 Worked in financial software industry, arts sector and university fundraising and development

Research Interests:

Entrepreneurship, especially in minority groups, including minority language groups, and Gaeltacht; Social entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship education

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Dr Emer Ní Bhrádaigh. .
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E. 2008. Entrepreneurship Capital Emerging in a Coastal Community. International Journal Of Entrepreneurship And Small Business, 6, 3, pp390-406.
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E. 2007. Gaeltacht Entrepreneurship: an Opportunity for Integrated Development, yet Peripheral in Many Ways. Irish Journal Of Management, 28, 2, pp22-26.
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E. 2007. The Overlooked Rugged Communitarians of Ireland. Journal Of Enterprising Communities: People And Places In The Global Economy, 1, 2, pp155-161.
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E, S McCarron, J Walsh, P Duffy. 2007. Using GIS to Map the Evolution of the Gaeltacht. Irish Geography, 40, 1, pp1-10.
• Walsh, J, S McCarron, E Ní Bhrádaigh. 2005. Mapping the Gaeltacht: towards a geographical definition of the Irish-Speaking Districts. Administration, 53, 1, pp16-27.

Selected Books

• Dr Emer Ní Bhrádaigh.
• Ó Broin, Deiric & Emer Ní Bhrádaigh (eds). Social Enterprise - lessons for a changing environment: papers presented at NorDubCo seminar series 2009-10, 2012.
• Ní Dhuigneáin, Muireann, Emer Ní Bhrádaigh, Cora Cregan, Orlaith Tunney, Catherine Lyster & Louise Simpson. Do Ghairm le Gaeilge / Your Career with Irish, GradIreland, 2009.

Selected Chapters

• Ní Bhrádaigh, E. 2012. Social Enterprise in the Gaeltacht: some insights from a longitudinal study. Social Enterprise: lessons for a changing environment: papers presented at NorDubCo seminar series 2009-10
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E. 2008. TG4@10: an léargas fiontraíochta. TG4@10: deich mbliana de TG4, pp137-154.
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E. 2007. Sure weren't we always self-sufficient, didn't we have to be! - entrepreneurship in the Gaeltacht of Ireland. International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship, pp211-231.
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E, JA Murray. 2006. On the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Activity - a longitudinal regional study 1891 - 2003. Frontiers of Entrepreneurial Research: Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Entrepreneurship Conference, pp516-530.
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E. 2005. Fiontraíocht i nGaeltacht na Gaillimhe - 1926 go dáta. Bliainiris, pp265-306.
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E. 2002. Graduate Entrepreneurship Success - and all because of a minority language. International New Enterprise Development, pp47-65.
• Ní Bhrádaigh, E. 1997. Arts Marketing: a review of research and issues. From Maestro to Manager: Critical Issues in Arts and Culture Management, pp207-219.

• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Margaocht agus Tioms Airgid: deiseanna agus straitis do Ghaelscoileanna, Gaelscoileanna Annual Conference, 19-NOV-10 - 20-NOV-10, Tullamore
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Collective Productive Effervescence: the place of entrepreneurship in our education and training sytstems, Richard Cantillon Summer Schoool, 08-SEP-10 - 10-SEP-10, Tralee
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Collective Effervescence: how social entrepreneurship emerged and evolved in a minority community, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 09-JUN-10 - 12-JUN-10, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Ré na Nuálaíochta tagtha don Ghaeilge: na deiseanna a eascraíonn as dúshláin, Oireachtas na Gaeilge, 28-OCT-09 - 01-NOV-09, Letterkenney
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Social Enterprise in the Gaeltacht: some insights from a longitudinal study, In: Ó Broin, Deiric & Emer Ní Bhrádaigh ed.NorDubCo Seminar Series (proceedings to be published), 23-OCT-09 - 23-OCT-09, DCU
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Développer l'Esprit d'Entreprise et d'Initiative, LIKE - Lille International Knowledge Exchange, 15-SEP-09 - 15-SEP-09, Lille, France
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, The Importance of Language and Culture for Entrepreneurship, Richard Cantillon Summer School, 15-JUL-09 - 17-JUL-09, Ballyheigue
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Social Entrepreneurship: a precursor to for-profit entrepreneurship in peripheral communities, ICSB: International Council for Small Business, 21-JUN-09 - 02-JUN-09, Seoul, Korea
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Fiontraíocht Phobail sa Ghaeltacht: súil siar agus súil ar aghaidh, Fís Forbartha Pobail don Ghaeltacht - Ról na nEagras Pobail, 29-OCT-08 - 29-OCT-08, Corcaigh
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Teaching Entrepreneurship through the medium of Irish: an opportunity for innovation, Pedagogical Approaches to Entrepreneurship, 28-MAY-08 - 28-MAY-08, University of Limerick
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Developing Entrepreneurship in a Marginal Region, Irish Academy of Management, 03-SEP-07 - 05-SEP-07, Belfast
• Anderson, Robert B., Jean-Marie Nkongolo-Bakenda, Leo P. Dana, Kevin G. Hindle, Emer Ní Bhrádaigh & Louw van der Walt, Enterprise, People and Place: Community Development in the New Economy, Academy of Management (American), 03-AUG-07 - 08-AUG-07, Philadelphia
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Indigenous Development: the Role of Community, State, Civil Sector and Corporations, Workshop Presentation, International Council for Small Business, 13-JUN-07 - 15-JUN-07, Turku, Finland
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, The Connemara Coastal Community's Use of its Marine Resources, 5th Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, 22-FEB-07 - 23-FEB-07, Lincoln, England
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, TG4@10: an léargas fiontraíochta, TG4: Súil Siar, 25-NOV-06 - 25-NOV-06, Galway
• Walsh, John, Emer Ní Bhrádaigh & Steve McCarron, Mapáil na Gaeltachta: ó Choimisiún na Gaeltachta go dtí an teicneolaíocht dhigiteach, Litríocht agus Cultúr na Gaeilge, 13-OCT-06 - 13-OCT-06, NUIG
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer & John A. Murray, On the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Activity - a longitudinal regional study 1891 - 2003, Babson Entrepreneurship Conference, 07-JUN-06 - 09-JUN-06, Bloomington, Indiana
• McCarron, Stephen, Emer Ní Bhrádaigh, John Walsh & Patrick Duffy, Spatial Evolution of the Gaeltacht, Conference of Irish Geographers, 05-MAY-06 - 07-MAY-06, UCD, Dublin
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, A Century of Community Integrated Linguistic Tourism, CommENT (Community Engagement in Entrepreneurship), 22-FEB-06 - 24-FEB-06, Hamner Springs, New Zealand
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer & Stephen McCarron, Spatial Analysis of Rural Enterprise in Ireland - possibilities and limitations, Irish Academy of Management, 08-SEP-05 - 09-SEP-05, GMIT, Galway
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Gaeltacht Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship among Locals and Non-Locals in the Galway Gaeltacht 1958-2002, Local and Global: Contested Terrains Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, 24-SEP-04 - 25-SEP-04, Dublin City University
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer & John Walsh, Foras Feasa na Fiontraíochta: ról na fiontraíochta in earnáil na Gaeilge, Local and Global: Contested Terrains Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, 24-SEP-04 - 25-SEP-04, Dublin City University
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Gaeltacht Entrepreneurship: Gaeltarra Éireann and Údarás na Gaeltachta Funded Enterprises 1958-2003, Irish Academy of Management Conference, 02-SEP-04 - 03-SEP-04, Trinity College Dublin
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, Fiontraíocht i nGaeltacht Chontae na Gaillimhe - 1926 go dáta, Dáil Thuamhan, 24-OCT-03 - 25-OCT-03, Limerick, Ireland
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, The Patterns and Evolution of Entrepreneurship in the Gaeltacht, ICSB: International Council for Small Business, 48th World Conference, 15-JUN-03 - 18-JUN-03, Belfast
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, The Pattern and Evolution of Entrepreneurship in a Peripheral, Minority Language Region - a pilot study of a Co Galway Gaeltacht Village, RENT XVI: Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 21-NOV-02 - 22-NOV-02, Barcelona, Spain
• Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer, What are the conditions for Entrepreneurial Success - Fiontar as a case history, Encounter - Enterprise and the Entrepreneurial Culture, 02-NOV-01 - 04-NOV-01, Cardiff, Wales