SALIS

Research Interests:

The right to an interpreter in legal and medical settings, newspaper coverage of court interpreting, Governmental and Departmental Interpreting and Translation policy, ethical issues in Interpreting.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Mary Phelan. 2012. Medical Interpreting and the Law in the European Union. European Journal Of Health Law, 19, 4, pp333-353.
• Mary Phelan. 2011. Legal Interpreters in the News in Ireland. Translation & Interpreting, 3, 1, pp76-105.
• Mary Phelan and Mayte Calvo. 2010. Interpreters and Cultural Mediators - different but complementary roles. Translocations: The Irish Migration, Race And Social Transformation Review, 6, 1, pp1-19.
• Mary Phelan. 2009. Interpreter Provision in Healthcare in Ireland. Medico-legal Journal Of Ireland, 15, 2, pp93-104.

Selected Books

• Mary Phelan and Krisztina Zimányi (ed). Translation Ireland Special Edition on Community Interpreting, Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association, 2010.
• Mary Phelan. The Interpreter's Resource 口译实践指南, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2008.
• Mary Phelan. Advocacy Paper Number 5: Interpreting, Translation and Public Bodies in Ireland: the Need for Policy and Training , National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, 2007.
• Mary Phelan. The Interpreter's Resource, Multilingual Matters, 2001.

Selected Chapters

• Mary Phelan. 2003. Traducción e interpretación en los servicios públicos en Irlanda. Traducción e interpretación en los servicios públicos. Contextualización, actualidad y futuro

Reviews

• Mary Phelan. 2009. Community Interpreting (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics Series. Sandra Hale. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. The Interpreter And Translator Trainer, 3, pp309-312.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Mary Phelan. 2010. Interpreting in Northern Ireland. Translation Ireland, 18, pp99-107.
• Mary Phelan. 2006. Translation, Localisation and Interpreting Courses in Ireland. Translation Ireland: New Vistas in Translator and Interpreter Training, Volume 17, pp219-224.
• Mary Phelan. 2006. Interpreting Services in Ireland: Setting Standards and Establishing Systems. Spectrum, pp7-8.
• Mary Phelan. 2005. ICGP Guide to Interpretation Services and Cultural Competency is seriously flawed. Irish Medical News,
• Mary Phelan. 2005. Medical Translations. Irish Medical News,
• Mary Phelan. 2005. Lost in Translation when visiting the GP. Irish Medical News, Vol 22 No 45, pp32-32.
• Mary Phelan. 2001. Medical Interpreting in Ireland. Translation Ireland,
• Ms Mary Phelan. 2001. Community Interpreting in Ireland. Critical Link 3 conference paper,

• Phelan, Mary, The Translation of an Asylum Questionnaire: A Case Study (peer reviewed conference paper), Language, Migration and Diaspora, 02-DEC-11 - 03-DEC-11, DIT Kevin Street
• Mary Phelan, Will the new EU directive on legal interpreting and translation make a difference?, FIT Committee for Legal Translation and Court Interpreting 10th International Forum on Ethics and Good Practices, 19-MAY-11 - 21-MAY-11, Paris, France
• Mary Phelan, Legal Interpreters in the News in Ireland 2010-2011, Third Community Interpreting Conference, 11-FEB-11 - 12-FEB-11, Trinity College Dublin
• Phelan, Mary, Multilingualism and the European Union, Critical Link 6, 26-JUL-10 - 30-JUL-10, Aston University, Birmingham
• Phelan, Mary, Are Ethics just for Interpreters?, Critical Link 6, 26-JUL-10 - 30-JUL-10, Aston University, Birmingham
• Mary Phelan, Training for Medical Interpreters, Second Community Interpreting Conference in Ireland, 10-JUN-10 - 11-JUN-10, NUI Galway
• Mary Phelan, Getting Started as an Interpreter, Starting out as a Translator or Interpreter, 22-MAY-10 - 22-MAY-10, Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association, Dublin
• Phelan, M., Ethical Dilemmas of an Interpreter Trainer, European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association, 26-NOV-09 - 29-NOV-09, Lessius University, Antwerp, Belgium
• Mary Phelan, Is there a legal right to an interpreter in healthcare in Ireland?, SALIS research seminar, 22-OCT-09 - 22-OCT-09, DCU
• Phelan, M., Zimanyi, Z., Interpreting in Schools, Education Inclusion Initative Seminar, 28-MAY-09 - 28-MAY-09, Department of Education, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1
• Mary Phelan, Communication and Change in a Maternity Hospital Setting, First Community Interpreting Research Seminar in Ireland, 21-MAY-09 - 22-MAY-09, Dublin City University
• Mary Phelan, Translation and Interpreting for Schools in Dublin 15, Talk on Translation and Interpreting for Schools in Dublin 15, 12-MAY-09 - 12-MAY-09, Castaheany Educate Together
• Mary Phelan, The need for Interpreters in Social Care, Meeting with Social Care Workers who supervise work placements for AIT social care students., 28-APR-08 - 28-APR-08, Athlone Institute of Technology
• Mary Phelan, Community Interpreting in Ireland, Creation of a European Network in the field of social interpreting & translation., 06-MAR-08 - 07-MAR-08, Brussels, Belgium
• Mary Phelan, Public Service Interpreting in the Republic of Ireland, Stakeholders Conference Department of Health and Social Services, 16-MAY-07 - 16-MAY-07, Lough Neagh Discovery Centre
• Mary Phelan, Interpreting Research, Getting Started in Interpreting Research, 16-FEB-07 - 16-FEB-07, Vlekho University, Brussels, Belgium
• Mary Phelan, Court Interpreting in Ireland, Language Law and Language Rights, 14-JUN-06 - 16-JUN-06, NUI Galway
• Mary Phelan, Interpreting in Ireland, The New Languages of Ireland, 24-MAR-06 - 24-MAR-06, NUI Maynooth
• Mary Phelan (with Professor Jenny Williams and Professor Jack Lonergan), Interpreting Asia, Interpreting Europe, Fifth National Conference on Interpreting Practice, Pedagogy and Research, 06-NOV-04 - 07-NOV-04, Shanghai International Studies University,China
• Mary Phelan, Parallel Lives: Sign Language Interpreters and Spoken Language Interpreters, Encouraging Voices Conference, 09-SEP-04 - 11-SEP-04, Trinity College Dublin
• Mary Phelan, Working with Interpreters: The Training Needs of Service Providers, Anti-Discrimination, Interculturalism and Training, 17-JUL-03 - 17-JUL-03, HSE offices, Parkgate Street
• Mary Phelan, The Experience of Muslim women in the Dublin maternity hospitals, Cultures in Conflict, 22-FEB-02 - 23-FEB-02, St. Patrick's College
• Mary Phelan, Community Interpreting in Ireland, The Critical Link, 22-MAY-01 - 26-MAY-01, Montreal, Canada