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Mary Phelan

Dr.

Mary Phelan is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) and the director of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS.ie), a University-designated research centre, at DCU. In addition, she is the chairperson of the Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association (ITIA).

Dr Phelan's publications include a co-authored book Ethics in Public Service Interpreting (Routledge 2020), a monograph Irish Speakers, Interpreters and the Courts 1754-1921 (Four Courts Press 2019), a journal article 'Literary Portrayals of Court Interpreters and Irish Speakers in the long Nineteenth Century' in Translation Studies (2020), and a book chapter 'Consuls and other Interpreters in Cork Harbour, Ireland' in Translating in Town: Local Translation Policies during the European 19th Century (Bloomsbury 2020).
Dr Phelan's research is in the field of Translation Studies, particularly historical provision of court interpreters and contemporary provision of interpreters in courts, police stations, hospitals and other settings. She is interested in hearing from interpreters and others with an interest in interpreting who would like to pursue PhD research on the history of interpreting, current interpreter provision, standards, ethical issues. Other possible topics relate to translation and interpreting policy, translators’ status and working conditions.

Book

	Year	Publication
	2020	Phelan, Mary; Rudvin, Mette; Skaaden, Hanne; Kermit, Patrick (2020) Ethics in Public Service Interpreting. London: Routledge.
	2019	Phelan, Mary (2019) Irish Speakers, Interpreters and the Courts 1754-1921. Dublin: Four Courts Press and Irish Legal History Society.
	2008	Phelan, Mary (2008) The Interpreter's Resource 口译实践指南. : Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
	2001	Phelan, Mary (2001) The Interpreter's Resource. : Multilingual Matters.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2022	Phelan, Mary (2022) 'A Trifling Matter? Names in Irish on carts: the Dublin Castle files'. Studia Hibernica: Volume 46, Issue 1, 48 :104-126. https://doi.org/10.3828/sh.2022.issue-48
	2021	Puthoopparambil, Soorej, Phelan, Mary and MacFarlane, Anne (2021) 'Migrant health and language barriers: Uncovering macro level influences on the implementation of trained interpreters in healthcare settings'. Health Policy - Amsterdam, 125 (5):1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.05.018
	2020	Phelan, M. (2020) 'Literary portrayals of court interpreters and Irish speakers in the long nineteenth century'. Translation Studies, 13 . [Link] [DOI]
	2019	Courtney, J.; Phelan, M. (2019) 'Translators’ experiences of occupational stress and job satisfaction'. Translation and Interpreting, 11 . [Link] [DOI]
	2017	Phelan, Mary (2017) 'Analytical assessment of legal translation: a case study using the American Translators Association framework'. JOURNAL OF SPECIALISED TRANSLATION, :189-210.
	2012	Phelan, M. (2012) 'Medical interpreting and the law in the European union'. European Journal of Health Law, 19 . [Link] [DOI]
	2011	Phelan, Mary (2011) 'Legal Interpreters in the News in Ireland'. 3 :76-105.
	2010	Mary Phelan , Mayte Martin (2010) 'Interpreters and cultural mediators different but complementary roles'. TRANSLOCATIONS: THE IRISH MIGRATION, RACE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION REVIEW, 6 .
	2009	Phelan, Mary (2009) 'Interpreter Provision in Healthcare in Ireland'. Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland, 15 :93-104.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2020	Phelan, Mary (2020) 'Consuls and other interpreters in Cork Harbour, Ireland' In: Translating in Town Local Translation Policies during the European 19th Century. London : Bloomsbury.
	2019	Phelan, M. (2019) 'Codes of ethics' In: Ethics in Public Service Interpreting. [Link]
	2017	Phelan, Mary (2017) 'Interpreter provision, medical training and ethics' In: Interpreting and the Politics of Recognition. Abingdon, England : Routledge.
	2003	Phelan, Mary (2003) 'Traducción e interpretación en los servicios públicos en Irlanda' In: Valero-Garcés, Carmen(Eds.). Traducción e interpretación en los servicios públicos. Contextualización, actualidad y futuro. Granada, Spain : Editorial Comares.

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2021	Phelan, Mary (Ed.). (2021) Translation Ireland. Dublin: Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association, [Link]
	2010	Phelan, Mary and Zimanyi, Krisztina (Ed.). (2010) Translation Ireland Special Edition on Community Interpreting. Ireland: Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association,

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2016	Phelan, Mary (2016) Royal Irish Academy: Human Rights and Interpreting: The Irish Legal System. Royal Irish Academy, .
	2007	Phelan, Mary (2007) Advocacy Paper Number 5: Interpreting, Translation and Public Bodies in Ireland: the Need for Policy and Training . National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, .

Online Database

	Year	Publication
	2019	Phelan, Mary (2019) Newspaper references to Irish language Court Interpreters 1796-1922. ONDB [Link]
	2019	Phelan, Mary (2019) Database of Irish language interpreters 1754-1921. ONDB [Link]

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2017	Phelan, Mary (2017) 'A Matter of Interpretation' :52-55. [Link]
	2017	Phelan, Mary (2017) 'Interpreter Provision at First Antenatal Appointments in Ireland' .
	2014	Phelan, Mary (2014) 'Three centuries on, Ireland none the wiser in interpreter provision' :21-21.
	2010	Phelan, Mary (2010) 'Interpreting in Northern Ireland' 18 :99-107.
	2006	Phelan, Mary (2006) 'Interpreting Services in Ireland: Setting Standards and Establishing Systems' :7-8.
	2006	Phelan, Mary (2006) 'Translation, Localisation and Interpreting Courses in Ireland' Volume 17 :219-224.
	2005	Phelan, Mary (2005) 'Lost in Translation when visiting the GP' Vol 22 No 45 :32-32.
	2005	Phelan, Mary (2005) 'Medical Translations' .
	2005	Phelan, Mary (2005) 'ICGP Guide to Interpretation Services and Cultural Competency is seriously flawed' .
	2001	Phelan, Mary (2001) 'Community Interpreting in Ireland' .
	2001	Phelan, Mary (2001) 'Medical Interpreting in Ireland' :-.

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2022	Phelan, Mary (2022) Oslo Met International Translation Day Interpreting and Sustainability Online, 28/09/2022-28/09/2022.
	2022	Phelan, Mary (2022) 8th Annual Irish Criminal Justice Agencies (ICJA) Conference Spoken Language Interpreting: The Need for Regulation Printworks, Dublin Castle, 22/06/2022-22/06/2022.
	2021	Phelan, Mary (2021) Plus ça change - access to justice for Irish speakers Irish language and the law Online, 30/04/2021-30/04/2021.
	2021	Phelan, Mary (2021) Together 2021 Ethics and the Translation Industry Online, 24/02/2021-26/02/2021.
	2021	Phelan, Mary (2021) AILA World Congress The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Public Service Interpreting and Translation University of Groningen, Netherlands, 18/01/2021-18/01/2021.
	2020	Phelan, Mary (2020) Teaching Interpreting Remotely (APTIS) Teaching community interpreting remotely online, 08/06/2020-08/06/2020.
	2020	Phelan, Mary (2020) Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge Research Seminar Irish Language Court Interpreting in the Nineteenth Century - Who were the interpreters? Zoom, 04/11/2020-04/11/2020.
	2019	Phelan, Mary (2019) DCU School of History and Geography Research Seminar Irish language court interpreting: the role of the grand juries DCU St Pat's Campus, 11/12/2019-11/12/2019.
	2019	Phelan, Mary (2019) 15th IPCITI conference Exploring the benefits of a multidsciplinary approach in T&I studies Workshop on Ethics in Public Service Interpreting DCU All Hallows campus, 23/11/2019-23/11/2019.
	2019	Phelan, Mary (2019) Critical Link 9 AI, Community Interpreting and Ethical Issues Tokyo, Japan, 14/06/2019-16/06/2019.
	2019	Phelan, Mary (2019) 8th Community Interpreting Conference Community Translation NUIG, 31/05/2019-31/05/2019.
	2018	Phelan, Mary (2018) Victims' Directive Conference Victims' Right to an Interpreter and to Translation Distillery Building, Dublin, 09/04/2018-09/04/2018.
	2018	Phelan, Mary S Puthoopparambil M Roura P Boyle M de Almeida Silva C Gleeson J Grogan M Kenny D Nurse T Quilty A MacFarlane (2018) 7th Community Interpreting Conference HSE Working Group to develop a model for the implementation of trained interpreters in the Irish healthcare system Dublin City University, 15/06/2018-15/06/2018.
	2018	Phelan, Mary (2018) Smyth Advisory Committee on Interviewing of Suspects in Garda Custody Interpreter Provision in Garda Stations Department of Justice, Stephen's Green, Dublin 1, 29/05/2018-29/05/2018.
	2017	Phelan, Mary (2017) Heriot-Watt and University of Edinburgh Research Seminar Research seminar Edinburgh, Scotland, 01/11/2017-01/11/2017.
	2017	Phelan, Mary (2017) Book History Meets Translation: Intersections Language and Power in Nineteenth Century Courts in Ireland NUI Galway, 25/05/2017-26/05/2017.
	2017	Phelan Mary (2017) The Translator made Corporeal conference on the history of translation and interpreting British Library, London, 08/05/2017-08/05/2017.
	2017	Phelan, Mary (2017) Sixth Community Interpreting Conference No training, no testing, no problem? Trinity College Dublin, 08/06/2017-08/06/2017.
	2017	Phelan, Mary (2017) The Right to Legal Assistance in Police Interviews (SUPRALAT) Interpreter Provision at Garda Station Interviews Law Society of Ireland, 22/09/2017-22/09/2017.
	2017	Phelan, Mary (2017) Diversity in Practice IASW Irish Association of Social Workers - Social Work & Migration special interest group University College Cork, 13/10/2017-13/10/2017.
	2016	Mary Phelan, Mette Rudvin, Hanne Skaaden (2016) Critical Link 8 Ethics and Public Service Interpreting Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 28/06/2016-01/07/2016.
	2016	Phelan, Mary (2016) SALIS Research Seminar Codes of Ethics for Public Service Interpreters DCU, .
	2016	Phelan, Mary (2016) Fifth Community Interpreting Conference Impartiality and Irish language court interpreters in the nineteenth century University of Limerick, 20/05/2016-20/05/2016.
	2016	Mary Phelan and Lorraine Leeson (2016) District Court Judges Annual Conference Interpreters and Intermediaries in the wake of Directive 2010/64/EU and SI No. 565/2013 Tullow, Co Carlow, 13/05/2016-13/05/2016.
	2015	Phelan, Mary (2015) Word-Bridges Conference Court interpreters for foreign languages in Ireland 1810-1900 NUI Galway, 20/02/2015-20/02/2015.
	2015	Phelan, Mary (2015) Research Seminar Historical Research on Court Interpreting in Ireland Queen's University Belfast, 02/02/2015-02/02/2015.
	2015	Phelan, Mary (2015) Human Rights and Interpreting: the Irish Legal System Legal Interpreter Provision Royal Irish Academy, 30/09/2015-30/09/2015.
	2015	Phelan, Mary (2015) JustiSigns Foreign language interpreters: ethical issues 1800-1922 Trinity College Dublin, 30/09/2015-30/09/2015.
	2014	Phelan, Mary, Vigier Moreno, Francisco, Valero Garces, Carmen (2014) Qualetra Holistic and Analytical Assessment KU Leuven, Antwerp, 17/10/2014-17/10/2014.
	2014	Phelan, Mary (2014) 4th Community Interpreting Conference Communication at First Bookings in Maternity Hospitals in Ireland Dublin City University, 27/06/2014-27/06/2014.
	2011	Phelan, Mary (2011) Language, Migration and Diaspora The Translation of an Asylum Questionnaire: A Case Study (peer reviewed conference paper) DIT Kevin Street, 02/12/2011-03/12/2011.
	2011	Phelan, Mary (2011) FIT Committee for Legal Translation and Court Interpreting 10th International Forum on Ethics and Good Practices Will the new EU directive on legal interpreting and translation make a difference? Paris, France, 19/05/2011-21/05/2011.
	2011	Phelan, Mary (2011) Third Community Interpreting Conference Legal Interpreters in the News in Ireland 2010-2011 Trinity College Dublin, 11/02/2011-12/02/2011.
	2010	Phelan, Mary (2010) Critical Link 6 Multilingualism and the European Union Aston University, Birmingham, 26/07/2010-30/07/2010.
	2010	Phelan, Mary (2010) Starting out as a Translator or Interpreter Getting Started as an Interpreter Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association, Dublin, 22/05/2010-22/05/2010.
	2010	Phelan, Mary (2010) Second Community Interpreting Conference in Ireland Training for Medical Interpreters NUI Galway, 10/06/2010-11/06/2010.
	2010	Phelan, Mary (2010) Critical Link 6 Are Ethics just for Interpreters? Aston University, Birmingham, 26/07/2010-30/07/2010.
	2009	Phelan, Mary and Zimanyi, Krisztina (2009) Education Inclusion Initative Seminar Interpreting in Schools Department of Education, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1, 28/05/2009-28/05/2009.
	2009	Phelan, Mary (2009) SALIS research seminar Is there a legal right to an interpreter in healthcare in Ireland? DCU, 22/10/2009-22/10/2009.
	2009	Phelan, Mary (2009) European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association Ethical Dilemmas of an Interpreter Trainer Lessius University, Antwerp, Belgium, 26/11/2009-29/11/2009.
	2009	Phelan, Mary (2009) Talk on Translation and Interpreting for Schools in Dublin 15 Translation and Interpreting for Schools in Dublin 15 Castaheany Educate Together, 12/05/2009-12/05/2009.
	2009	Phelan, Mary (2009) First Community Interpreting Research Seminar in Ireland Communication and Change in a Maternity Hospital Setting Dublin City University, 21/05/2009-22/05/2009.
	2008	Phelan, Mary (2008) Creation of a European Network in the field of social interpreting & translation Community Interpreting in Ireland Brussels, Belgium, 06/03/2008-07/03/2008.
	2008	Phelan, Mary (2008) Meeting with Social Care Workers who supervise work placements for AIT social care students The need for Interpreters in Social Care Athlone Institute of Technology, 28/04/2008-28/04/2008.
	2007	Phelan, Mary (2007) Getting Started in Interpreting Research Interpreting Research Vlekho University, Brussels, Belgium, 16/02/2007-16/02/2007.
	2007	Phelan, Mary (2007) Stakeholders Conference Department of Health and Social Services Public Service Interpreting in the Republic of Ireland Lough Neagh Discovery Centre, 16/05/2007-16/05/2007.
	2001	Phelan, Mary (2001) The Critical Link Community Interpreting in Ireland Montreal, Canada, 22/05/2001-26/05/2001.
	2006	Phelan, Mary (2006) The New Languages of Ireland Interpreting in Ireland NUI Maynooth, 24/03/2006-24/03/2006.
	2006	Phelan, Mary (2006) Language Law and Language Rights Court Interpreting in Ireland NUI Galway, 14/06/2006-16/06/2006.
	2004	Phelan, Mary (2004) Encouraging Voices Conference Parallel Lives: Sign Language Interpreters and Spoken Language Interpreters Trinity College Dublin, 09/09/2004-11/09/2004.
	2004	Phelan, Mary (with Professor Jenny Williams and Professor Jack Lonergan) (2004) Fifth National Conference on Interpreting Practice, Pedagogy and Research Interpreting Asia, Interpreting Europe Shanghai International Studies University,China, 06/11/2004-07/11/2004.
	2003	Phelan, Mary (2003) Anti-Discrimination, Interculturalism and Training Working with Interpreters: The Training Needs of Service Providers HSE offices, Parkgate Street, 17/07/2003-17/07/2003.
	2002	Phelan, Mary (2002) Cultures in Conflict The Experience of Muslim women in the Dublin maternity hospitals St. Patrick's College, 22/02/2002-23/02/2002.

Online Article

	Year	Publication
	2021	Phelan, Mary (2021) Poor interpreting having impact on patients, victims of crime and those seeking asylum. ELEA [Link]

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2020	Phelan, Mary (2020) Law and Revolution edited by Coleman A. Dennehy. BREV
	2009	Phelan, M (2009) Community Interpreting. ABINGDON: BREV

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association	Chairperson since October 2013	15/10/2005 -

Committees

Committee	Function	From / To
EU Strategic Litigation Project (Fair Trials)		26/11/2020 -
HSE West /UL Equality Action Plan		01/11/2020 -
Centre for Translation and Textual Studies		01/09/2020 -
HSE Working Group on Development of a Model around Interpreting Provision		14/12/2016 - 01/12/2017
Project Steering Committee based at NUI Galway	This is a two year participatory learning and action research project that aims to produce guidelines for effective communication in cross cultural general practice consultations.	06/04/2009 - 06/04/2011
Health Service Executive advisory group on NUIG research into the low uptake of interpreters by GPs in the former Eastern Regional Health Authority.	I was asked to join this group to provide feedback on the research and because of my background in training interpreters.	01/01/2008 - 01/10/2008
National Intercultural Hospitals Initiative (NIHI)	Connolly Hospital was involved in the European Migrant Friendly Hospital Project. When that came to an end, Connolly became the lead partner in the National Intercultural Hospitals Initiative which among other issue has considered the translation of documents and improving access to interpreters.	01/06/2007 - 31/12/2009
Migration Committee, National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism (NCCRI)	The Migration Committee brings together people from NGOs, ESRI and other groups which work with migrants or are interested in immigration.	01/11/2005 - 01/04/2008
Northern Ireland Race Forum Thematic Group on Language		01/06/2005 - 31/12/2007
Dept. of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Interpretation and Translation Working Group for the implementation of the White Paper on ending Direct Provision		15/09/2021 -

Outreach Activities

	Year	Engagement Type	Organisation	Description
		Presentations/Talks to an external audience	Crosscare	I was invited to speak at the launch of a report Do you speak English? by Crosscare into interpreter provision for people who don't speak English and who need to access services provided by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

Media

	Title	Year	Type	Authors
	Lost in Translation?	2019	Newspaper article (Print)	Sarah Gallagher
	Hundreds of Garda interpreters have no qualification	2010	Newspaper article (Print)	Carl O'Brien

Research Interests

Mary Phelan's research is in the field of Translation Studies, particularly historical provision of court interpreters and contemporary provision of interpreters in courts, police stations, hospitals and other settings. She is interested in the history of interpreting, current interpreter provision, standards, ethical issues. Other interests are translation and interpreting policy, translators’ status and working conditions.

External Collaborators

Type	Name	Company	Role
External	Hanne Skaaden	Oslo Metropolitan University	Academic
External	Patrick Stefan Kermit		Academic
External	Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil	Uppsala University	Academic
External	Anne MacFarlane	University of Limerick	Academic
External	Mette Rudvin	University of Bologna	Academic

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022	Spanish Economic Translation	SP401
2022	Spanish Translation Practice	SP208
2022	Community Interpreting Theory and Practice	LC425
2022	Work Placement	LC528
2022	Spanish Scientific / Technical Translation	SP402