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Kealy, Anna

Anna Kealy

Based in: Dublin

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Educational qualifications

MA in Modern English Literature (First Class Honours), University College Dublin
BA International in German and English (First Class Honours; 2:1), University College Dublin

Training and professional development

Core Copy-Editing Skills, Publishing Training Centre, 2015;
Advanced Copy-editing, Publishing Training Centre, 2015;
Editing in Word, Publishing Training Centre, 2015;
Rewriting and Substantive Editing, Publishing Training Centre, 2016.

Languages

German (proficient)
Irish (basic)

Experience

Editorial freelancing since 2004, alongside other work in the book industry; full-time copy-editing/proofreading, 2014–2017. In-house development editor since 2018.

Services offered

Copy-editing; proofreading; developmental editing; fact-checking; ESL editing.

Media

Books, journal articles, doctoral theses

Subject areas

Architecture, heritage and conservation, history, literary criticism, academic papers, educational texts, policy documents, memoir, fiction, working with authors who have English as a second language (ESL).

Clients include

The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (Oxford Academic Press); The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; The International Labour Organization; The European Association of Architectural Education; Dr Jeanne Riou (UCD), Dr Robert Foley (University of Western Ontario), Dr Doris Rohr (Liverpool Hope University); The Heritage Council; The Office of Public Works; Dr Jane Fenlon

Examples of work undertaken

“‘Garrulous, lamenting, whiney, but always interesting’”: Heinrich Graetz’s Evolving Characterizations of His Contemporaries from the ‘Diary’ to the ‘History of the Jews’“ (2018, Leo Baeck Institute Year Book)
“Negotiating the ‘I’ and the ‘We’: Aspects of Modernism in the Exile Novels of Anna Gmeyner and Martina Wied“ (2018, Leo Baeck Institute Year Book)
Living Legacies: Ireland’s National Historic Properties in the care of the OPW (2018, The Office of Public Works);
Allons-y 1: Junior Cycle French textbook, with accompanying portfolio, ‘lexique’ and teachers’ resource book (2017, Educate.ie);
Nothing is Written in Stone: The Notebooks of Justin Keating (2017, The Lilliput Press);
Conservation/Adaptation: Keeping Alive the Spirit of the Place – Adaptive Reuse of Heritage with ‘Symbolic Value’ (2017, EAAE-ENHSA);
Dublin Castle Guidebook (2017, The Office of Public Works);
Drawing on Nature: The Legacy of Ruskin’s Moral Cosmos (2016, Doris Rohr, doctoral thesis);
Last Words: Letters and Statements of the Leaders Executed After the Rising at Easter 1916 (2016, The Office of Public Works);
“Thematic study on equality and non-discrimination under Article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” (2016, The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights);
“A Situational Analysis of Access to Mainstream Technical and Vocational Training for People with Disabilities in Botswana” (2015, The International Labour Organization).

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