Professional memberships
Society of Authors / Translators’ Association (UK), Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association (Associate Member)
Educational qualifications
BA, MA (both NUIG)
Training and professional development
Practical Mark-up of PDFs (SfEP, 2017); Writing and Editing for the Web (Publishing Training Centre, 2016); On-Screen Editing with Word 2010 (Publishing Ireland, 2014); Fiction Editing (Publishing Ireland, 2013).
Languages
German (fluent); Italian (rusty); French (rusty)
Experience
Freelance editor and translator since 2006. Also part-time Adult Education tutor. Previous employments include in-house editor with Blackstaff Press, Belfast, and Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; desk editor and translator with German Press Agency (dpa), Hamburg; learning support tutor with National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA), Ireland.
Services offered
Copy-editing, rewriting, event moderating, translation (German to English).
Media
Books, short stories, articles, reports, website content
Subject areas
Art, architecture, environment, humanities; fiction and general non-fiction.
Clients include
Artisan House, Arts Council, Centre for Irish-German Studies, Goethe-Institut, The Short Story Project, Pina Bausch Foundation
Examples of work undertaken
Editing and translating website content for Pina Bausch Foundation (Germany) (2022); moderating interviews for online European Book Club (EUNIC, 2022); editing and translating content for a Swiss client’s climate action website (2021); editing and translating “Negotiation Matters” (poster exhibition on critical negotiations in recent history; Goethe-Institut, 2018); teaching workshop on comma/punctuation, Irish Writers Centre (2019); proofreading Tina Claffey, Tapestry of Light (photography book; Artisan House, 2017); editing and proofreading Leading Change in Arts and Culture (strategic plan; Arts & Disability Ireland, 2017); editing and proofreading Gisela Holfter (ed.), The Irish Context of Kristallnacht: Refugees and Helpers (Irish-German Studies, vol. 8, WVT Trier, 2014); editing and proofreading Maírín Uí Chomáin, Celebrating Irish Salmon (Artisan House, 2013); editing and proofreading J. McLaughlin, E. Francis and heneghan peng architects, Shifting Ground: Pavilion of Ireland at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition (Ireland at Venice Architecture Biennale, 2013).