Christine O’Neill
Based in:
Dublin
Professional memberships
Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association (Associate Member)
Educational qualifications
M.Phil. (Trinity College Dublin), Ph.D. (University of Zurich)
Training and professional development
Word for Practical Editing (Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading [ciep], 2022); Getting to Grips with Grammar and Punctuation (Publishing Training Centre [PTC], 2022); Practical Mark-Up of PDFs (Society for Editors and Proofreaders, 2017); Progress in Editorial Skills – Copy-Editing and Proofreading (Publishing Training Centre, 2017); Rewriting and Substantive Editing (PTC, 2016); Advanced Proofreading (PTC, 2015); Core Copy-Editing Skills (PTC, 2015).
Languages
German (mother tongue), French (very good), Spanish and Italian (good)
Experience
Freelance since 1994; clients include StoryToys, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Orell Füssli Verlag (Zurich), Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), Inis: the Children’s Books Magazine. Author/editor of Joycean Murmoirs: Fritz Senn on James Joyce (Lilliput Press, 2007), Zerrinnerungen: Fritz Senn zu James Joyce (Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2007). Researched and edited for publication Niall Montgomery Dublinman (Ashfield Press, 2015). Employers included Literature Ireland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council, St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, All Hallows College Drumcondra, The Zurich James Joyce Foundation.
Services offered
Editing, proofreading, reader’s reports, research. Translation (English to German; German to English).
Media
Books, journal articles, academic essays and theses, websites
Subject areas
The arts, especially literature, literary criticism, linguistics, history, geography, visual arts, theatre, translation
Clients include
The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Goethe-Institut Irland, Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Orient-Institut Beirut, Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Kommode Verlag Zürich; academics and doctoral students; individual authors.
Examples of work undertaken
Barbara Sträuli, ed., ‘Our Steppe is Vast …’: Kurdish epics and tribal stories from Urfa, 1906. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021. Cornel Dora and Andreas Nievergelt (eds.), Fenster zur Ewigkeit – die ältesten Bibliotheken der Welt. Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, vol. 54. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz [three essays in English], 2021 (forthcoming). Elena Sahin, Ibn al-Azraq’s political theory Badāʾiʿ al-Silk fī Ṭabāʾiʿ al-Mulk: A critique of Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima and the ruling class of his time (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), 2019. 37 Merrion Square booklet for the Goethe-Institut Irland, 2019. Orla Barry, Shaved Rapunzel, Scheherazade & the Shearling Ram from Arcady. Wexford/Ostend: Wexford Arts Centre/Mu.ZEE, 2019. Evgenia Iliopoulou, Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling. London/Bielefeld: transcript, 2019. The Annual Report of the Orient-Institut Beirut for 2018, 2019. Felix Konrad, ‘An Empire at stake, or: how to re-establish order when the world is in disarray. Divergent narratives of the 1687–1689 crisis,’ for: Turcica [essay, 31 pages], 2018. Ashley Curtis, Error and Loss: A License to Enchantment. Zürich: Kommode Verlag, 2018. Renate Zauner, trans., ‘Miraculous exculpation,’ chapter 3 (‘Wundersame Reinwaschung’) in: Helmut Burtscher-Schaden, Die Akte Glyphosat. Wien: Kremayr & Scheriau, 2017. Amir Sheikhzadegan and Astrid Meier, eds., Beyond the Islamic Revolution. Perceptions of Modernity and Tradition in Iran before and after 1979. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. German exam papers for DEB Exams (Dublin Examining Board) mock Junior and Leaving Certificate examinations 2017. Carsten Krieger, Irlands Wild Atlantic Way, trans. Ina Krieger. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2016.
Testimonials
Dr. Fritz Senn, Director, Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Zurich
Christine O’Neill is a competent editor, translator, reviewer and interviewer. I have personal reasons to be grateful to her as I owe two books, Inductive Scrutinies and Joycean Murmoirs, to her initiative and efficiency; without her they would never have been undertaken.
Dr. O’Neill is also an excellent Joyce scholar with a book length study and numerous articles to her credit. Her contributions are substantial, unpretentious, to the point and offer useful practical and enjoyable insights. She has taken part in many Symposiums and conferences and is a regular lecturer at the Dublin James Joyce Summer School.
Dr. Christian Thuselt, research associate and responsible for the in-house production of the “Beiruter Texte und Studien” (BTS)
I collaborated with Christine O’Neill in the language-editing of an early scholarly work by Charles Malik, then a Lebanese student and later Foreign Minister, on the philosophy of Heidegger, whom Malik had met during a brief period of study abroad at Freiburg University. This work was edited by Prof. Nader El-Bizri and published by the German Orient Institute Beirut as part of its series “Beiruter Texte und Studien”. The edition was linguistically challenging in every respect, both in terms of Heidegger’s very specific jargon and given the fact that Malik himself was not a native speaker of either German or English. Nevertheless, Christine reliably managed to walk the necessary tightrope between linguistic adaptation and respect for the source character of the text at all times. She edited the text with admirable precision and impeccable accuracy.
Prof. Dr. Christian Papilloud, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Soziologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Christine O’Neill is a gifted translator and a thoughtful person who has proofread and copy-edited to my entire satisfaction an article of mine for a professional journal of philosophy. I warmly recommend her expertise, her precision, her interaction with the author, her swift work, and not least her continued attention and supportive guidance.
Additional information
Excellent writing skills (published author of several books).