Mary Phelan lectures in Spanish and translation at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University (DCU) where she is the Chairperson of the MA in Translation Studies and the MSc in Translation Technology. From 2004 to 2009 she ran the Graduate Certificate in Community Interpreting programme at DCU. Mary is particularly interested in the lack of regulation of interpreters who work in garda stations and courts and the lack of provision of interpreters to work with GPs and in hospitals and other medical settings in Ireland. Mary has carried out extensive research on the historical provision of interpreters in the courts, particularly for the Irish language, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
