Michael Cronin is an academic specialist in culture, translation and the Irish language, a Full Professor with a Personal Chair in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dublin City University, Ireland.
He was born October 1, 1960 holds a BA from Trinity College Dublin, an MA awarded in 1982 from University College Dublin and a Ph.D awarded in 1991 from Trinity College Dublin with a thesis "Ludic elements in the prose fiction of Réjean Ducharme and Gérard Bessette"
He is coeditor of The Irish Review. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2008, and holds the post of its Humanities Secretary, He is also the Chairperson of Poetry Ireland.
Books written by Michael Cronin include:
Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781138916838Translation in the Digital Age. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780415608596Arabic translation published as الترجمة في العصر الرقمي ISBN 9786038197509Polish translation published as Przekład w epoce cyfrowej, translated by Marta Błaszkowska, Magda Heydel, Elżbieta Koziołkiewicz, Maciej Nawrocki, Aldona Pikul, Zofia Ziemann, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2016Translation Goes to the Movies. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. ISBN 9780415422857Translation and Identity. London: Routledge, 2006 ISBN 9780203015698Irish in the New Century. Dublin: Cois Life, 2005Translation and Globalization, Routledge, 2003. ISBN 9780415270656 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 281 libraries Arabic translation published as الترجمة والعولمة / al-Tarjamah wa-al-ʻawlamah ISBN 9789992182512Japanese translation published as 翻訳とグローバリゼーション : 新翻訳事始め / Hon'yaku to gurōbarizēshon : Shin hon'yaku kotohajime ISBN 9784271115045(with Barbara O'Connor) Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity, Channel View Publications, 2003. ISBN 9781873150559 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 591 libraries Time Tracks: Scenes from the Irish Everyday, New Island, 2003.Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity, Cork University Press, 2002.(with Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin) The Languages of Ireland, Four Courts Press, 2002.Translating Tomorrow: Translation, Technology and Interculturality in a Global Age], Routledge, 2002.Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation, Cork University Press, 2000.Unity in Diversity? Current Trends in Translation Studies, St Jerome Press, 1998.Anthologie des nouvelles irlandaises, L'Instant meme, 1997.Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages and Identity, Cork University Press, 1996.Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis, Cork University Press, 1993.Books edited by him include:
The Languages of Ireland, Four Courts Press, 2003. ISBN 9781851826988Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy, Pluto Press, 2002. ISBN 9781849641272
