Torlach McNamee

Torlach completed his undergraduate studies at UCD, attended graduate school in Canada, completed a doctorate in linguistics at Simon Fraser University.  He lived there (Vancouver and Victoria) for 20 years and worked for provincial and federal governments as a technical writer. After tihs he returned to Europe just over 10 years ago. At first he worked in high-tech industry for Hamilton Bonaduz AG in Graubünden, then for National Centre of Competence in Research in Affective Sciences, University of Geneva. He has been living alternately in Chur and Geneva and writes journalistically for La Quotidiana in Chur (often about Ireland) and for An Teanga Bheo in the Irish Times (often about Switzerland).

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