Adrian Millar Email & Phone Number

I love writing. I have been keeping journals for over thirty years. I compiled and edited The Beauty Of Everyday Life (2014), stories by over thirty Irish "celebrities" on the beauty of everyday life. The royalties from The Beauty Of Everyday Life went to Teenline Ireland, a charity working for distressed or depressed teenagers. Contributors included Mary Kennedy, Joe Duffy, Carmel Harrington, Roisin Meaney, Robert Heffernan, Donncha O Callaghan and Frances Black.I am also the author of two novels: The Quiet Life, a family drama full of twists and turns, which you can buy on Amazon, and Tomayto Tomahto, the story of a marriage on the rocks, which you can also purchase on Amazon. Marian Keyes described The Quiet Life as 'brilliant', while Cathy Kelly had a hand in shaping Tomayto, Tomahto.In 2006, I wrote Socio-ideological Fantasy and the Northern Ireland Conflict, based on my PhD research. Published by Manchester University Press, it was shortlisted in 2007 for the Best Book Award by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, in New York. It, too, can be purchased on Amazon.For two years (2012-2014) I wrote a weekly column in The Irish Examiner, an Irish national daily. The title of the column was Dad's World. In it, I wrote about the beauty of my life as a stay-at-home dad and father to three children.

Uk Desk

I write blogs on politics and on the beauty of everyday life, particularly from a parent's perspective.

Department Of Sociology, Nui Maynoooth

I tutored First Year students in Sociology. What interested me was getting students to "do" Sociology in their everyday lives, particularly to see how they are shaped by Society.

Author of Dad's World, a weekly column in Friday's FEELGOOD section of The Irish Examiner. The subject matter of my column was life with my three daughters.

Taught sociology of Northern Ireland from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, as well as a sociology of Japan.

Post-doc research in Loyalism in Northern Ireland

Taught on post-graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Politics.

I began studying Japanese as a child after an encounter with a Japanese-French couple in my hometown of Belfast, Ireland. I was their rent-collector. I studied French and Japanese at university and lived in Japan for close on five years, where I also studied Japanese at Waseda University. I graduated subsequently with a PhD in Japanese from the University of Sheffield. I taught Japanese in Ireland to degree level and developed all the syllabi for my courses. I also drew up the Leaving Certificate syllabus for Japanese at the request of the Department of Education, Dublin.

County Dublin, Ireland

After getting a PhD in Japanese from Sheffield University, I moved to Ireland to train as a Jesuit priest. I left the Jesuits in my fifth year of studies for the priesthood. It wasn't the path for me, but it gave me a great grounding in practical spirituality and I am glad of the experience of so many days of silent meditation, the longest being a thirty-day silent retreat. Being a father of three girls, I have certainly made up for it since.

Phd, Political Science

Phd, Japanese Machine Translation

PhD in Japanese.

Japanese

Student of Japanese.

French Studies Ba (Hons.), French Studies

French Studies.

Education record

Doctor Of Arts, Japanese Studies