Dr Pádraic Moran

Lecturer in Classics
Final Year BA Co-ordinator

Office: Tower 2, Room 510
Consultation hours: Wed 11am–12pm and Thurs 12–1pm (or by arrangement)
Phone: 091 492587
E-mail: padraic.morannuigalway.ie

I grew up in Tuam, Co. Galway, and did my undergraduate studies in Maynooth and UCC, where I ended up majoring in Classics for my BA in 1995. After that I worked in London, Dublin and Furbo as a copy editor, website designer and programmer and IT project manager.

A twin obsession with language and history drew me back to postgraduate study, and in 2007 I completed a PhD at NUIG on the study of Latin, Greek and Hebrew in early medieval Ireland. I subsequently spent two years in Cambridge, where I worked on the Early Irish Glossaries Project, and then returned to NUIG to work on the Irish reception of the Latin grammarian Priscian. I was appointed to a lectureship in Classics at NUIG in 2012.

My current research interests are centred on traditions of scholarship and education in Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, especially on early linguistic thought. More broadly, I am interested in all aspects of philology, including historical linguistics, manuscript studies and textual criticism. I have also applied my IT experience to producing digital editions.

My teaching in 2012–2013 is focused on advanced Latin reading classes (including Lucretius and De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae), beginners' Ancient Greek and an introductory course on Latin literature (Virgil, Horace, Juvenal) for first years. I have also taught on writing and literacy in the ancient world and on early Irish literature, mythology and history.

Personal website: www.pmoran.ie

Publications

"Greek in early medieval Ireland", in Alex Mullen and Patrick James (eds), Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 172–92

"High Island and the cult of Saint Féichín in Connemara", in Georgina Scally (ed.), High Island, Archaeological Monographs (Dublin: Stationary Office, forthcoming)

"A living speech? The pronunciation of Greek in early medieval Ireland", Ériu 61 (2011), 29–57

'"Their harmless calling": Stokes and the Irish linguistic tradition', in Elizabeth Boyle and Paul Russell (eds), The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909) (Dublin: Four Courts, 2011), pp. 175–84

"Hebrew in early Irish glossaries", Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 60 (Winter 2010), 1–21

"Irish glossaries and other digital resources for early Irish studies", in Malte Rehbein and Sean Ryder (eds), Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 10 (Darmstadt, 2010), 131–49

with Rijcklof Hofman, St Gall Priscian Glosses www.stgallpriscian.ie (2010)

Review of R. Baumgarten (compiler), R. Ó Maolalaigh (ed.), Electronic Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature, 1942–1971 (Dublin, 2004), in Peritia 21 (2010), 357–9

with Sharon Arbuthnot, Paul Russell, Early Irish Glossaries Database www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/ (2006, rev. 2009)

In preparation: Edition of O'Mulconry's Glossary ( De origine scoticae linguae) and a related text, Irsan

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