Dr Pádraic Moran

Pádraic Moran is an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at NUI Galway, working on the Latin and Old Irish glosses in the St Gall manuscript of Priscian. He has worked previously as a researcher for the Early Irish Glossaries project at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University. He is a graduate of University College, Cork and was awarded a PhD from NUI Galway in 2007 for his thesis "Sacred Languages and Irish Glossaries: Evidence for the Study of Latin, Greek and Hebrew in Early Medieval Ireland".

His research interests include didactic literature (in Latin and Irish), classroom texts and scholia; the study of Greek and Hebrew in the early medieval West; historical linguistics, manuscript studies. He also has special expertise in digital humanities and ICT.

Organising secretary of the 25th Irish Conference of Medievalists, NUI Galway, 24–26 June 2011.

Personal website: www.pmoran.ie

Personal interests: Keeping up with two kids (8 and 6 years), aikido.

Select Publications

"Greek in early medieval Ireland", in A. Mullen and P. James (eds), Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press).

"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 P. Russell and L. Boyle (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:

with Sharon Arbuthnot and Paul Russell (eds), Early Irish Glossaries (3 vols). [I. Dúil Dromma Cetta, Loman; II. O'Mulconry's Glossary, Irsan; III. Sanas Cormaic.]

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