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Director of Graduate Studies, 1997-, Henry L. Shattuck Professor
of Irish Studies, 1995-. BA and
MA, National University of Ireland (University College, Dublin). Junior
Research Assistant, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1972. Assistant
Lecturer/College Lecturer/Statutory Lecturer, Department of Early (including
Medieval) Irish Language and Literature, University College Dublin,
1972-1995.
Author of The Heroic Biography of Cormac Mac Airt (Dublin, 1977), and of articles on early Irish literature, mythology, and language. Research is devoted to various aspects of early Irish narrative literature, such as its politico-religious ideology; its relationship to mythology; and its thematic content and structure. He is interested in the ways in which language is used in the literary texts, and has been applying rhetorical criticism to them. He has also worked on the political and dynastic elements in the early Irish Origin Legends, and is engaged on an edition, with translation and full commentary, of the early texts of the Origin Legend known as "The Expulsion of the Déisi." |
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